gres for ascertaining the person of the an
. thor or printer of the said paper, and to
take eveiy necessary step for tarrying on a
criminal process against him, as I have no
doubt but the lasv of Denmark will attord
me a prompt and exemplary fatiffaftion.
(Signed) Hailes.
To thiS-ts added in the Danilh Gazette
that Count Bernftorf haying recommended
the immediate invert igalionof this aitair to
theDntch chancery, the publiiher was sum
moned before the council of state : and
th&t the curiosity of the public was at the
highest pitch to know the issue of these
proceedings, especially as the Briti(l) Mi
nister had been supported in his demand
of fatisfaftion, by the repfefentations of
the other foreign Ministers.
Young Count Wurmbrand, long fluf
fing from the army of the Netherlands,
has lately written from Liile to his friends
at Vienßa, where he is, with four other
Imperial officers. They have liberty to
walk about the town, and receive their
remittances of money without interrupti
on. They daily attend a two hours lec
ture upon the rights of Ntan, and the
causes of the.presentwwasr f with the Pa
rilian newspapers, &c. It is added that
none of the Aulirians arc forced into the
French service.
April 8.
Yesterday captain Cook arrived at
the admiralty office with dispatches
from Lord Hood. The contents of
these dispatches, we understand to be,
that his Lordship finding the French in
Baftia too ft'rong to be attacked, with any
profpedt of success, by the force at his
disposal, and being ill supported by the
Corficans, had re-embarked tiie troops.
The King of Prussia now finds, that
the fafety of his crown, and the rSprefen
tation of the dearest interests of his peo
ple do not depend on the conquest of
France -The Empress of Russia has also
notified to the court of Vienna, that as
long as the Porte with Sweden and Den
mark, (hall continue to excite her appre
hensions, (lie cannot give her promised aid
to the Confederacy!
The Flanders MAil which arrived this
morning, brings no news of any import
ance. Two mefTt ngers came over in the
fame Packet, but nothing material had
Occurred on the Frontier.
The emperor was expected to reach
Brnflels on Wednesday last. His Inaugu
ration as Duke of Brabant, takes place
in a few days, after which it is believed
he will visit the armies.
By letters from America we learn, that
fix fail of French (hips of the line and
five frigates, apparently the squadron that
Earl Howe chafed, are faftly arrived in
the Chefapeak. They had one million
four hundred thousand pounds sterling,
in specie, on board, which they have fafe
ly lodged in the Bank of Philadelphia,
for the purpose of buying provisions and
llores.
This wealth, thus sent to America,
not enly invigorates their agriculture and
manufactures, but it tends to make them
maritime. They will themselves be the
carriers of these cargoes to France ; and
thus does the present war, through the
madness of Great Britain, advance the
United States of America half a century
in arts, commerce and wealth.
[It does one's heart good to find foreign
nations fcoMing about the prosperity of
America—and it is no mean aigument in
favor of peace and the measures of our
government.]
April 13.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in
his new bill refpedting the Crown lands,
purposes, among other regulations, to
grant immediate leases of 90 years to all
holderj qf Crown leases, which is confi
dired as a liberal boon to them, the ut
ir oft extent of all former leases being no
more than 40. According to the mod
moderate calculation, the crown lands, if
brought to market, and funded, would
produce an annual income of 400,000!.
The late indecision of the King of Prus
sia has produced a number of contradic
tory reports; but in contradi£lion to state.
ments in the foreign Gazettes we are as
sured that the zealous co-operation of
his Pruflian Majesty with an army of
80,000 men, is effectually secured to the
general cause.
The Dutch troops under the command
of the Hereditary Prince of Orange,
have approached Phillippevill.- so very
cltifely, that the garrison of that place
iias only paflage left free to a place where
its cavalry used to water the horses. The
French are now reduced to catch the rain
water in cisterns for that purpole.
On the 26th ult. at day-bveak, the
Republicans attempted to throw a consi
derable convoy into that besieged fortrels.
The Dutch attacked the convoy and the
escort with such vigour, that both fell in
to their hands. The French escort coh
fifted of 200 men, of whom 13 were kil
led, and three others wounded.
Yesterday we received the Paris papers
up to the sth instant. They contain no
thing of much importance, except the
perfect acquiescence of the populace in
the arrest and trial of Danton. The
powsr exercised by the Committees of
Public and General Safety is at present so
defpotie, and so formidable, that no man,
in or out of the Convention, dares to
hint a doubt of the propriety of whate
ver they choose to order.
Ihe Prince of Saxe Cobourgj as Ma
jor Maitland dated in the House of Com
mons ob Thursday, is to be superseded.
The Emperor is to take the command of
the Combined Armies in person, and to
be affilted by a Military Council, at the
head of which is General Mack. Such
is the progress of a war against the people
who, twelve months ago, were represent
ed as incapable of finding troops, arms,
ammunition, or provisions! All the great
Generals hitherto employed to subdue
them, the King of Prussia, the Duke of
Brunfwick, General Wurmfer, the Prince
of Saxe Cobourg, have either retired or
been dismissed. The Emperor, of Ger
many, a* if contending for his last (lake,
is brought from his amusements at Vien
na, to assume in appearance the command
of the army, that men of abilities, not
men of rank, may be enabled to direst
its operation.
The duke of York's plan for raising a
corps of waggoners for the army on the
Continent is like to take immediate ef
fect. Of the 600 men that it is to consist
of, 240 are already raised, 120 of whom
embarked at Gravefend the week before .
last for Oftend, and 120 more on Monday
last. Government find them in clwatlis,
boots, &c. they are to have is. 6d. per
day subsistence, with liberty of returning
to England at the expiration of one year.
Yesterday morning advice was received
at the admiralty office, that four French
privateers, which have been cruizing in
the chops of the channel for some time,
watching the motions of our ships, were
captured by his majesty's cruizers and sent
into Scilly.
A dreadful instrument of deftruftion,
contrived to throw ten bombs in a minute,
has been lately invented by a foreigner ;
a model of which has been (hewn and
proved before the prince of Wales and se
veral other persons of diftinftion. A
public fubfeription, patronized by his roy
al highness and the duke of York, is be
gun, for conftrudting one upon a scale
fufficient to throw bombs of very large
dimensions.
Accounts from Madrid, of the 17th
of February, state, that on the sth of
that month an important engagement had
taken place between the allied troops and
the French, in the vicinity of Andaie, in
Biscay. The Spanish general, Caro, hav
ing attacked the French, in order to dis
lodge them ftom an important battery they
had erected not far from Fontarabia, the
latter refitted with such vigor that the
Spaniards were forced to retreat, with the
loss of seven hundred killed, wounded and
prisoners.
The brother of Cardinal, late Abbe
Maury, has lately been put to death at
Paris by the guillotine.
April 12,
There is a rumor here, that the Em
peror of Morocco, gained over by French
money, means to attack the Spanish set
tlements on the coast of Africa. This
will be a very troublesome diversion, al
though at this moment the marine of
Spain is in good condition, and able to
repress the piracies of the Moors.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
April 9.
The House having refalved itfelf into a
committee of ways and means, and the
accounts of the surplus of the consolidated
fund for the last quarter up to April 5,
1794, being referred to,
Mr. Pitt said, it was with the highest
fatisfaftion that he infortned the commit
tee, that the surplus submitted to their
consideration amounted to something about
231,0001. the whole quarter yielded
2 7b,0001. more than the last quarter of
the preceding year, ending the sth of A
pril, 1793, the produce of all the perma
nent taxes for the kft year ending the sth
of Apiil 1794> he said waS only about
ioo.ood. kfs than the income of 1793,
the riioft productive year the finances ot
the country ever experienced. This he
represented atf a very flourifhing account,
when it is considered that the firft yeai ot
a v«fr is always mo(t deficient, and that
commercial failures, arising from accident
al causes, dillinil from the war, had ren
dered this year particularly distressing.
He then moved, " That the ftirplus of
the consolidated fund, amounting to
232,0001. and ending on the sth of April
1794, be applied to the services of the
pfefent year"—which was agreed to, and
the refolations ordered to be reported on
Friday. •
Adjourned.
DANTON,
The influence of this distinguished cha
ra&er, now totally destroyed, has been
on the decline for some time. The me
morable fitting of the Jacobins on the 3d
of December afforded the firft public
proof of this decaying popularity.
Having made a declaration, that the
Constitution ought to sleep while the peo
ple were preparing to overwhelm their
enemies, Doupe de L'Oife reprobating
this doctrine, Danton was reduced to the
necelTity of entering into a defence cf his
condu&, and of confeffing, amidst the
murmurs of the Jacobins, that recent
events might have occasioned good Patri
ots to fufpeft him.
It was at tljat period, and immediately
after Danton had conclyded his defence,
that Roberfpiere commenced a review of
the causes that had produced such suspi
cion.—The alledged emigration of Dan
ton into Switzerland, his feigned illness,
his inordinate ambition, which seemed to
aim at the regency or diftatorfhip, his
former intimacy with Dumourier, his
want of activity in oppofingthe Brifiotine
part —all these circumllances were alluded
to. Robespierre, however, concluded
his speech, by declaring that Danton had
been calumniated.
Notwithftauding this event, no cordial
friendfhip subsisted between Roberfpierre
and Danton, for they were rivals.
To oppfe the increasing power of the
former in the Jacpbin Club, and in the
committee of public fafety, the latter at- 1
tached himfelf to the Cordeliers, whom,
by secret means, he endeavoured to £xalt
above the Jacobins.
It is fufpefted that Hebert acted under I
his direction, that he was the concealed
author of that conspiracy, which involved
the actors in ruin.
If this suspicion be well founded, it
will scarcely be deemed an extraordinary
Gircumftance, that the overthrow of the
Cordeliers foonld produce the deftru&ion
of the power of of Danton.
Cammille Defmoulins has long been
fufpefted, and so long ago as the month
of December, he was denounced, as
having been the intimate friend of Mira
beau, the Lameths and Cuftine.
Lacroix's attachment to stock-jobbing,
and some facts which were disclosed in
the evidence against the Hcbertifts, and
which tended to criminate Phillippeaux,
have produced the arrest of these two de
puties.
Danton is a mart of blunt manners, and
of a boisterous eloquence.—" His form,"
according to Dr. Moore, " is coarse and
uncommonly robust—his manner fierce
and rude—he speaks with the voice of a
Stentor, declaims on the blefiings of free
dom with the arrogance of a tyrant, and
invites to union and friendfhip'with the
frown of an enemy."
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Sitting of March 29.
The committee of legislation presented
a revised plan of the law against monopo
lizers, which was agreed. The principal
articles are—
Wholesale dealers and manufa&urcrs
(hall be bound to declare, within the de
cade following the publication of the pre
sent law, at their municipality or their lec
tion :—,
1. The quantity, quality, and nature
of the merchandize they poflefs through
out the extent of the commune of their
residence.
2. The quantity, quality, and nature
of those which belong to them in every
part of the Republic ; and they (hall point
out the magazines or store-houses where
they are placed.
All persons are considered as wholesale
dealers who buy up merchandise, or anv
commodities, and keep them in magi. '
zincs.
They (hall be bound to giv§ in the flat*
Of their magazines every month.
They fliall have written over the out
side door of their dwelling-house, as well
as over that of their store-house, a table
of the names and the nature of the mer
chandise or goods in which they deal.
And manufacturers shall, in like manner,
indicate the nature of their fabrics.
They shall be bound, when required,
to prove, by the teflimony of their muni
cipality, the sale or the employ of their
raw materials in their mannfa&ories.
The retail dealers shall not be fubjeft
to the above declarations and inferiptions,
except upon any magazines they may pos
sess over and above what is contained in
their fhopsor where they fell
• in retail.
The penalties to those who neglect to
make the declarations prescribed, are con
fifcation of their merchandise, and two
years imprisonment.
Every wliolefale dealer refufing to fell
in wholesale, and retailer refufing to fell
in retail, the goods in his pofleflion, shall
have their goods confiscated.
Those who fell their goods at a price
above the maximum, fliall be punished, /or
the firft time, by a forfeit of ten times the
value of the goods. For the second fault,
all the goods in his pofleflion of the fame
nature with that he fold above the raaxi
, mum, shall be confiTcated, and himfelf
j imprisoned for two years; and the inform
er fliall have the entire profit of theconfif
cation.
They who shall be conn&ed of letting
their commodities perish voluntarily, and
through malevolence, shall be punished
with death.
OSTEND, April 8.
" Our last intelligence from the army
states, that the day before yefterdav the
Carmagnols in pretty strong force, attaek
ed our posts of Werwick, but were driven
back with great daughter.
The Ghent Gazette of yesterday re
lates, that the army of Royaliits under
the orders of MefTrs. Roche Jaquelin,
Charette, and d'Autichamp is at present
composed of 80,000 men, all well armed
—That, according to letters from la
Flech, Anges, and Nantes, this army is
at the gates of tbt last tncntiottecHown—
that M. de Precy has made himfelf matter
of Limoges, and advances with forced
marches to effedt a junction with the above A
Generals." *
DOVER, April 10.
Arrived the Union Packet, Captain
Sutton, with the mail and meflengers,
MefTrs. Wiffen and Shaw, from Oftend:
the messengers left the army but two days
ago, when every thing was perfe&ly quiet,
and nothing material had happened.
A Swiss gentleman who came over in
the Packet, and who pasTed through
Frankfort, Coblentz, and Cologne, about
ten days ago, states, that the Pruflia ar
my is daily augmenting; that fix thousand
frefh troops marched into Coblentz the
day he pasTed that place; that eight thou
sand were expected on the following day,
and that all the military preparations Teem
ed to go on with vigor.
UNITED STATES.
HALIFAX, (N. Caro.) May 28. -
On Friday night last, owing to the ve
ry unpardonable imprudence of the gao
ler, the malefactors confined in the pna.n
of this town, effe&ed a general goal de
livery.—We have greatly to lament, that
Peter MasTer, alia' Peleg Maffey, «1.0
was committed for having pasTed counter
feit Bank Notes, was among the num-
A correTpondent obTerves, that the Se
nate could not have given a more une
quivocal proof of their sincere deuie to
preserve to the United States the precious
blessing of peace, than in the late ap
pointment of Mr. Jay, as Envoy Extra
ordinaly to the Britilh Court. And it
should he mentioned among the heroic
ads of the President's life, that regani
lefs of the insidious politics of his native
state, he did on this momentous occation,
with a degree of firmnefs worthy the
Chief Magistrate of the United States,
select a man in all respects well qualuie
for the important trull.
The President is a military man, and
cannot be afraid of war—an honcft