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" I am sorry to observe that theft an
ties have too many representatives in a cer
tain aflembly. The retaliatory propoii
tion, the fequellration of British debts,
the non-importation, and other measures
of a similar com] ilex ion, may discover
zeal, but do not bear the features of
found sense. I trust some fcjlks deceive
themselves egregioufly by supposing their
flaming speeches will lender them popular
—the lober sense of this people will weigh
all pretensions to their favor in the balance
-of reason and confiaeration—may Jifhcrt
for popularity be forever disappointed.—
This period, calls for real patriotism and
found wisdom—every consideration of du
ty and interest, require, that we Ihould a
void the war, if possible ; and I conceive
it is possible to avoid if. While the Eu
ropean nations are raving mad, we expedt
to fiiffer by their delirium; but we are
not under the necessity of fighting the
lunatics. It gives pleasure to the think
ing men in this part of our country, that
Judge Jay is nominated to goto London
to endeavor to obtain jultice—He is an
excellent ihitefman, and will if any man
can do it, bring the mad-caps to reason.
I very much doubt the propriety of con
tinuing the embargo since the appointment
of an envoy.
" The Chronicle informs us, that we
have two good men in our delegation to
Congress—it is rather Jlim to have but t-jjo
oat of fourteen—however, we have plenty
at home who burn with patriotism to take
the plates of the twelve—these seekers,
if we take their characters from themselves,
are excellent trien—thefe are the constant
scribblers in the Chronicle."
ExtraS of a letter from Briflol, (England)
dated March 4th.
" Says, there is little talk of any thing
but AVar and deftruftion—One neighbour
is far a King, the other for a Republic—
people are much divided in their sentiments,
as much as in the American war—God only
k«ows how it will end, for my part, I think
the times will be very scAd, we are so op
prefled, that I think it will not hold long—
and am afraid it will be here as in France.
A plain Countryman on a visit the other
day to the Loganun Library, wherein there
are many Latin books, being collections of
the works of certain authors, labelled on the
hack "Virgillii Opera" " Hefi idis Opera"
" Luciani Opera" &c. after locking over
them went up to the Libririan t and very
gravely obferve3~" that he thought "the
founder of the Library had been a Quaker."
So he was replied the Librarian " Indeed !
then I am very much surprized he should
have collected such a number of Operas
The foUoiulttg important article is ctpied
from a Charlejlon paper jitjl received.
CHARLESTON, April j6
The following final decree refpe<sHng the
ship Laurens, of this port, has lately been
received.
Resolves of the provisional executive council
of France, relative to the American ihip
Laurens, prize to the French letter of
marque the Sans Culottes, of Honfleur;
23d Fremaire, 2d year of the French Re
public, one and indivisible.
ON the report Said before the provisional
■executive council, by the minilter for foreign
affairs, relative to the prize made by the pri- 1
vateer Sans Culottes, from Honfleur, of the 1
American (hip Laurens, now detained at
Havre de Grace:
Considering that the said ihip Laurens is
truly American built, that the Captain and
crew are Americans ; and whereas it is con
fident with the justice of the French Repub
lic, to bear refpeft to the neutrality of the
United States of America, and faithfully to
maintain the treaty made in 1778, according
to the second article of the national decree
in convention, dated 23d Brumaire:
Considering also, that the imperious cir
cumllances in which the republic is ii volved
in regard to provisions, give her the right to
seize, even in neutral bottoms, all the com
mejlibles which were destined for her ene
mies ports, provided the owners ars indem
nified by receiving the full value of said com
meftibles :
The members of the provisional executive
council, in virtue of the powers vefled in
them by the decree of the 28th Brumaire, 1
have taken the following resolutions: 1
Art. 1. Rice and other provisions of 1
the moil urgent necessity, which may be i
on board of said ship Laurens, or which 1
may have been landed, will be purchased 1
on account of the republic, and paid to 1
the owners, the price they would have c
been fold at, at the port of their deflina- ]
tion r {
Art. 2. By virtue of the decree afore- j
said ; the freight will be paid to the Capt. c
of said ship Laurens, fnch as it has been \
fixed in the bills of loading ; a just in- c
demnity will be allowed, besides for de- t
[ murrage, according to the time of the
detention of said (hip.
Art. 3. The (hip Laurens will be re
leased as soon as the provilions shall be
lauded.
Art. 4. AU'fentences from ?ny court
of admiralty, or other resolves passed
heretofore in rcfpe£t to said (hip Laurens,,
will be entirely void and of no sol ce.
Art. 5. An indemnity (hall be grant
ed to the owner's of the letter of marque
the Sans Culottes, to make up for the cost
and charges, which -the profecutmg of
that suit may have occasioned.
Art. 6. The tninifter of the navy is
requested to fee that these resolves be
deeply executed in what concerns his de
partment, and for the execution of the
remainder referred to the mihifter for home
and foreign departments.
Copied from the remitter,
JiESAUGIER, Sec ' y pro tem.
. Certified to be a true dopy,
DEPERREAU, Co-secretary for
the 3d division of the navy.
Seen by DALBARADE, minilter fcr j
the navy and the colonies.
GENERALS.
PICHEGR U AND HOCHE.
From a London Paper of March 18.
The former was a Francifcanv and of
the fevered of his order. In the year
1789, he threw off the cowl, and served
in the National Guards. His fine form, hit
courage and his attachment to the Repub
lic, railed him by degrees to the command
of the army of the Rhine, and afterwards
to the command of the army of the North.
General Hoche is only 27 years of age.
His military talents are great, and he pos
sesses a degree of equanimity which the
mod unfortunate events do not difeoncert.
In 1789 he was a common foldfer. He
is the son of a plaifterer at Amiens. Ga
dignan, La Fayette's Adjutant, firft ob
served the manner in which Hoche diding
uilhed himfelf, and his eager defiie to
make himfelf mailer of the military art.
He learned him to draw and to take plans.
His progress was so rapid, that he soon
raised himlelf to a situation of the greatest
importance.
For the Gazette of the United States
MR. Fen NO.
"X was much pleafeT an ac
count of the Toads drank at Daily's Ho
tel on the third instant—they are eharac
tcriftical of good Republicanism, and when
contraded with those said to have been
given at the Civic Feast, go fully to prove,
that Republicanism and how
ever analogous at fii ft fight, are found by
daily experience to be essentially different.
The twelfth toast for instance, drank at
Dally s, is, or ought to be the creed of all
11 ue Republicans—Whereas, the majori
ty of those given at the Civic Feast, were
damped with that diabolical spirit of in
tolerance, faction and persecution, so com
mon to the Democrats of the present day.
Having thus far, in the moll unequivocal
manner approved of the toasts at Daily's,
yet I must confefs, that it is somewhat diffi
cult to divine the scope of the last volun
teer, which we are told was as follows:
" The Mountain, its summit the Heaven's,
audits lafethe whole Earth."
It is true, that many persons, when
conversing upon general topics, are very
apt to employ phrases or technical terms
attached to their particular profeflions—-A
fea-faring man for example, will fay, that
a cozc\\fails well—A (hoe-maker, that his
neighbor is a good soul —A carpenter,
that every thing squares well, &c. & c .
Perhaps then, there could be no impro
pnety in supposing, that when the worthy
Speaker, was called upon for a volunteer,
he was pondering upon the practicability
of making a loaf of sugar as large as the
mountain in quellion. The idea of a py
ramid, whose cone (hould exceed the dia
meter of its base, is quite new, and may
therefore draw forth some ill-natured re
marks from the Critical Reviewers—but,
what of that; are we always to be confin
ed within the tramels of propriety, when
•we wi(h to deal in the sublime > I trust
not, and more cfpecially too, at a period,
when things the leajl understood have be
come the mofl falhioflable. The Heathen
Poets, among their other crude notions
o , onom, calGeography,' were of opi
mon that the earth was stationary in the
centre of the Universe; and that the He»*
vens relted upon the (boulders of a stupen
dous mountain, .well known by the name
0 Atlas " Tile modern dogma therefore
...k• • . ; i ' V.- ••• -. _ .; _.
c ot a ißOMctaiijj whole summit is compared
to the Heavens themielves, feerrs to be
nothing- more than a revival of th* old Pa
e jranfyltem, w.th this difference only, that
Ji it was true that tlie iaiu mountain waj
t cornpofed of sugar, it might prove of in
-1 finite advantage to those timid thrift ians,
who, terrified at the difficulties attending
- the narrow and rugged path, would mount
- to Heaven with alacrity on the fides of a
: Si!oar Loaf. Indeed it is not improbable,
t but that all the Democratic Societies might
f mgrfce the attempt, provided they were
ceitain of meeting with goodJpiHts at the
s eiul of their journey. v
! By this Day's Mail.
PORTSMOUTH, May 3.
On Monday last arrived here the brig Re
becca, Capt. 1 reaick, in 25 days from St.
Euftatia, informs that the Engliih privateers
are all called in, and the Bermudiuns are gone
home—All American'Ve(H4s that have of
' ;t te been sent in for legal adjudication, have
r beer, difmiifed without any molaftation.
-fill kind of provisions were riling very
fact in the Weft-Indies.—And the people
there appeared extremely lorry that the
Americans have been so ill-treated by their
privaters and Courts of Admiralty— and
were greatly afraid that an Embargo had
taken place in Amtrica.
r PROVIDENCE, May 3.
1 Thurfdiy last, the Ekchange Coffee
« House, built by Major M'Lane, cppofite
the Market, was opened. In point of ele
l ganee and accommodation, it refle&s cre
-1 disc tjn the town, as well as 011 the pub
lic-spirited pi-ojedors.
The new and elegant Ship George
Washington, Captain Donnifon, of this
port, is arrived at Madeira, on her way
to India.
The Ship Hamilton, Capt. Rodman'
and Ship General Greene, Capt. Smith'
both of this port, are arrived at Bour"
deaux.
BALTIMORE, May 9.
Arrived, Ships Buchanan, Liverpool;
Adriana, Hart, Bristol. Brig Sally, Hick,
London. Snow Nelly, Dawfon, Ditto.
NORFOLK, May, c.
On Friday lall arrived the ship Molly,
C~pt. Clavk, from Havre de Grace
Spoke the 18th March, the brig Peggy
of Portsmouth, bound to London all
well. And 011 the 20th of April, in lat.
p W. and 27 N. fell in with the French
fleet from Virginia— was boarded by the
Ambuscade frigate.
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA
A RRIVED.
Sloop Hanna, Croker, Charleston 12
Betsey, Davis, do. do.
CLEARED.
Brig Friendship, Howlaod, Boston
Sloop Samuel Smith Norfolk
Cspt. Cook failed from Oporto the
16th of March in company with the fol
lowing American veficls viz.
Ship William, of Newport, for Charleston
Brigs Courtney, of Norfolk, Norfolk
Fame, of Bedford Bedford
ICaty, of Boston, Boston
Schr.„ Betsey of Beverly Beverly
He left at Oporto the following vefiels
from the United States, difcltarging their
Cargoes viz.
Ship Catherine, of Philadelphia
Betsey, Newbury-Port
Snow Hebe, Philadelohia
Brig Maria, . Boston
Atlantic, New-York
Laura, Kennebeck
Betsey, Ifwitch
He saw a letter from Capt. Wharton, of
the ship J. Bulkley from Lisbon, dated Feb.
2id, wherein he mentions that there was a
number of American vefiels to fail for the
United States, with a convoy about the mid
dle of March. The sth inft. spoke off Cape
Hatteras, the brig Moggy of Baltimore, all
well.
It was reported at Oporto, that the Al
-gerines were out 3 or 4 in number, but they
had no certain account thereof.
F ° r LONDON >
penn,
NOW lying at Jeffe and Robert Wain's
wharf, to fail with all convenient speed. For
freight ot passage, apply to
JOHN FIELD & SON,
Or,
JESSE & ROBERT IVALN.
Ma y *3. dtf
1 f.
PentfylwMa Hospital, sth Ma.
$rh. 1794.
At a Meeting of the Contributors, the fol
lowing gentlemen were elected
MANAGERS.
Jofiah Hewes,' Pattifon Hartfhorne,
Owen Jones, EUiftoh Perot,
Samuel Coates, Bartholomew Wiftar,
Joseph Pafchalltr I.awrence Stckel,
Thomas Penrofe Thomas Morris,
Samuel C.'ark, Samuel Mickle Fox,
And
Mordeca'i Lewis, Treasurer.
At a Meeting of the Managers, sth Mo. 12,
*794, the following Contributors were *
choferi.
FHYSICJANS.
Dr. Adam Kuhn,
Dr. Thomas Parke,
Dr. Benjamin Rush,
Dr. William Shippen, juri.
Dr. Casper Wiftar,
, Dr. Samuel Powell Griffiths.
X übhlhed by order of a board of Mana
gers.
SAMUEL COATES, Clerk. *
For Sale or Charter,
phoenix,
Burthen about eight huildred barrels. She
is fn compleat order, and ready to take in
her cargo. For terms apply to
JOSEPH ANTHONY & SON
Ma / *3- d3t
JSELFqt Charter,
Europe or the JVejl /»«'
THE BRIG
THOMAS >
Solomon Bunker Master.
Burthen about sixteen hundred ban-els, a
staunch good vend, and a prime sailer—For *
terms apply to the Captain on board, at
M'Cknachan's wharf, or to
JOSEPH ANTHONY & SON.
Philad. May 13, d 3 t.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
A good Pressman,
Who *. ill meet with conOant employ. Apply
loSuiqrrand Kamnierci.Nc. 85, Race-Sireu.
M »y '3. '794- ' d- 3 t
Sales at Auction.
On Thursday the 15th and Saturday the
17th mil. at TWO o'clock in the after
noon, at
John Connelly's Au&ion store,
Mo 1 78, South Front Jlrect 9
A CHOICE COLLECTION
book S,
In various Branches oj literature.
Catalogues may be had at the store as a
bo»e, and at No. 26, Spruce street, where
the BOOKS may be seen any time before the
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NEW THEATRE.
TO-MORROW EVENING,
May 14.
Will be performed,
A COMIC OPERA, called
ROBIN HOOD,
SHERWOOD FOREST.
The part of Clorinda, by Mrs. Oldtnix'
on, late MiJ's George, from the Theatit
Royal Hay-Market, being herJirJl appear
ancein America.'
With the original overture, by Baumgarton,
the reft of the muficsi accompaniment's
composed and feleited by Shield, with ad
ditional airs by A. Reinagle. With new
scenery, dreffiis, and decorations.
After the Opera,
A Scots Pastoral Dance,
Composed by Mr. Francis, called the Cale
donian Frolic.
In which will be introduced a Highland Reel
by Mr. Francis, Miss Willems and Mrs.
De Marque.
To which will be added,
A COMEDY, intwoa&s, called;
Who s the Dupe,
N. B. The public are refpe&fully acquain.
ted that there will be a performance on Thurs
day and Friday in this week, and that on
Monday the 19th inft. will be performed a
play and entertainment, as will be exprelTed '
m futur* bills for the BENEFIT of Mr
FENNEL. •