addrefled to Congress, be tranfnntted to
the Vrcfidcnt, and that hi be requeued :o
caufc the lame 16 be an:wt;red on behalf
of the Senate of the United States, in
fiich manner a* (hall manifeft their iince re
friendfhip and good will for the French.
Republic.
Read, in the House of Representatives of the
United States yejierday
(TransxaTion.)
Liberty—■EqjAii.ttv—or Dfath.
The Rcprelentatives of the French people,
Memlers of the Committee of Public
Safety.
To the Citizens, Members of the Congress
o£ the Uniu4 States of America.
AFTER having laid the foundation of
cur liberty, it became incumbent on us to
fccitre it. A national government is born,
and with It vi<slory. Emanating from the
will of the people, it has their energy. For
the salvation of the ft ate it has been refcrted
to,and the Hate is saved. iAt it« voice 15
armies are in motion, and triumph. At its
Cgrtal, interior order is restored —fruitful in
daftry is expanded—the conspirators fall.
Wc impart the news of the success of our
rtnrries to a people, who, having obtain *d
lih.-rty in a ftmilar manner with ourselves,
caiinoi.leaxn ; b\,itwith eiithuliafiri.of the vi<sto
rita of republicans, & the downfall of tyrants.
Policy already appreciates the advantage
of the retaking of Toulon. Already have
the neutral povvers proclaimed themielves,
and Genoa, indignant at the atrocity of our
cAenyes, who have sullied her territory by
the vihrft and blackest of -crimes; —-Genoa
has resumed all her energy, and driven the
Engiiih. and Spaniards from her ports.
In the North, our Triumphs, not less
briHunfj have given the combined powers
feme severe fcocks.
They had dared to menace Dunkirk,
Maubeittgr, and Landau. Every where have
they bt-tn beaten—every .where have they
bcftti put so flight;—and even towards the
Rhine, onr army' in pursuit of them had
advanced to the very gates of Mayence.
Such is the long catalogue of success which
unfolds itfclf at the moment, at every
point im which the French Republic fends
ikzr mvic<^We-phalanxes.
Sc many victories will convey nothing
aftooinilng to you ; —you, magnanimous re
publicans, vrho will easily conceive the pro
digies which, liberty is -capable of perform
ing:, afcer having in this vast career left to
the detendero of the people memorable ex
ample?.
Yen had already participated in our tri
umphs as well in thought as political union:
Our fuccelfes reverberate Oil you, and the
&[\ of ctar eternal and implacable enemies,
•w?JI be 26 latisfa&ory to America as to out
raged Fcan;e. Our cause is reciprocal; —
it 3 that of every people who honor huma-
Etfy. j
ft is under these f'o ious aulpices that the
re^refruir fives of the .French people are
prcSed by the desire of drawing closer more
tL r au the bends of friendihip, which
tf.it* twbrgr£ and free nations.
Thus liberty will have two points of fix
ture oa the wo. Id, and being an immovable
CotafTUi, file will reft one foot on each hemis
phere.
At her voice let Agriculture and Com
merce, thole two fotirces of national prof
peritv pairing out under our hands their
mutual exchanges, multiply, aggrandise and
cr-isent our friendly relations and public fe
licity.
Let us discard every thing which may
dl&irb that necefiary harmony pointed out
by the nature of things, still more than by
2.; ecxpiTical interafl:; —that harmony which
Las not a cautious, felfifh mercantile policy
for its principle, but the esteem, the frater
nity, all the social and beneficent virtues
wf>xch fiow from JLiberty.
Honor, Prosperity, Safety, and Fraternity.
The Reprefcntatives of the French people,
Members of the Committee of public fafety.
'Jean bon Andre,
Ci jt. Prieu)
P. Barcre,
Bilhtud Vareane,
R. "iJadel.
• Paris, 22 Pluviofe. 2d year of the French
Republic, one and indivisible.
(loth February; 1794.)
Fiithfully trandated from the original by
GEO. TAYLOR, Jun.
April, 1794.
Extract from the Speech of Mr. Duque
. ly, a member of the Irilh. Parliament,
February J, 1794.
IVc love the Honfe of Hanover ; but
is that a reason why we shall fight the
French untill they love the House of Bour
bon ; which for centuries had been the
oppreTors of the people ? We have had
our bloodv days—and had the fame com
bination attempted to ptinifh the murder
of Charles the First, the fame disorders
and maifacres would have taken place,
which began with-' the manifeftoea of the
Duke of Brunfwick. Why did not
AMERICA DRAW THE SWORD
FOR LOUIS, who fought for her and
agaiuft us, and who ftilcd himfelf her
deliverer? —>Bec&ufe ! AMERICA AC
TED WITHOUT PASSION, and
though in an infant state, has GIVEN
LESSONS OF WISDOM AND
CAUTION TO OLD ENGLAND.
This day in the House of Representatives
of the United States, a bill, entitled " An
A£t to suspend the importation of certain
goods, wares, and merchandize" was read
the third time and pafled. The preamble to
this adt recites the resolution publifhcd yester
day, in which the injuries fuffcred by the li
nked States from Great Britain are enume
rated, and then goes 011 to prohibit the im
portation into the United States,of any goods,
wares, or merchandize whatev r of the
growth, produce, or manufacture of Great
Britain or Ireland, from and after the firll
day of November next—excepting such arti
cles as are now exempted from duty. This
prohibition to cease as soon as the claims and
demands of the United States against Great
Britain, ftiall be fatisfa&orily adjusted—and
proclamation tlfereof made by the President
of the United States.
Never was there a time when falfe news
was made with more industry and impu
dence.—One Newspaper in this city defierves
to be called the Brunei'# Gazette. Two
printers atleaft will enquire, is i: .inine ?
The lying paragraph of lafl Monday 4e
ferves some invefrigation. If a printer had
the secret of the dispatches from London, it
fhewti a leakinefs of the Cabinet'tfiat is extra
ordinary. But there is no ground for this
aspersion. If the flory was made out of the
whole cloth, and made to influence the vote
of that day, it shews, exa&ly what every
body knew before.
That Newspaper being known as the
BrufiePs Gazette, may now claim a patent
for making and vending falfe news, without
a competitor, and without injury to the pub
lic.
This country is wonderfully changed —a
preacher of the gospel is abused in the Gene
ral Advertiser, for warning and exhorting
his flock against the 2theifm so shockingly
prevalent in France—He is ftigmalifcd as the*
friend of bigotry and fuperftitiov, whose al
tars fays the paragraphift are overturned—
The style of the paragraphs in that paper
is equally friendly to religion and govern-
ment.
Yesterday evening was married, by the
Reverend Dr. Helmuth, Mr. John N. Ir
win, merchant, to Miss Eliza Muhlenberg,
daughter' of the Honorable Frederick
Auguitus Muhlenberg, all of this city.
By this Day's Mail.
Yesterday arrived here in 50 days from
the brig Liberty, Capt. Pen
field—who informs us, that it was expec
ted that the embargo would soon be taken
off the American veiTels, as they had re
ceived advices from the deputation at Pa
ris, which gave them every reason for an
event so much wilhed for by the unfortu
nate Americans—the situation of whom,
is particularly described in the letter which
follows, it having been sent to their depu
ties at Paris.
Capt. Penfield has brought 24 French
paflengers, and it was through the influ
ence of some of these paflengers, that Capt.
Penfield was permitted to fail.
From a French paper of the 21ft Fe
bruary, received by Capt. Penfield, we
learn that Ma:ftricht and Breda, were tak
en by the French.
Robespierre,
Coulhon,
Carnot,
Collot D'heriois.
WE have intelligence from Paris thro'
the means ef private letters from two of
our deputies, thaf you have met with con
duct in the course of your application for
justice in our behalf, whiclj we conceive
truly unbecoming Frenchmen, or Repub
licans of any country.
We are fully convinced of your know
ledge of our situation—os the wile mea
sures you are no doubt taking, when in
your power, to meliorate it; but circum
stances that have transpired since we wrote,
as well as the feelings that torture the
breasts of every American here on the re
ceipt of such information, induce us to
write you, that you may be well informed
of the general wilh of us all, arid that you
may ast therefrom.
Since you left us,the reprefentants pn ap
plication of the *Consul, advanced 100,000
livres on account of the indemnity. They
fold us 40 calks of rice, after paying for
which, and with other deductions, this
amount was not Tufficient to pay the ge
neral debt to the butchers, independent of
Says a Correfpondeht.
NEW-YORK, April 24.
Bourdeaux, February 24, 1794.
Citizens !
tlie demandtor Sread, wood, &e. Thus
this money in a few days vanished, and
your diflreflcd country men here were again
left didilute of the means of procui'uig
the neceflary fubfitlence for their crews-.—
Thiscaufe.in addition to the want of bread
throughout the whole fleet, the absolute
impofllbility of procuring fre ill meat on
any terms, and most of the veflels being
without fait provisions, has alarmed our
apprehensions, particularly when we can,
with difficulty, procure bread from the
public—"-in allowing every 12 days to each
veflel, i-2lb. bread per man per day, bis
cuit at 555. per cwt. payable in cash on
the delivery. Thus the unfortunate men
who are destitute of money, mull remain
without bread ; in (hort, it is a fail, that
moll of our veflels have not had a pound of
frefh meat on board for ten days pall, and
many of them have adlualfy used the lad
morsels of their fca provisions, which are
not to be replaced at any price, had we
monpy to do it.
This gentleman, is a (late of our fitua
tion as refpe&s fubtiftence ; we now re
quire your attention to the general fuffer
ing by daily detention in the advancement
of the fealon. We pass over the discus
sion of the Algerine risque, 'tis a theme
too well known to you, and occasions in
onr breads a pang too severe to dwell on ;
we only observe that our demand magnifi
ed ten fold, however it may appear exor
bitant, can never, if granted, atone for
the lol's of the liberty, and for the capti
vity of those who reccive it. This idea,
to a nation who declare eternal war to
tyrants, and to be the- eternal enemies o£
slavery, the supporters of liberty, and
friends to freemen, ought to bias every
mercenary consideration, and .intrigue
should be driven by the common laws of
humanity ;nto the datkeft obfeurity.
A gentleman from America informs
us, that one of the firlt fleps Congress
took at the meeting, was a discussion of
the propriety of enacting a law to prevent
the importation from England, and that
a very great majority appeared to be in fa
vor of the aft—this will have an impor
tant a fie ft on the iituation of America ;
in fiiort it is our opinion, that you ought
immediately to make a remon(trance to
the Convention, Hating your proceed
ings, the actual situation of your coun
trymen here, and on their behalf to de
mand an answer to your petition ; it is
time we fliould know our fate. Our situ
ation is tenfold more cruel than that of
prisoners of war. Our money a fid means
are exhaulted, and it is no time to prolong
an application for a final answer. We
have a right to claim it—lf it is their dis
position to render us justice, and they are
prevented by intriguing men ; it is your
duty to search for proof, and if found, to
denounce the authors of this deception.
We further direct you, to mention in
your application, that your constituents
fatigued with delay in bringing forward
their business, have desired you to demand
an answer, or passports to return in three
days. After obtainiug an issue to this,
you will use your difcrstion with refpeft
to returning—but we trust that you will
return, and relieve us'from a further ex
pence, the moment you lose a profpeft of
bringing into effect yonr different claims.
At a meeting last eveniag, it was ob
served that the committee at Paris, had
not given us a full idea of the situation of
our claim the caigoes unfold,
and we also inform you that this letter is
not written by the committee individually,
but after a debate of a very full meeting ;
you will therefore consider this as the wilh
of the whole.
We are yours, &c.
(Forthe Americans at Bourdeaux)
R. BENNET FORBES.
A Letter from Boston, dated April 16,
from a gentleman of character fays " the
agreeable news of the release of American
veiTels in the Weft-Indies, is confirmed by
several arrivals at Salem from Antigua.—
A brig has just arrived here from Guad
aloupe. We have intelligence that 20
fail of liberated veflels have arrived at Mar
tha's Vineyard. "
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
ARRIVED.
Schr. Dairymaid, Hammell, Havannah
Sea-Flower, Tillett, N. Carolina
Sloop Sally, Tracy, Nantucket
Ann, Gardner*
Captain Hammell informs that aboy(
6 days ago in the Gulph Stream he was
chafed for 3 hours by oae of the Frtnch
fleet from Norfolk, whicli were then at t
coafidcrable di (lance, ail under way—he
spoke the Sans-Culottes in the Bay.
Arrived at Baltimore,
Brig Pegasus, Mangels, Exeter, (Eng.)
-L'Ouclc, Michel, Charleston
Hjpc, Latouch, Hampton
Martlia and Mary, Stanftmry, St. Kitts
Sch'r Colley, Deagle, Jeremie
Hope, Mackie, "" '
Pilgrim, Chadwick,
Sloop Betsey, Brown,
Sally, Lush,
Betiey, Taylor,
Juliana, Fulford,
ESSENCE
For the Tooth-Ache,
Prepared and fold by Dr. Lis, Golden-
Square, London.
TJiE public is offered one of the mod
efficacious and fafe medicines, that ever ap
peared, for that most excruciating pain, the
Tooth-Acbe—the numerous instances of its
happy effects, in relieving the affli&ed, have
now b ought it into u ; iivcr]al eft mation ; it
not only relieves the tooth ache, but is of the
urmoft service in cu. ing the SCURVY in the
Gums, in preventing the difagreeabltf smell
that is produced froin unbound teeth, Sc will
occasion a sweet breath; it Jikewife prevents
the teeth from decaying, .and will be tound
a general preferverot the Teeth and Gums*
Sold in Philadelphia only at
Poyntell's Stationary Store,
No. 2i, Second street, "
Apn] 24,
—NO. 2.—
Second Jlreet, between Market and Ckefnut
JlreetSy Philadelphia.
POYNTELL' S
AMERICAN MANUFACTORY OF
PAPER HANGINGS,
WHERE he keeps up a ronftant ftoik of
ten thousand pieces for sale, conipriftng every
variety of colours, in grounds and figures, of
the rhoft modern and tasty patterns, for eve
ry part of a house. The perft ftion attained
in this manufactory, in.peculiar neatnei's of
workma (hip, durability of colours, variety
ih design«, and good quality ot the p«per, will
be found to exceed any European papers at
the fame moderate prices.
A'l elegant variety of rich fancy feftoon &c
narrow borders, and of itucco and other to
loured pannel papers.
Plain ground*; yiade to any tolour orlhade.
"VVholefale orders for any quantity, from
the cou try or for expo! tation, executed on
a (hort notice, on advantageous terms, on
usual cedit.
In addition to the above aflortment, he has
a beautiful variety of
French paper hangings
of ve y superior quality, (Paris tnaiiufaAo*y)
with a variety of Hich Borders.
Apiil 2 5
NEW THEATRE.
THIS EVENING,
April 25.
Will be performed,
A TRAGEDY, called
HAMLE
PRINCE OF I
Hamlet,
King,
Ghost,
Horatio,
Laertes,
Polonius,
Rofencraus,
GuildeF.fiern,
Player King,
Francisco,,
Marcellus,
Bernardo,
OUric,
Officer,
Grave-diggers, Mr. Ba
DENMARK.
Mr. Fennell
Mr. Green
Mr. Whitlock
Mr. Marshall
Mr. Moreton
Mr. Morris
Mr. Francis
Mr. Cleveland
Mr. De Moulin
Mr. Darley jun.
Mr. Harwood
Mr. Warrell
Mr. Finch
Mr. BlilTet
__ _ Mr. Bates & Mr. Wignell
Queen, Mrs. Shaw
Ophelia, Mrs. Mariholi
Player Queen, Mrs. Rowfcn
To which will be added,
A FARCE, called the
Lovers y
Like Mailer, Like Man.
Don Carlos,
Don Lozenzo,
Lopez,
Sancho,
Leonora,
Jacincha,
As inconveniences to the public have
arisen from the Box bcok being open on the
days of performance only, in future attend
ance will begivtnatthe office in the Theatre
every day from ten 'till one., and on the day*
of performance from ten till three o'clock in
the afternoon. Applications for Boxes, it is
refpe&fullv re uefted, may be addrefied, to
Mr. Franklin, at the Box-Office*
North-Carolina
Beaufort
Alexandria
George-Town
Currituck
Walhington
tuth&s 3W
tUth&S2W
r,
Mr. Moreton
Mr. Green
Mr. Bates
Mr. Wiguell
Mrs. Francii
Mrs. Rowon