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    From the Cambridge Intelligencer.
THE STORM.
ON the lone cliff, that hides its favagehrow
the bofsm of each threat'ning cloud,
I liften'd for tfie ship-bell's found,
The merry leainan's laugh, the labouring oar ;
J look'd for vales, with blooming flowreti crown'd ;
But all were fled. The wind blew cold and loud;
No fbotftep mark'd a wanderer on the (hore,
The waves with anger rent the rock below.
Shivering ] fjw the tumbling bark a wreck,
Sink 'midst the fury of the boiling wa*es,
Poor haplefi sailors' cold untimely graves,
Their knell the sea-birds' melancholy (hrielc.
Perhaps some female at this very hour,
Chill'd by the grasp of fear, upbraids the wind,
And racks with busy thought the brooding mind,
As on the window beats the midnight (how'r.
1 -But half the w*ild, unknown to thought or care,
. Secure in costly domes, lie hid in sleep,
Deaf to the moanings of the troubled air, / ■
'Or (hrieks of death that ifiue from the deep.
ORLANDO.
CAMBRIDGE June 4.
A letter has just been received from Mr. Fy(he ,j
Palmer, dated Sydney, New South Wales, June ,
13, 1795, in which that colony is represented to
be in the most dreadful fituation v The military
officers monopolize all the trade ; every (hip which
arrives they immediately buy the eango, which they |
fell even at the rate of 1000 per cent, profit.—A
Mr. Bolton, who was sent out some time fiuce by j
government to cure fifti and make fait, hai never t
yet beep employed; anii on his Hating to the com- (
making officer that he would undertake, with the (
aflillance of boats and men, to'fupply, from Lord j
Howe's lfland in the neighbourhood, a full or even
a double allowance of well cured fifh, at the third ,
of the pi ice of beef and pork, 110 notice was taken ,
of the proposal, though the eolony at that time ]
" had not provisions for a month, though every per- t
son was at half allowance, and thoughTowls were c
felling at five (hillings each, and a cabbage at fix- c
pence, and pork at one (hilling and fix-pence per 0
pound.—Mr. Palmer's men, which, he had bought g
at a monltrous rate, with his farm, were taken n
from him ; a message was also sent to him to pull
njf his hat to the officers, othei wife he would be t
confined and punished ; and orders had been twice r
given for no soldier to speak to him, though the ]
ceremony of " capping" the officers was never o- a
mitted by him, and though he never conversed with ii
the soldiers.—The good undemanding which Go
yernor Philips took pains to cultivate between the
natives and whites was entirely done away, and a J
system of plunder and extermination substituted.
The natives of y the Hakfbury, (the richest land
possibly in in the world, producing thirty and forty
bushels of wheat per acre) having by cultivation
loft their favourite food the wild yams, poverty
compelled them to Ileal some indian corn to support '
nature, a crime which the unfeeling settlers refeut
ed by unpeialleled severities, Sixty soldiers were n
"sent to kill and deftioy all they could meet with ;— n
and a native boy, who lived with a settler, was (]
made t<i discover where his parents and relatives con- H
cealed themselves. The soldiers came upon them, fc
seized them, unarmed, and, unexpe&ed, killed five, p
and wounded many more—the dead bodies-were n
hung on gibbets, in terror cm. Mr. Palmer con- ];
'eludes Viis letter by hoping-.that on the arrival of d
governor Hunter, a policy will be introduced that u
may corre£t the many abuses and oppreffiont the f
colony at present groans under. i,
The late coufpiracy "at Paris has been evidently h
encouraged by the difaffeftion of the inhabitants of a
that city, on account of the old quarrel relative to t
the re-ele&ion of the two-thirds. This point, our f,
will recolledt, was "not enforced without a t
struggle at the time, in which many lives were loft ; p
and as we have often stated, force is not the way tc y
convince ; it may exterminate, but never ean produce
a chdnge ef mind. Thus the present governors of a
France would have e(labli(hed themselves much o
»nore firmly, and what is of mote importance, t]
would have established the constitution under which r
they aft, had they acceded to the request of the Pa- tl
rifians, by publishing the departmental returns, so n
>6 to have made it evident that the constitution was f<
Teally adopted by the majority of the people ; tbtV tl
refufal to do so left doubts on the public mind which g
have not decteafed, Snd which, but for the acci- tl
dental of the Dire&ory, might have pro- C
duced anothe"? revolution. ri
Our Jlrong government, and their violent adfrer- le
ents, might, (if they would ever pursue wisdom) tl
learn a salutary lesson even from this high-handed n
tfonduft of the regicides—they might from this I
know, that an obstinate refufal to gratify the peo- p
pie in their reasonable demands, does not tend to ef- a
tablifh a government. a
A young man in Greenock of the name of Kid, n
who has been blind from his infancy, has lately fin
ifhed the model of a sixty-sour gun ftiip, of about ti
five feet keel, with carriages for the guss, and every tl
•nece'Hary material and aparelling of a fhip'of that c
-rate, without any assistance whatever, or other.in- h
3rument than a imall knife and hammer. c ,
DUBLIN, July 7. g
That the situation of Eilropc and the world is '1
new one may fee admitted ? but whatever ti
the difficulties may be which throws upon nag
tians, TtO one who has read our history can doubt tl
iiiat :&is a propitious.xra for a poor and oppriffled d
i-ountty like Irelaifd All that we have gained for in
the lalt fifty years was gained during of di
war—and the rrfore difaltrous the war, the greater C
the advantage. This, therefore, is oui time for
our conftit'tition with that of tc
Great-Britain 4 nns is the time for putting an em- ar
•jargo on the abfentet trade, which leaves so great fh
« portioa of the kingdom in idleness, beggary and n<
i.ilipatiGii; this is the time for demanding that the
jrloufe of Commons We in reality what it is by the
. onllitotion ; the Reprefentativws of the People;
is the time for placing the conftitutioa and the
vnnnedion with England upon an equitable and un. at
■■r-ceprionabte basis. 1 t j,
Are we ungenerous to make demands of right
~'iica there is a -likelihood of tlieiriiiccefe? No. fp
:4 '
5 : We would be-the besotted peoplethat we are called
- if we omitted aa opportunity to do so. 1 here is
nothing incompatible in attending to the mainte
nance of order, and the redrels of grievances :
they are the grossest libellers of government who
difTeminate a contrary doctrine, because its tenden
cy is to drive the community todefpair, tofeparate
them from the conftiKied authorities, and to teach
them to look only to themtelves for redress. We
are bow on the eve of a general eledlion—and if the
ele&ors do n«t bind every candidate to the great
measures which are yet wanting to completeour po
litical fyflem, the depression of their counxry will
be f. cmne in which, if they do not participate,
they connive at, and deserve to feel the eonfe
qucnces.
It must be very unpleasant to us in the present
critical period, to mention that the persecution in
the county of Armagh rages with a fury that would
not discredit the ardour of Dioclesian. Such
unfortunate people as have presumed to stay in that
- country,-have fuffered a complete devaluation of
property; and others, who preferred exile, have
been_ hunted from the province, and harrafTed on
the road by reproaches and insults. This is the age
which is called liberal ; and this the quarter which
ie pretends to separate political punishment from reli
e gious opinions.
0 __
>' MONTEGO-BAY, August 6.
' l Last Sunday arrived the brig Phoebe, Harvey,
y from New-York, in 35 days. On the 12th of
July, at 2, P. M. in lat. 28, 48, Capt. Harvey
y saw four fail to leeward, about three leagues dif
r tance, which proved to be three large French fliips
" of war, and a schooner, supposed to be a tender.
e One of tkem, a 74, made for the Phoebe, fired a
' (hot, and brought her too, when (he was boarded
11 by two officers, who, upon iufpedling the papers,
were perfedlly fatisfied. They informed, that they
11 were four days from Cape-Francois—that Guada
e loupe was' in palfeffion of the Englilh—and that
- they were bound for America- They were desir
e ous of knowing if there were any Engli(h cruisers
• on the coast of America, or laying in the harbor
f of New-York. They treated Capt. Harvey with
t great civility, and offered him any assistance he
? might in need of.
1 On the Z4)h ult. Capt. Harvey was boarded by
e the Swallow English sloop of war, cruizing on the
c north fide of Cuba, who informed him, that the
s Dunmore, of New-Providence, bound to this ifl
• and, was taken the beginning of July, and carried
> into the Havanita.
• From the GOLUMBIAN MIRROR.
a LtVMI PoW!ll, Esq. has offered as a Representative
of the coujities of Loudoun and Fauquier, at
I the approaching eledion of President and Vice-
I Prertoent of the Unittd States. The occasion
» produced a circular letter to the Freeholders of
f the Diftiift, from which the following is an ex
t tract.
AFTER what has been said, it may feem\in
e Ijceeffary to declare that George Washington is the
- man of my choice as President; and as Vice-Pre
s fident, to aft with him, I now believe I should give
- my vote to John Adams. These men have both
» been tried in their refpe&ive offices—we have prof
> pered under their management, and I feel no with to
s make experiments. But reports have lately circu
lated that General Walhington has declared his
f determination Vj retire from public life j (hould this
t unfortunately be the cafe, the'queftian is, who (hall
: succeed him ? This, indeed, is a nice question, and
involves several considerations. 'Till very lately we
r have only heard of Mr. Jefferfon and Mr. Adams
f as certain candidates for the Presidency, and of both
> these there have been some reports, which,, if well
r founded, would make me reluctantly vote for either
1 to fill this important poll. Whether these have
; proceeded from party spirit, ought, and no doubt
will, be the fubjeft of enquity.
: It is now said Mr. Patrick Henry, of Virginia,
f and Mr. Pinckney, of South Carolina, will both be
1 on the nomination—Should it be so, I must declare
, that I feel at present disposed to vote for. Mr. Hen
-1 ry. This gentleman was at firft much opposed to
■ the general government; but, I believe, after amend
» ments were obtained, he became reconciled to it •
> for we have not heard of his joining in the cry of
r the present opposition againtt every measure of the
1 government, as has been commonly the cafe with
• those who were opposed to the ratification of the
■ Constitution ; but, on the contrary, his late decla
rations condemning, in the strongest terms, the vio
• lent measures in the last Congress, (hew
I that he is a friend to peace, order and good govern-
I ment. A ftrongreafon for the appointment of Mr.
i Henry is, that it may have a tendency to unite all
■ parties, and do away that ipirit of contention which
■ at piefent rages with so much 'violence amongst us
and threatens the deftruftion of the Union. I am'
, not fufELiently acquainted with Mr. Pinckney to
• fay more of him than that his chafer is refpec
: table, is a friend to government, and that he was
' the negotiator of the treaty with Spain, which is
: considered a very advantageous one to us. I ftil]
■ however, entertain hopes that the fame love for his
country, which has hitherto induced the President
to facrifice all private eonfiderations to the public
good, will lead him to continae in office, at least
1 till the ejtabnfhment of peace in Europe ; for un
til that takes place, 1 conceive all his firmnefs and
good judgment are requiCte to keep us clear of
their deftrudive contests. If, however, he (hould
determine to retire, and you (hould give- me a vote
; in the chsice of a successor, I fliall conflder j t
duty to weigh jW ell the charaflers of the different
Candidates, and, to the best of my judgment, give
"the preference to that man who wjll be mod likelv
to preserve the peace and "happinefa of our colmtry
and the government under which we live
(hall be my firft considerations, and, in my determi
nation, public opinion (hall have its due weight.
iV fr SA i jEIVl ' ( N - J-) Sept. 1.
Mtffrs. Printers,
The following extras of a letter from a friend
at Marietta w! , I hope, afford some pleasure to
the readers of the Aigus.
la . i,,formcd you of a valuable fait
fpnn^.f CO vmd near the river. Tlih
:d I unikrftood from a person whs» had been 20 y-ears
is prisoner with the Indians, was cjpe of many with
e- which this country abounds, that are termed iwi- 1 - .
s: springs. He assured me that there was one not ,
10 more than 50 miles frorta this cailed the Big p l ■
a . —Following his diredions I set out with two others ,
te in search of it. After wandering two weeks thro ,
:h as fine acountty as I ever saw, to our un pea
r e fatisfa&ion we found it. It is situated not 50
le miles from Marietta—and about 8 from the Musc
at ingum by which we may have water carnage to a.
0- our settlements. It lffues a fufficient <l" antlt y 0
ill water ta keep 1000 gallons constantly boiling, ten
e, gallons of this water will as experiment has pi ov^d,
e- afford one quart of fait, superior in quality to any c
made on your sea coast. This is to us moie t lan a c
it golden trefcfure. And will no doubt expedite tie r
in settlement of this country.
Id May we not, my dear fir, contemplate the pen- 1
:h od when our offspring will disclose the solid rocks
st of fait from which these streams flow ? shall we not
jf fee this fertile country blessed with plenty of this '
'e ufeful and salutary commodity ?"
•„ _ ;
, h Philadelphia,
j,
THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER Ij p 1796. I
— f
r, Yesterday arrived the (hip South Carolina, John 1
>f Carman, Commander, in 10 days fiom Charleftotl. /I
y In the South Carolina, came, the following pas- c
f. fengers.
, s Gen. C. C. Pinckney and family f
Honourable William Smith t
a Mr. Latham and family a
d Miss Kennedy I
i, Mr. Cudworth
y Mr. Cahn9 t
Mr. Inglefby
t Mr. Hyndman c
Mr. Parrifh a
s Mr. Everingham
r Mr. Sibly J
1 Mr. Charlcfworth
e M r - Richards
Mr. Wyche
yr Mailer Alston
e Matter Alston
e Matter Izard g
— J
J Extra& of a letter from on board the frigate Har- w
m»ny, Commodore Barney, dated the 2d of tl
September. %
" I expe&ed to havefoad the pleasure of feeing a :
e 7°" i" your city, but being chafed on the coast by
t a superior force, were obliged to alter our deftina- o
.. tion. Write to me at the Cape."
n Ext raft of a letter wrote to the French Consul at tl
if Philadelphia, by a passenger in the Pennsylvania, tc
Capt. York, which was lent as a flag of truce, tl
from this port to Bourdeaux, dated Bourdeaux, f c
1- J"iy 4- • 0I
c "1 hasten to inform you of our happy arrival p
. here, after a very plealant passage of 30 days. We £
e met tht.moft kind reception from the inhabitants I
h of this city.
'be difpau hed a ° tZ " soon as 1 m
■ k " i« entirely destroyed. The armies £
8 have crossed the Rhine with the greatell success. hi
s rhp city enjoys a perfed tranquility and every thina
!l is here in abundance, bread fells at zi-zfolsa
$ pound." 01
(True Copy,) LIOT , Consul.
b if*" 1 Amtrkan Advertiser.
|| Messrs. Claypoole,
a pv'w 110 " 1 "?" thc C ° Py ° s3 lettcr d! «fted by lv
a Chickafaw, who was on a visit to the Cherok—s ,
informing his friends of the dfcath of the Hanging e r
Maw, the; great chief of the. Cherokees. If th er! I
be any thing thc idcas or c w
your judgment would entitle it to a place in your g
paper, you will by inferring it oblige
A CUSTOMER ™
Fr April I
Friends and Brothers,
WHEN 1 eame to this plate about five davs
ago, I had the pleasure of feein? and tall; 1
our friend, thc Hanging Maw ! b "f u P ; g W " h di
mnr . r„,i ■ . ■, 0 s lldw > out he is now no
Your friend and brother, ~
(Signed) CAPTAIN GEORGE.
BY THIS DAY's MAIL. "
V A C " ARL EsT(^ C pt e mber 1. °*
Yesterday asnved the schooner Unity, R ase ll °'
Montego Bay, 34 days. T ' Kasel1 ' a . r
On Tuefdajr evening the sloop Nancv, Captain l "
5 Diamond, belong, ng to Salem, lying J Cochr n' P
wharf, was (truck hv J 5 ot '-oenran s 0(
(hivercd that a fmall^ffof ' L* er ma was rc
after it was ft! ' ab ° Ut l S minutes Pi
it was uruck, threw ,t on (he wharf TK
captain and crew were on board ; fortunate'lv th
received no injury. unately they iir
In the afternoon of the fame Lv .J, r dj
Mrs- Miliigan.on Federal Gr«„ J: 3 a ll r\° f m
the iron door of the oven S. r ° , Uck ; al:
■have been melted by the flalh ' Up P° fcd to qi
Arrived—Brij» Sukey, Thntther. Bristol.
V,fl« j ■ Se P tera ber2. .
Amlkrdam! • L\o^f r Tw! slugs' Welt' '''
20,h. Whe^^iUXT« e t m atcrthanthe y°
of the line and fcveral fr.Vat. 1 ' u W " e 12 fa,i P"
Channel he I U
which, after examining his paperT- T'h P c <
*,jl rrv^r" k, " < °-
! Weli-lniiK. ** c ottlapjs^edthem bo.nd t 0 the ■ In;
irs Off Bermuda the Pique frigate fell in with him ■
captain of which lent an officer _nd 8 men on- board'
•Je who took possession of the brig : the captain, tour of
his men, and all his letters, were sent on board of the
frigate, the captain of which broke open his letters •
g- and told captain Scott, that if he had not been on his'
i' s pafTage to Europe, he would fend him to the Weft,
o' Indies. After detaining him about hours he sent
le Captain Scott and his men on board the br.g, and x,z
---■ q turned him his letters and papers.
ill NEW-YORK, September 13.
of 1 We yesterday received the Journal of Frankfort
;n to June 30. The fubHanca of the intelligence con- '
d, tained in the papers, is, that the troubles in Cotfi.
ly ca are quieted,, and the viceroy is determined to i
a convoke a new parliament, and accede to the de
ie mands of the inhabitants, which are. found to be
reasonable : that the formal liege of Mantua com
i- menced on the 3d June —the-garriifon having been f
[ S firlt summoned to furiendei ; the gartifon con lifts or ! fl
)t 8000 men, betides 400 cannoneers: that Mr. Oehs s
is the minister who was sent to Pari* to accommodate I
the differences between-the cantons of Switzerland
and the French republic, had returned with a satis.
• fadiory explanation, and that the good undtrftand
jog between these Hates, would not be interrupted; ' }]
that prince Hohenlobe, general of artillery, j, to'
have the command of the troops on the Upper • t-
Rhine : the French division under general Kiebcr
fuffcred very much in the action of June 19, at ti
ll keradt, (the Au!!riau accout us which is nlw and
j. shall be given at length)— That the Aultrian' a C .
f. counts represent the Belgians ds extremely difhtis
fied with their new French government they !<»ing
fubjea to requilitions of provilions and ho: fc, for
the Frencharmics—to rhe forced loaw—to old taxes
and new—in short, universal l'ad.iefs reigns at
Brussels.
General Wurmfer arrived at Infprnck June 2 c
to take command of the army in Tyrol.
The fame paper contains the news of the French
crossing the Rhine at Strafbtirgh, and taking Kehl
as we have been'informed.
LATEST ADVICES from AMSTERDAM.
FROM THE
AMSTERDAM GAZETTE, of JULY 5.
f TRANSLATED FOR THE MINKRrA. \
A letter from Anvers of June 30. not only con
firms the news of the crossing of the Rhine by the
French army at Strafburg, but adds that the French
- were advancing in force towards Heidelberg, to
tllr °vv themselves in the rear of the Auftrians, and
that the head-quarters of the prince of Conde were
J already in their power.
1 On the 28th ot June, the left wing of the army
- of the Sair.bre and Meufa had advanced from Wup
per towards Acher and the Sieg. On th- 29th,
t the division of Grenier pafied the Rhine at Cologne,
> to join the troops of Kleber, which they effeaed. ,
> the fame day. When they arrived Sfl the Sieg, they
> found no enemies there. The divisions of Champi .
onet, of Bonnard, and of Bernadotte, were pre
-1 paring to re-cross the Rhine near Bonn, and join
e general Kleber, and advance again towards the
• Lahn.
: il he last letters from Petersburg inform, that
merchandise, the property of the Dutch, witt'cfi
had arrivciTTh neutral botoms, had been fcqueftered
s by order of the empress, without any previous pro
• hibitton of its importation.
( [This articlc seems to contradict a paragraph ia
1 our advices from Hamburg. J
Letters from ii ent of June 14, by the way of'
Augsburg, Germany, Hate, that the Austrian ge.
neral was waiting for further reinforcements, to ad«
vance and attempt toraife the siege of Mantua.—
No important movement had taken pi ce for ten oc
r twelve days. The account from Venice state (he
> total loss *of the French in Italy, since the op
' emng of the campaign, to amoii;t to 2p,ooomen ;
; which account the German editor fays is notcxag
-1 gerated.
A letter from Neuweid dates, than the Atiftriati
army on the Lahn amounted to more than 80,000
men—6o,ooo were in the vicinity of the Sieg, and
24,003 between Neuweid and EhrenbreilUcili.
A letter from Milan, of June 13, fays, Salicetti
' is replaced by citizen Pinfot, as com miliary of the
' directory with the army of Italy. _ •
' I hree deputies are gone to Pan's 'obear to the
Directory the wishes of the people of Lotnbit£y>
> in refpc€t to a revolution in the government.
1 lie municipality have published an ediit, of
which the fubftanceof the preamble is as follows:
" Liberty, citizens, advances towards us rapidly,
and the tree which we have planted appears to be «
taking deep root. The people, undeceived and
calm, despise those who have blinded them. Re
nouncing all prejudices, they know no tJiflindlion
of men, but the g'ood and bad citizen, the patriot
or the aristocrat. But they view, with disgust, the
> arms of the nobles exposed in public, their domes
tics adorned with liveries, to gratify ariftocVatie
1 pride. The ears of the people can no longer, es«
5 dure the ridiculous names of Count, MaTquis, Ba»
' roil, Duke, Prince and Noble. The citizcn who
! passes before the tribunal,- and reads at the head of
• the decrees, '< By order of the Feudal Pretorlhip"'
iind burns with indignation that the infamous feu»
dal government yet exists, and seems to accuse the
f municipality which permits jt, while at the head of
! all their new orders, they prefix—" Liberty, E«
1 quality." And you, Nobles, if you are not ene
mies of the people, and of yotirfelves, facrifice vo.
laptarily your privileges, as unjust as frivolous.—
t-onfidir that it is as unjurf to value yourselves on
the merits of your ajiceSors, as it would be to be
puniflied for 'heir crimes. Burn the parchments
and the coats of arms that preserve your pretended
pride and rank—iet ll.e fire purge you of youran
tient errors. Do not think the people willopprtfs
, y°": Ih e people are just—they are good, i'hey
I pumfh ceimes—they pity error, and accept the re*
I p.nting. Let become people, and the
people will receive them with open arm 9.
SUBSTANCE.GF THE DECREE.
Art. I. Nubility nmai s aboiifhed for ever.
Art. If No petfor fli ill takeaby title of nob:-
j but fo'e'y that yf a cuixcn, or of his prekO
j, Utta or ius
r ' '