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Philadelphia,
WEDNESDAY FV'NING, Accost 3. -
IMPORTANT. PLEASING. AU- !
THENTIC.
THE WESTERN POSTS TAKEN
POSSISSItfK OF. (
Extrtft of a letter ftom Capt. Jame» Bruff to the '
, Secretary of War, dated Fort Ofwego or On- <
tario, July 15, 1796.
" 1 have the pleasure to announce that the Bri ]
llfh commandant of Fort Ontario wrote to me on '
the 13th mftant that the king's (lores were em- |
barked and sent off j that he wished to get away with ,
the detachment next morning at day light, and 1
requeued roe to fend an officer that day as early as '
yoffible.
"In conference of this information and re- '
quest, I inflantly dispatched an officer; and next ,
'day (beiug the 14th) followed with the troops i
and two field piece*. On my arrival found the
British garrison gone and Lieut. Elmer in poffefii
on of the fort. Immediately I landed the detaeh- '
meut ar.d artillery and marclved in, the music play j
ing the President's march ; and under a federal sa
lute, displayed the flag of the United States from
the citadel.
u With pleasure I mention that the British eom
mandafft l«ft the barracks and every other building
clean, and in the b'efl order they would admit of '• ■
and we feel oorfelve* much indebted to Capt. Clark 1
„*nd Lieut. Fothergill, for the excellent order in J
which they left their gardens filled with vegetables ,
and fruit." <
What think ye of the Treaty now ? 1
Had ten thousand men been employed in besieg
ing the Western Porta—had one half of them fal
len by firknefs and the lword, during the Siese—
had one half he r *fidue beei facrificed in carrying I
the work* by storm. The acquisition would have
excited univerfnl joy and triumph throughout the
United States. Bonfires, &c. &c. &c. would
have been exhibited, and the fad tale of Slaughtered
thousand* would have been drowned in fliouts of *
applause to the surviving victors. The Pofl* are r
taken, and not one drop of blood shed ! Eternal '
praise* to the God of Peace and Negociation,* '
tha> ks to h : * servants, the President, Vice Presi
dent, Messrs. Jay, Hamilton, Knox, Wolcot and .
Pickering—thanks to the majority in both houses
of Congrefß—and let all the people fay
AMEN.
* Come now and let os reason together faith the Lord. '
Kaiah. - "i
Lord Dorchester, governor of Canada, has em- '
barked for Europe, in consequence of which the '
government devolves on Lieutenant Governor Pref- j
Co*t, who ha* issued a proclamation, giving notice -
of the fame. The citizens of Quebec and Montreal
addressed fcord Dorchester before his departure, in
a stile of affection and refpeft.
When parties exist, as they ever will in 'a free
country, it becomes important to uttderftand their 1
true eharafter and real'objefts. The anarchists,
anti-fedeialiftt, Jaeobins, and democrats of our
country (/or all these najres hate been deemed ap- ]
plicable) fay and swear in there modest way, that 1
; they alone are friend* of liberty. They are the ex
cluftve patriate, the friends of French liberty, and
of course the friends of American liberty. Fads,
ftuhhorn facts, destroy the pretty web of felf praise.
The clubbift*. the Jacobins, the democrat* (call
them as you please) for they arc all scurvy names,
have been the great enemies of French liberty. If
liberty (hould finally fail in that country it will be
owing to these vermin. In like manner if liberty,
fhoultl die a sudden and violent death in the United
State*, it is these affaflins, these blood-drinker* who
will destroy it. In this country, at in France, the
genuine friend* of liberty, the leal patriot* are the
Jriends of Government /
Mz. Fenns,
THE H-iufeof Rerefentatives (that is the then
maj rity) would not vote that their confidenee in
the President was undiminished, because his con
dud refpefting the British Treaty had in fact di
minished it. Party at that day seemed to be puffed
up with the felf importance of the task of align
ing to the President, the exact measure of confi
de! ce he was believed to have left. A member from
Virginia, and one from New York, avpwed their
Tefpeft for him (and in the imaginary fullnefs of
their power it was a kind thing in those rwTuous
gentlemen to profefs any) but they said it was /(ft
than formerly. How this world must have been
tuta'd topfy survey beforefich men (but 1 leave it
to their intimate! to draw their characters) could
find occasion \o give, or take away the praise of
Walhington 1
Whether the people place an undimini/heJ fconfi
dence in the men who pretended to have, some half,
f me two thirds, and other* only a tenth of their
fiiimrr confidence in the President, the next elec
tion will shew. Unlcf6 the people change in a man
ner 'hat their chatafter for iteadinefs and wisdom
beyond every other renders impoflible, the innova
tors on the confti tition, the flauderers of virtue, the
men who have been in the habit of breaking their
own private faith and who naturally trifled with that
of the nation, will be flighted and rejected. When
the praflire of the virtues of private jife shall have
recovered or created confidence in thcmfelvci, they
may begin again, and with rather more propriety,
to talk of its being withdrawn from the P'cfident.
If the people aft as the wife & faithful keepers
of their own liberties, they will; of neseflity, they
I
« V — v
I muj, refufe their fuffragcs to those whc would hate
leveled the conilitutian with the groHrr. May the
people (hew themselves worthy of this high func- 1
lion, by which they will (hew that theyare free and
deleive to be so. So prays every
SON OF L'BEHTY.
PATRIOTISM.
H»w different is the language of ihegenoine Pa
fViot to the ranting declamation of ambitious fee'k
era after popularity, and canting d<.ftag>girrs, who
\ conceal uiider the mailt of patriotism tie mo# ini
' quitous intentions !
How oppofltcate the feelings of m//, whom the
love of counrry infpire»to ardent cxertims, and the '
lbve of liberty to personal fervicee in htr canfe, to
i thofe-ofthe little infects, who confounded by the
meridian blaze of Freedom Snd Amtrics!s profpe-
Tity, are continually aflailing the ear with&uzzings,
1 which, thoug'.i disagreeable to the feeling*, art ne- 1
I verthelefs harmless and contemptible. As proof h
t point, let the following extract from the " Confp't- '
racy of Kings," by that indefatigable patp'or, Mr. !
Barltw, be put in contrail with the multifariuus
effufionsof the pretended patrioti of our country, '
which procecd from the Aurora to the Arjus, from
" the Argus to thz-Chronicle and from the Chronicle '
ito oblivion. (Col. Cent.J
Tie Patriot muse, is thus invoked by this Republican
Poet .—
- ' AND deign', for once, to"turn a transient eye
To that wide world thatJkirts the vreftern sky, '
Hail the mild morning, where the dawn began, t
The full fruition of the hopes of Man ; i
Where sage experience seals the sacred cause ; t
1 And that rare union, Liberty and Laws,
Speaks to the reas'ning race—to fru'.dem rife,
Like them be equal, and like them he wife;" (
ORIGINAL ANECDOTE <
NOT lonu finoe, a county clergyman, being on £
a visit at Boston, w»s, by a polite and generous {
brother yuwnman, invited to officiate in the facted
functions of his offi. e.—His dif-ourfe wasbrit poor- '
ly rrlifhed by the congregation, being- in the ter- 1
1 rlfic stile. Their paltor observing their chagrin and c
difapprobarion of the feoffments of his clerical J
friend, in a whifpi-t requested leave to" read the c
hymn, and accordingly gave out the followinj— c
" Not to the terrors of the Lord, f
Th« tempest, fire and smoke ; t
Not to the thunder of that word j
Which God on Sinai spoke : ,
But v e are comc to Scon's hill,
The city of our God, r
words declare his wifj, c
And spread his love abroad," See. t
On their returp fronj church, the visiting clet- 1
• gyman observed to bia friend, that the hymn hal '
rained his discourse ; the other replied, that he ha? *
no intention of injuring his sermon, he only meat* r
to take off the—WIRE EDGE 1 ! 1 j
The TWO SINGERS.
TWO fingers were oftla contention quite warm, c
Which most, when they tuft'd up" their windpipes, j
could charm: {
Toamafterof music they jointly applied,
This often-contefted affair to decide.
They quaver'd; they fhak'd; and such graces were '
shown, «
That each took for granted the prize was his own. ' j
" Indeed, my good friend, cries the judge to the firft, i
Of all earthly fingers, I think you're the wtrft: ,
But as for you, friend (turning round to the other)
Teu can't jing at all—so mud yield to your brother."
From the American Daily Advertiser.
MESSRS. CLAY POOLE,
Be pleated to give the following a place in your
, paper, for the information of the public.
AS the pra&ice of purchasing Accommodation
• Notes, at a price below the sum fpecified in the
note* is now become so common in this city, ruin
- ous in its ctjnfequences, not only to the credit, of
I the fair trader, but to the property of many, dri
, ven from necejftty to the clutches of the unfeeling
. usurer, 1 fend you as a caution to this description
1 of purchafcrs, and to serve likewise as an intimatf.
, on of the'proper legal mode of redtefs to others,
f whose paper and credit are artfully depreciated by
t them to the great injury of many ufeful and induf
-- triou3 citizens, the following cafe, determined
1 in the Couit of King's Bench, before Lord Keny.
3 on, February ift, 1795, antl reported in
c Cases at Nisi Prius, Hilary Term, 35 George Illd.
c Wiffem against Roberts.
" This was an action of affumpfit against the
" defendant, as the Drawer of a Bill of Ex
" change.—
1 Plea of the general Iffiie.
i» " The bill was drawn by one Roberts in favor
- " of Thomas Ould or order, on Thomas Yates,
-«' fo,/\ 86. dated Ift November, 1793, payable
J " three months after date. Yates accepted it,
1- " but did not pay it, and the defendant was there,
i- « fore sued as drawer, on his default.
a " The defence on the merits was, that the
r »«• plaintiff, the indorsee, knew that the 1 .ill was
f " an accommodation one, between Yates and the
I " defendant, and besides, had not paid the value
r s " for it. The fiift witnefscalled for the plaintiff,
II « on his cross examination proved, that the bill was
t " really an accommodation bill, and that it was
d «' known by the plaintiff to be so, and that he in
if " fad had given for i( but 29.
" Lord Kenyan said, that where a hill of Ex
- " change, is given for money really due, from the
f, " drawee to the drawer, or is drawn in the regular
r " courle of bufuiefs, in such cafe, the indorsee)
■- " though he has not given to the indorfer the.full
1- " amount of th« bill, yet he may recover the whole,
n " and be the holder of the overplus above the sum
1- " he has really pai"B, to the use of the but
e " where the bill is an accommodation one, and
r <• that known to the indorsee, and he pays but part
it " of the amount, in such cafe, he can only recover
n ■< the sum he has actually paid for the bill ; and if
e " the plaintiff in this cafe was entitled to recover,
y " he could only do it to the amount of the
', " sum he really 1 paid for it."
Th<? detctmination of the Court of K'pg'i
■s Bench in this cafe, opplies equally to the «fe of
y proroiffory notes —S« that if A tbe drawer, or
• his broker by his dire&ions. Wis such sccommoda
, tion notes, for less value, than the nwrninal value
. th«reofj*then B the purcbafer in an adlion agai*fl
j -A the drawer shall never recover a greater sum than
he paid for the note.—So also if A the drawer ol
a note for instance of £. 4 C » should even have re
ceived a full fotisfiftion for it, and B the firft pur
chaser should indorse the note, and afterwards fell it
to C tor a less sum, for instance for £. 20. than
the oiiginal amount of the note C the second put
chafer shall recovei from A the drawer the whole
amount the note, viz. £. 40. but shall be liabls
to pay Bthefirft indorfer £. 10 thereof, and fhal!
only retain for his use the sum he originally paid
for the note.
From the Columbian Museum.
MeJJieurs Powers & Seymour, 1
BY the help of your neat type, let me requefl 1
the citizens of Savannah to look about them. 1
I have often heard old people speak of a book j
whieh had been much read in the days of our ,
grand fathers. The volume is almost ohffolete now
—but several of its ftpries have been taken out,
and by the aid of tradition, kept alive to this day.
Among these stories, there was one often told
us when w« were children, conceraing a city of
very antient times, which had been funk in the
dead sea, for the wickedness of its inhabitants.
There it one part of this story, which I believe J
' shall never forget, " That before those bad nien ;j
had been finally abandoned to dcftr(Rftion, G'o<r
Almighty had proposed to spare the whole of
them, on condition they produce ten
righteous perfoßS, belonging to the city. That
not being able to raise that numbed thef were
consigned to sudden perdition, by" a fearful earth
quake ; and not a foul but three were exempt from
the general ruin. One man and h's two daugh
ters were wife enough to believe what was threat
! ened—took warning in time, and made their
; escape." °
| The people of modern cities <4hould loot about j,
. them—they k*<ow not the dajyior tfoe hoor, 'fchen
the ground beneath torn afWider by j
convulsions; the flreet whffdfTlrey live turned to q
a noiforae lake, or a hideous cavern 1 or the whole n
city metamorphosed into a dreads"l sea, like that p
of Sodom and Gomorrah. For those bad men the
story speaks of, were not the only wretches whom F
the pit has swallowed up alive. Many other
have met the fame catastrophe, in much later times. e
Read the Portuguese annals of '55, and lean) • the t
melancholy tale of Lisbon. Peruse the Spanish
chronicles of '72, and note the subversion of'Gua- «
timala ; then turn to the memorable events of the c
two Sicilies in '83, and you will find a tragical ac
count indeed, of no less than 80 or 100 tflwns aqd *
villages, with 40,000 inhabitants, all loft ,
redemption, by an earthquake so powerful and ex- j
tensive, as to throw the whole province of Cala- r
bria under the ocean. i:
However (earthquakes and tornadoes out of the 1
qiieftion) there are many other means, by which
: jull heaven feourges unhallowed cities. Uncon- r
querable fires melt dpwn their buildings, and give [
wings to their riches to fly away. A subtile pe r
t Atlencc, sweeps off its hundreds and its thousands, c
as with the besom of deftrufUon. These sublime
judgments of heaven have long been the terror of
, the old world. They have at length found their
way to the new. Let all the people of the new f
, world look about them—hold themselves in readiness f
for these great scenes ef public dismay — for a time f
when an earthquake may furprifr them—for a time f
when their cities or houses may be enveloped with 1
devouring flames over their heads, or when a letht- <
serous fever may carry off scores of their fellow- 1
r citizens in a day. c
People of the southern cit ict/ooi Jharp about you, f
t Plagues, Fires, and commotions of the globe, are 1
c not the only disasters which may befal you. Infur- \
. reflions are not impraflicable ; majfacres are not im. \
f pofiible ; robberies are not uncommon. What mild- <
. er than robberies, can be the consequence of that
r remarkable idleness, we discover every where around [
i Idleness, the parent of incalculable mifchief, 1
. indulges nfelf openly without the least reserve—l- t
, dlenefs ever prognosticates a rapid lace to ruin. (
f A city of righteous men has nothing to fear : c
. hut where is such a city ,0 he found ? Even a few, t
i it it wete but ten persons of that chara<3cr, might t
. enfurc us protection : But are we certain we hold £
s in every city that small number?
. Then ye reverend clergy, spare no pain* to make
us nghteous.-Ye elders „f ,hc city, « X ert your
e best endeavors lo makf us hone)}( , nd ' ug .
. so. Nightly guards, be vigilant at your poßs, to t
keep us in fafety.-Officers of health, do your ut- .
most to hold the peftitence at bay—Officers of 1 !
r c ean 11 t s, py well the means in your power, from 1
, the cast to the welt of the city, that we may have <
f wholesome (Ireets , 0 walk in, and a pure atmof- ,
, phere to Drealhe.
Citizens all, be persuaded to discharge with 1
prompt,iude, your boun.'en duties, in your re- !
e fpedtive departments. /"Wrx, attend closely "to ,
s y^TMcres.—Merchant, t import all the conveniences i
e of hfe before you bri„g us any luxuries. -Mecha- ,
e mcs, Jhops t and your Jhops will keep
, you. Lamblers and Swindlers, quit the city with- 1
6 X Ume J, M ° n °t° l '™ r < and Speculators,
sake yourselves off 1 Idlers and Saunterers of everv •
n defer,pt.on, be gone from us • Leave the honeli i
men, and tki mdufttious to themselves The
- have not fen, for you yet, and you should keep ot't I
e Ol the way till you are called for. Shift your bead
r quarters immediately I find fomr r, pu.able bi,f, ne f 3
j, g employ you, or the fate of the idle, drunken.
TJ Tbe y ° UrS ' who iut o«„ -
; EutVt A 7 * 3 P arOX y sm of infanitv.
soon y °f-' d °T mean,ore fr ,m > no matter how 1
ifrcln' ,OW n d r hiS CXample - com 1
r Cuiaens of. Savannah, look about you—so fays
1 THE BRAMIN.
t --
From a. London Magazine
W 0 O D L N ACTORS.
i- by way of i'n:c«*cde, a battle between "Tom Paine
e and the Devil 1" It is ur.neccflary to fay that poor
[I Tom very soon fell into the hands of his sooty Ma
il jelly; >vhen the latter, aflilted by the reft 0 f |,is
i( wooden compeers, fling Godfavc the King over
- Tom's body : after which the biacl gentleman made
- his bow, and retired with his brother attars vocil?-
t rating Church and King !
EXTRACT.
c America, by her zeal and firmnefs in the catife as
s liberty ;by the wisdom ai d liberality of her confti.
I! tution ; by her improvemer. in arts, manufactures,
] aflcl agriculture ; by the geneial diffufion i f know
ledge; by the extension of her commerce, and t! c
ineiaafe of her wealth ; by the industry, enterprise
and virtue of her citizens, has become the envy and
admiration of the world. Shall the glory be tar.
I nifhed by the malevolence and rage of party spirit ?
Or by the pride of those Jwhether demoerats, or
ariftocrau it is indifferent) who wish to rife at their
f country's exp; life ?
, THIS DAY'S MAILSL
I 1 NEW-YORK, Augult 2.
Latest Foreign Intelligence.
"Friday evenitig arrived at this port, the ftiip Fair
American, Captain Gladd, ift 41 days from
Nant*.—His. Editor has been favoured with a
"■ regular file of Paris papers from May 20, to
June 12. (which is several days later than the
;,cc«unts by the Brifeit) —Exfradts follow :
Translated for the Netu-Tork Gazette.
... PARIS.
From the Paris paper entitled "The Friend of Justice
and Truth."
dated the id June, 1796.
Ejttradl of a letter from Infpruck (in Germany)
k ' May.
Wtliin a few weeks past the Tirol has been the route
of the troops from Germany and Auflria, fcr the re
inforcement of tjje army in Italy ; they were much a
stonished to meet there the fad remains of that army,
with -whom they expedted ttt (hare the-ir laurels, total.
ly,difperfed, without any order: these movementi, e
qially unexpected as extraordinary, have created a
mod vivid sensation in the minds of the inhabitants, a
part of whom did not credit the defeat of Beaulieu.
recruiting for men to dra* the field
pieces, is continued with the fame spirit ■ each man
receives from 50 to 60 florins (German ). They are
' aboutjentrufting them with murdering air-guns, invent
ed in the reign of Jo eph 11. which he made use of with
the greateit success, in the last war against the Turks.
This carabine, lighter and smaller than tfie common
ones, iscompofedof two barrels, the smallest of which
contains aj balls ; and by a flight movement, they pass
from one to the other, into a receptacle made for them;
which ball, by lowering the firelock, goes off with
the fame rapidity and carries further than if fired with
powder, without the leaf! noise, and that as often as a
hundred times alternately, during the space of g or 19
minutes ; after which, the reservoir being exhausted,
it requires to pump in trelh air, which takes up at moll
16 minutes.
Count Louis Stahremberg, Minister from his Impe
rial majesty, at the court of St.JamesY, prefenred the
prince of Wales with one of those carabines, of the
benefit of which the English may avail themselves, and
make use of them in the Indies well as atfea; the
damp weather never putting them out of order.
OSSENBACH, May 16.
We wait an opening close to the country ; it il
said that the Count de Colloredo, on his return
flom Vienna on the 10th inft. has brought dispatch
es of aa important nature, which may occasion a
great alteration in the political fylltm of affairs.
After his arrival at Mayence, the Arch Duke
Charles repaired to Manheim, to hold a conference
with the Marshal de Wurmfer. Belidcs which,
orders were immediately given to form Abatis's
from Donn»rfourj>, by Hochfpeyer, as far as Edig
hoveu. The Chancery at War, the CommifTary
Department, the Magazines and Troops, which
were found in the Cirele of Franconia, have ail re
ceived orders to join the army.
On the 9th, ticar2oo troops from the frontiers
palled to Afchaflenbourg. These troops having
been made prisoners of war by the French, remain
ed in th* diltridt of Franconia, expedting they might
serve again ; the time fixed upon in the capitulati
on, beirg expired, they are now going to rejoin
, the army. Various ideas are conjedtured—lt is
thought the Imperial troops will abandon the siege,
and retire to the Mountains near Neuwied. „
Sitting of the I Oth of June.
Meflages from l the diredtory were read ; the firft
1 announced that the King of Sardinia had notified
1 the Treaty concluded with the French Republic ;
• ' the second gave details of a frelh vidtory by the
left wing of the army of the Sambre and the
1 Meufe, cm the rig'it batiks of the Rhine. The
: enemy after the two former defeats, were entrench- .
■ ed at Altenkirken. Kleber attacked them, and
gained a brilliant vidtory ; 3000 Aullriansare made
1 prifouers, 4 standards, and very considerable maga
■ zines of> provisions and forage have been taken frota
) the enemy. The fame mcflage reports that Buon
r aparte, at the head «f the army of Italy, continu
■ ed the career of his triumphs.
> On the Bth of May, the French army was se
parated from the enemy by the River Mi.eio. The
, grenadiers eroded that nver up to theii recks in
water ; this adtion made the enemy give way ; the
headquarters of Beaulieu was carried, fort reft
and his magazines are in our hands ■, hi troops of
the Republic, a/ter having made 500 piifoneM, en- «
1 tered Verona.
3 ' June 11.
1 The executive Diredtory received letters from
1 the in Chief, Jourdan, at half part 9
. yefteiday evening. They contain the news of a
' signal vidlory obtained by the army commanded
by the General of Division* Kleber, 4th June, at
i Altcnkiiken, on the right bank' of the Rhine ;
3000 prisoners, 4 colours, 12 cannon, a number of
ammunition waggons and (tores, are the fiuits of
. this vidtory.
Another Courier arrived this morning frrim the
army in Italy, announces, that Duonsparte had at.
tacked the army of Beaulieu entrenched under
Mantua ;he took his head quarters, cannon,
■' zines, and a great number*, of prisoners. Bia^-s' l
» ''completely routed. (This news is official.) >
• 1 *