ientlon to time and opportunity, a prace tniy be effected by money. In cither cafe, the natal armament would be rendered unncceflitry, and the expeuce .-.ought nut to be incurred. : . Mr. Giles proceeded to tottGder the bill as die foundation of a permanent naval es tablishment. He &id there was a clause in the bill au thoring the President to suspend all pro ceedings in the equipment of the armament in cafe of a peace with Algiers, which- gave himjome consolation ; but it did not altoge ther relieve his apprehensions from this ope ration t>f the measure, because he knew that a permanent naval eftahlilhment was a favor ite policy with some gentlemen, and because the argument had been urged in favor of the present bill. v He observed that a permanent naval eila blifhment coidd be recommended to the United States, but from one or both of the following considerations. Either upon the principle of entering into a competition for naval power with the powers of Europe; or as affording security to the collection of our own revenue. He thought the question of a permanent naval establishment, was one of the raoft im portant, which could be presented to the consideration of the house, and that the most serious consequences were neceilarily con nected with it. In the firft place, he viewed the eftablilhment of a navy as a complete I|flercli<Sion of the policy of discharging the principal of the public debt. Hiftorydoes not afford an instance of a nation which con tinued to encreafe their navy, and decreased their debt at the fame time. It is an operation exceeding the ability of any nation. The naval competition of the powers in Europe has oppression to their fubjecfls, and rum to themselves. The ruin of French mo narchy, he believed, might be ascribed very much to that cause. A navy is tlTe most ex pensive of all means of defence, and the ty ranny of governments consists in the expen fivenefs of their machinery. The expen fivenefs of the French monarchy is the true .cause of its defirwftion. The navy of France furnifhed the principal item of that expence. The navy produced expence, the expence ex ceeded the revenue, newcontributionsbecame necefiary, the people flw the tyranny an,d de stroyed the. tyrant. The fame efi'eft by the fame policy, will probatbly be produced in Great Britain. The government is not yet deflroyed, but the people are opprefled, li berty is banished. The exienfmenefs of the government is the true ground of the oppref- Jian of the people. T,he king, the nobility, the priesthood, the army, and above all the naij. ( Speech to be continued.) For the Gazette of the United Stages, Mr. Fen no, War! War! War! Embargo! Em bargo ! Embargo ! Are the pass words now, with some people among us, and in two or three inftanccs, 1 have seen that a man who offers a contrary opinion, is in danger of getting a black eye, and a bloody nose—but who are those, you may a Ik, that thus violate the rights of opinion, which our blefled conflitution and laws, allow to every free born Citizen of the United States ? They are men, (except one) who do not own a timber head, in any Ship or J'ejfel—they are men who have lately made large purchases of different kinds of goods, under an idea, that an Embargo, and a war will soon take place—and that one, cr both events mull in their consequences, give them an opportunity of mating great profits by their speculations.—This, Mr. Fenno, is a matter of fail—and is well known in this City : Let me alk you then, what mull every honest, industrious and peaceable Citizen thjnk of men, who thus with to make fortunes for themselves at the expence of the ruin of thousands of poor innocent families. Let me sflc those gentlemen, what the labouier, the Mechanic, the Sea-Earing Man, with their Wives and Children, are to do for subsistence, in cafe our commerce should be totally knocked up :—And I believe it is beyond doubt that it will, Ihould we get involved in a war—in short a war mull be certain ruin to the country in general—but fay the speculators* let it be so, provided we makefortunes by it. Among those gentlemen is one (above excepted) who has lately sprung up among us as an Orator :—I mull take particular notice of him. In one of his orations in "the State House yard on a late occasion ; he in a very .indecent manner, called on the men of 76, who are generally under stood to be those who had fought and bled to eftablilh our liberties—let me now call on him, and ailc him where he was at that period, or what he did in support of that cause ? Surely it is a fa£t well known • he a lat time pofiefled any fixed politicks,, it was rather in fav. tive country—and k is e <; ;a - ,c,tl it till tlie present crisis, he his never fhnvn a contrary disposition— but his inierejl alone y regttlaterJiis conduct; while he was aiding his father in-the pur iuit of an an:iuiiy, from the Britidl Nati on, arid reparation for. lufies in this coun try, which he never fujiaincd, he held up that nation ; and their Government to the world, in the molt exalted point of view : now his ends are accomplished—he coincs forward with every abuse that language can bestow upon both nation and Govern ment ; and such is the man> that I will venture to afiert, he will be ready to act the fame part towards this Country, whenever he (hall iind it conducive to his private emolument—a party spirit, added to some other circumllances, got him' a feat in our Aflembly ; through the fame party, he now looks forward to a feat in the Legi/lature of the United States ; and yet no man ever expressed a greater con tempt of another, than he has done of this party, which he now courts and seems to adore :—however it is perfectly consistent with the man—he will descend to any thing to gratify his avarice, or ambition. HONESTUS. March 22, 1794. Foreign Intelligence. RECEIVED BY THE BRITISH JANUARY PACKET. STOCKHOLM December *7. Since Ihe new partition of Pu'and, and fijKe pains have been taken to make Sweden and Denmark depart from their, neutrality during' the present war, a new Alliance between ttoofe two powers fecens to be on the carpec. According to the last ..ecounis f*om Gotten burg, the navigation of the Norrhern Occan is ! » »t very fafe, on account of thr piracies which the Frcnch exercise in u with lrrn miiiy ; which is the' more easy, as, except two Dutch frigates, and one Engfifh. the Jail in tbc&nund, thtie are no other veffcls to Terve th« m as escorts. The demarkatiOn <ff the 1 mits between this kingdom and Norway will take place wTthon* any fuithcr delay. VIENNA, December ig. The Letters received here from Couflantinn ple, dated Noy. 25, bring further particulars »e ---fpe&ing the violation o* the maritime laws kid to hive been committed in the EafUrn fcas. A French frigate (ell in with a (hip laden with merchandise, and bearing Ruffian colours, in the The French Frigate made the f..d (hip strike without firing a gun, and carried her into For. at Smycna. The Tuikilh miniltry immediately Tent orders to Smyrna, n-V to f*ll the car K «of the captured Ship, 'till a drift inquiry (hall have been nude into ihe matter. The ship is (aid to belong t.fc Venice, and to have made ule of Ruffian colours in order to get cutrancc into the jjlafk (ea. On the B.h. instant, a ftroag eartiiqnake was felt in Servia, which took its dire£li HI (rem the Caff to the weft. NATIONALCONVENTIONor FRANCE Tiiurfday Jan. The fallowing letter was read from the Re presentatives of the people, j. B. Latofte and Baudot : " Germerlheim, 9 Nivofe . [29 Dec ] " The success of the armies of the Mozelle and the Rhine, dear colleagues, are aftnuilh 1 ! g, and their march is inoft rapid : they ycf terday made themselves mailers of the im portant pod of Germerlheim, which covers Landau, aflures the preservation of the lines of {Jueich, and opens the door of the Palati nate. Our brave defenders are, at this, mo mrnt, within one league of Spires, and we a'e allured, that the light troops have entered the Town. We are allured also, that the Prullians and Auliiiam, in separating, made 'r a<^'eu to each other, 011 coining out of 'he little Town of Bergzabren, with Itmkes of their sabres. and with a tlilcharre i,{ iheii fufils. " The firft'have retired to Neuftadi and Mayence; the second have rephfltd the Rhine by three different bridges, which they had tht wife precaution to rrefV for the purpefc. It was time ; for if they had not mape the best use of their legs, for many days and uights, they would have been "all ex terminated. Their routs are covered with prifonets and deserters. " The courageous perseverance of the Armies who have delivered Landau, and of the garrison who preserved it, ought to procure for them the fame honours as the Army that besieged Toulon. We believe that we only participate in your intentions in expressly desiring it. " The battle of Kaifberg has proved to the enemies, that they have nothing but deftrudlion to look for from the defendersof the Republic ; after more than four hours of a charge ; under a terrible and inceflant fire, not a single soldier (hrunk from the ratiks, and they fawthe stragglers run ning in all directions, and at their utmost speed, to partake in the glory of their in trepid brothers in arms; thus the victory was compleat, and afcertaincd the triumph of the Republic. " The Enemy have left u» considerable Magazines at Lautetbourg, and particular ly of Powder, to which they had put a match, which they had lighted on their departure ; it was extinguiihed in the very ftioment when it was to explode,, and to blow the City and the part of the Army that occupied the place in the air. " The Auftriaos, on their flight, set fire to many of their magazines. They hive Jictvever, left us a gieat many fufils, at Germerfheim ; oats,dry vegetables,flour and other grain, besides 800,000 rations of forage at Pymerlheim, and 30,000 co verlets. ,We depart to-morrow for spires. " Health and Brotherhood, " BAUDOT, J. B. LACOSTE." LEGHORN, December n. An English frigate arrived the day be fore yesterday in this harbor, reports, that Cnce the moment of her departure from Tunis, effected ten days ago, five (hips of the line and fix frigates, English and Spa nish, blocked there a numerous French fleet. LONDON, January 8. Lord Moira, who was in town yester day set oyt last night for Portsmouth, where the troops under his command are collected—The original objedi of this ex pedition is, we understand, by no means given up. The duke of Brunfwick ij £aid to have gained a complete victory over the French at Anweller on the 28th, and Wurmfer is said to have regained the position which he had on the 24th. It is likewise said, that Landau is still blockaded. There are some doubts about the authenticity of these accounts. Several hundreds of Burghers, without diftinftion of profeffion or rank, are work ing'at the ramparts at Frankfort. January 9. Last night a meflenger arrived with dispatches Jrom Ghent and BrufTels. By letters from the latter place, dated the 6th instant, we learn that a part of the British army had moved to Courtray, whither it was expected the head-quarters of his roy al highness the duke of York would be transferred. Letters from Manheim and Frankfort, on the 29th and 30th instant, speak pret ty confidently of a vi£tory gained by the duke of Brunfwick over the French, iti the Valley of Anweller, on the 28th.— We are sorry to add, that these accounts are not confirmed by any official intelli gence. We extra£l: the following article from, a BrufTels paper of the 6th instant, enti tled, " Journal de la Guerre." "An officer of the regiment of royal infantry, belonging to the royal Catholic army, employed in the army of La Ven dee, was made a prisoner in the affair of Mans on the 4th of Dec. He was to have been (hot on the 6th J but he found means to escape to Paris on foot, and from thence to the Frontier—he is at this time at Mons. " He reports that the royalists army js not to be numbered. They have 15000 regular troops, Auftrians, Swiss, ancient Marechauffee and soldiers. They have not lefsthan zoo pieces of cannon. The affair of Granville was only meant as an attempt. Tfcy did not mean to enter upon a regular siege ; for, though they had 70,000 men before-the town, they were not calculated for that kind of attack, mostly peasants, who strong ly attached to the cause, were ar.xioust© have a poll to give up to the royalists. " They anximifly looked for succours from England, and particularly a rein forcement of engineers, and officers of ar tillery and infantry. It was not till the beginning of december that they knew hat the English were disposed to succour them, " He laid,, that the affair of Mans cost each party nine or ten thousand men. The two armies reciprocally fliot their prison ers. It was jeftimitid, that the campaign in La Y endee had colt France more than two hundred thousand men ! " The royaiifts army bad been twice almost entirely i;enpwed. They drew their bett recruits from .Britanny. They con fidei* the- Bretons as' the flower of, their ar my. ' _ . " The plan was, after the affair of Mans, to march to Paris; but circumstances had finee occurred to alter that destina tion." Januan-io. V The Flanders mail which arrived this day, brings the confirmation of the raif. ing of the blockade of Landau, and the re-pafling of the Rhine by the Austrian and Prufiian armies, who, after sb many victories gained, and the greatest hard- ihips fufFercd witli the uimofl patience heroism, were obliged to yield at last to i th« superior numbers of the Sans-Culottes, who, ever since the 22d ult. with a force reckoned at 180, coo men, and a numer onrs and formidable artillery, made the molt desperate attacks upon Gen. Wurm fer and the duke of Brunfwick. On the 25th the prince Hohenlohe was (lightly wounded. 011 the 26th the duke of Bjrunfwick attempted to make an attack, but the French got the Itart of him, and after the most bloody conflict, the Pfuffians and the Auftrians were both obliged to re treat. On the 26th, the cordon of General Wurmfer was also obliged to retreat, af ter an immense quantity of blood (hed on both fides. All the inhabitants of Hagu enau and Weiflembourg, apprehensive left they Ihould experience the fate of the Ly onefe, took flight at the approach of the Patriots, who pnrfued them under the cannon of Fort Louis. Many of the unfortunate fugitives were killed by the cannon of the fortrefs,. and were obliged to pass the whole night un der the bare heavens before they could be admitted. V 0 ■ X The French were before Spires on the 29th, and the military hcfpitalof the Prus sians has been removed thence. t From Haguenau to Spires, all the in habitants fled, and those of the Duchy of Deux-Ponts, have "had recourse to the fame, meafurc. , The head-quarters of General Wurm fer were on thh 3 ift ult. at Schwetzin gen, two leagues from Heidelberg. The head-quarters of the Duke of Brunfwick were at Oppenheim. Letters from Mentz of the 31ft tilt, state, that the Republicans are mailers of Germerfheim, Neuftadt, and Spires. Manheim is putting into a tefpe&able state o'f defence, and has an Aultrnn garrison. The Ete&or of Ments has left his Ca pital with a part of his gone to Alihaficnh'i, ; Tc kfitu the itnpprtapcc i—; V que'i- aiid aggravate ai d qnohiply .our lo(k-5 di.u ..»vs p' '? r*>c common, though novel piaftice of cer tain individuals among us, as if the glo ry and felicity of their country were sub - jtftsof chagrin ant] misfortune, and tlveir sole objefl was to render despondency uni verfaf; hut however anxious they may be to fee Great Britain humbled, degraded, or reduced to be a province to France— God forbid that any difafleis (honld ex tinguish the natural energy of the nation, or force it to prcftratc itlelf at the feet of the Convention, or meanly solicit its clc meircy awl protection. What vnild such a conduct be in fa<S, but a declaration of guilt and bankrupt cy ?—The forifler of whichthas been con tiaditted by the sentence of death against Le Brun, and rhe latter by the abundant wealth and refjurces df the coimtry. It seems nnoft probable, that Lord Hood, after leaving Toulon, would fleer for Corsica, His force would immediate ly reduce the two or three Towns which had held out against the troops of Paoli ; and thus a ready and convenient asylum would be found for the Toulonefc Royal ists. By a letter received a few days since from Bourdeaux, we are informed, that £ome of the principal merchants confined in that city were lately reilored to their liberty by an order from the Municipali ty : but in refpeft to their efT;£ts, they were privately taken care of for the bene fit of the State. By the lad letters from Malta we learn, that Lord Hood had demanded and obr tained from the Grand Master of the Or der, "1800 tailors, on condition that they should be employed in the Mcditeranean only. A convoy of 600 vefleb, Englilh, Dutch, &c. was ready to fail from Mal ta, cfcorted by eight Englifti men of war. By letters from Barcelona, dated De cember 8, the Spar.ifh Generals are laid to be determined to piirfue their viclory, and to attack Perpignan. The Spaniih army will be augmented to 70,000 men. All the armed peasants are to be allowed bread, and about 25 folseach per diem. The Duke of Medina Celi has railed and maintains a regiment at liis own ex- pence. Yesterday a proclamation wasiffued for a general Jiaft to be abferved, in England on Friday the 2§th, and in Scotland on and
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