harbor of New London, and in Provi
deuce river, and other places,!' and it was
deliveredtothe committee on eniolled bills
to be laid before the Prciident of the U
nited States for his approbation.
Mr. Foster reported from the commit
tee ou enrolled bills, that they did yefler- [
day, lay the following enrolled bills,
and enrolled resolution before the, Preli
dent of the United States, to'wit : The
bill, entitled, " An ast to provide for
the erecting and repairing of arsenals and
magazines, arid for other purposes," The
bill entitled, " An ast transferring for a
limited time, the juri£diftion of suits and
cffinces from the diftrift to the circuit
court of New Hampshire, and auigning
Certain duties in relpeft to invalid pension
ers, to the attorney of the said diftrift,
"The bill, entitled, "An ast to autho
rize the President of the United States,
in certain cases to alter the place for hold
ing a feflion of Congress. The bill, en
titled, " Art ast for the relief of Stephen
Paranque," and the " resolution to carry
into more compleat effect the resolution
directing an embargo."
The Senate adjourned to I r o'clock
to-morrow morning.
Thursday, April 3 j 1794.
A message from the President of the
United States by Mr. Dancjridge his Sec
retary :
" Mr. President—The President of the
United States did yesterday approve and
sign the ast, entitled, " An ast to .autho
rize the Prciident of the United States in
certain cases to alter the place for holding
feflion of Congress."—And he with
drew.
Ordered, That the Secretary acquaint
the Heufs of Representatives, therewith.
The Vice-President laid before the Se
nate a report of the Secretary for the de
partment .of War, 011 the petition of El
kanah Prentice, which was read.
Ordered. Tliat it lie on the table.
A meflage from the House of Repre
sentatives by Mr. Bcckley their Clerk :
" Mr. President—The Piefident of the
United States hath notified the Houle
j*f Representatives that be did on the 2d
instant, approve and sign the ast, entitled
" an ast to provide for the erecting and
repairing of arsenals and magazines, and
for other purposes"—and the ast, entitled
" au ast for the relief of Stephen Pa
lanque," also, " a resolve to carry into
more compleat effect, the resolution di
recting an embargo and that he this
day, approved and signed the ast, enti
tled, " an ast transferring, for a limited
time, the juiifdiftion of suits and offen
ces, from the Diftrift to the Circuit Court
of New-Hampfliire ; and afligning cer
tain duties, in relpeft to invaiid pension
ers; to the Attorney of the (aid diftrift."
And he withdrew.
After the consideration of the execu
tive bnfinefs—
The Senate adjourned to 11 o'clock
to morrow morning.
From the Daily Advertiser.
T0 the MA N ivhich appeared in the Dai
ly Advertiser on Thursday, March 17th,
1794.
IF (lander, malice and falfhood make
up the character of a Man, then your
. publication is flamped with strong evidence
of the propriety of its signature.
If a bale r;ffeftat:on of benevolence, for
the purposes of private resentment—is
the employment of detestable means to
obtain what you falfely fiippofe " a po
pular end," or if an attempt under the
veil of darkness to ruin a person who ne
ver injured you, are evidences of manhood,
then your title to it is indeed eftablilhed.
You have aimed at me a deadly blow,
the stroke now recoils, and your guilty
conscience will give it all the effect I
wish.
You have bellowed on me the hand
some appellation of—
" An avaricious catch penny fhewman,
" Tom Thumb, Esq.
" Keeper of the Guillotine,
" Keeper of beasts, &c. &c."
Poor pitiful offspring of billingsgate,
thou oughteft to have known that a keep
er of beasts is better than the bead who
is kept—for had you had the recollection
of an ass, you might have known, that
this scurvy -barefaced abuse would com
pletely unveil you ; in all this you went
aftrny from the path hypocrisy dictated ;
you forgot yourfelf; you should have
swallowed your gall, and the world would 1
perhaps have taken you for an angel. 1 i
For you pray too in the dark—" God
forbid ——" Forbid it God of all mercy."
Very pious indeed, and probably had you '
at the moment given vent to the devout
feelings of your heart, and finilhed your
prayev, you would have added " forbid
that Tom Thumb, Esq. fiiall be any lon
ger the catch penny Ihovvman—-and O
grant, that sooner or later I may be the
keeper of the beasts myfelf."
The mod undifcerning mull perceive
that all your motives are not avowed ; —
some secret springs must actuate your ma
licious heart—nothing else can account fol
your conduct, a certain constitutional ten
derness rtiay cause you to shrink back from
instruments of punishments but to this,
no rational man can impute your violent
abuse and overflowing spleen.
But with an effrontery peculiar to your
felf you have thought fit to traduce also,
the American character. You feerri to
fiippofe the good people bf New-York,
capable of being diverted by the fight of
the guillotine. But know fir, that this
instrument is viewed with horror, as eve
ry such instrument ought to be—That it
leaves an impreflion on every /nind, unfa
vorable to the cruelty of penal laws, and
the inftiftion of sanguinary punishments :
This impreflion is a ufeful one in a coun
try where a reform in the penal laws is
much wished for, and capital punishments
are perhaps too frequent. But your idea
that humanity is in danger of being ba
nished from our citizens unless the guillo
tine is exhibited only in pictures, in mi
niature, or in paste board models, is wor
thy only of their ridicnle and contempt.
American principles are not to be shaken
by trifles, whatever you may fuppofc.
But you go on, to tell American citi
zens that " a dangerous spirit is creep
ing in among them"—' an insidious spi
rit.' If this is so, I hope indeed it is not
the spirit you have manifefted. You call
this ' art awful period.' But why all this '
alarm ? Alas, Gardiner Baker (the poor
mechanic you affected to difpife) has got
in a small private room the model of a
guillotine, large enough to strike off my
noddle ; and this he shows to every fiend
of his that particularly requests it ! 1 !
—' You think this a political decadence'—
• a said presage of decaying morality'—
' an unbridled licence' and an attempt 'to
weaken the government.'
Alas, poor creatine, your friends have
reason to tremble for your intellects !
' Fret now and flatter yourfelf' as much
as you please, and dream if you like of
' air guns, guillotines; rattle snakes and
scalping knives'—' deformiiies, deleteri
ous plants and venomous animals.'
Adi'm,
ANOTHER MAN.
April 7, 1794.
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PHILADELPHIA,
APRIL 24. (
\
General Rochanbeau's Aid de Camp
is arrived at New-York from Newport
An arrival at Baltimore from Jamaica,
brings an account that Captain Barney had
been tried and acquitted.
A New-York paper of the 22d instant,
fays, Mr. Jay will fail from that port in
about 14 days.
Interejling particulars of the Jiege of Mar
tinique—and the surrender of Fort Bour
bon, as publiftied in the St. George's
Chronicle and Grenada Gazette of March
28 th.
MARTINIQUE,
March 6. The batteries of the be
siegers being completed, to the number of
60 pieces—
March 7. At half past four in the morn
ing, from the signal of a rocket from the
camp, a general attack began, and the
fire of all the batteries was directed upon
Fort Bourbon, which was vigorously re
turned by the besieged i-' towards night
the fire ceased upon all fides. On this
day the English had five men killed and
wounded from their own fault in their
batteries.
March 8. About 3 o'clock the fire be*,
gan very violently, but that of Fort Bour
bon weakened : towards the evening Sir
Charles Grey gave orders to fire only by
intervals : Fort St. Louis was cannonaded
and bombarded the whole night by the
gunboats and bomb-batteries.
March ()th. A general cannonade and
bombardment: at 5 in the morning a piquet
guard from Fort-Royal attacked the poll of
Lacofte, and was repulsed ; but being after
wards supported by the garrison of Fort St.
Louis, and some armed men from thetown,
thejr intrenched themselves under the walls
of the Hospital, and in this situation fought
till 10 o / lock: the British troops under a
croft fire from two forts, and of some can
non placed at the point of the Hospital, and
exposed to the mufquetry of the besieged,
displayed a degree of firmnefs and resolution
beyond all praile; the engagement was fi
nished by the effe&s of a n pounder placed
upon Morn Tartenfon, which drove the pa
triots from their intrenchmente ; the Engiifh
had some killed and wounded in this aition ;
the loft of the enemy is not yet known. Our
batteries,- to which an augmentation of four
mortars had been added, playing during the
whole engagement; the forts of the enemy
kept up a terrible fire, but fortunately with
out any mifchief j the reft of the day passed
more quietly ; the whole night a cannonade
and bombardment was kept up upon Fort
Louis both from the sea and land.
March loth. Little firing on either fide;
tie approaches were carried on, and the bat
teries of the befiegeu augmented ; iriforma
tion was received from a deserter, that the
bombs had done much damage to Fort Bour
bon : during the night the batteries were
almost silent, but the bombardment against
Fort St. Louis was cortftantly kept up ; the
sire-os the enemy became much weaker.'
March T ith. Little firing dnring the
night. The scaling of Fort-Louis was a
gitated at head-quarters : in order to ac
complish the establishment of a mortar bat
tery at the Poligon, two strong batteries
of cannon were formed, one upon Morne
Tartenfon, and the other upon the heights
of Viomenil; these two batteries were
manne4 by sailors. Mr. Daoule, the fam
ofis partizan, intrenched himfelf upon his
own hill, and refufed to surrender: 250
men marched againlt him, and conduced
liirn this day to St. Pierre's with some
of his accomplices, and a great quantity of
mnfquets and fide-arms.
March 12th. Little fire in the morn
ing, the reft of the day quiet; a flag of
truce was sent to Fort-Bourbon ; upon
his return the fire of the befiegeis upon
Fort-Bourbon and Fort St. Louis was
tremendous until the next day.
The army is in high spirits, in general
very few sick, killed or wounded.
St. GEORGE's (Grenada) March 18th.
After having been involved for a conside
rable time part, in a labyrinth of incoherent
reports, reQjedling the fate of Martinique,
we have at last the fatiafaftion of announ
cing its final surrender to the British arms.
This agreeable information was brought by
Capt. Holman who arrived here in the Fan
Fan lift night. The well directed and in
cessant fire thas had been kept up by the En
giifh batteries had so much damaged Fort
Bourbon, that it had 'jeen deemed practica
ble for some time palt to carry it by alTault ;
but from the certain knowledge that the be
siegers had that the mines of the enemy were
carried to a considerable diflance from the bo
dy of the place, it was not thought proper
to facrifice the lives of such a number of brave
men as must have perished, if the besieged
should fiave sprung them, which there was
every reason to be ieve w'ould have been done.
On the fide of the Fort next the town, the
natural ftr ngth of the place, and the protec
tion of Fort Louis, had been so much depen
ded on, that that fide was left without those
subterraneous works.
■The capture of Fort Louis therefore be
came an object nec eflary to pave the way for
the carrying bf Fort Bourbon. The former
was taken without any loft on Thurfday,and
the town of Port Royal with all the ship
ping in the Carenage, fell into the hands of
the Engiifh. This was an acquisition of great
value and importance. On Sunday, the ene
my received the last fummons,and on perceiv
ing the advantages the besiegers had gained,
and the advances they were making , agreed,
to admit a British regiment into the Fort to
remaih together with the French garrison till
the terms could be finally adjusted. The
sixth regiment accordingly marched in and
remained till Tuesday, when the Engiifh col
ours were hoisted, and the French marched
out with the honors of war, to the number
of 800, 200 of whom were whites, and the
remainder negroes and mulattoes. They are
all to be shipped to France.
Four hundred of the garrison had been
killed during the siege, and the works
were in a state of ruin.
The greatest part of the guns were
dismounted, the mortar beds rendered
useless, the buildings within the fort en
tirely destroyed, and the body of the
place filled with rubbish. The loss of
the British on the whole did not exseed
two hundred.
To the above information we are sor
ry to add, that a Captain whose name we
have not learned, charged with Sir Chailes
Grey's dispatches, was unfortunately
drowned, in attempting to go on board
the Blonde Frigate, appointed by the
Admiral to carry home the intelligence
for Government.
/ /
A summons has already been sent to
St. Lucia demanding the furrejoder of that
Island, which it is not expected" to make > s
any r?fiftance.
Guadaloupe is the next obj? ft to which
the operation of the forces is to be direct
ed.
General Roehambeau has it left to his
ele&ion to be sent either to France or A
merica, and it is believed that he will be
prudent enough to prefer the latter when
he considers the fate that commonly awaits
the Republican Generals when they fail
of fuiccefs.
By this Day's Mail.
, BOSTON, April 15.
We have the pleafute to inform the pub
lic of th'e arrival in this port, yesterday, of
the schooner Betsey, Capt, Carver ; and
schooner Ranger, Capt. Atwood, from
Jamaica, where they had been carried in
for legal adjudication, tried and acquitted,
as no proofs of French property could be
found.—That many others, it was expec
ted, would be immediately released, not
withstanding the counter-inftruftions of
the Bth January had not been received from
England.
By Captain Carver we furtherr learn,
that Captain Barney, (who report said
had been condemned,) was tried, acquit
ted, and enlarged. >
The opiriiou of the Solicitor-Genera!
of Jamaica is, that no American veflbl
could be condemned under the orders of
the 6th November.
The above vefiels are fjrid to have
brought home near 15,000 dollars.
CARLISLE, Pen. April 12.
On Monday laxt Lient. Richard Hazle
wood was' thrown from his horse and kil
led ; this "accident happened on the moun
tain near Strafburgh ; his horse frighted,
took flight and threw Mr. Hazlewood a
mong the rocks where he received almoll
instant death —Last week Lieut. Hazle
wood marched with troops through this
town ; and this morning his remains weVc
brought to town to be buried in the
ground adjoining this borough.
The committee of the House of Repre
sentatives on the refutation inserted in the
firft page of this Gazette, reported a bill
this day, which was read twice and order
ed to be engrossed for a third reading.
The ways and means were under confi
deration—further progress was made this
day.
We hear that the Britilh Commander
at Martinique, has changed the name of
Fort-Bourbon, to that of Fort-George—
and Fort-Louis, to Fort-Edward.
C 5" In the piece signed "A Democrat"
publifhedon Monday, sth. paragraph 4th
line, for "a portion" " read a fortiori."—
18th line for " equally " tead equality.
NEW THEATRET
TO-MORROW EVENING,
April 25.
Will be performed,
A TRAGEDY, called
HAMLET,
PRINCE of DENMARK.
Hamlet, Mr. Fennelt
King, Mr. Green
Ghost, Mr. Whitlock
Horatio, Mr. Marihall
Laertes, Mr. Moreton
Polonius, . Mr. Morris
Rofencraus, Mr. Francis
Guildenftern, Mr. Cleveland
Player King, Mr. De Moulin
Francisco, Mr. Darley jun.
Marcellus, Mr. Harwood
Bernardo, Mr. Warrell
Oftric, Mr. Finch
Officer, Mr. Bliflet
Grave-diggers, Mr. Bates & Mr. Wignell
Queen, Mrs. Shaw
Ophelia, Mrs. Marflioll'
Player Queen, Mrs. Rowfon
To which will be added,
A FARCE, called the
Wrangling Lovers,•
O R,
Like Mafler # Like Man.
Don Carlos, Mr. Moreton
Don Lozenzo, Mr. Gretn
Lopez, Mr. Bates
Safifho, Mr. Wigneil
Leonora, Mrs. Francis
Jacintha, Mrs. Rowfou
t