inoify to punilli Great Britain, and re
venue the loss of a million or two of pro
perly. View the example of the brave
Reyublicaps of Switzerland, and learn
trash and wisdom.
UNITED STATES.
r BOSTON, April 11.
To :h- Trustees of the Humane Society in
Boston. ,
Eu/l Wind/or, (Con.) 1794-
H - who saves the life of another is a bene
factor Co mankind. The following cafe of
one laved from drowning, whole condition
appeared helpless, is mentioned with an ear-
Belt wifa that any who may providentially be
in a Similar dreadful fifUation, may experi
tnjetne happy t ffefls of the experiment.
Several years ago, Mr. John BjJTell who
kept a ferry in this town, and with whom 1
was acquainted piloted a footman and his
wife over the river on the ice, a small lnow
had fallen the night preceding, and hidden
the path, and rendered it unfafe for ftrangei s
to pals without a guide, on account of the
openings or breathing places frequent in fro
zen rivers.
A lad about 11 years of age, who lived
W ;th Mr. Biilel followed his mailer. There
was a hole cut through the ice, near the Ihore
for the eonveniency of cattle to drink. The
lad went .*> the hole, and while amusing
himfelf with piliing the snow into the wa
ter, his feet flipped and he immediately dis
appeared. The water was of considerable
depth.
Mr. BifTel, with a pretence of mind un
common in fucli sudden furprtfe, ran to the
Ihore and seizing a large billet of woo ', yid
being long acquainted with the course and
rapidity, of the stream ran about five rods
below the place, and exerting all his strength,
by repeated hard blows, broke the ice, then r
pulhing away the broken pieces, laid down
upon the ice, his face touching the water,
and eagerly looking for the lad s coming
down. He had hot been many seconds in
situation, when he saw him coming
towards him, his head about a foot below the
ice. He plunged in his arm, and seizing
the lad drew liim out, motionljis, and to ap
pearance dead. But by the application of
warming things, he was providentially res
tored to his usual health, in two or three
hours. He had been under the ice fix or-
DAVID M'CLURE.
eight minutes.
PHILADELPHIA,
APRIL 26.
Yesterday about n o'clock, the President
accompanied by the Governor, the Secretary
of State, the Secretary of War, and a num
ber of rcfpedlable citizens, went down the
river in one of the New Castle Packets, to
view Fort Mifflin and other places on the
banks of the Delaware.
By this Day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, April 25.
BY the FANNY OF GREENOCIC.
Yesterday arrived here from Greenock;
the ship Fanny, Captain Braine, after
a passage of 35 days. By this arrival
we have received London papers as
late as the ift, and Glasgow papers
to the 7th March—The papers do not
contain any thing very important—they
are mostly filled with Parliamentary
(ketches—of which we shall continue
to puhlifh ex.tratts. The following,
however, appearing the mod important,
claim our earliest attention.
BRUSSELS, Feb. 20.
The head quarters of the Auftrians
will be this evening at Valenciennes.—
Mj deClairfayt will command 20,000 men
at Toornay: The Prince de Cobourg
40,000 at Solefmes, between Cateay and
Oambray; and the Prince of Hohenlohe
20,000 on the banks of the Sambre.
There will be also 9000 men between
Beaumons, Maubeuge,'and Philippeville;
19,000 Dutch troops, and 12,000 Auf
trians, will protest Namur; and M. de
Beaulieu will have 9000 at Arion. Such
are our dispositions. The 15,000 Auf
trians that are at Treves will be charged to
cover the Electorate. The English, Hes
sians, and Hanoverians alone, arc charged
with the defence of Weft-Flanders from
Menin to the sea.
LONDON, February 14.
M. Perigord, B;ftiop of Antun, is going
to Philadelphia with Madame de flannalt,
-whose h. I (band was guillotined at St. Omers.
They will be accompanied by Beaumets, an
Ex-conflituent, and the Ex-minister Nar
"bonne.—-The Ex-constituents d'Andre, La
meth, d'Aiguillon, and Luagnan, will fooo
follow them to America.
"February, Is.
It is generally undei flood that our govern
ment will Hop all American lh.ps now in the
river, bound to France, 'i he urgency of af
fairs requires every vigilance on our part to
prevent any supplies being lent to that coun
try, which is so very hard prefied at this
moment for articles of the firft nece.Tity for
carrying on the war.
Great quantities of pot-ash have been late
ly exported from this kingdom to France in
neutral (hips j the French having, it is said,
discovered a method of using this fait instead
of falt-petre, in the composition of gunpow
der.
When Meflrs. Muir, Palmer, Skirving,
and Margarot, were conduced on board the
hulks at Woolwich, their baggage was not
received, and they th'emfelves were obliged
to put on the common convi<fls jacket, and
submit to have their heads (haved.
February 18.
Yesterday accounts were received from
America, brought to this country by two
ships frorri New-York, with letters as late as
the 14th of January. By these we learn,
that Congress had received intelligence of the
proclamation of our Privy Council of the
6th of November last, for seizing American
(hips under certain circumstances ; as well
as of the capture of several American (hips
in the Weft-Indies. Congress however, had
wifely determined on preserving a ftrifl neu
trality with all nations. American stocks
have risen in consequence.
February 20.
A gentleman who came passenger in the
schooner Success, Captain Leech, from
Norfolk to Liverpool, informs, that two
days previous to his departure from thence,
a letter was received from Mr. Parker, a
Member of Congress, from Virginia,
which dated, that the United States were
on the eve of a war—that Cougrefs had
pafled a resolution to fortify all the towns
on the sea coast—that upwards of 50 pie
ces of cannon were to be mounted tor the
defence of Charleston, and that orders
had been ilTued for buying up, on account
of the American Government, all the
arms and ammunition which could be pro
cured.
The Duke of York, in the ensuing
campaign, is to ast under the direflion of
Col. Maek, and the combined armies are
not to waste their time by flopping on the
way to attack or besiege any of the strong
ly fortified towns on the frontiers, but to
proceed in a mass to Paris.—Star.
Government yesterday received advice
from Portsmouth, that the cutter which
was dispatched from thence on Thursday
evening to look into the ports of " France,
from whence the expected invasion was said
to be projected, is returned, after running
so close ort Ihore as narrowly to have es
caped a red-hot ball from a battery ; and
reports that there>are no troops embarked,
nor shipping so numerous, or preparations
in any state of forwardnefs l'uch as had
been conjectured.
The French, having made great additions
to their strength, along all the frontiers
from Lisle to Dunkirk, threaten another
inroad upon Weft Flanders, and already
some severe fkirmilhes have taken place, at
the allied out posts. Gun-boats are said to
have failed from Dunkirk, for the purpose
of attacking Oftend by sea, to which place
theit troops, in great numbers, are endea
vouring to press forward by land. In the
mtan time, it is fatisfadlory to know, that
Oftend has been, for some time, in a condi
tion to make a vigorous defence.
The Juno Frigate, Captain Hood, com
ing from Gibraltar, entered the road of
Tqulon, not knowing of the recapture of
that place, anchored off the Caserns; —
when a boat with a French officer came
to announce to the Captain, that he was
prisoner of war. Capt. Hood requested
the Frenchman to take some refreshment
in his cabin, and profited by this interval
to cut his cables, and then bore away un
der a briflc gale. The French batteries
feeing the' Juno (heerjoff, direded a vio
lent discharge upon her, two of which
went completely through her without kil
ling a man.
Febuuory 21.
Official news has been'received by one
of the Foreign Ministers from his court
of Perpignan having surrendered to the
Spaniards. The particulars are not Hated.
February 22.
Our letters from Bruflels, dated the
18th inlt. state, tjiat the movement of
the French, which we had notice of in
our last letters, was not a falfe atarm.
The French had a&Oally began their ope
rations, and that in a mod formidable way.
They advanced on the fide ps Maubeuge,
and on the 1 jth a violent cannonade com
menced on the Austrian out-pofts. AH
the Englith troops have moved from their
cantonment, and the Auftrians have ad
vanced from Mons to the frontiers
The Prince of Cobourg had been for
two days at Bavar, and it was thought
that he would remove his head-quarters to
Valenciennes ; as for the present at least
they nmft continue on the defenfive ; —
70,000 French are already aflfembled be
fore that place, but it appears that Pich
egru yet waits the arrival of the cavalry.
Ten fail of French Ealt-India men
have reached Port l'Orient, an event
which has caused much joy among the uri
der-writers: at Lloyd's Coffee-honfe, where
some of them were deeply insured. This
arrival is to be the more regretted by this
country, as the French have thereby re
ceived a large fupplyof falt-petre, an arti
cle of which they were very much in want.
The brig Union, of Boston, Captain
Snow, lately put into Galway in distress,
bound from Virginia to Dublin, laden
with tobacco, was wrecked on the coast
of Wales, on her pafiage frpm Galway,
and two of her crew unfortunately perish
ed. The George,Simms,(an American)
from Maryland to Bremen, is taken and
carried into Moirlaix, & ordered to Brest.
The great number of French collected
about Longwi and Thionville, seem to
threaten the Provinc.e of Luxembourg
with an invasion. The Ailfttian generals
have put that fortrefs, which, after Gi
braltar, is the ftrongeff in Europe, in a
most refpedlable state of defence.
On the iotliand iithinft. feveralbloo
dy fkirtnifhes were fought about Orchies,
in which the Austrian hulfars took a great
number of prisoners.
Letters from Leghorn, dated January
31, state the fafe arrival of the Juno fri
gate, Capt. Alexander Hood, in that port.
He brought with him the Republican of
ficer and 10 seamen whom he had made
prisoners at Toulon.
March I.
Last night Mr. Sparrow, the meflenger,
arrived at the Secretary of State's office,with
dispatches from our army in Flanders. A
general movement has taken , lace, and the
British forces had all drawn towards the
neighbourhood of Courtray expecting an at
jack. Their Head quarters are now at Haer
libeke.
As the armies are now in general motion,
the campaign may be expected immediately
to commence. The prince of Cobourg ar
rived at Valenciennes on the 19th, where he
has taken up his head-quarters. He was re
ceived with the most lively demonstrations
of joy, and the city was illuminated on the
occalion.
Yesterday accounts were received in town
by the Minerva from Bengal, for Oltend.;
that the r rincefs Royal, East Indiaman out
ward bound, on the 27th of September last,
near the Sunda Ifiands, fell in with three
French frigates, and engaged them for up
wards of one hour, when (he was obliged to
strike to their superior force. The carpenter
was killed ; the sixth mate, and two seamen
wounded.
The dreadful fire which broke out at
Gottenbourgh, on the 4th mflant, began
juftoppofite the town-house, which had a
narrow escape ; the flames and heat reach
ed it from the other fide of the canal, and
nothing but the most strenuous exertions
could have saved it. It is computed that
from 100 to 120 houses have been con
sumed, and upwards of 2000 people loft
their all in the space of ten hours; fortu
nately none of the British have fuffered.
Friday died his Grace the Duke of
New-ca£Lle-
NEW-YORK.
We rejoice to find accounts from various
Islands of the rtleafe of American flapping.
It looks like a return of friendly intercourse
with the islands in due time ; but when the
best face is put upon the whole business, eve
ry man must pronounce it a molt infamous
series of abusive treatment.
The (hip Holland, Capt. Franklin arrived
at the Texel 2 2d, January last, after having
been taken and carried into Cowes by the
Englilh Cutter Swan ; who after examining
the papers released him immediately.
The Holland was laden with sugar and
coffee, the produce of the French Wek-India
islands. 1
ExtraS of a letter from a merchant in
London, dated February 10, 1794, to his
Correspondent in New-Tork.
"I hjve effected Insurance on the freight
of your strip at fix guineas per lent. When
is is considered that for some time past French
cruisers have flopped almost every American
veflel they have met with, and sent them to
France, of the fate of whose cargoes and al
so of their freights, we are ignorant, I am
led to hope the owners of the ship will think
she was done on very moderate terms. A
monglt those vessels supposed to be in France,
is thf Mary, Capt, Haley ; as since her ar-'
rival off Falmouth the 4th,ult, there has
be?n no account of her.
THE French paper from which
we copied the paragraph of Mceftricht
and Breda having been taken by the
French, as mentioned in vefterdrry's Gaz
ette, jvas handed us amongst late papers;
but on examination, find it to be an old
paper of Feb. 1793.
Extract-os a letter from London, dated
February loth, 1794.
" It is with pleasure I mention, that
appearances are very flattering of that
good understanding which exists between
this country and yours, not being at pre
sent interrupted—the American commit
tee, whereof I a member, a few days a
go presented a memorial to the Admiral
ty, requesting a convoy to fail from Fal
mouth or Plymouth early next month, to'
take under their prote&ion veflels bound
to the United States, which thay hare
promised to grant." -
■arrived.
Ship Elfice, Harvey, London
Fanny, Braine, Greenock
Mary, Puller, Gibraltar
. Sfventy-five paiTengers came in the Fanny,
from Grtriock, mat|y of whom were cabbin
paiTengers.
The ship James, Howard, arrived at Do
ver, 15th February.
The ship Atlas, Bunker, arrived at Lon
donderry, after a short paflage.
The ship Providence, Martin, from this
port, is arrived at I.eith.
CONGRESS;
House of Reprefentat 'ivN April 2s:
On motion by Mr. Smith 6f South-Ca
rolina, amended by Mr. Parker,
Resolved uhanimoujly, That the letter
of the Committee of Public Safety of the
French Republic, addrelfed to Congress,
be transmitted to the President of the U-<
nited States, and that he be requested to
cause the fame to be anfwercd, oii behalf
of this House, in terms exprefiive of their
fenfibilityj for the friendly and affection
ate manner in which they have addrefled
the Congress of the United States, with
an unequivocal afiurance that the Repre
sentatives of the People of the United
States, have much interest in the happi
ness and prosperity of the French Repub
lic.
Orc'ered, That Mr. William Smith and
Mr. Parker, be a committee to wait on
the President with the foregoing resolution.
*** The St. Domingo fufferers will re
ceive a further jtffiftance from the fund ad
vanced by Congress, by applying at the cor
ner of Water and Walnut-Street, on Mon
day, from 9t012A. M. and to SP. M.
A small sum is reserved to aflVft tliofe in
distress, who have an opportunity of quitting
the United States.
The Printers are requested to insert the
above. April 26th, 1794.
NEW TH
THfS EVENING,
April 26.
Will be performed,
A COMEDY, called
The Rivals.
To which will be added,
A New serious Pantomime, never perform
ed here, called
La Foret Noire,
OR. TPE
NATURAL SON.
With New Music by Mr. Reinagle, and
New Scenery by Mr. Milburn.
The Pantomime.under the direction of Mr.
Francis.
Geronte, father of Lucille Mr. Greeif
Lanzedan, Lucille's lover Mr. Moreton
Adolphe, the natural son, Master T.Warrelt
Pince, a finical Abbe, Mr. Francis
Lubin, apeafant, Mr. Warrell
Fronte & Pafquin, ferva*ts to Geronte,Mef
frs. Warrell & Darlcy jun.
Lucille,(Daughter to Geronte) Madame
Gardie, from the Theatre a- Paris
being her firit appearance on this
flage.
Marton,Lucille's maid, Miss Rowfon
BANDITTI.
Le Terreuir, captain of the banditti, Mr.
Marfnatl
Sans Quartier, the lieutenant Mr. Cleveland
Robbers, Messrs. BlilTet, De Mou
lin, Lee, Bason, &c.
Books, descriptive of the Pantomime, to
be had at the Theatre.
Places in the Soxes to be taken at the Box-
Office of the Theatre,at any hour from nine,
in the morning till three o'clock in the after
noon, cn the day of performance. Tickets
to be had at the office near the Theatre, -at
the corner of Sixth-ftreet,and at Carr & Go's
MuficalUepofitory, No. ij z, Market-flreet
fa, Boxes, one dollar—Pitt, three quarter*
of a dollar—and Gallery, half a dollar.