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PHILADELPHIA, -
APRIL 23. ,
By this Day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, April 22.
Capt. Kemp of the Ohio, arrived yrjierday
frotn London, has faifored us with Lon
don prints to the I $th February, from
which we have copied the following ;■—
N. Y. Daily Adv.
LONDON, February 7.
morning the arrival of the
Swallow Packet at Torbay, with the Most
Noble Max-quis Cornu-allis, and part of his
fuiti on board,was announced at the India-
House.
The Swallow left Madras on the ioth of
oflober.
When the Swallow left India, all the Pre
sidencies and poireffior.s bf the Company
■were in an unexampled state of prosperity ;
five lacks of Pagodas had been fen't to Ben
gal from Madras, and there were still five
lacks remaining in the Treasury of Fort St.
George.
Tippoo Saib had made all liis payments ;
aad what is still better given the mod ample
and decided opinion against the conduit of
the French, pledging himfelf to have no
concern or alliance with, the Convention.
The Nabob of Arcot and Rajah of Tan
jote bad also used the molt ardent and spirit
ed exertions in supplying our i orces with
provi(ion9,&c. on their march to
Lord Ilood having seen it arfeited in the
French Gazette, that a great ntynber of vef
fe!s had entered the Pott of Toulon, being
ignorant of its recapttTre, has unequivocally
contradicted this afiertion in his lait diipatch
es ; and'baa, moreover, written word —that
since Toulon was evacuated, only one Ihip of
any (lefcript!':n has entered that Port. From
this we mav judge what degree of credit is
due to the i eports of the French Convention.
According to the last dii'patches from In
dia, we are haipy to announce the fafe arri
val of Lord Macartney at Pekin. His Lord
fliip writes from thence, that he has been re
ceived by the Emperor of China with the
utmost civility ; and there is every profpeil
of the object of his embassy being obtained.
The Omnium was yesterday done at the
Stock Exchange, at the very low price of 1
half per cent, premium.
Two very conti adiclory reports concern*
ing Robespierre, have been in circulation for
these last few days. One states, that the
rifcn in favor cf Chabot r.nd Bazire,
nave afiemiiled round the houses of Robef
pierte and Danton with very alarming de
monstrations of difconte.it, and were Hill be
sieging thoi'e two famous Anarchists, when
the Courier who brought this intelligence
came away. The other on the contrary,
fays, that a plan is in agitation of declaring
Robefpiirre the Dictator of France.
We are not able to state the origin and
foundation of the firft of these rumours ;
but the lafter probably originates from the
following event:
Mr. de Bompere, Commander of a di
•vifion of the French Northern Army, re
ceived lately an expreis from Paris, which
informed him, that there existed at Paris
a very strong party in favor of Louis
XVII. Whose designs it were impoflible
to fruftrate by any other means, but that
of railing Robespierre to the dignity of
a Didlator ; and that he (Bompere) ought
to found the sentiment of the Army on
this fubjeft.
As Bompere seeming to express some
afloniftiment at this piece of information,
the emissary told him, that he must imme
diately acquaint him with what he meant
to do, and that his life was at stake
Upon which Bompere promised to com
ply with the request, but seized the firft
opportunity of effe&ing his escape into
Austrian Flanders. Count Kinflcy, an
Austrian General, to whom in judica
tion of his desertion, Bompere related
this tranfa&ion, caused his relation to be
printed, and a great number of them to
be distributed among the advanced posts
of the French Army.
A few copies have reached London,
»nd the above is the substance of the
contents.
Letters were received yesterday morn
ing from Flanders, which give art account
of preparations making at Dunkirk, now
called Dunes Fibres. They have already
21 gun-boats, and are arming fix others.
They are also preparing furnaces for heat
ing balls.
Letters from Turin, dated Jan. 11,
states, that the French, owing to the bad
weathei, were obliged precipitately to a -
bandon their posts, with the loss of bag
' g a g c . artillery, ammunition and men.
The report of Jourdain's disgrace and
arrest, which originated at Brufels is no
longer believed there.
Ascording to the accounts from the
Weft Indies, a great number of Ameri
can ships had been taken and feht into our
ports under the ordet of Nov. 6th. This
order* issued by our Minillers on no prin
ciple of justice or found policy, but in
the intoxication of imaginary success, and
as puiillanimoufly retracted as it wa9 incon
liderately issued, will thus be adted upon
for fevcral weeks, and the public will have
to pay all the expences incurred by the de
tention of the ships taken only to be res
tored. The effects of it in America will
be to convince every man that the Stated
ace not to depend for the security of their
commerce as a neutral nation, on the mo
deration of the Britifli Cabinet, but on
their own power to afford it prote&ion.
The Swiss Cantons have returned an
Answer to the Memorial presented by
Lord Fitzgerald, the Britifli Minister
This Answer, which has been given ever
fmce the 30th of November last, implies,
that it is the un alterable resolution of the
Cantons, regardless of the lcenes of hor
ror which France, paralized by anarchy,
.exhibits,to adhere to a molt inviolable fyf»
tem of Neutrality, it being a precept and
maxim transmitted to the Swil's by their
ancestors, never to meddle in Foreign
broils.
The extraordinary expences have arisen
in France to such a height, that in the
montli of November only, they amounted
to 227 millions of livres, which is more
than half of the yearly expence before the
Revolution.
We cannot expect any material news
from Flanders for some time. We have
feeji gentlemen who have returned from
Flanidert so late a> Friday evening. The
r«ads are impaffible'for the tratifportation
of cannon, which alone would prevent any
offenfive operatiory, were either party dis
posed to begin them..
A letter from Vienna* dated January
20, contains the following news r
" The objedl of the negociation of the
marquis Luchrefini has at last transpired.
The court of Berlin refufed to take any
part in another campaign, unless subsidies'
were paid to his Prussian majesty by the
EJmperor and the German Empire. These
have been granted. The yearly sum to be
paid by the Emperor and the Empire a
mountsto ten millions of florins; and his
Prussian majesty has bound himfclf, besides
his contingent to fnmifh an army of 40,000
men at the opening of the enl'uing cam
paign. v ; .
" His Imperial majesty has at length
given his consent to a War-Tax being im
posed on his fubje&s; but in order to
ease their burthens, he has at the fame i
time lefolved to fend a set of gold plate to
the mint, which was made under the reign
of Francis I. and colt above a million of
florins. x With the fame view he has also
leflened the expences of his court.
PARIS, February I.
All the Journals .own, the troops
of the Republic, evacuated Worms agree
able to the plan of their Generals, and not
owini to the valor of the Prussians.
A Letter from Cambray of the 30th
ult. states that a great number of Austrian
Huffarsjoin the Standard of the Republic,
and that desertion seems to be quite a con
tagion among them.
They write from the Port of the Moun
tain(Toulon), that eight fail of line are
nearly iCady for sea ; that our losses are
not so great as Were represented ; that the
Neapolitans left behind them 12 brass
cannon, and several suits of regimentals ;
and the Spaniards 4,000 bombs, besides
mufquets, &c. The English fleet conti
nues cruizng off the harbour.
By a letter from Rotterdam, dated Janu
ary 3'» J 794-
We are informed that the English,
had captured and carried into Jerfev,
Two American vessels; Captain Maley,
from Philadelphia, and Captain Bar-"
ret from Bollon, both of them bound
to Amsterdam : and also that the French
had captured an American vessel from Bal
timore, bound to Amsterdam, among
52 Englifti vessels.
Extradl of a Letter from London, dated
* February 12.
" The merchants have applied for a
convoy to be extended to American as
well as British {hips to and from Ameri
ca ; Ministry are grant it, but
require time to consider the propriety of
the e*tcnfion to yoar flag without an ar
rangement with your government; anc
Mr. Pinckney will probably be applied t<
on the fiibjeft
Capt. Burr of of the schooner George, Sr
rlved here yesterday, in 26 days from St.
Croix, informs us, that previous to his de
picture, Mr. John Dunlap, a resident of St.
Croix, had arrived from MafSaique, and
informed, that ]*ort Bourbon was stormed
and car.ied by the British on Sunday, the
13d of March, and that he was in the fort
on the Monday following.. Capt. Burr eould
not furnllh Any further particulars.
Philadelphia.
i A- Letter from an eminent merchant in
Newport to a gentleman in this City, in
forms that General Rochambeau is arriv
ed there from Martinique.
Yesterday the Legislature of this Com
monwealth, without day.
Last evening Capt Preston arrived in town
with dispatches from Major General Wayne
to the Secretary of War.
From Mr. Pitt, theßritifli Ministers speech
at opening the Budget or estimates of sup
plies of men and money for the service of
the current year —it appears, that out of
85,000 •Teamen voted for the second year of
the war, 75,000 of that number have been .
raised and muttered. The augmentation of
the land forces amounts to 30,000 men—
30,000 more are to be raised—the total vpte
makes the troops of that country, including
fencibles and militia to amount to 140,000
men—the ,'oreign troops in the Britilh ser
vice amount to between 30 and 4dthoufand.
The whole force by land and lea, to be em
ployed in the prosecution of the war amounts
to 250,000 men—here follow the estimates.
N A V t.
General service of-the navy,
Ordinaries,
Extraordinaries,
Tottl amount of the navy, / 5,535,900
ARMY.
General service,
Foreign troops,
Extraordinaries for 1793,
Total amount of the army estimate 6,339,000
ORDNANCE. -
Ordinaries, 324,000
Extiaordinaries, 377,000
Debt incurred last year, & unfunded 643,000
Total of the Ordnance,
Tetal amount of Navy, Army, and N
Ordnance, 13,409,000
Miscellaneous Services 206,000
Deficiencies in Grants 474,000
Ditto in Land and Malt tax 350,000
, Additional sum to the commiflioners
for discharging the National debt 100,000
Exchequer bills 5,500,000
Total amount to be provided fbr 19,939,000
WAYS AND MEANS.
Malt tax 3,750,000
Exchequer bills 3,500,000
Growing produce of taxes, after
answering charges of confoli
da: ed fund
From the Eift India Company
Loan
I 9>947>°°°
The produce of the taxes for the year,
ending the sth January, 1794, amounts to
13,941,0001. this is something less thai} the
produce of the year 1792, which was a year
of extraordinary prdfperity, and after a con
tinuance of peace for nine years. But, for
his calculation for the present year, Mr./Pitt
takes as upon a form'er occasion, an average
of four years, by which it appears that the
amount of the taxes for the next year, or the
growing produce of
The Sinking Fund, amounts to 13,914,000
Charges on funded debt 11,391,000
, Interest and charges, on the loan
for Spanish armament 250,000
Taxes which were laid on account
of this armament, and will soon
expire 156,000
Tet. charge on consolidated fund 11,797,000
Which left the growing produce,
from sth April 1793, to sth
April 1794 1,197,000
Hethen proceeds to state the extraordinary
expences of the prelent year above the peace
eltablilhment:
Excess in the navy 3,520,000
Ditto army 4,592,000
Ditto ordnance j? 170,000
Ditto mifcellarties 970,000
Extraordinaries a, 000,000
i ~ 11,252,000
A correspondent recommends to the con
" fideration of the advocates for Demo
cratic Clubs, the following judicious
observations of a writer in a late Bal
timore paper, the Maryland Journal.
Perhaps the writer of a piece signed
" A Democrat," may imbibe some
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4)420,000
555,000
54 7 >ocx>
4,362,000
1,169,000
808,000
m
1,345,000
2,i97>000
500,000
11,000,000
ideas from tlie perusal, that have hi-'
thdrto been a stranger to his mind.
" In a republic where men are alter
nately citizens and fovcrrigns, there is no
thing more easy than to lead them into
disorder, and nothing so uncommon as to
fee them, for any length of time, confine
themselves to the cxercife of their conjli
tutionalrights. Upon the leasE encourage*
ment they are ready to overleap these pre
scribed bounds, and call themselves into
clubs, fhat they may exercise a kind of
fovt'reignty over the sovereignty of their
country. When a people fuffer themselves
to drink out of this intoxicating cup,- the
duty of obedience soon becomes a grievous
burden, and the best of governments an
intolerable evil: 1 con fitter the institution
of political clubs, therefore, by whatever
name they may be called, as the firft stage
of a revolution, and the revolution as com
pleted in fad, though it may hot in form,
whenever the resolves of clubs ihall control
the resolutions of government* or their ft
cret combinations dirsft the choice of repre
fentatiiies. From that moment the repub
lic has changed its nature andceafed to be
free• But if clubs are the harbingers of
anarchy in a good government, they are
no less the forerunners of reform in a bad
one: In both- cafcs they ast by dejlroying,
and are as much to be dreadrti in the one
as encouraged in the other.
UNITED STATES.
STAUNTON, (Virg.) April 5.
Extratt of a letter from a "geatleman In
Frederick.(liuig-, to his friend in this'
town, dated 31ft uTt. gives us the fol
lowing information.
" Congress has laid an embargo on all
vessels in our ports, which has reduced the
price -of produce to mere nothing; no
man, willfcarcely buy any thing at present.
Goods in Philadelphia per yesterday's post,
has advanced $0 per cent, and none to be
got unless for ready money ; this you may
reft allured to be fact. War is the whole
topic at this time—and 15,000 men are
to be railed in 15 days to guard our fta
ports. Bad times indeed! produce on
hand and none to purcliafe—and goods
twice their Value—what will be the event
God only knows."
SHIP NEIVS.
Arrived at New-York.
Ship Ohio, Kemp, London
Brig Fox, Milienry," Philadelphia
Sch'r. George, Burr, . St. Croix
Sloop Friend (hip, Peterfon, Philadelphia
Rebecca, Swan, Bermuda
Philad. Packet, Bavley, Philadelphia
Richmond, Harding, Wilmington
Capt. Kemp informs us, that the Bel
videre, Depeyfter, and the American He
ro, Macey, left London between the lit
and Bth January, but did not leave the
Channel till early in February ; the Belvi
dere was obliged to cut her cable, and
was drove into the Isle of Wight. The
Ohio, Ellice, and Fadtor left the Downs
the 18th February, in company with near
200 fail of vessels, several of which were
destined for different ports in America;
among whom were the Delaware, Tfux
ton, for Philadelphia ; Major Pineknevj
Grice, for Charleston.
Th« Mary, Haley, had landed her let
ters at Falmouth early in January, but had
not arrived at London on the 13th Feb.
it was supposed (he was carried into
France, as lix frigates.wexe known
at that time to be cruising in the channel,
had taken several American vessels and a
large number of English vessels, particu
larly the Cork fleet. Lord Howe was
making great preparations for another
crutft.
The Columbus, Carman, from New-
York, is arrived at London.
The George of Boston; from Virginia
to London, was totally loft in the Downs,
vessel and cargo, crew saved.
Capt. Swan, on his paiTage from Bermuda,
spoke the brig Polly, Capt. Wheeler, from
Baltimore, bound to Antigua, out j days,
had been struck with lightning, considerably
damaged, and was f-tering for Bermuda.
The brig Columbia, Barnard, of Hudson
in this slate, was carried into Bermuda about
12 days before Capt. Swan failed,and libelled.
The schooner Mercury, Hoyt, from Bal
timore, (loop Commerce, Macey, from Phi
ladelphia, and a number of other American
vessels were'lying in Bermuda for trial.
The Sanfom, Smith, arrived in the Downs
the 18th February.
The January Packet from Halifax, arrived
at Falmouth in 14 days.
Cj* In yesterday's paper, In the Ship
News, after the word " Antigua," tile
words -were rcleafedi should have b?en in
serted.
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