be allowed and paid the Cam of four dol
lars."
And the report was agreed to.
A meflage from the House of Repre
fcntatives by Mr. Beckley their clerk :
"Mr President—The House of Re
presentatives have rejected the report of
the managers at the conference on the
bill, entitled* " An adl to encourage the
recruiting service," and adhere to their
difagreejnent to the amendment of the Sel
nate to the firli fe&ioa ps the said bill"
And lie; withdrew.
The bill was accordingly loft.
On motion,.
" Thart a committee be appointed; to
report to the Senate, what part of the
trnde.of the United States may be released
from-the..effe£t of the present embargo,
without interfering with the principlethat
induced the laying of the fame."
Ordered, That this motion lie until to
morrow for consideration. „
The Senate refurned the second reading
of the bill, sent from the House of Re
presentatives for concurrence, entitled,
" An adt supplementary to "An a<S to
ptovide for the defence of certain ports
and harbors in the United States."
Ordered, That this bill pass to the third
reading.
The motion made the 2d instant, that a
quantity of timber be provided for building
twenty ships of forty four guns each, was
further considered.
Ordered, That this motion be referred to
Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Morris, Mr. Langdon,
Mr. Butler, and Mr. Cabot, to confiderand
report thereon to the Senate.
AmeiTage from the House of Representa
tives, by Mr. Becklfcy their clerk:
"• Mr. President—The House of Repre
sentatives difagfee to the amendment of the
Senate to " The resolution to authorize the
President of the United States to grant clear
ances in the cases of ihips or veflels now load
ed, and bound to any port beyond the Capi
of Good Hope."—And he withdrew.
The Senate proceeded to consider the refo
lution of the House of Representatives difa
greeing to the amendment of the Senate t<
he resolution last mentioned.
ftefoived, That they recede therefrom.
Ordered, That the Secretary acquain
the House of Representatives therewith.
Agreeable to the notice of yesterday
Mr. Monroe requested leave to bring in ;
bill, providing under certain limitations,
for the suspension of the fourth article of
the treaty of peace between the Unj|ed
States and Great Britain ; and
On motion for the previous quettion;
to wit,
Shall the main queftiort be now put ?
It parted in the affirmative—Yeas 12
Nays "ji
The yeas and nays being required by
one-fifth of the Senators present,
Thoie who voted in the affirmative, arc,
MefTrs. Cabot, Ellfworth, Frelinghuyfen,
Henry, Izard, King, Monroe, Morris,
Potts, Rofs, Strong and Taylor.
Those who voted in tlie negative, are,
Messrs. Bradford, Foster, Hawkins, Jaek
fon; Langdon, Livermore and Martin.
And* on the main queflion, to wit :
Shall leave be given to bring in the said
bill?
It pirfled in the negative.—Yeays—2.
—Nay— l 4.
The yeas and nays being required by
one fifih of the Senators present—
Those who voted in the affirmative, are
Mr; Monroe and Mr. Taylor.
Those who voted in the negative, ?re
MefTrs. Bradford, Cabot, Ellfworth,
Fofler, Frelinghuyfen, Henry, Izard,.
King, Langdon, Livermore, Morris,
Potts, Rofs and Strong.
After the confederation of the executive
bufmefs. /
The Senate adjourned to I 1 o'clock to
morrdw morning.
UNITED STATES.
CHARLESTON, April 30.
An affray took yesterday on board
the Apollo Capt. Keown, of Philadelphia.
A Frefich lad, had been on the wharves to
borrow a colour of one of the American lhips.
The Jailors of the Apollo palled some jokes
upon him, and he, not thoroughly under
ftauding them, thought himfelf affronted.
He left the Ihip, and Ihortly after returned
with a number of Frenchmen drefled out
with cockades, and who displayed the flags
of boti the nations. They went on board
for an explanation. To make up the mat
ters they infilled that one of the sailors should
kiss the cockade, which he would not submit
to.
High words and blows enftftd. The
Frenchman most immediately engaged, drew
a dagger. One Welch, received three
wounds in his head. One by the name of
Duncan was stuck by the dagger in the bel-
Iy, tho' the physicians think he may recover
as his mteftines item riot to be injured. The
citizens allembied, seized and conduced
tliem to the gtoq house. Gae or two-i rench
men were wounded with the weapons Nature
..as provided for our defence.
in-the afternoon, tjie French Consul wait
ed upon lhe Captain on board. He being
out, the conlul defiredhe might be acquaint
ed, that he was foiry for the accident; that
he diiavowed their conduct as lubjeets of the
repuolic, and that he ihouid be among the
firlt to prosecute the villains to conviction.
About 5 o'clock, we are informed, another
'at'or was wounded in the face with a ctitlafs,
in Meeting-street, by a company of five
frenchmen.
PHILADELPHIA,
MAY 12.
EMBARGO.
Saturday last, a refolntion was laid or.
the table of the House of Representatives,
by Mr. Smith of South Carolina, for
continuing theembaigo to the 20th June.
This day the lubjeft was taken up—
an amendment was moved to add,fo far as
refpeSs vejfels bound to the Weji-In dies—
this motion was loft—and after confideia
ble debate the question being put on the
original resolution, it was negatived, se
venty-three to thirteen.
The New York Journal of Saturday,fays,
Mr. Jay, was to fail from New York, vef
terday.
EictraS from a pamphlet entitled « Naked
Truth" publijhed in England immediately
after the lOar of 1755.
""Naked truth isalways disagreeable to
weak, minds- as tbcy corapofe the Bulk of
mankind, Ihe.ja themoliliateful to themnJ-,
titude.
" I knew it is as dangerous to write
against popular prejudices as against tyrants.
" Let us call back a few years, and fee
with what ardor the merchants cried out for
a Spaniih war ; a few lhips were plundered,
a Captain loft his ears, no fatisfa&ion would
go down ; even men of l'enfe supported the
party.
We sent a noble fleet; covered the sea
with our ihips, and the ifiands with our fof
diers ; but what return, \ve burled twenty
thoufani! men wiihout a battle.
" Whence came the disappointment ? frdm
the war's being improper, and drove on by
popular clamor. By believing t,hofe popular
prejudices, or not daring to oppose them, the
government was forced to carry on the war
in unvvholfome climates.
It is hurting a prince, or minister, greatly,
to urge them by popular clamor to a war.
A magnanimous prince, hearing such cla
mors, i 6 unwilling to Hem them, leu his glo
ry Ihould fuffer; and a wife minister muff
give way to the joint cry of the people, and
urge on the courage of the prince, tho"
he knows the danger.
The merchant, manufacturer, shipbuilder,
and infinite numbers employed in fitting out
(hipping, may cry out for war.
" Great is Diana of the Ephefians, said
the (lirine makers : perhaps they Would be
lcfs violent, would they but consider what a
desperate reckoning was paid for their focrt
harvest at the beginning of the late war.
" As the war of 1755 was in greac mea
sure urged 011 by the merchants, so the treaty
of Paris was rendered unpopular by the f?.me
merchants, who did not find that it gave
them as'macy monopolies as they expeilecL"
Translated for this Gazettf,
From the Courier Francois of Saturday InJ}.
St. Domixgo.
. The last event at Port-au-Prince has cre
ated confirmation in every heart —It ihews
how much France is deceived by the usur
pers who destroy the country in its name,
whilst the Engliih and the Spaniards under
the pretext of preservation, or protection
compleat on their part the ruin of this flou
rilhing colony—(Of this several betters from
St. Domingo allure us)—ln this unfortu
nate city (Port-au-prince) the whites redu
ced to a iiate of weakness and nullity the
moll wretched, waited in silence a change in
their situation, when Sonthonax and Mon
brun, mutually jealous of their refpeiflive au.
thorities, contemplated a decisive liroke to
afiure each to himfelfthe superiority.
Monbrun, sure of the corps of Equality of
which he had attached to himfelf all the
officers, troubled Sonthonax, who under the
pretence that the Englifli threatened Port-au-
Prince, went to the prisons harangued the
prisoners, and offered them their liberty on
condition of their joining the battalion d' Ar
tois, to compleat it—the prisoners consented,
were armed and polled in one part of the
fortifications, whilst the troops of equality
occupied the other. This augmentation of
force appeared to Monbrun a projedt to de
termine the inferiority of his party —he im
mediately formed a resolution to oppose it.
On the night of the following day, Monbrun
attacked the works with the corps of Equa,
lity; furpfized the new battalion d'Artois
and massacred a great number —the alarm
spread to all parts —all the whites found in
Greets were (hot. In this fugfyful con-
Klion all the inhabitants, men, women and
c 'i-ldren. who co aid fa,v<_ ihciiifelvee, fought
n 'ugc, lojneat Jothers' at Archave.
1:3 p,'rty crij! .'.d, retired
to l-crt L'it ti, yi.h about 80 wh.tcs, deter
mined vo dc.cini thtim'elvt~—Mo).srun luni
noncd him. to iurrelyier in an hour, or he
■would maflacre all the whites in the city,-
ncii, women ana children to the number of
2io. Sbntt&nax. l'eeing he couM riot refilt,
lu rendered to jt£on&ri<n-~—the 80 whites he
hsd with him saved themselves by fleeing to
Leogaoe and Archaye. Behold then Sontho
uai in the power of JVlonbrun, who will
hare an eye upop him.
A reported th.t five hundred whites
were murdered on this occafton. That the
negro Hyacinth released from prison by this
event, marched immediately to Cul-Ue-Jac,
and entered the town with 6 or 7 thousand
negroes—he has poflefied himfelf of the
Forts St. Jofepb and St. Claire? determined
lo refilt Sonthonax and Monbrun.
_ Thus to the continual Ihock of authori
ties, the evil designs ps foreign powers, per-"
petual divilions, the' pretentions -of one par
ty, and the weakness of the other, may be
ascribed the ruin ofrthis milerable colony.
For if all tb ir eftbrts had be turned to its
prelervation, it is not law which they have
_ou!cu, till it is loft would, have deltroyed
them. "Union would have been their iecuritv.
?r(inflated from the Courier Francois of
this morning.
Sy perforis arrived here from Port de
Psix, St. Domingp, we learn that the
Commandant Levaux and Col. Pageot, are
determined to prefervc td the French'Re
ptlbjjic the places which they have in their
pofTefijon. Tiicy have a good Republi
can gan ifon who are resolved not to fub
mi: either, to die English or Spanish.
Levaux has taken the camp Fouaehe
guarded hy 150 English and some French
who were made ptifoners— He took this
camp witfiout.liring a gun. The English
and Spanilh have no force—licknefs has
left but a few foklier's thete—all the ser
vice, falls upon the inliabita-nts who,are
exhaufLcd by fatigue.
ExtraS from the New-Tork Journal of
Saturday lajl.
" After fpehding tlic evening at the card
table, and taking a fpcial glass, I retired
to bed, funk to ileep, and dreamed that
1 was, on a morning, in the gallery of
tile House of lleprefentatives in Con
gt-efs. .jThe Speaker, with either a pen
knife, or a-key, I could not discover
.which, rapped on a table, and instantly
all the gentlemen put off their hats and
rose up. At that instant I saw, at the
Clerk'? table, a man of a grave appear
ance almost covered with a huge white
wig, which had fifteen tails to it, and a
fort of gown and cafTock, in which green,
blue, white, red, and black, were mix
ed in a manner I cannot cfefcribe. He
opened a huge book, and read as fol
lows : N
From the triumph of palfion over rea
son, Good Lord deliner us.
From national pique, Good Lord, l2c.
From unjust; modes of taxation, and
fooliih modes of spending mofiey, Gooa
Lord, &c.
From long fpeeche*, made for the fake
offpeechifying, Good Lord, l 5(.
From offcnfihle reasons, in(tead of real
motives, Good Lord, I'fc.
From the clashing of the interests ol
merchants, farmers, artificers, fundlingi
and fidlers, Good Lood, &c.
From that European system of polity
which has ruined so many nations, Gooi
Lord,
From that plan of governmental ma
nagement which is caculated to render
the rich richer, and the poor poorer,
Good Lord, &c.
From an "heavy debt and reiterated
loans, Good Lord, &c.
From national pride, and national pro
digality, Good Lord, £s'c.
From the folly of encouraging com
merce for the fake of cncreafing the re
venue, Good Lord, (sfc.
From the nonsense of encouraging
consumption for the fake of encreafing
commerce, Good Lord, &c.
From pushing commerce on a flftitious
capita], Good Lord, &c.
Fronj a wish to villify, and from fear
to examine public naeafuxes, Good Lord,
oy.
From a government addrefied to the
fears, rather than to the good sense, and
sensible interests of the people, Good
Lord deliver us. Amen.
He endeed with a groan of despair—
bowed—went away, and wept as he went.
Most of the gentlemen seemed displeased;
a few seemed to be in unison with the
good man of the wig, while one, who I
was told was a merchant, fat all the tin:e
eagerly attentive to a letter which he had
juit opened."
By this Day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, May ro.
ARRIVED.
Ship Mercator, Towns,
Brig Proferpibe, Tylee,
Two Sifters, Hawley, Surinam
Susan & Polly, Carpenter, Savannah
Betsey and Polly, Wheeler, St. Croix
Vigilant Cutter, Dennis, CharLfton
Schr. Governor Clinton, Harris, Hifpaniola *
Goliab, St. Thomas
Sloop Humbird, Clark, Philadelphia
John & Mary, Todd, Fort Dauphin
Mary, Webb, Philadelphia
The schooner Polly, Fanning, failed four
days before the Proserpine from Curracoa.
The ship Bristol, of this port, is arrived
at Ferrolin 33 days.
The ship Maria and Eliza, of Eofton, Capt.
Clement, from Liverpool to Philadelphia,
out 40 days—having met with much rough
weather, carried away part of his bewfprit,
jib-boom, &c.
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
Days
Ship Cleopatra, Smith, Amsterdam 73
Atlantic, Swaine, Liverpool 49
Apollo, K eovn, - Charleston
Swan wick, Eaglefon, Cprunna 5a
Diana, Cain, St. Marc 17
Alexander, Strong, Charleston if
Snow Ann, Arnold, Rhode Island 5
Trusty, Cook, Oporto 56
Boston, Stites, Gonaives 23
Conct ption, De Souza Lisbon 65
Brig Friendfiiip, Howiand, Ha-. anna 17
Fair American, Eve, Honduras 53
Ranger, Dryburgh, C. N. Mole 25
Sally, Cummings, Virginia 5
Schr. Blanche, Crefente, PortduPaix 21
Delight, Gardley, Boftcn 9
Wilmington Packet, Andrews,
Georgetown jo
Nancy, Burton, Virginia »
Fiy, Davy, Baltimore 3
Sloop New York Packet, Bailey, New-
York 3
Sally, Cooper, - ditto. 4
Lauranie,Church, St. Mary's 1$
William, Taylor, Virginia 6
Driver, Doyle, C. N. Mole 34
Fanny, , Virginia 4
Trial, Gibbs, N. York 10
Martha, M'Wiiliams, Virgiri* 10
Brilliant, Norris, do. 10
To Correfponients.
The " epigram on the writers of the demo
cratic Society" is too long, it is rather an in
voice of follies for sale, than a genuine Epi
gram—if the author will consolidate them
in a well pointed mass, and strike out the
severities on Mr. D. who is not deserving
of quite so much, his epigram shall have a
place.
" A Citizen of Philadelphia"— to-mor
row.
NOTICE.
THE Subscriber leaving this city for a fliort
time, has empowered Mr. Thofnas Potier to
tranfaft all bufinefsin his absence, holding his
tranfattions as Valued on
Louis Ofmont.
dtf
May iO
NEW THEATRE.
THIS EVENING,
May 12.
Will be performed,
A COMEDY, called the
Recruiting Officer.
Ballance, Mr. Morris
Scruple, Mr. Warrell
Scale, Mr. De Moulin
Worthy, Mr. Cleveland
Captain Plume, Mr. Moreton
Captain Brazen, Mr. Marihall
Serjeant Kite, Mr. Green
Bullock, Mr. Bates
Colter Pearmain,, Mr. Francis
Thomas Appletree, Mr. Bliflet
Constable, Mr. Darley, jun.
Welch Collier, Mr. Harwood
Ballance's servant, Matter Warrell
Sylvia, Mrs. Marfliall
Melinda, ' Mrs. Francis
Lucy, Mrs. Shaw
Rose, Miss Willems
To which will be added,
(For the last time this season,)
La Foret Noire ;
OR,
The Natural
Witk the origmal, Overture »nd AccOmp*.
Hull, 66 days
Curraioa