vatUNTEER-f?.
May every free nation corifidcr a p»blic
eebt is a pubiir ctirje, and may the man who
voulu aC'ert a contrary opinion be caßLiidcrea
a» ai> enemy to his country.
11. The unfortunate vidtinls of Britilh ty
ranny—the members of the Popular Con men
tion of Scotland—May their fate recoil upon
their persecutors, and may ■ those who hive
L ught an afvlu r n in this country find in eve
ry Ana?'lean a bfother and a friend.
i, t. The dispersed friends of Liberty
throjghout the u o' ld —May France be <ne
rallying wht -e they may colled} their
fc.ittered forees, arid wfi'enec jhey may sally
forth to the ilcflruelioh of all the tyrants of
the earth.
By the Minister of the French Republic.
May the principles Oi reason be universal
as tlu y are eternal.
By the Governor of Pennsylvania,
Pe ace on the'f own terms to the French
Republic.
Tne Prefidems an 1 Vice Presidents of the
filler i'ocieties prelifiei at the feaft, the pre
parations for which do the honor to
the managers. »
After dinner the citizens formed a double
line in a lane which led to the place cf enter
tafnnsenf, and the Prelidtnt of the Demo
cratic Society gave tlie fraternal embrace to
the minifier of the French Republic, amid
tbfc acclamations and most animated joy of
all the company.
The citizens then, fomtf time being spent
in the eftyfions of mirth, frifndfhip, and
good humonr, accompanied the Minister to
town, in a regular order of mar;h,headed by
music and the colours of the Republics and
sccompanied by one of the companies of vo
lunteer infantry of tbis city.
1 They partook of some refrefhments pro
vided in the Minister's garden and preserving
the.- line of march thro' part of the city,dil
p- -r:d with perfedl good humour and tran
quility before the State House.
"I he pro visions which remained after the
repast were diftrabuted, agreeably to order,
'asa jug the prisoners conlined in the goal of
t'lit city.
Foreign Intelligence.
MADRID, January 25.
The cares of government being no long
er divided between Toulon and the Py
renees, the operations in the latter will be
puifued With vigor, for which purpose the
army will be re-inforced with 7000 infan
try and JOOO cavalry.
\ BRUSSELS, February 28.
Among tlie reports of the day it isfaid,
that therear* accounts from France, dating
that the column <jf republicans which was
sent polt from Greville to Brest, was ftop
pe.J«n their way, by a paity aflembled in j
Eritk Hiy, and cut to p'eces. The fame
letters slate Paris to be in an alarming fer
ment, that the people, tired with the per
petual 'a! IV accounts of the destruction of
La Vendee, cry Treason, and insult the
members of the Convention 111 the Itreets.
FLORENCE, February 1.
The Italians begin to be apprehensive
that the French may pay them a viiit, and
the Grand Duke of Tufcany, who was
induced by us to the measure of fending
away their Minister, seems now pretty
firmly determined not to give the French
asy farther reason to complain of him.
A small, fleet of transports arrived a few
days ago at Leghorn, from England,
with troops aboard, that had been intend
ed, for Toulon and, among them were
about 1 oohorfes. The hoi fes had fuffer
ed much from a long voyage, and it was
abfdutely neceflary to get them on (here,
forwh;cb purpose application was made to
this government, but a positive refufa! was
given to their being landed, and fourteen,
I understand, are dead f.nce they have
been in the harbor of Leghorn.
1 •>
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Thursday, February ij.
The convention were informed that 38
millions of aflignats would be burnt this da'v 3
ROYALISTS.—REPUBLICANS'. i
The following letter was read from the
representative. of the people with the army
of the Weft to the co remittee of public fafety
" Saumur 21 Pluvoife, 9th February.
"We did not fuppcfe, citizens colleagues,
that we Ihould have been obliged to write to
you concerning the execrable La Vendee.
We had conceived that the victorious army
traversing for the second time this unhappy
country, would have been only reduced to
the neceflity of immolating to the manes of
our brethren some vagabond hordes, and that
the country would have been afterwards
wholly 111 the power of the republic.
" Things, however, have changed their
appearance, without, however, wearing a
menacing afpedl. Some of our columns have
IV| becn defeated by the royalists, w ho are about
4000 strong. We hasten to inform you of
thii c'rrumftance, because fre are fjre that
the diikffeifted will endeavor to alarra the
public mind, by magnifying t'he danger.
ViSory, however, will soon attend Us, and
our biave republicans will iaflidt a lign_l
vengeance on these rebellious royalists."
March 7.
n A great number of rebels have been ar
e rested at Havre-de-Giace, and conducted
to Dieppe. Among those lately taken
up at Paris, are, the famous Chapelier,
[ exconllituent; St. Georgd, colonel of a
regiment of Creoles ; M'adame de la Rey
, mere 4 Madame de Choifenl; the wife of
Monaco ; Francois arid Charles de Lo
menil, and 13 priests from Chantilly.
The total number of prifonersis 9100.
I The military commission at Bourdeaux,
has sentenced to the guillotine the two ex
advosates, Buroeip aud Bondin, and the
two ex counfcllors of the parliament;
1 D'Ofeighac and D'Anglade.
We learn from Perpignan, the Colonel
of the regiment of Noailles has been guil
-1 lotined in the mldft of the camp, because
in his box were found croflfes of St. Louis,
cockades, and a flag with thefieur.de-lys :
' in dying, he cried out, vtve le Rot! Ge
, neial La Fitte has died in prison ; Gene
ral Refniel, commandant of the place is
dea 1; General Latcvrade has been carried
off frorh the army, and that the Spaniards
aflemble from all parts.
A lettsr from L'ifle de France, dated
October IJ, (fates, that fifteen privateers
I belonging to that island make prizes con
. tinually, among which are a Dutch Cor
vette, a Dutch Eaft-Indiaman, pierced
for 50 guns, with ingots of gold, coffee,
groceries, See. valued at fix millions; an
Englifli ship of 24guns, having on board
59 sacks of silver, iequins and ingots, a
chelt of diamonds, a sack of jewels, &c.
that the forces of the Englilh in that
quarter conn ft in only one frigate and two
lhips of the company.
LONDON, March 4.
Allied Force expeSed to take the field, in
the Spring, againjl Franct.
England to furnilh )
by sea and land, 3 100,000
Spain, ditto. 50,000
Hanover, ditto. 25,000
Empire and German princes, 120,000
Pruflia, 100,000
Emperor, Ho,ooo
20,000
Kuflia, sea and land, 60,000
Armed peasants, 150,000
Royalists, ready when )
opportunity offers, 3 150,000
Dutch, sea and land, 30,000
Portuguese, ditto. 30j000
Neapolitans and king >
of Sai dinia, 5 40,000
Total, 1,000,000
HOUSE of COMMONS.
Friday, February 21.
Mr. Grey said, that, as he meant Ihortly
to bring forward a motion relative to the
conduct of government towards neutral pow
ers, he wished to know whether the right
honorable gentleman opposite, would have
any objeaion to the produflicn of fueh pa
pers as related to those powers. He (hould
move for all the papers that palled between
our ministers and the governments of Flo
rence, Cjenoa,Denmark, Sweden and Ame
rica i and for copies of the orders given to
the commanders of veflels to seize on the
Ihips belonging to those powers.
Mr. Pitt said, he would have no objedlion
to lay the last mentioned papers before the '
house ; but as to the others, he Ihould firft
take time to consider of them.
PORTSMOUTH, February 19. !
1 his evening arrived a frigate from the
Downs with 300 fail of lhips and Veflels un- ]
der her convoy, among which are 11 fail of
outward bound Eaft-Indiamen.
This morning failed rear-admiral Mac- j
bridge, with the following (hips under his t
command, on a cruise off Cherbourg, &c
Ships. Guns. Commanders.
invincible, 74 C Rear admiral M'Bride \
o, r C Hon. T. Parkinfon. ,
Sheernefs, 44 Captain Fairfax.
rei ent, 36 SiF J. Saumarez. t
Arethufa, 36 SirE.Pellew.
l l T' Sir J.B.Warren.
U l n Halkett - f
With two other sloops of war.
ARMED JUDGES. 1
To tie Printer of the St. James's Chronicle. ]
oIK, t
IN your paper you inform us, that I
every Judge in the Revolutionary Tribu
nal ot 1- ranee is armed on the Bench with r
a brace o loaded pistols in his girdle, and a
a hanger byh.si.de. I take leave to ob- b
IWfh V i was 3 time when the a
Lnghft, j ud g tho ht k neccff
protest themselves in the fame manner
S.r John W.ddon, one of the Judges in a
Queen Mary the First's reign, who is re- «
membered for being the firft who rode to
Weft'minftejvHaU on htrjfebaet (mules on
[ ly being used previous to that period) and
I his fellow juitiees; were aimed, and the
; counsel pleaded at the bar of the Courts
of justice in Armour, on account of Wy
att's rebellion and infurreftion ; nor did
the Lord Chief Justice Jeffries think him
i felf fafe without the fame precaution,
, when he went in to the Weft of England
for the trial of those who joined the un
fortunate Duke of Monmouth, in the
■ days of King James the Second.4-The
French we know, despise precedent? but
some of their friends here may be pleased
with, the above ; which is much at their
, service to make the best use of they can-
I am, Sir, your's Set.
R. J.
[ UNITED STATES.
SALEM, April 7.'
The town of Salem lias authorised its
Selectmen to execute a quit claim deed, in
favor of the United States, of the old
fort, and fnch other land as
shaM be neceflary in erefiing fortifications
for the defence of the port.
'We hear, that the Lieut. Col. Com
mandant of the Salem regiment has en
joined on the officers to admit of no excuse
whatever from the soldiers for a deficiency
in the articles of equipment, and to 6b
ferve a ftriit discipline in every refpeft
the piefent alarming period requiring that
the militia should be prepared for any
emergency.
BOSTON, April 24.
The Chamber of Commerce at their
annual meeting for the choice of officers,
elected the following gentlemen for the
year ensuing:
rfon. Thomas RufTell, Esq. President.
Stephen Higginfon, Esq. fi'rft Vice-
Ptefident.
John Coffin Jones, Esq. Vice-Piefident.
Mr. Henry Prentifs, Secretary.
their standing committee for
the month of April, were eledted
Samuel Salisbury, David Greene, Joseph
RufTell, jun. Theodore Lyman, JefTe Put
nam.
We hear that a duel was fought yester
day, in or near this town, between Mr.
J. Murray, of Newbury-Port, and Mr.
N. Frazier of this town, in which the for
mer was wounded in the thigh, and the
latter in the breast.
PHILADELPHIA,
MAY 3.
The following extraH contains a more intelli
gibh account 6J the position of the Allied
Armies in Flanders, than has appeared.—
From the Levden Gazett£, of March 7
ExtraS of a Utter from Brujfels, dated
March 3.
THE Conventional army, commanded
by general Pichegru, has made a general
movement in advance, wich leads us to
suppose that the enemy will commence the
campaign, by attacking us in our polls.
The towns of weft Flanders,
contibue Rot only to be menaced by Gene
ral Van Damme, who has under his com
mand, a body of 14 or 15 thousand men,
but they also fear an attack by sea, at the
fame time that they are on the land fide.
We learn that they are diligently occupied
at Dunkirk in equipping an armament of
small veflels, such as gun boats, floating bat
teries &c. destined for this enterprize—the
works are carried on with great diligence at
Fumes and Nieuport, to put those places in
such a pasture of defence as to defeat the
project of the French. In prosecuting what
they have for a long time had in view,
they daily renew their incursions into the
province of Luxembourg, horn whence they
carry off all the cattle and provisions which
fall into their hands. The 13d of last month
they surrounded and took pofieffion of an
Austrian port of 20 men, in the village of
Frifanges, which they afterwards pillaged.
The 26th, they entered in great numbers
the valley of Virion, from whence they took
a great number of waggons loaded with
grain and other commodities.
Col. Mack after having made a gene
ral survey of all the posts occupied by the
allied troops, from the sea to Luxem
bourg, returned to Valenciennes, where
after his arrival, there was another coun
cil of war held between the Generals.
The following is the position of the
armies which cover the frontiers—The
center of the grand Austrian army com-
/// >
manded by Prince Saxe Cobourg covers
Valenciennes, Conde and §>uefnoy. The
tight under the orders of Count Clairfayt
covers Tournny, Orchies and Marchiennes
—while the left under Prince Hohenlohr,
covers Mons tint] Chorltroi. A cordon of
troops commanded by Generals Latour
and Beaulieu, extends from the borders of
the Meufe to Luxembourg.
In Weft Flanders, the Englifli army
occupies Courtray, Wevelghem and Menin,
and the Hanoverians, Fumes and Nieuport
A corps of ten thousand men is beyond
this divifian, in cantonments at the ex
tremes of the frontiers.
The government is at this moment en
gaged in. making arrangements with each
of the Belgic provinces to raise a body of
ten thousand men, intended to com
pleat the Walloon regiments—The inlift
ments we hear are to be only during the
war—Brabant is to furnirti three thousand
—Flanders four thousand, and the other
three thousand will be raised by the Pro
vinces, in proportion to their population
—The hereditary prince of Orange, and
the princess his wife, arrived here the day
before yesterday—The fame day a body
of Dutch troops arrived here.
The celebrated Dr. Priestly is about to re
move to this country. His opinions have
given offence to the friends of monarchy in
England.
Extra# of a letter from England, dated Feb.
*7j i 794 j received by the George Barclay.
We afliired England has no concern in
the Algerine business, and is mull sincerely
disposed to cultivate the frieridihip of Ame
rica."
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
ARRIVED.
Snow Baltimore, Banfon, Liverpool
Brig Yorick, M'Allifter, Antigua
Sch r Swift, 1 lromas, Virginia
Sally, Skinner, New-London
Sloop Harmony, Elwood, Virginia
CLEARED.
Brig Floriday, Farrada, Savannah
Schr. Rebecca,. Hill, Snowhill
Fowler, , Camden
Sloop Balloon, Marshall New-York
Dolphin, Tunnel!
Nancy, Denike, Alexandria
Polly, Chapman,' Boftoij
Rebecca, Snowhill
Union, Sackett, New-York
The snow Baltimore failed from Liver
| pool the 7th of March, with the ftiip Po
mona, Buchanan, and Sarah,
for Philadelphia. Left at Liverpool, fliip
Atlantic, Swaine, for Philadelphia, and
> Clements, for Bolton, to fail in 3
days.
A Ship, Snow, and Brig, were seen
yesterday morning, about half way tip tjje
i bay.
POST OFFICE,
_ Phrlad. May 3d, 1994.
I Letters for England will be received at
this office until Thursday the Bth May, at
12 o'clock noon.
N. B. The inland postage to New-York
I must be paid.
To the Ele&Ors of the city and
county of Philadelphia.
Gentlemen,
This being the last year of the prtfcrft
Stierilf's time in office. I take the l ber
ty to offer myfclf a Candidate, and solicit
your votes and interests in my favor, to plare
me on the return at the next general Election
as his successor for said office; in doin K which'
you will confer an obligation that will be'
gratefully remembered, by
Your moll obedient,
and luimble servant,
jOHN BAKER.
M *y 3- estfc
NEW THEATRE,
BY DESIRE.
THIS EVENING,
May 3.
Will be performed,,
A COMEDY, called
The Dramatist,
O R,
Stop him who Can!
To which will be added, ,
A COMIC OPERA, written by the Author
of the Poor Soldier, called
Peeping Tom of Coventry.
To conclude with the Federal March.
Boxes, one dollar—PlTt, three quarters
of a dollar—and Gallery, half a dollar.