s cancert with Government on th? ift?afures cf the ensuing campaign. j On Saturday Capt. G. P. Ricketts was appointed Govertioc General and Commander in chief of Barbadoes. The Englifil prifonersat Havreamount ed to about 400, and were on the point of being removed to Rouen, where 3000 were confined. We have no authority to believe the re port of General Jourdain's arreit. It may be so, but the Paris Gazettes down to the 23d are silent on this fubjeft,and the cir cum'iaiices are unknown to any of the gentlemen who came with the duke of York to England. General Pichegru has quitted the com mand of the French army of the Rhine to re-place Gen. Jourdain at the army of the North : The former is re-placed by Gen. Hoche, who is now at the head of the two armies of the Rhine and the Mozclle. The Spaniards are said to have evacua ted Co'.lioijre; the place, however, is com manded by the cannon of the fort of St. Elmr, which was (till in their pofleffion. ! —A loan of twenty millions of piastres is ! opened in Spain for the support of the ! war. The rea(bn of appointing the duke of Br;nfwick to command the combined ar- ' mies in Handers, is supposed to be the ! probability of their being obliged to re- 1 treat, a branch of the art of war in which j his fereHe highness has lately had great op portunities of improving. For the Gazette of t'n United States. Mr. Fskno, < A correspondent in the General AJver tlfc.i of Thursday afVs, what means public credit ? It may be answered that it means a ch;rafter for honor and probity, which en able* a country to avail itfelf on any emer gency, of the wealth of its own citizens or of that of a foreign country. In a free coun • try it conftitates a J'afd capacity for borrow ing—without which liberty may be put in jeopardy at any moment a defpntic power may fee proper to attack it—Nor is it con ceivable how this capacity can in'a free country be " the means of ca»f:ng a diftinil ir.trrclt from that of the whole community." The ability cf a community to discharge its engagements depends on the general pros perity of the qvholc people; hence it be- Oi~*rs moil ohviouilv, the interest df the ptK.iic Creditors to do every thing in their power to p-omote this general prosperity— Neither is public credit a yoke for posterity— for no man in his senses would prefer loan ing his property to a community which should leave to another generation to discharge the obligations of the present; it is therefore a d-ftate of the soundest policy to provide for the ear'ies payment of every public debt. It may b? doubted whether " public credit has been the source of innumerable misfor- i timet to Europe"—On the other hand, it is demonPrahlc that the wars of that quarter of the globe nave occafiov-d th- accumula tion of their debts; the pub!.: creditors have most cbviouily an interest direilly opposed to war; tmlefs it can be made to appear that the depre-oon of the funds is promotive Of their im< reft. There is a truer cause cf war to be afligned than ft at of ditninifhing the capacity of a cfcnnrry to discharge its ex i Img obligations—Wience coihe wars and fightings, favs. aq, old fashioned book— " Cpme they not hence even of your iufts >" Until mankind, or at leall th- majority, shall cease to bo actuated by resentment, rage, and ambition it is utepiaa, to expeil that wars (hill cease. The United States are at this moment most critically situated—it is in the opinion cf many, )io longer optional with us, whe ther we ihal) be committed in the war or not. '1 hole who are for an i:nmediate deci sion on the part of the government to en gage in hostilities with Great Britain-—ad vocate at the fame mom nt the annihilation of public credit. Those who are for fup poi ting the peace of the United States, urge the most ettVctua l preparation for national defence and security, and as a mean indis pensable to this object, are solicitous to pre- Jerve the public credit—the present positive state of fails, absolutely contradicts the as sertion that public credit is the parent of ■war —for lb: friends of peace, are branded as the enemies of their country, for wishing to support public credit—while those who decry public credit, are clamorous for mea sures which must inevitably cncreafe the pub lic debt—unlcfs in the modern revolution of i principles, war should be converted into a blessing infUad of a curse. Would the people ®f tbe United States " vjijh for an encreaj* tf the debt?" let them adopt the politics of those who clamor for war—Would we di*- Wiinifh the debt, let us if poff.Me ne ? ocmte instead of sighting—should negociation suc ceed, the preparation for war urged by the friends of peace, will not amount to one hundredth part of the expence of War with out negociation—fhould negociation fail, we lhall then be in a situation to meet our ene mies on some terms of equality— at present, who fay that we are ? ' ' 11 .ii >»»■iMummmm PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 22. Letter te a gentleman in this city, received by this day's mail, dated New-York, April jr. " The £hip Ohio of this port, has arrived at the Hook, after a passage of 43 days from London—(he is now coming up, and (hould lhe reach the town before the mail closes, we wil| communicate the information that may be received by her. u It is said that lhe failed in company with upwards of 300 veflels, from the chan nel, bound to d.fferent ports in America, under convoy of some British fliips of war." Yesterday the following resolution pas sed the House of Representatives of The United States—Yeas fiftjA eight—Nays thiity eight, viz. WHEREAS, the injuries whieh have been fullered and may be fuffered by the United States, from violations committed by Great Britain cn their neutral rights j and commercial interelts, as well as from I her failure to execute the seventh article j of the treaty ol peace, render it expedient ' for the interests of the United States, that j the commercial intercourse between the i two countries (hould not continue to be ; carried on in the extent at present allowed: j RESOLVED, That from and after i the firft day of November next, all com mercial intercourse between the citizens of the United States, and the fubjefts of the king of Great Britain, or the citizens or fuHjeCts of any other nation, so far as the fame refpedts articles of the growth or ma nufacture of Great Britain or Ireland, lhall be prohibited. A committee was then appointed to prepare and bring in a bill purluant to the above resolution. From the Leyden Gazette of 2 "jlh Dec. M. C. A. M. Vattel, officer in the Swiss Guards, has written the following letter witli a request that the Editor would in fen it in his paper. "In the supplement to No. 102 of your Gazette, in the ridiculous letter of Genet, Minister of France in America, to Mr. JefFerfon the Secretary of State, I find the following sentence—" Ido not " remember what the worm-eaten volumes "of GrotiUs, Pujfendorf and Vaticl fay "on this fubjeft. I thank God, I have " forgotten what thohireling 'writers on " junfprudence wrote on the law of na • " tions while they were in chains." I have a sovereign contempt for Citizen Genet; but 1 owe it »to the memory ps Mr. Vattel, my father, to hinder those flat calumnies from deceiving honest peo ple. My father, when he wrote on the law of nations, was in the pay of nobody, nor was he in chains, ifor he was a mem ber of one of the Swiss Cantons (Neuf chatel.) where the most happy freedom reigns. As to his works being eaten by "•oi ms, they will perhaps remain longer than the French Republic." ) A correspondent observes with real plea fiire, the encreafing military disposition of the inhabitants of this city, at this very cri tical period, 4nd adds that it mult give fm- S cere iatisfaiition to every friend to his country to learn that in addition to the several volun teer companies already established, there is a new troop of light dragoons now organizing, which in point of refpedlability, numbers and equipment, will be equal to aay on the con tinent. _We hear that the Preiident of the United ! States has appointed Nathaniel Cabot Hig ginfen, 1 gal cemmiffioner for the United I States, oil a million to the Wtft-Indies to fupermtend the entering of appeals from the decrecs of condemnation ; to invefligate the grounds on which they have been made and to do other things relative to American vef- 1 fels and cargoes which have been condemned j in the Vice Admiralty courts of the several t Hands, and also to afford relief to our sea- ■' men now there. j Philad. Gazette. i Earl Stanhope on th- 33d Jan.'in the, Bri- c j tifn House of Lords, made a motion for ac- c knowledging the French Republic, in the b iouowing words: i i hat an humble Addrsfs be presented " to his Majesty, advising his Majeltv to diicontinue hofhlittes, as it appear- H " ed from an article of the French ccinftitution, that her Government " d.d not mean to interfere in chang- u " Government, nor fuffer anv I v Power to alter that which fne had 11 " *° r . med - Paying, That his Majesty, I 1 feeing the deftrudtive nature of the " w ' a \.' an d the delusive hope held out j of success, would order his Mini- ei iters immediately to acknowledge th£ b " Frsnch Republic." Lst usdo tii!s, said his Lardfli'p ; let u'c be jiift & honeit ( for I am not without some re ligion ;) let us do our duty to one another; at least, let us erfdcavour to do justice, and leave the reft to God. This motion was introduced with a long speech, in which the power progress and re sources of the French nation were exhibited in the most animating point of view—the motion was put and negatived. A hint to the Managers of the New Theatre. Jack in Distress, having so frequently been the iubjeft of interlude, we may with certainty announce to the public, that in a few nights more, (hould Jack in Distress beperformed, they will be entertained with the additional interlude of The -whole Play Htufe in Dijlrefs, never before acted in the New Theatre. < 1 ■■" — . By this Day's MaiL NEW-YORK, April 21. . The ißthinftant, being Good Friday,' in contempt of Judas the traitor, the sea men on board a Portuguese brig, laying at Jones's wharf, hanged his effigy to the yard-arm, where it liung till the next day; when, on the firing of several guns, and much noisy vociferation, it was lowed into tha water and soundly ducked, then tak en up, dragged through the streets, and beat with clubs as it pafled, to the no small diversion of the boys and other fpedlators. Extract of letter from Mr. Parsons, of Grenada, to Mr. D. Smith merchant of New-York, via New-London dated March 22. " Americans are not allowed to trade with the French I (lands besieged ; but all the Englilh are open, except for beef, pork, &c. The Mauds, when captured, will be open. Many Americans are con demned, and 100 ready to be given up. Government will make good all dama ages. " St. JOHNS, (Antigua) Feb. xo. Archibald Gloleter, Esq. arrived here this day from the island of Montferat, where he has been for some weeks pall, ex erting himfelfin the admiralty as advocate to the unfortunate Americans who had been captured and carried into that port; but neither his eloquence, or well known legal ability could avail. Feb. 18. The late order for seizing all American veflels bound to or froma French island, was, we believe, generally difap- 1 proved of in this island ; but an order to restore such veflels as have been already taken, and to prevent similar captures in future, ,ve are informed, may be houily expected. PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. CLEARED. 1 Schr. Weymouth, Stevens, New-York 1 Pink, Bell, Newburypoft Sloop Elizabeth, Webb, CharltHon [ Hope, Hufley, Nantucket i Sak™, Elkins, New-York c William, Taylor, Virginia ' On Friday morning arrived here the brig c Fair American Capt. Angus, in 21 days ftom Antigua—he informs that all the ' American veflels at Antigua, except those with naval stores or bound to a blockaded port. He left at Guadoloupe the 9th of March about i6failof American veflels. the 9th of April in lat. 34, 58,10ng. 73 he spoke the ship Flying Dove, Capt , said to be from Virginia, bound to St. Thomas's out 4 days. Philad. April 22, 1794. *** Notice, agreeably to charter, is here by given to the members of the Corporation for the Relief of Poor and DiJlreJJid Prefby tertan Minijlen, and of the Poor and Dif ■ 1 trfJTi-d II iaO'iUj and children of Prejbyterian Mimjlers, that a meeting of said corporation is to take place, on the aid day of May next, in the second Prelbyterian chnrch in the city of Philadelphia, at 4 o'clock P. M. for the dispatch of all such business as may then be brought before the board. ASHBEL GREEN, Secretary of the Corporation. tuth&s6t Those persons who undeitake to cut timber or wood of any kind whatever, from any lands of the real estate of the late Ruha-d S.ockton Esq. deceased, in the wefterri prectnft of the county of Sonierfet in the state ot New Jerfcy, under a pretence of a right to cut o» lands adjacent, are t cqueUen to defiflT ftom so doing, or they will be proceed ed against m such manner as may prove trou blesome and expenfivc 19 thcmfelvls. April 16. *w&32\r / ' The two military bills before the House of Representatives, were this day pa(Ted to be engrofled /or a third reading to-mor row—one rcfpefts the arming and equip ping of 80,000 militia—the other pro vides for railing an additional regiment of aitillerifts and engineers. . The amendments of the Senate to the pod-office bill, were taken into considera tion, some conqurred in, others disagreed to. On Tuesday the 29th instant at 11 o'clock in the Forenoon, will be fold by public vendue, at Mr. Bowen's Exhibitibn Room, No; 9, north Eighth street, A COLLECTION OF Capital Pictures, By the.most approved French, Italian, and Flemish Mafte.s, collrfted by a gentleman of taste in Europe, and luptrlor to any that have ever been offered for sale in America. Theie Pictures maybe viewed at any titlie previous to the day of sale at the Exhibition Room, where catalogues may be had, and at the Subscribers Auction Room. LIKEWISE, A Collection of Books, in foreign languages, such as Ruffian, Polift, and a few maps in the said Languages FOOTMAN & CO. Auabver's. April 22. tuth&stzqi JUST PUBLISHED, and to be sold by THOMAS DOBSON, No. 41, Jbnth Second Jlreet, Extract of a letter from a gen tleman in America to a trierid in England, 011 the Subject of Emigration—price 1 Bth of 1 dollar. EccltfiajlicalEJlabli/bments detrimental to a hate. Price I • 8 of a Dollar. Ap*il22. mw&fgw JUST PUBLISHED, j I Bookjeller, at the Stone Houje in SecondJlreety Philadelphia, VOLUME XI OF ENCYCLOPAEDIA, I OR A Diaienary of Arts, Sciences, aud Mijcel- I laneous Literature, I ON a plan enti, «ly new ;by which the dif ferent sciences and arts are digested into the I form of diftinft treaties or lyftems. This I volume contains the articles, meda's, medi- I cine, metallurgy, metaphvfics, methodists, I Mexico, miciofcope, midwifry, and a g:eat variety of biographical and miscellaneous ar- I tides, illustrated with nineteen copperplaies. 1 (i~t Ihe rabies of logarithm*, See. which were deficient in the tenth volume, aiefub- I joined to this. I Eleven volumes of this work are now pub li/hed, and the Xllth is in fame forwardr.efs. On the firftof September, 1792, the prfce offubfeription was incrcafed TJLN dollars on I all setts not taken before that time. Thefub- I fcription isftill open on rhefe ternis, and it any copies remain by the firft of Julv next,the price will be railed TEN dollars more, on I any «npies which may be fubferibed for after that period. *,* As many of the fubferibers have taken only two, three or four, &c. volumes, they are I eai neftly requeued to take up and pav for the remaining volumes, as it becomes d il/cult to complete thefetts, and thepubi:flier dpe» not I hoi d himfelf bouud to make up any setts ati or the fii ft day of July next. April 22. m&th.6w NEW THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING, April 23. Will be.performed, A COMEDY, called the j School for Scandal. To which will be added, A COMIC OPERA, written by the author of the Poor Soldier, never performed here I . called Peeping Tom of Coventry. Places in the Boxes to be taken at the Box- I Office of the Theatre,at any hour from|nine, in the morning till three o'clock in the after noon, on the day of performance. Tickets j to be had at the office near the Theatre, at j the coiner of Sixth-ftreet,and at Carr & Co's Muficalßepofitory, No. 122, Market-street I Boxes, one dollar—Pitt, three quarters I of a dollar —and Gallery, half a dollar. I * # * As inconveniences to the public have arisen from the Box book being open on the j days of performance only, in future attends j ance will be giv nat the office m the Theatre , I every day from ten 'till one, and on the daVs j of performance from ten till three o'clock'is I the afternoon. Applications for Boxes, iti» j refpe&fully requelted, may be addressed, t» j Mr. Franklin, at the Box Office. . 4
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