and therefore appreciates the advantage of peace. In the person of Mr. Jay is concentred the qualities which an Envoy Extraor dinary, at this awful crisis of our affairs, /hould poHcfs. He is indisputably a great civilian, an able negociator, perfua iive, though firws ill his manners, irreiifti ble iu his eloquence, and finifhed in his personal accomplifhrhents. Add to this his place of residence, a circumftanfce on common occaflons not worth mentioning, but id the present inllance, and in the present state of American politics, even this is entitled to peculiar attention. Mr. Jay is an inhabitant of New-Yo.k, a state Jincerely .Jcjirous of preserving peace ; her internal lecurity as well as commercial prdfperity are at (take—(he bled at every pore from 1775 to 1753, and will always have more lofc and leis to gain, by war, than any other member of the union.— Last to be mentioned, is the weight which his judicial character may be sup posed to give to all his official demands. Will it be considered in the British cabi net a trivial business which calls the Chief-Juftice of the United States to that Court ? Will he appear there as a solitary American citizen making demands which our enemies may accede to or refufe at pleasure, as they have done heretofore ? Or will he be viewed as the envoy of an injured nation, clothed with the judicial as well as miniftenal authorities of his country? Let good citizens unite in their prayers that the Divine Blelfing may attend his mission, and that war, with all its concomitant evils, may once more be baniflied from our coasts. BALTIMORE, June 3 The Honorable G. Duvall, Efquirej is ele&ed a Representative of this State, hi the Congress of the United States, in the room of the Honorable J. F. Mercer, Esquire, reiigned. NEW-YORK, June 3. France is exerting herfelf to make effec tual reliftance againit her enemies. And while her armies stand,' as a firm bulwark against all attacks, the members of the Convention, are mowing off each others heads, with a ipirit of jeafoufy and ven geance,that has no parrallel in the liiitory of faction itfelf. Danton, who for a long time, almost governed the Conven tion wrtk a nod, is acccufcd, with La croix, and a large number of other mem bers, who, a few weeks ago, were imma culate patriots; they are now denounced as traitors, arretted, brought before the Revolutionary and private let ters fay, are already guillotined. Robe ipierre now rules the Convention, having by the removal of Danton, got rid of his competitors; and if we may indulge conjectures, Robespierre, will foos be difiator in fad and name, or he will fink into his grave beneath the stroke of some jealous rival. Tho conspiracy of Hebert is suppres sed, but has filled every man with jealou fv and diiiruft. S'he executive council is abohlhed, and a new one is ordained to confifi of twelve commiflioners. Such "as the Hate of affairs, the beginning of April. NEW-BRUNSWICK, June 3. . The late dreadful storm, by accounts fron 'anous parts ot the country, has made great lepredation ; numerous mill-dams have been wept away by the torrent, many bridges much damaged, and some entirely gone off. i o attempt a difcription would be useless. I lie river at this city was much higher than it was ever known before by any fall of g ' ler than fome ' of th « Pillars ot the bridge, great quantities of timber, rails, and a number of cattle were seen float ing down with the ltream. A Mr. Dixon the^nn,r tOI I v became a viaim to the flood, and has left a numerous and help less family to bewail his untimely death— also a negro man at Boundbrook was drown ftream Ptmg '° ' wim * narrow edTo h mee e t g l? a T re ° f this state arf '"mmon ea to meet at 1 renton on the 7 th inft. ALBANY, May week, patted thro' this citv m l,;. *ay to New-York, Samuel Mattocks Efa jn his charge iT'lpl fate acceded j when 3s» ?* "r stefifs withiil the boundaries of the state of Ver mont. PHILADELPHIA; JUNE 6. In tlie Brig Fame, Capt. Hunt in 8 days from Charleften, came 20 Indian Chiefs belonging to the Cherokee nation. 1 hey are a re r peftablc deputation from the Cherokee Nation so Congress—their bufiriefs is to form a treaty of peace and amity wfth the United States. Says a Correspondent, ; The manner qf treating Societies formed • for the end of censuring and checking the Government, is very different ,in different countries. In England the members are hunt ed down by prosecutions. In America, pub lic opinion is.a. mjjjler and equally effeaual antidote against their poison. A very few adventurers, of slippery principles, are known to take the lead in their meetings.—The public knot's these leaders and rates them at their current value—that is to fay, at the rate of known rfothirtg.—But i.ne greater number of the members are well disposed btit nulled citizens, i iiey are let alone, their violent*, and delusion ire re gretted, bu,t nobody wlfhfcs to do them any barm. The effect of this mild forbearance already appars. The Society and their wild resolutions are almcft forgotten. Like othe fanatics they droop for lack of persecution A correspondent observes, that a long la bored attempt to vindicate the conduit of a lately appointed officer, and to reconcile his nconfiftency and that of his party which ap >eared in this paper of Wednesday, niuf ail in its object. His apologist admits that the blending tht Executive And the Legif.ativL■ departments is as reprehensible as that of the Executi-ve and Judicial, but juftifies the opposition of Mr. M. to the appointment of Mr. J. on this ground, that Mr. J. did not after his appoint ment reGgn his office of Chief Justice, where as Mr. M. resigned his feat in the Senate. But the fallacy of this pretended diftincHon is obvious. How could Mr. J. resign before his ap pointment r Mr. M. when he opposed the appointment, did not certainly know what Mr. J. would do after it. Mr. J. was Chief Juflice when he was nominated; Mr. M. was a Senator; the cases therefore are so far parallel; what each would do, after the appointment was uncertain and depended al together on the voluntary aifl of the party. As far as there was any thing wrong in the appointment of the one, it was equally so with regard to the other. Mr. M. opposed the appointment ot Mr. J. bccaufe he was Chief JuJiice when nominated ; and Mr. M. acquiesced in his own nomination being Sena tor ; on the principle admitted by the apolo gist where is the difference; both were at liberty, after the appointment to resign or not. Mr. J. has not resigned; his appoint ment was for a short period and the func tions he was to execute would only occasion an absence from one Court, the Supreme Court in Au'juft: the law does not more re quire the attendance of the Chief Justice than of the AlTociate Judges, and it is well known that at every session of the Supreme Court, one or other of the AlTociate Judges is absent. Where then is the mighty oflence in doing that which is done twice a year by some other of the Judges,without complaint i Mr. M. it is true, resigned his feat in the Senate ; but his appointment being perma nent, his resignation was of course, and there is no merit on his part, for had he failed tc resign, the Legislature of Virginia could have tonlidered the acceptance of the Embassy as a virtual resignation and appointed a fuc ceffor. The apoligft has not attempted to fhevs the confijiency of reprobating an Embassy tc France, on the ground that no Minister oughl to be sent to that country, when anothei perl'on was appointed, and now accepting that very office ; this was rather two difficul to get over : Silence was therefore judicious No censure is aimed at the Executive so: nominating Mr. M.—There may have beei good reasons in policy for it: but it is pro per that the public ftiould be acquainted wit) fncli, and that the condutt of the faction oi this occasion should be iontrafied with theii conduct on a recent one. It is so glaring ant prominent that it would have been unpatri otic not to have brought it forward to put lie notice and animadverlion. By this Day's Mail. BOSTON. HOUSE OF REPRESENTAT IVES. Thursday, May 29. The committee appointed for the purpose of counting and ascertaining the votes of the people of this Commonwealth, for Go vernor, and Lieutenant-Governor, reported, That His Honor SAMUEL ADAMS, Esq. Was elected Governor of this Common wealth for the year ensuing, by a large ma jority of furirages—He was in'the pretence of the two houses immediately declared elect ed, and was qualified agreeably to the pre scriptions of the .Conltitution —That no choice had been made by the People of Lieutenant-Governor, and that the sour.per sons having the highest number of votes werej His Honor SAMUEL ADAMS, Hon. MOSES GILL, NATHANIEL GOKHAM, and ELBRIDGE GERRY, Efq'rs. . Whereupon the House proceeded to the election of two of the Candidates to be ferit up to the Hon. Senate ; and the Hon. MOSES GILL, and NATHANIEL GORHAM, Efq'rs, Were elected and sent up. Tht Senate, by mellage, informed the House, that by an unanimous vote, they had chosen The Hon. MQSES GILL, Esq. Lieutenant-Governor of this Commonwealth, for the year enfuirtg. (His Honor has ac cepted the trust, and will be qualified before the two Houses, this day; at 12 o'clock.) Friday, May 30. The two houles met in convention in the Representatives chamber, for the purpose of choosing nine Councilors to advise the Go vernor in the Executive part of government when the committee railed for the purpose hav.ng counted the votes, reported,the whole to be 140 —71 making a choice, that The hon. Azor Orne, Esq. had 136 Hon. Eleazer Brooks, Esq. 140 Hon. Thomas Durfee, Esq. 136 Hon. Oliver Wendell, Esq. 137 Hon. William Shepard,' Esq. 138 Hon. Samuel Baker, Esq. 134 Hon. Nathaniel Wells, Esq. rjz Hon. Stephen Metcalf, Esq. 127 Hon. Tomfon J. Skinner, Esq. 73 And that they were chofon. The two Houses then separated. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS, April 3. We learn from Marseilles that the patri- 1 ots there are to be again armed, provided they are members of any one of the clubs. Saliceti, in a letter from Maifeilles, dated the 19th inft. advises, " tjhat Baftia (till holds out, the garrison being' deter mined to defend themselves till the last ex tremity. The ferocious conduit of the Englifli at St. Florent had so exasperated the citizens of Baftia, that even the mo derates seemed to be determined rather to perish than fuffer these new cannibals to plunder their houses, ravish their wives and daughters, and cut the throats of the aged and infirm. In a fortic the garrison of Baftia had driven the Paolifts from the village aL Carhnp ; Jellied a great number of the enemy, and burned the village. The galley, la Moselle had reached Ballia with troops, 11,000 sacks of meal, af fignates, and succors of every description, after an escape from eight or nine English (hips by which (he had been chafed. The (hip of the line le Duquefne, and the frigate la Fauvette, had arrived at Toulon with two Spani(h prizes: at the latter place the armament was going on with the utmost a&ivity," The cut-thtoat Jourdan has been de nounced in the Cordeliers, for several a<Ss of despotism and tyranny in his llation of Colonel of the National Gendarmerie of Avignon. The military committe of Lyons is an nulled ? and JFauche, the national repre sentative Rationed there, is recalled. He is to be fuccecded by Reverchen. LONDON, April j—l3. Our papers from Paris, received yes terday down to the 29th ult. are so far important, that they prove the preponder ating influence of Robespierre and the committees of public fatety and welfare, who now hold the fnpreme and uncontefted authority in France. A better proof can not be given of their uncontrouled power, thai? their Having so early disbanded the whole revolutionary army, which was rais ed under the influence of the clubs in Pa ris, and was subservient to their will. As this army had shewn some symptoms of disapprobation to the late executions, and had refufed to congratulate the Conventi on on the discovery of the late conspiracy, the firft ast of Robespierre's power has A. B. . adl ol - jeen to diftc.nd it. The time, fatal to Danton, is at length arrived ; He falls with the Cordeliers, of whom, originally, he was the firft sup port ; and no doubt but that if Marat, who was his agent, and directed his con vulsive motions, were alive at this moment, he would partake in the disgrace of his friend. Perhaps, ih the day when Dan ton (hall ad his lait part upon the fcaffold, Marat will be dragged from the Pantheon, to be trailed in the dirt, which ought to have been his fate long iince. It is not the least remarkahle circum- that Barrftre fliould pronounce the New Government to be determined to support Reiigion and Virtue ! ! ! Momoro, who was laately guillotined at Paris witb the Hebertilts, was lately in London, and fcoutcd out of all the fo cities as the vaunting butcher of the Prin cess Lambelle He was the villain who treated her so batbaroufiy in the lirft in ftante, and the savage Rotondo, who has since been hanged, finifhed the dreadful carnage—a relation of the particulars would (hock even brutality. Lady Wallace is to be called in future the Political Prophetess. The predic tions in her pamphlets are now generally verified ; arid the public, from what has palled, may expert much gratification in her speculations and admonitions on the present state of English politics, which have been read and aflented to in the fii ft political circles. PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. CLEARED. Ship John, Whitwell, Amsterdam Bacchus, George, . Hamburgh Maria & Eliza, Clements, Boftoti Brig Charlotte, Walfli, St. Thomas Schr. Delight, Wallington, p. Nicola Mole Sloop Jefferfon, Stewart, St. Marcs Captain Davis who arrived here yesterday in ii days from St. John's liland informs, that a Britifli fleet of 160 fail of merchant men, foiled from Tortola on the 12th of May, bound to. England, convoyed by two ships of the line. In this fleet were included all the American veflels carried into and condemned in the different Islands. appointment's. The President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, has appointed the following per-, sons Commanders of the frigates, to be built pursuant to an ast of Congreis, viz. JOHN BARRY, SAMUEL NICHOLSON, SILAS TALBOT, JOSHUA BARNEY. RICHARD DALE, THOMAS TRUXTON. NEW THEATRE. Mr. Darlet s Night. THIS EVENING, June 6. Will be presented, A COMEDY, called Every One has his Fault. Lord Norland, Mr. Whitlock Sir Robert Ramble, Mr. Chalmers Mr. Solus, Mr. Morris Mr. Harmony, Mr. Bates Captain Irwin, Mr. Fennell Mr. Placid, Mr. Moreton Hammond, Mr. Green Porter, Mr. Warrell Edward, (firfttime) Master Warrell Lady Eleanor Irwin, Mrs. Whitlock Mrs. Placid, Mrs. Shaw Miss Spinster, Mrs. Bates Miss Wooburn, Mrs. Morris End of the third a<fk a humourous vocal Pa rody, "on Shakespeare's Seven Ages—will be sung by Mr. Bates. End of the Play, a characfteriftic Pantomi mical Dance, ailed The Sailor's Landlady ; Or, JACK IN DISTRESS. To conclude with a double hornpipe by Mr. Francis and Mrs. De Marque. To which will be added, For the firft time at this Theatre, a COMIC OPERA, called No Song no Supper. Frederick, Mr. Marshall G r°P» Mr. Darley Endless, Mr. Harwood Robin, JVI r . Bates William, (with the ballad of Black Eyed Susan ) Mr. J. Darley Sailors, Meflrs. Warrell, BlilTet, Lee, Bason, De Moulin, &c Dorothy, Mrs. Shaw Louisa, l ,T, fsßroadhurft Margaretta, Mrs. Oldmixon Nell y> Miss Willems Tickets to be had of Mr. Darley, No. 68, north Eighth street. At the usual places, and of Mr. Franklin at the Theatre, where places may be taken. On Monday next, an Historical Play, cal led The BATTLE OF HEXHAM : Or DAYS OF OLD, with The DEtJCE IS IN HIM, for the benefit of Mrs. MORRrS Mrs. WHITLOCK's Night will be on Wednesday next. Places in the Boxes to be taken at the Box- Office of the Theatre, at any hour from nine mthe morning till three o'clock in theafur f noon, on the day of performance. Tickets to be had at the office near the Theatre, a * the corner of Sixth-ftreet,and at Carr & Co's Musical Repository, No. m, M^kst-ftreet E.
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