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