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Dim, the nth i ,ftant, and wis buried yefter- j
Jay from the Pettnfylvani* Hospital, Ann Tag-
GA*t, being the sixth person who peiifhed by means
of the late fire at the h«u(e of Andrew Brown, ;
with whom (he lived about two weeks. She [
exhibited (under severe pai/i) an example ef pa- 1
tience and quiet resignation to the will of the A 1 1
mighty, and often exprefled, tho' seldom able to do 1
it above a whisper, the grateful fenft she retained I
of the kindness of many citizen* ; and in particlar, 1
fce acknowledged her obligations to the physicians,
nurses and ftewatd of the hotlfe, for their unremit- '
ted exertion* to relieve her deplorable fituatiorr. j
Dies, in the Weft-Indies, Capt. Paul Stivbns, 1
of N(wintry Port.
From the VmoimA GdXiTTt, , I
Mil. BOWS N, ]
I AM a countryman, and having read the Que
ties in your Gazette of ihe 13th inffant, 1 palled
them over for that time ; hut going lately on foma |
domrUic business to a mill in my neighborhood, I (
heard a conversation there between two ot my (
neighbors, Air. fruitier and Mr IVorrcn, which,
for the fake of>the gentleman who proposed said j
queries, 1 (hall her«* fubjoiu. Yel fiift it may be
neeeffary ta inform him, that Mr Truliber is a plain .
honest (armer, who lludies little else than the ad- (
vam ement of that laudable profeffion, but who,
neverjielefs, is a hearty friend to his and |
wifhesthat every tljjpg we haVe to export may bear
a good price ; and that Mr. Warren has taken some
pains to acquire a knowledge in the political affairs
of his < 9untry.
Mr. T— Dull Times—dull times, Mr. Warren, (
yvheat falling every day ; it will fo«n become a
mere drug ; what can be the meaning of this, Mr.
Warren ? . ,
Mr. IV.—The reason is, Mr. Truliber, because
the French will not fuffdT us to carry any thing ,10
or from British ports, which cuts,off near*/ two- .
thirds of onr trade. S—
Mr. T. Aye, Aye*, I was reading Something
about that in a late newfyaper; how, if the Briifh (
take our (hips, (hould not the French, to be even
with hem, do so too ! Now, I suppose, there must i
be fomethingas hard as the D~vil iB that question,, (
or it would not have been put in the nenfpapers to
get an answer to. (
W. Why I will Rate a cafe to yon that ■ (
will make the matter a little plainer. Her* yoi
give part of your custom to Mr, Anderfoii'l mill,
and part to Mr. Brown's. I
Mr. T.~ Yes, 1 fend my wheat to Mr. Ander
fon's,' and u.y corn to Mr. Brown's, for common
Mr. /r. -7-Well, now, suppose some quarrel
„ * should arise between Mr. A. and Mr. B. and Mr. ,
A. to be revenged on Mr. B. should take it into his
head to intercept and feiee all your corn on the '
rotid to Mr. B's mill ; and if Mr. B. to injure Mr.
A. (hrttfld feiaeiill your wheat on the road to Mr.
A's mill—would he be juftifiable with regard to
yon I ' x
Mr. T.—No, egad, the one ought to be hanged
aa well as t'other.
Mr. W. N'>w, Mt. Truliber, the French have
no more right to feixe our veflels, in the manner
they do, than Mt. B. would have to seize jour
'wheat in the cafe just mentioned, even if the Bri
tifti were guilty of the fame violation every day,
which, for any intelligence vv« have received, has
rot been the cafe finee the ratification wf the
tieaty.
Mr T-—P(ha, if that's all, egad, I ceuld
have anfweted that qtteftien myfelf; and, for that ,
n>a;ttr, so might my wife, and put it in the news
papers too. But when 1 have been at the court, 1
and liftei.cd 'o some of our politictaneis there talk
ing about—the law o,f nations 1 think it was, and 1
about the Bntilh and French both taking a pluck 1
at un, becßVii'e we hadn't a fleet, I did not know i
but the law of nations might befomething like the
dog law. where every one worries the weakest, or
the one th*t'« down.
1 Mr. fV. The law ef nations, Mr. Truliber, con
fids of certain general rules, commonly observed by
all nations, with regard to one another ; and that
particular one which is atoll involved «n the pref
ect occafien, is to this purport—when two nations
are at war, the property, of the third, »r neutral
nation, is always restored, when taken by either
•f them on board a fliip 6f the other ; and, on she
contrary, 'he property of either of the contending
nations, when found on board of neutral Alips, is
always cot>fidered as lawful prize by the other; ;
moreover, Mr. Tiuliber, in the-treaty between the
United States and Franee, it was mutually agreed,
to relinqutfh tpis rule, and eftablifli another in its
place, viz, that the property of enemies, found on
board the ships of either Franee or America, should
be free and' undftiurbed by the other ; and, on the
contrary, that the property of either nation, found
on board enemy's (hips, should be confider«d as law
ful ptiz«.—But the former rule in, the law of n.i*
tiorn remains as.it is in ht treaty ketwetn this coun
try and Great Britain: And in answer to the gen
tleman's query, where be demands, why France
1 ought not to be put npon a footing with mod at
favoured nation, let it be temeAibered, that if th? pi
Britifti derive any advantage from the observance n<
of that rule, byfeizing French property on board pi
American ships, that this advantage was not beflow
ed upon them as a favor by America, jut that they • gs
were pofTeffcui of it long before. How then can pi
America be said to favor any nation, when (lie ci
grants thera nothing which (he had ittbeltow ? But ar
the French have not only broken their treaty with us, w
but they have gone further, and violated the law of
nations, by seizing our ships with our own property at
on beard. . m
Mr. T.—And what could induce them to take is
such a tanterum as that Mr Warren ? *«
Mr. IV.—Nothing in the world, only because we
preferred an amicable adjuflment ot our dispute B
with Great Britain to the dccilioo of tho sword.
Mr. T.—And so, because we didn't fight,
they'll whip us, eh ?
Mr. W.—Yes, or because we did not make a bet
ter treaty with Great Britain.
Mr. T. — Why ei-rajl, now, that's ju(l as if I was o
to go and beat John Stoue there, for not making a a
better bargain t'other day, when he fold his bay y
horse—though h« did as well as he eould, I fnppofe. si
, Mr. W.—Juft so, Mi. Truliber ; and as to a I,
change of tone in feme of our great nt»n, which 11
is the fubjeft of one of the gentlemen's queries, 1 t«
imagine, when the medium is drawn, be: *sea the il
mad (allies of paffian on one fide, and political en- re
, thufiaftn on the other, it will be found, that those ei
[ gentlemen have kept the medium with firmnefs, and ft
| that they have at ho time call away the olivie branch le
with one hand, nor the sword with the other— h'
(Here Mr Truliber fleppcd forward, and took up b;
the paper, which was laying on the head of a flour ai
barrel, to try what remarks he could make, and, bi
, read •'that generous"—but not being able to I
make out the word " magnanimous," be passed it q 1
over and said, " that generous nation"—yes, egad, tc
very generous ; fueh generoufnefs as that puts me ft
in mind of ihe ttoty about the cat and the monkey,
which I was reading the other day in one of »iy.
little boy's books ; how the monkey anil -'Ve cat
I were very great frie«ds, and always playing and tl
pawing together ; but, one day, upon a pinch, ti
when the monkey wnnted to pull some chefnuts a
out of the fire, he made use of the cat's paws for a
tongs, and pok'd them into the co;.ls! now, ac- 7
I cording to accounts, that's the way the French are h
serving us, Mr. Warren)
Mr. W [ think it is a very near resemblance ;
indeed, M. Truliber ; for though the Fiench were
called our friends, yet, whenever they could gain a «
| small advantage, by doing us a great injury, they ri
have not scrupled to make use of us is tbe monkey I
did the cat in the fable ; that is, they have been tl
willing to destroy our commerce, for the fake of im- 0
peding that of the British. ti
Mrr T.—(StilJ looking intently at the word it
' magnanimous, in the second query)— But here's It
mag—fomethiug—egad, I'll wager yon that n
this Mi. what d'ye callurri has been making fun all tl
this while, and this long ward here pays up for all I'
What is that word, Mr. Warrea ? u
Mr. W.—Magnanimous; and the meaning of it fc
il, great, noble and houeft. it
Mr. T.—Now, I fwcai, I thought it would mm 11
our to be some fly joke when I was told rr
the meaning of it. li
"*t. W.»~lt was very natural foi yon. to suppose ti
thai; the gentleman meant a btirlelque ; for, in his d
' fifth and lafl quety, wnen he asks, what answer Has
been given t® France, concerning the iinproTaietit /
ofourfeamen by the Bri'ilh, 6cc ? it mi ht as well
have bean demanded, had there been a ir between
France and Algiers, when those pirates were apti- w
vating and erflaving our seamen, what faiisfa&ion d
had been given Fiance foi their being cumpillcd as ri
flives to row their enemies ships? The former con- e
I dust of the British was certainly rxecrable, as that si
of the French is puw ; but as to you arid I, Mr. il
Truliber,' and in (hint, every other man ps us, we
ought netther to be partisans of Britain, nor parti- f«
zans of France, but citizens of America. t<
[H c Mr. Truliber's waggon driving up to the |t|
mill door, broke off the covet fat ion. 3 ai
ai
1 By this day's Mails. *
: NEW-YORK, February 11. 0
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r Latest Foreign Intelligence.
By the (hip Franklin, Allyn, in 53 Jays from Leudon.
« PARIS, November 28. e !
; The ncge iations with the Englilh government ,01
seem to take rather a more favor'atile turn to-day.
1 The dirc&ory have acknowledged the principle of
t compensation ; besides, therr last raply does not !
bear those marks of harshness and severity which
~ charrfterized their former notes. This is one ad
- vantage which we owe to the publication of the
I correspondence. The opinion of the public was (1
; decidedly pronounced<fcgci»fl the rude forms they ni
1 had adopted in their negociations; and our nega- v
: ciator has therefore deemed it prudent to change
r those forms. ,
December j. ;
General Vaubois ha» been suspended by Buona- - tl
' parte. He did riot execote h;s orders, and thus si
caused part of his plan to fail. f I q
. The Ruflian forces under general Subow, ae- !fl
1 cording to letteis from Poland, have keen defeated ; 11
I in ?n engagement with the Persians. The former
were compelled to retreat with the loss of 10,000 1 p
- men. . . | ti
General Pichegru is at.length going at ambaffa- j t<
1 dor to Sweden, to compliment the new king on his '
; accrfllon.
If we are to'ttuft to the patters from Italy, Man.;
, tua must be at this moment in the hands of the
3 French.
ARMY of ITALY. ' '
I Letter froir. general Berthier, chief of tbe ftat ii
major of Italy, to general Barraquey D. Hil- o
) lier. tl
" Head quartan at Milan, 8 Frimaire, i
* Navtmbcr 28, yh year.
" I informed you, general, by tbe last bulled
. which f sent y >u, that, after having beaten the
: troop; commanded by geaeral Alviuzy in perfen,
at ArooJa, the c<\n*mart<ler in chief m.dc Ms dlf- "J
p. fitV a attack rhe column corr.mitided by ge- jle
neral Davidcvich, who had brought hia yuivaoccd %
polls as far a* Caltleoovo.
" On the tft Frimaire, the commander in chief
gave orderj to attack the enrrtiy, who, reprtlfed from
pcfition topolition, cffe&ed his retreat wilh pre
cipitation. His rear guard was vrrjr ill treated, g
and partly cut off upon the heights of Riv»li, of _
which we remain matters.
" Different detached corps pursued him all night
i above the Corona and along the Adigc. ,We have i fl
; made in this day 1,100 pnfoners, whom tl
is colonel «ount Lherbach, and taken 4 pieces o f fc
cannon anl 6cai3ons. ri
(Sgfled) «« IERTHIER."
Buonaparte, commanding the army of Italy, to
citizen Caraot, member of the Executive Di
, reCtory.
" Head-quarter lat Vrreng, Brumaire 29, a
Nevemitr 19, §;h year ei
V The deltiuies of li*ly begin 10 ; yet al
i one viflory te morrow, ef which 1 have little doubt,
t and I hope before ten days are part, to write to 1
r yon from head quarters at Mantua. NeVer was a t(
. frcl/ of battle so much disputed as that of Areola ; i,
1 I have scarcely any more generals ; their devnted
-1 uefs and courage are without example. The ge- c
neral of brigade, Lafre, came to the field of bat- <]
r tie before he *as cured of the wound which he f|
- received at Govcrnelo. ' He was wounded twice u
: early in the battle ;at three in the afternoon he was a
1 stretched upon his bed, and fuffering 1 when he a
» learned that I was royfelfat the bead si the column, f
- he threw himfelf from hit bed, mounted on horse- ft
> back and came to find me. Being obliged to re
r main on horseback, he received, at the head of the q
, bridge of Areola, a blow which laid him senseless.
> I assure you, that ill this was neceflaryto our con
quering ; the enemy were numerous and cxafpera- r
, ted, the generals at their head, of whom we killed n
: several. j
, (Signed) " suoNAfARTE."
S.TRASBOURGH, Nov. 28 5
The blood it ill runs in torrents en the banks of] v
! the Rhine. It is n»w midnight. I finilh my let
, ter to the fo%nd of cann 1 , which are now firing
s at Kehl with such force as to fh ke evety window f
" at StrafWjrgh. The engagement has latted since r
- 7 o'clock this evening. It is the firlt time we have
: had a nijht affair so violent as this appears to be. 0
LONDON, December 5.
; But the inoft important article a. intelligence a
1 which those Journals bring us is the following cor- r
refpondence between Lord Malmifbury and M. e
' De La Croix, in which the public will fee that t
1 the principle »f cuwipenfations, so cagpily infilled r
■ on as the batis of negociation, is formally and li-
terally agreed to by the French, as it was before t
1 in spirit and infadl. We do not intrude the recol- c
j ledliun of our opinions on the public, and we should t
not now recall the interpretation which we putson a
1 the former con«efiion of the point made by the ,
French Minifler, if it weie not to (hew the futility j
of the luvedtives that weie thrown out upon us by j
some bf (itir contemporauesojiaccourit of ourreafon- t
ing. Having admitted the two coun- J
1 tries are now fairly at issue upon terras ; and if we t
I may give credit to the information of the belt po- 1
lineal I'irclcd, Mr. liliis will Ipecdiiy return to Pa- I c
lis with the prccife concessions to be offered Bnd
> dem; oJed by England. (Morn. Chron.)
s NOTE
Fram Lord Malmtfiury to the Ml/tfter for Ft reign j
1 affairs. (
' The Coutt of London having been informed of
- what paSed after the recept of the last memorial )
1 delivered, by their order, to the minitfet for Fo 1
! reign A ff.■ i rs, find that there is not a,i y thing what 1
- ever to be added ta the answer made by the under
signed to the two quefti.ms which the J
• thought proper to adu r-:i to them. j
: They wait then, and with the tfreateft 5
• for an explanation of the fcntiments of the Direc- j
tory, with rejjto the principle proposed, on '
: their pan, as the basis of.thc negociation, and the '
adoption of which appeared to be'the bed means of '
" j accelerating the progrel's of a difctiflion f» import- '
; ant tt> the happiness of so mqiiy nations. (
The underligned has, >r confequcrce received (
j orders to renew the demand of a frank and precise r
i answer on: this object, in order that his cnurt may 1
; know with certainly, whether the Diredory ac- 1
cept the said proposition ; whether thry delire '
to make any char.gc or mo difications whatever iu it ; (
er, lastly, whether they will propofeany other ptin- j
ciple that may promote the lame end.
(Signed) •
MALMESBURY. '
Paris, Nov. 26, I 796. '
ANSWER
Of the raimfter for foreign affairs to Lord Malmefbu- j
ry's note.
In anfwtr to the note delivered yesterday, Nov. 36, c
.(nldftile) by Lord Malmelbury, the underligned mi
nister for foreign :ffjirs, is by the Execut- :
'.ve Dire(3«ry, to oblerve, that the answers made on
- die clh and ud of last Brumaire, contained an ac- '
knowledgmeut of the principle of compenlation, and 1
j thit.in qrder to remove every pretext tor farther dif- ,
i cufiioajKi that point, the underfrgned, in the name«f
• ! the Executive liirtilory, now makes a formal and po
s fitivtdeclaration »t such acknawledgment. In confe- '
! quence, Lord Malmelbury is again invited to give a
.! speedy and categorical answer to the proportion made
jj to him on the aid of last Brumaire, and which was '
' conceived in these terms —" The underligned is in
firufted by the Executive ~Dire<SWy, to invite you to
■ point snt with all passible expedition, and expressly.
j the objects of reciprocal cemptnfati«n which you have
I - to propose." <
(Signed) CH. DELACROIX.
7 Frimaire (Nov. 17.) sth year. t
ANSWER t
: Of Lord Malmelbury to the note of the minister of so- •
reign affairs, dated the 7th Frimaire, Nov. ty. |
i The undersigned minister plenipotentiary ®f his Bri
tanic majesty, in answer to the note dated this morn- )
' ing, and which has been transmitted to him on the pa>t i
. of the a iniftertjf foreign affairs, hastens to assure hitn I
that he will not lose a moment in communicating it to
his court, from which be mull still exped ulterior or- :
' riera, before he can explain himfelf with refpeil to the
important matter which it contains.
™ MALMESBURY.
e Paris, Nov. n.
, Some letter; fran Lisbon, delivered out an Satur
day, announce the p epai ations made in Portujtal by
lea and land, as war they fi«d is nnt to be averted. Se
veral men of war fi'ting in the Tagvis : and camps
are about forming on the frontiers, which are to a
. mount to 6c,c00 men. Tl)e prince of Bazil, it was
said, takes the field with the troop«.
December 6.
We had yesterday the latisfacflion of anaouncing
generally, that the fubfcriptinn for the new loan had
been finally closed. Thi we ftatNl to have taken place
at half palt eleven, whereas it was at tweuty minutes
past ten —twenty minutes only, after the books had
been opened. At ten o'clock in the morning, the par
lor doors of the bank were opened, before which time
the lobby was crowded. It was a pleafmg fight to fee
feme of the firfl merchants of the city of
running. w,ith cagernel's to the bar, whieh was so pref
fcd upon by the crowd, as to require being propped up.
Numbers could not get near the books at all; while
others, to teftify their zeal, called to the persons at the
hooks then figning,-to put down their names for tnem,
as they were frarful of being shut out. At about 20
minutes past ten, the fnbfcription was declared to ke
completely full, ai.d hundreds in the room were reluct
antly obliged to go away.
By the poll yesterday, innumerable orders came frotii
the country for fubferiptions to be put down, scarcely
one of which could be execute!. For some hours af
ter the fubfeription was closed, persons continued som
ing, arfH were obliged to depart disappointed.
Stocks yesterday experienced a rife of one per
cent. They were down for the opening as high a*
59-84. This rife may be partly attributed to the
spirit of loyalty and patriotism which has been so
unequivocally exprefled on the occasion of the loan,
and to the circumflance of the ExecutivofDire&ory
c<f France having assented te the proportion of the
Biitiffi court, that the principle of the compenfatioa
(hall be the bafia of the negociation •
The new loan yesterday bote a premium of threa
' quarters per cent.
December 7.
Urdefs peace takes place immediately, a ftrnnj
reinforcement of treopt are to be sent te St. Do
mingo. Part are to fail from Spithead, the remain
der from Cork.
The Hungarian*, it is said, are about to raise
50,000 cavalry, and 52,000 infar.try, for the ser
vice of the Emperor.
December 8.
• Mr. Ellis is expected to leave town to morrow
for Paris, with further inftruitions to Lord Mal
mefhury
In the fitting of the Council of Five Hundrsd
• on the 29th ult. Paftoret proposed the following
plan of a decree t That, by virtue of the law of the
9th of December, 1790, every individual born
abroad, who descends in any degree from a French
man expatiiated on account of his religion is declar
• cd and acknowledged a natural born Frenchman j
rhaf every one of these individuals shall enjoy all the
I rights of a citizen, provided he returns to France,
prefects himfelf before the Municipal Administra
tion of'the"Canton which he <h » ohoofe, and de
■ clare his name, his family, the leaLn why his fa«
I ther left Frawce, the place to which they retired,
1 and the formal intention of fettling in the country.
At the expiration of a twelvemonth, he is to enjoy
all the rights of Citizeufhip, provided he pays the
' public contributions. The Religionist who return
■ ed to France, by virtue of the law of the 9th of
December, 1790, are exempted from thef« formali
: ties. The dispositions of the plan of the prrfeftt
- law are not applicable to those Religionists, or their
children, who only left France since toe 15th of
i July, 1789.
December 9.
At a late hour last night we received the Pari#
1 papers to the $th inft. the •ontents of which will
be found under the head French Republic.
f The intelligence from the army nf Italy is very im
-1 portaiit. The current of vidlory, it is with concern
we remark, continues its rapid course in a favorable di
rection to I,he French caofe. After\he defeat of the
Imperial Field Marshal Buonapare proceeded
to attack the army of gerteral Jjavidovich, whieh had
' forced the French lines that covered the bloclcade of
Mantua, and advanced as far as Caftelnavo , On the
, 21ft ult. he came up with this division, which hefovi
- goroufly attacked, that in a short time the Auftrians
j retreated with precipitation in every (lireition, and were
clefely pursued the whole of the night by the enemy
j above the Corona, and along the Atlige. The rear
guard of the Imperialists fuffered very severely. Ele
ven hundred prisoners, among whom was Col- Count
de Lherbach, four pieces of cannon, and fix caffons,
1 fell into the hifnds of the French. This victory is the
e more entitled to serious attention, as it serves te confirm
f Buonaparts's account of the rec*nt defeat of field mar
. ilia! Alvinzy, which mult have been of a very decisive
nature indeed, to have onahled the Fre»ch general to
march uninterruptedly, to the attack of the other Auf
' trian army, the co-opero ion of which it was the graad
• objedt of the field m.i 14 Ito obtain.
Buonaparte's accouri. has not yet been publifhod.
The above is from Berihier, whole details have, on eve
ry occasion, been found to be written with much atten*
tion to accuracy and truth.
From the Rhine it is lilted, that on the night of tht
aSth ult. a fniart aCJion took place at Kehl, the particu
lars of which were not known when the account was
closed. »
' The capture of Mantua was reported at Paris on she
sth inft. but the-rumour obtained no credit. Even
} Buonaparte's gasconading dispatch did not venture to
promise the fall of that important place at so early a pe-
I riod.
•_ Government, we understand, received some advices
{ from L6rd Malmelbury, last night.
Yesterday advices were received Lord Orenville's
office of the arrival at Portsmouth of the Marquis ef
t Bute and his suite, accompanied by Mr. Murray, late
e Consul General in Spain, from Portugal. His lordship
s is expected in t'own this day.
Three Hamburgh mails are now due.
3 NEW-.YORK, February 10.
A severe press was going on in England for the navy,
e Several Ruffian ships of war and frigates had arrived
at the Nore.
The Spanish Ambaflador at Paris has denounced to
the minister for foreign affairs a libel primed at Bay
onne, copies ef which had been circulated through the
- whole of Spain. It contained an invitation to the peo*
pie for an infurre&ion.
Don Solano, the Spanish general who has been for
1- some time with the French armyef gen. Moreau, it
't stated to have been appointed to the command of the
n siege of Gibraltar.
o Considerable preparations were making ha Portugal
■- for the defence of that kingdom ; and the assistance to
c be given by England appears in a&ual forwardnefs.
Entered.
Ship Henrietta, Jones Cape^NichoL.Mole
v Lydia, Brown Cork
(- Franklin, AUw London