he bad no great oVje&inn to its .being granted, tho' no Inffieient reafou nad been for it. Mr. Potter concluded with faying, he doubted hot„the honor of New-York would force them to pay the money- Mr. Gilbert rose, when the Speaker informed t»* c Hc*ufe, the gentleman had already spoken twice, and that, according to the rule, without leave, he could not be permitted to speak a third time. Leave was gi anted ; when Mr. Gilbert again cbjefted to the ju(tice of the claim againlbNew \otk, and urged the propriety of a postpone ment. Mr. Thatcher said, if he had the most distant suspicion that the application in question, had any tendency to produce disunion amongst the states, 1 he Ihould be as strongly opposed to it as any man, because be confideted the union of the states as the rock of their salvation. The gentleme . from New-York, who were the principal advocates for the poftponemedt, did not agree fufficiently amongst themselves; to warrant the ijieature. One or more of them, said they, were not authorised ta aft in the business, others said they were. If authorised, they could not want a postponement for inftrudions; and if not authorised, the resolution ought to pass, that their state might authorise foraebody. Another gentle man had laid a postponement was wanted, because the settlement was not just. He believed it was just, for three reasons, viz. flrft, because though the settlement had been made three years, no ob jection had been made to it ; because the settlement had been partly executed, so far as to pay the interest to the creditor (late* ; and because the law making provision for the settlement and final adop tion wf it, made no provision for an appeal from that settlement. For these three teafons, which Mr. T. said he had merely mentioned, but which would not fuffer tar being dilated upon, he should be opposed to every idea of breaking up the settlement which had been made. [T# be Continued.] CONTINUATION OF Late Foreign Intelligence. FRONTIERS of TYROL, Ofleber 11. A Neapolitan courier, it is said, has been sent to Archduke Chiles, to apprize liitn that 30,000 Nea politan troops have entered the Papal territory. In a sortie which VVurrriler made on the 7th inft. - theloi's of the Frtnch is stated to have been very con fidfcrable. Several ammunition waggons, magazines, and military chests, 'were taken from them. General Alvinzy, with the army under his com mand, has entered the Venetian terntory. BANKS of the MEIN, o<9ober 19. The corps of reserve under General St. Sztarray, ■which has marched to the reinforcement of the army of the Archduke, conlifh of ic,ooo men. The ' whole of the Anftrian foree in Suabia will now amount to from 85 to 90,000 men. It is now said, that the Hereditary Prince of Wir- j temberg is gone to Vienna, to eater into a conference relative to the treaty of peace between VVirtemberg and France. report is likewif* circulated, that ' Sooo' of the troops of VVirtemberg, which are to he ' paid by the Empress of Ruflia, will again join the I Imperial army, with the contingent of VVictamburg, { ■which will be commanded by the Hereditary Prince ; in which rase, the peace concluded bp the Duke with France will be annulled. LONDON, November 8. The inhabitants ot Modena and Reggio, at the inftariceof the French (whom he had offended by [ supplying Mantua with provisions) have shaken off *he dominion of the Duke their Sovereign. In consequence of the disturbances in Belfaft, the ' play houje has been (hut up, and a large force un der Lord Carhampton, is under orders fov that t neighbourhood. , According to private letters from the Cape, the I (hare of pi i2e money to each captain of the fleet, ' undei ' Sir Keith Elpliinftone, will amount to c 30001, sterling. A letter from Van Halten, the Dtiteh minister at Vienna, has been published at the Hague. It stated that the French messenger who had arrived j in that city from Italy, having received his Impe- 1 t'ial MsjeHy's answer, waso« the eve of bis return. C His miifioH- has been folefy to notify to the Empe- J »or the fectffion of the king of Naples from the confederation ; to demand an exchange ot phfon- ets, and for this purpole a partial, or a general truce ; and to announce the determination of the Dire&ory to revolutionize the xonquered proviuces of Italy, particularly Lombardy, and convert them into an independent republic, under the protection ® ef Francc, fhsuld the Emperor long persist 111 the war. At Amftcrdam the people spoke with much confidence, as to the ifTue of admiral Lucas's ex- pedition againrt the cape. U In the Tcxel there were several vefTels of war, j but few only ofthem were ready for sea. Several vefTels freighted with British j_i)ods had t been allowed to land their cargoes, and it was be lieved that the recent prohibition again ft their i«»- », port, which was virtually uiafolute, would (hoitly be annulled. St. James'l, November 3, 1796. ' This day Mahomet Cagga, ambafTader extraor dinary and minister plenipotentiary from Tirtiis had f . a private audience of leave of her majstty ; to which he was introduced by William Price, Eiq. her tr.a- o jelly's vice-chambetlain. November 16. r< An Evening paper of last night stated, on the t< authority of some perfon,faid to have arrived in a vefTcl irom Calais, that a few hours before the ves sel failed, intelligence had been communicated by the Tclegraphe to Lisle, of a desperate engagement having taken place near Trieste on the 20th ult. between the Aufttian aimy commanded by Gen. Alvinzy, destined to relieve the garrison of Man- tl tua, and the French diviiion under General Mas- vi fens, in which the former was completely defeated, 0 am! 2COO prisoners, and all the Austrian irtillerji and baggage, fell into the hallds of the enemy. tc It was also reported, that General Wurmfer, if diiiing madta sortie from the gar- it rifon of Mantua, and fncceetjed fn defttovir.fr the '■ greater pa tat the enemy's worlds, and killing a great number of men ; but that, after a desperate ie conflict, the Auftrians were driven back into the fortrefs by a numerous reinforcement which arrived d to the aid of the French from Piedmont and Tyrol. As not only the letters from Vienna of the 20th >t ult. and from Italy of. the 26th, brought by the d last Hamburg Mail, but even a letter from Tri n efte written on the day subsequent to that on which trie action is pretended to have taken place, take •- not the fnudlell notice of any fach event, we incline to believe that those reports have .not the smallest t foundation in truth. Y „ We are not surprised that one »f the daily papers, remarked for it, inveterate fertility to his Majesty's ( mmifters, fhoujd pronounce so deeifively on the infin = " rit >l, of Ffench Direiflory to m=ke peace with Mr. Pitt. _ V\ e have every reason to believe that it has _ long been in confidential relation with the French go-' - vernment ; and ~'e know to a ce/ta:nty thst ori sn ap plication being made to it, during the miflion ofM. t Lhauveltn, to support the measures of the National , Aflembly, it demanded, as the price of its support, the 5 enormous sum of seven thousand livres per mouth [ (about ißol, sterling.) The person from whom we t t"e tJ'i 1" mttreflin S f »«. had it from one of the rrench Diplomacy, who mentioned it as a proof of the exorbitant demand of the paper in question. That sum was refufed in the firft instance, but whether it was ac ' eepted afterwards, or that the Editor fell in his price, , all we know is—that he dined with M. Chauvelin aid , M. Ch-uvelin dined with him, and from then"; we , may account for the knowledge poffeflkd by that pa per, ot the present difpofitior. of the French Gdvern ; ment. But though this paper may b« in the confi " . of th * enm r. we surely run no risque in queuioning very much its veracity, when it pretends to so accurate a knowledge of British councils. We beg oar readers to p-fletil on this a paper anxious to bring his Majalty's Guvernnient into dif cred't, and on its motives ; and then fay,, whether any reipea is due to its pretended revelations ef the British Cabinet, and its flinders ag.inft its councils. Ma———■■■ urn iniinii PHILADELPHIA) JANUARY 18, 1797. COMMUNICATIONS. The contrail between the conduct of France and Anuria towaids each other, must strike all Eu rope and speak loudly in favor of the magnanimous forbearance of the United States. France, Spain and Holland are impotent at sea against England alone. Should America be driven to unite with the latter, the French would in a little time cease to have ijlands in the Weft-Indies. France must be feiifible of this truth, and no doubt would con duct herfelf less arrogantly towards the United States, was she not ftimula'ed ts» proceed, by men, whose councils may lead her into the fame thiflake, whicU similar counsels led Great Britain into. Your democrat is in politics j what your deist is in religion. The former writes, or propagates, whatever has a tendency to excite the people ag«tinft their own government, and p omotc " holy inftr rcclion the latter, whatever is calculated to de fttoy the people*' belief in the authority ef the scriptures, and promote " ka!y itrfiJelity" It is veiy certain, that the leading democrats in France and the United States, are atmoft to a man deijls or ntheifis. s It 13 also true, that we have political democrats among us, who fttew a difiutli nation to be religious democrats. To accommodate both forts of patritts, citizen Bache has advertised Faille's political it'arks, to be fold separate, from tiis deifiicul age of reason, for the afe of families. It b worthy of remark and /ernen hrance, that cer- \ tain democratic publications, hold- up the threat of domestic infurreftion; or if that fliould be thought too hazai'dous an experiment, of withdrawiii e from the 1 Uiiited States, in the event of a French w; r, to a 1 country which they fay is to become a French province, j That monsieur Barney fheuld be defended by ' French writers, and by those, only, even in the A mora, is a circntmftance truly honorable to the j American charafler. However Ameticans may differ about fyitemg of politics -taxes—laws and government, in the parties of the union, still it will be found that no party can one moment give counte nance to any American citizen who (hall, after having taken an oath to support the constitution, leave the United States and retsrn to it under a foreign coramifiion, and armed with orders hostile 1 to the ftiips and trade of the union. The para- \ f graph traufplanted into the Gazette of the United I '' States, from the Aurora, vindicating monficur Bar- i 4 ney, is certainly a French campofttion. The idiom 1 a betrays the counterfeit—" he determined upon de- j pending on, his own individual exertions," &t j 1 " Pusillanimity of the executive"—" crooked po- j Key," See—ail this is French. This ingenious I French civilian is so fraternal as to fay •' our" go- " vernment I here 13 a fifb that would prove ex- \ f tremely deftraflive to the small fry, did he not raise ! [0 much aiud tn his motions as to give warning—— 6 here is alio a foolifh fifh, that to conceal ttfelf r inns its head into the mud, and leaves the other ? parts cxpofed to dete&ion. 1 c As the American readers of the Anrora daily f diminish from the just alarm which the Aurora v dotftnnes excite, and as iti a little tinje the readers of that paper will be rcduced to those who can C swallow and digest French prineiples, it is humbly recommended to the writers of that pleasant paper, to fpai e themselves the labour of tranjlation, aiid to give their remarks in French. . a Fsr the Gazitte ot the Uhitib Statis. t Mr. Fsnno, > " Mr. LOCCENJUS has thrown the gauntlet on h the quelhon, <• whether a citizen has a right to di- * vest htmfelf of his allegiance without the consent a of the society, ot which he is a member f" si I his question is not so well qualified as it ought to have been; but in the reasoning he has rested the ifiue on the point, » w!i S ;bct" tlie right to ex/a- '] triatc is a natural right. t! e In the complete and iovefiigation of" a this fu jjcit, it will be-neceflarjr te take man up in e mis fii It ertate, and in the prosecution of ii, I hope, <* shall deraonftrably prove, that the arguments ad rl vanced by our volunteer are tralv chimerical, and . totally repugnant to t!ie natural rights of man. i It is allowed by all modem writers on ethicks, on e government, and on lie hius of nations, that man is born free, and pufftfles all the natural rights, wliich i ai-e known to exillin any compaift whatever. The - ma teiiality of the mind is granted by the philofo : pliers of the prcfent day, and the free agency of t man 19 consented toby all parties, which free agen cy is wholy dependent an unobflrußctl •oelition ; this , volition resolves itfelf into felf interej\ ind felf love, 5 these are the two positive and fundamental princi , p' es 'hat govern the anions of men in every fitua s 'ion in life, these principles of the human mind are liicr the immutable principles of truths they operate . on fuciety, and to the happiness of man, like the • K rsat gravitating principle, on inanimate matter. If 1 man in his primitive and unaffaciated (late, pnflefs ■ thofe-rights, it rests with him whether to ctnftgn or | give up all of them or not, if he does, they mult be po/it'tvely exprfftd and agreed upon, for they are poli'ive f'ghti, therefore no negative teftsment can 1 annihilate a positive one: In as much as this right, is not expreTed in the C(|mpa£t, it is reserved to the conffituent. To allow for argument that the individual may give up this present contested right, (which common sense revolts at) there can even then be lituations in which a citizen may be placed, that would juftify him in expatriating himfelf, and that all the rights he had delegated to the govern ment, would revert to hircv, and be have again the sovereign power in himfelf, as refpe&s himfelf, via. 1 he Lex Necejptatis, this law resolves itfelf into the law of felf prefer vation, which is jultifiable under ceitain eircumftaoces, not only in an individual, but it is morally and politically right for a part of a (late to dismember itfelf from the body politic ; aifo according to Wtljius, and other reporters on the laws of nations, the Lett Necejitatis operates between nation axd natiou, as between men and men in their Hate. Iu those compa&s where citizen does not delegate this right iif terms fpeciSe, it is retained—-For inltance, firft, bo one pretends to deny hut what man is born free, and of Co»rfe this right is inherent.'—Second, that he may voluntarily give up this right to fopiety or Hot.— I And thirdly, it is neither expressed nor i-nplied in any part of the conflitution of the United States, therefore it is refervsd. 1 his is fe ielt-evident it will scarcely admit ef pi oof ; therelorea citizen may alienate himfelf at ail times of tranquillity ; and when he has volun taiily cut the ligature, he is Men exonerated from the original covenant, and has the right of eithei forming a new c»mpa&, or ingrafting himfelf iuto lorn.- other Hock. if truth u to be regarded in government as the Unity of principles it> other sciences, then let the' veil of usurpation and ignorance be drawn to the general happmefs of man, and k-t the goddess of ' libei ty once mora ereci tier (landard and con'litute one great and happy family among the different ua- . tiens «f the earth. I he Indian tribes to which Mr. I.occinius has lefeiied irs, as evidence to the propriety of his po- ' tttion, iwttead ef referring us to the " worm eaten ' writings ps Grotius and Puffendorf," do not, I conceive, dellrov ihe right of the individual \ expatriate himfelf, hut thij (fa&, it such] proves he ignorance or the state of their society, which 0111 hero wueht not to retort to for the evidence of ' truth »r right. c 1 .lis doctrine of nan expatriation, is a brat c#n- 1 ceived by ncctffiry, brought forth by ufuipation, and foftered by defpoiifm, but when this law of neeeility ceaftfd, the shackles of power ought to P have ceased also, and then man WjouUl have been disenthral ed from this load of oppression, and he • become once more an independent beiujr. In the • next note, 1 fhalJ take up Vattell, and endeavor to 1 prove wherein lie flies his firlt principles, and trims " to the Britilh government. C. *)" Self interell is not to be understood in a limited 1 pecuniary feme here, but goes to &ow also the mental . iatisfafliou experisnced in every art in life. u By this day's Mail. r NEW-YORK, January 17. An apology is made in the Aurora for Captain f Barney's reversing the American colors on hoard the ] Medusa. It is there laid to be a mijtake and soon e redified. We are authorised to declare, that the flag was reversed and placed at the top-mast head from to ' o clock in the morning to 4in the afternoon, during 1 a breeze, which made it conspicuous. iNewTtri Minerva.] txtraa of a letter from Cape Francois, dated Dec. 17, t 1796, to a gentleman in this City. , " 1 arrived here t'afe in a paflage of 18 days, but was aftonilhed and diAreffed to find, that the profp.As . which flattered before my departure were complctelyde- : seated.. ihe admiriifiration are determined to take all American cargoes, and nothiag can equal the distress F et our eountrymen here. The commifiary declared to ' rae this morning, that he would have every American i cargo that came. V\ r e fufier every species of altuft and ili treatment; eommunicate his to our friends and countrymen, and warn them against being concerned 1 in the contrail lately made by with the admini itration, this is a cheat to get American property as was the other ' ( Kefult of the tanvafs for the diftrifl of Duchefe f County. Brookß laao I Bailey \ Majority for Brooks ao * The brig Prudence, Capt. Grattan, from St. Thora as s, loft three hands by the putrid fever, 14 days after failing. Captain G. took every precaution to prevent the reft of his men from taking the contagion, by de- i Aroying their cloaths, fmoafcing tJie vcflfel, &c. and i his endeavours we are happy to add, were crowned 1 wulnfuccefs. t Ihe brig Dean was feea oflf the Hook on Sunday T afternoon, Aanding towards several inward bound vef- » fels. 1 From Pool', (N. L.) Marine Lift, Jan. ic. t Arrived tchooner "Amphitrite, R. I. Still, from J lurk a Iflasd, 40 days; 50 days ago left at St.Tho- J mas s, schooner Isabella, V\ r . Higgiu6. Spoke in lat. long. 69, fckooncr Nelly, ffm, Brown, from Nor- f folk, bcand,'fo H'Oaniola, —in lat. 3j, long. »r, fpok , ftiip Raihef, J. Racket, from Leghorn, bound to New. York, out 36 days. Arrived at this Port. Days. j r, g Amiable Matilda, Williams, Rotterdam, 88 Schuylkill, Irving, Purto Rico, 42 ( Sloop Rachael, Narton, Cape Francois, 24 ( Captain W illfon, of the schooner Success, oa , the 3H iiiftant, in lat. 34, 59, spoke the brig De , light, of Boston, from Martinique, bound to Ed enton, Johnj Perkins, matter, who informed him, r that the day before he fell in with the f hooner Friendship, of Washington, captain Joshua Pritts, ( in diftreft, wh», after taking the men and fame few jhings on boird, immediately foundered. Lat. 4s, ■25, spoke brig Polly, of Salem, from Boston, cut 45 days, bound to Baltimore—Biu instant, spoke the febooner Little Tom,, from St Bartholomews, of and bound to Philadelphia, by ftrjsfs of weather bore away for Norfolk. According to a modern admeasurement, 'the ex tent of continued buildings in London is thirty five miles, two furlongs and 39 rods. There are 3®5 places devotion, and a computed million of inhabitants. A London paper fays, Stocks, notwithstanding the intelligence from the Cape of Good Hope, experienced a considerable depression sth Novem ber. Cenfols wire for the moR part done at ce 7-Sths. Barras has been proclaimed president of the Ex ecutive DireiSory. We hope it will be i« his turn to have the honor of iigning the general peace. All the emigranasare ordered to quit the Prussi an dominions. Madame Genlis is among the num ber. Coljuel Green is appointed lieutenant-governor of the iflaad of St. Vincents. General Pichegru is gone from Strafburg to <5- verfheim. The Directory have enabled him to buy the Abbey of Arbois, in the French Comte. / [Can. Gaz-2 From a LtmJn paper of the 10th November. are sorry to announce the death of captaiM Strangewayj, of the marines, who was wounded in the gallant a&ion of the Glattoa with a French Iquadron, lalt summer off the Dutch coast Th* ball entered the upper part of his hip, and, being deeply seated, could not poifibly beextra&ed with out imminent danger. From the time of his re ceiving the Wound till his death on Friday, he ex perienced the molt excruciating torture. He ha* been buried at Chatham with military honors. The marriage of tire Prince ef Wirtemberg to the Princess Royal will be privately solemnized in the great Siloon at the Queen's house ; by the Archbiifcop of Canterbury, alMed by the Bishop of London. T he Spaniards have at length gravely fat down be fore Gibraltar forgetting no douUt, the fatal 13th of September, or that such thiugs still exist as Britith hearts ef oak, and red hot balls. FALMOUTH, Nov. 7. Letteis were received here this day, dated Nov. 4, from his majelty'a (hip Glory of 98 guns, one of admiral Thompson's fleet, Ufhant bearing E. N. 20 leagues, which date, that the fqnadron had captured a very fine corvette of 20 9 pounders, be» longing to Richery's squadron, with her prize, a brig laden with fait. From information of, the crew, there is every reason to fuppofc that Riche ly's fqnadron cant.ot be far off. Arrived heie the 2dinft. the American fchooncr Reliance, of Boftnn, John Seffurd, mailer, from Bred, with English men as palfengers, who had been carried into France. When (he left Brest, there were 25 fail of men of war in that harbor, chiefly ef the line, five of them 3 deckers, but with yards and topmails ftruck,.and in 110 condi tion for sea, occasioned by a of feamcn. Men arc so fesree, their fleet havt not their compli ment of any quality. These palfengers did not hear any thing of the intended invasion, until their arrival here, nor doe* it appear that any preparations indicating such an intention, ate going on at Brelt j the people in ge neialthere seem very defirousof peace. The Reliance on the eoalt of France fell in with two Englifli fquadroßS, uader the command of Sir John Warren and Sir Richard Strachan j the for mer preifed a sailor out of her. / Richery's deilination was never known at Brest until the Englilh papers conveyed the intelligence there of the devastations he had committed ■, they supposed him to be gone to St. Domingo. » November 15. In the French army on the Lower Rhine, the greatest discontent is said to prevail. General BournonviJJe is Gated to hsve declared his intention of resigning his command of the army of Sambre and Meufe ; and Kleber is also said to have refufed the appointment. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 8. Half past fix, P. M. Just arrived, the brig Mar tha of Teigumouth, laden with fait, lately com manded by Capt. Seward. She was taken by one of Richery's fquadror. in the bay, and te-taken by the fqnadron under the command of admiral Sir R. Curtis. All her crew were taken out of her and put on beard one of the French fhfps. She wa* navigated to this port by some of the crew of the Atlas, of 98 guns, Capt. Dod. The prize mailer reports that he left the fleet, all well, cruizing yesterday off Ufhant. A privateer has beefi taken since Thursday—and ideas of fal ling in with Richery's fqnadron were so strongly entertained by admiral Curtis, that orders were is sued in the fleet not to oarry [any lights during the night. It should be observed, the corvette former ly taken, left Rieheiy fteerir\g for Brest last Tttef -4*- TRENTON, January 17. We have received a (Utement of tie Vote/ for Representatives in Congrcfs from the countie* of Eflex and Hunterdon, jmd of Burlington, excep ting the township of Hanover—they are as folllow! Jonathan Day;on 2397 Ebenerer Elmtt 990 Mark Thompfoa 1666 James Linn 956 Aaron Kitchel 1569 Jos. Bloomfield 947 James. H. Imlay 1526 William Ctane 826 Jame* Schurraan Joseph Cooper 753 Thos. Sinnickfotfi 137 a Thos. Lowrey 36# John Condit 1244 William Helmi .95
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