present minifleri, who have involved the country in its present calamities, and it is with mMch fathlad\:on wc hear of any cit cumftanee, likely to alleviate the indignation} because, as friends of me conftituiion, we with his majesty to be beloved and refpefled. It is now fjid, by perfor.s about the court, that the kin;; only refufed to receive the peti tion on the throne, as that was an honor to which the convnoii foun.il wag alonf enti tied, .aud that he will readily receive the peti tion of the livery at the levee, ■ As friends to his majesty we hope this is true. VV< wish his majilty would gra*t the prayer of the petition ; but for his own fake we hope he will receive it with refpeft. LONDON, Mar*h 30. The Earl of Suffolk, who on Monday lad, made a motion in the house of Lords for tjte difmiflal of Mr. Pitt, yelterday, afteda part that will diflinguifh his name in the page of history, as a meritorious man. He attended the Levee at St. James's claimed his heredi tar) right of advising the crowo, and had a private audience of his majelly, before the council commenced for near twenty minutes. The noble earl with the patriotis loyalty and zeal that in days of yore charafteiifed the Howards,laid before his rmjefty a faithful pi&ure of the dillreifts of his people ; the alarming .'late of public credit ; the injury banishing specie mull do to the trade and ; commerce and coufequently to the rcvenne of : the country ; the discontent of the people at ' the incrcafed burthens and diminilhed means of fuppori ing them, and at the abridgement of their liberties, and the plan in meditation, of governing by •* a vigor baynnd the law," j —by military force ; the precarious (late of i Ireland ; the peceflity of peace, and theim- | probability that the present miniller can conclude one. The general (late ofthe nation was very ably described by his, lordship, and he concluded by declaring, that the tran quility and welfare <sf the country, the se curity ofthe British throne, the fafety of his majedy's family, required an inflant change of men and measures. His lordfljip said the only motive for his conduft was his affe&ion for hit king and country ; he was attached to no patty, and he had no other agvantage to expefl from a change, than that which would be common to every man of property, namely—the security of that property and the peace of the nation. With fatisfaflion we add, that the king listened with a willing ear to lord Suffolk's admonitions. He owned he was sensible of the situation of affairs ; that " something rnuft be done j" and after thanking his lordship for bis advice, and exprefling how well fatisfied he was of the purity of his in tentions, the conference ceased. The Eail of Oxford also attended the Levee yeflerday. Yesterday a small open boat only about 15 feet long arrived at. Dover, navigated by three English prisoners who made their escape from France without a single fail, and having only three oars. By this conveyance we have received a tonfir,-nation of an embargo having been laid in the French ports ; and we understand it is for two months. We have been so fortunate as to get by the fame conveyance the Paris Journals up to the 24th infh from which we hawe made some interefiing extra&s. PARIS, 3 Germinal, March 23. The mod vigorous preparations are making by Moreau,for opening the campaign on the Rhine. The Primary Assemblies opened yafterday, in Paris, under the mod favorable auspices. No agitation has been manifedad io them, and the citizens, flock to them in great num bers.—Very little of Jacobinism appears among them, and their choice seems to be direfted to the bed perfons.—Perlet. MILAN, March [s. General Buonaqarte is expe&ed here be fore he goes to the Grand French Army, which General MafTena now commands, pro visionally, of which the principal force is in the vicinity of Cifmore. The Division of General Chabot, which formed the blockade of Mantua, is already arrived on the banks of the Piave. The greatest part of the reinforcements from the banks of the Rhint and the interi or of France, amounting to 23,000 have al ready atiived at the French army, which is row in a condition to carry into execution its plans against Tyrol and Friuli. Gen. Vau bois, with a half brigade, only remains in the conquered provinces of ths Ecclesiastical date. Letters from Verona, (late, that it is the intention of the French to attempt the eonqueft of Lower Cannthia, and the Bishop rick of Brixen, in order to cut off the Audian troops in the Tyrol from those in Friuli. Another French column, which will be sup ported by a floatille on the Adriatic sea, Will at the fame time advance against Friuli and Triefle. March 31. Previous to the failing of the Walfingham packet from Lisbon, a Briiifh officer arrived therefrom Porto Ferrajo, in the isle of Elba, He Rated that an account had been received there ofthe island of Corsica being in a (late ef infurteftton against the French govern ment. At Corle, and several other places, the British flag was flying, and invitations had been made for us to take pwfftflion of the island. The guillotine was adlively employed, and amonglt those who had become its vic tims was Angelo, one of the representatives who had gone to France to solicit a force to expe! |h« English from the island. .The situation of the Spanish sailors on board the prizes taken by lord Jervis, was dreadful in the extreme, from the want of every article in the medicine anJ chirurgical chitls. A British officer represents his hav ing fien one of those man whose arm had been taken off, with no other bandage than a biscuit t>ag. They have received every affifl ance from our furgeom since they have be come prisoners. A tt>V JiUXPS OF Bo|ogna Sausages, Of a superior quality, lo be Sold it No. 199, South Front-Street. ' April 90, tots PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY >VEN\N"G, MAY Failure of the Porto Rico Expe dition. KxtraA of a letter from Croix, Hated May 7. " An expedition of magnitude was formed againit Porto Kico, alvout a fortnight ago, hy tlu british admiral and general from Martinique.— 1 hey carried' with tV-m fevni-al ihips of the line, some frigates, and a great many iranfportj and small veflels. After having efFeited a landing at Caa grcjos,_ erecled batteries within gnn-i!iot cf the bridge, and bomb-irded theoutworln in the neigh borhood of St. ChriJlophers so efFe&ually as to deni-li(h the formidable batteries. They suddenly rctinquiihed tl;c enterprise, aiv' embarked last Sunday morning, after leaving-behiud their artil- j lery, ammunition, proviiions, baggage, See. &c. I T his retreat was fuddun and unexpected, and has disappointed many. T he failure of tht3 expedition cannot be ex plained fatisfadlorily, but I believe it was occa fi:>ntd by defective intelligence refpeiling the strength of the fertifications and a want of troops, as they took with then) scarcely 3000 men. The English wounded, and as many more by desertion. The Spaniards had 500 men killed in the different engagements. This buflnefs has been badly conduced on the part of the Englilh. St. Croix, May 7, '97. The President by nominating John Quincy Adams, Esq. to be minider t<» Berlin, has merely exprefled an opinion that hi« services will be more ufeful there, than at Lisbon The transfer of (ituation will iiidisputably be attended with perlonal inconvenience to Mr. Adams, and will be attended with no in creale of emolument—how gross is the fijggeliion in Bache's paper, which attributes this aft to personal confuierations ! At the late Eleftion of Members of the American Philosophical Society, held at Phi ladelphia, the following persons were duly chosen ; viz. John Heckewi!der,of Bethlehem, Pennsyl vania. John Stewart, of Green-briar County, Virginia. Samuel Blair, d d. of Philadelphia. Thomas Pi.-.ckney, of South Carolina, late Minider Plenipotentiary from the United States, to Great Britain. We hear, that a eertain J. Lamberton, a noted Democratic Member of the State Le gislature, v»as tried for, and convidledof for gery, by a druck jury, at the Court held at Carlisle the week before lad. In the Senate, on Wednesday lad, as is u sual, a committee was appointed to draft an answer to the President's speech to both hou - fes. The committee confided of Me(T. Tra cey, Sedgwick and Livermore. They re ported an answer on Friday, which under, went some discussion ; was recommitted, and two members (Meflrs. Henry and Taze added to the committee. The Senate met on Saturday to receive thefecond report which was made a little before two o'clock ; and after being read, was, on motion of the chairman, ordered tolie on the table till Mon diy. Arrived, schooner President, Robert Lil libridge, mader, 20 days from L'anfe a Veau, with whom came paffcngers Captains W. M - Betts and Btirrowes Aborn, of New-York, by which anival the following information has been received : that two days previous to the failing of capt. Lillibtidge, a fchr. from Baltimore, , Street, supercar go, bound to Petit puave, was captured by a French barge, & brought into Petit Trou ; that on the 27th ult. Mole H'ad beating N- E. distant 8 leagues, spoke the fch'.oner Farnham, from Philadelphia, bound to Petit Guave—(he had the preceding evening bren boarded by his Britannick Majdly's. cutter the Penelope, and ordered to the Mole ; the Penelope conduced her under the guns wf ihe fort, and dood off; but having left onlvone of her nten on board, the captain of the, Farnham took the advantage of the night, resumed his command and proceeded on his voyage. . At 5, P. M. Capcain Lillibiidge was boarded'by the captain of the Penelope, who treated him with civility, and after ex amining his-papers, permitted him to proceed en his passage, having informed him that an English frigate- had, the week before, given chace to the Hermione French frigate, and that ihe had been rui* alhore near Jean _Ra bel and blown up. At 6, P. M. fame day, capt. L. was Sled upon, brought to and boarded by anofficerfromthe letterof marqut (loop Mermaid, W. Thornbuiy com mander, from Jamaica, bound to Halifax ; after the usual examination of papers, &c was again permitted to proceed. The day following, being dill in company with the Mermaid, received a second (hot from her, , and was ordered to drop under her dern, and follow her ; upon capt. L. representing to capt. Thornton that he was deditute of wood and that he wiflied to anchor under the lee of Heßeauga, to get a supply, he was per mitted to haul up under the land'for that purpose, and the President and Mermaid were both brought to anchor at Meridian. Capt. Thornton detained capt. L. till the next day when he sent his boat with a number of arm ed men, took poffeilion of the President, and Ivith drawn cutlafics drove capt. L. and his paflengeis and crew into the boat, took them on board the Mermaid, and confined part of the crew in irons ; he then manned.the Pre sident with two white men and five negroes, and ordered her to follow him to Bermuda, for legal adjudication, atid that merely be caule Ihe was from a French port. Captain L. was returned back to own veflcl, previ ous to her failing, to aflill in carrying her in, and captain Abotn and Betts were also per mitted, a few days after to go on board.— On the paflage captain T. repeatedly fired upon capt. L. and when the sea was run ning very high, frequently laid the Mermaid close along fide the President, and also a thwart bows, which very much endangered the fafety of both vessels. The day of their arrival in the latitude of Bermuda, Captain T. bore away in chace of an America* brig, when capt, L. and his pafTer.gers retook the Prcfident, and altered her deftl'i gtion. Cap tain L. unwilling to believe the ridiculous and brutal conduct of capt. T. could have been diflated by his government, concludes liim to be either a madman or a fool. One of the crew fiom the letter of raatque ilia: captured the Prcfidwif, and wan-put on board is by birth »n Ameiican, from Ea!l Hsd !am, Connedlicut, and cairiis with him a ccrtifi ate of the famij, from ' lie collcdlor of Cnaiiedon, Isaac Holmes, dated 29th Oflo ber, 1796, his name is Nathan Dickinfor, and had the impudence to declare that he would swear capt % L. diddeUzie to him, that all his cargu was French property —The prize mailer, Samuel Welsh of Barbadoes declared the fame. It it almost unnectffary to add, that all the fchooneri cargo belongs to three Americans. Capt. L. alfa inform?, that the Republi cans were advancing in force again!!; the Bri tish pods in the Bite of Leogar.e ; that Ge neral Rigatid had marched to attack Jeremie, aRd its dependencies, with 8000 men ; that General Tonflaint, with an army of ?0,000 men, had inverted Port-au-Piinca, had carri ed some ef the out pods and killed and ta ken 1000 of the enemy ; and that General Buveau, who had lately met a feme repulse, was Hill carrying on his operations againfl the block-house between Poit-su Piince and I-ieogaue, with a very refpedfable foree. Capt. L. likewise adds, that the French barges continue to capture every American vessel that falls in their way, and whether their destination be to or from English or. French ports, is quite immaterial, as these plundering vagabonds invariably swear the former. The very few who may arrive fife in their ports find even there the fame plundering system pursued by the ad mini!trators, who from them what ever their own pcrfonal convenience or the exigence of the republic may require, pro miiing at the fame time, immediate payment —but those promises arc, in general, disre garded, nor has any payment been obtained! but by the moll painful facrificeof property, by giving most exorbitant fees to induce them to make good their engagements. R. LILLIBRIDGE. From the log book of the Warren. April 9, lat. 48, 17, long 1 . 16, spoke the brig Lavinia, of iNewburypoit, from Charles ton to Falmouth, out 32 days, all well.— May 10 lat. 37, 37, long. 59, fpske the ship New-Jersey, capt* Clay, out four days from hence to Canton, all well. Id the Warren came 9 paffengeis. From the log book of the brig Friend/hip, De vine, arrived here the 19th injl. from Bour deaux. Majf 7, in lat. 36, 30, long. 65, spoke the fcrig -Enterprize, Langdog, of Ports mouth, put 45 days from Bourdeaux to Gua daloupe, all well. The (hip Keniington, Kerr, of this port rom India, was at Hamburgh the 25th of Marchi had discharged her cargo, and was (hortly to proceed to England, PRICES OF STOCKS. P HILAVKLVHIA, MAT 2 2. % per Cent. 16/10 Deferred 6 per Cent. 12/9 a 13/ S{ pet Cent. per Cant. 3perC«nt. I<y3 a 6 BANK SHARES. Bank United States, 18 a 20 per cent, advance. Pennsylvania, 25 North America, 47 £ 53- IXSURANCjE COMPANY SHARES. I. C. of N. A. 3S »37 4 P er cent, advance. Pcnnfylvania, at par. Extract of a letter from Salem (Mass) May 16th, 1797. " I have the fatisfadlion to inform you that I this day received letters from Mr. Bayard and Mr. Cabot, who forward me two awards, one of X.460 flerling with interest from the 14th August 179.;, as compensation for the loss and amages sustained by the capture of the schoo ner Polly, John Shillaber, mailer, who you remember wis taken and carried into Bermuda, and there tried and cleared. The other for £.600, with interest from ' 24th May, 1794, as eompenfation for the loss and damages sus tained by the capture of the schooner Polly, Nathaniel Knight, rnafter, who was carried into Jamaica, and there tried and cleared. Capt. John Barr has also an award for the capture of his schooner Neptune, of £.440 lleriing, which was taken at the time captain Shillaber was at Bermuda and cleared. 111 order that you may have a full under anding of the adjudment of these cases, I nclole you a copy of one of the awards. This day capt. John Bickford, in Mr. Gray's •Vip, arrived from Calcutta, and capt. Orne's liark, John Ropes, arrived on Sunday last." By this clay's iVlail. NEW YORK, May 20. NEW-YORK, May 20. Th« follawing is a copy of an award of the commiflioners on American claims in London, in a single cafe of a vessel belonging to New- Haven. Communicated for the Minerva. Jan. 14. We award four thouflind, fix hun dred and fifty-eight dollars, American curren cy, with interest thereon, at five percent, from the firft of January, 1794, in compensation of the loss and damage fultained by the capture. Wm. SCOT', John Nicoll. London, Feb. 12. To Gentlemen, I have the pleafiire to fend yoji the above co py of an award in your favor, by the gentle men, to whom, by an arrangement between the government of the United States and Great Britain, cases of cods and damages have #ceii referred for a m»re early settlement, than could be had by way of appeal. By the earliest con veyance after the sum awarded you, has been paid, and the amount of cods to be deduiled trom it has been afctftained, you (hall hear from mc, and be authorised to draw for the balance. Your obedient servant, Samuel Bayard. ExtraA nf a letter from a gentleman ar St. Pierre, (Martiniqut) to his correspondents in this city, dated April 23. " The last armupeot that ltft here is new at * St. Cliriftophers, but the general ;nd admiral mfafures are kept lb close, thjt it is impofiibie for any perl" n to tell their |deftinatio» ; tbrer clays af.er the armament failed,'a lived a .othe. fqr.adrc.n-from England, aiih 4100 rne.i o board, whicb come very opportune y, as the ill and was pretty well drained of men. Our cruizers t.re very vigilant in these ftas, as French ! privateer* are fending into the Jiff-rent ifl.mds almoit every day ; there are thr-e Aiuecicans here now that were 'aken hy t|ie Frem.li and re taken by the English, which are cleared by pay ing an eighth salvage. BOSTON, May tf. Capt. Blsurt, arrived here yeflerday from St. Ul>es, fabout 15 miles from Li(bon,J informs, that admiral Jarvis's fleet -were thtn lying ar Liibun, repairing, and imprcfling men ; and that it was the report at St. Üb<», that the Santiflima Trinid id o£. 130 guns, funk after the a<3ion of 14th Feb. going into Cadiz. It is the London accounts of iVarch, 31 (by no means so late as capt. Blount) which mention the arrival cf thisimmenfe floating fortreli . » Algtziras. By capt. Hinkley, from Hamburgh, arrived yesterday, our accounts a-.id letters are to April '6.—Wc have nosonfinnationof the reinvitation of Mr Pinckney to France ; nor was theafp<*sl of affairs more sombre than usual. Mercantile confidence was not impaired ; nor a quarril between the United Stales and France contem plated. Our Liverpool accounts by yeflcrdav's arriv al were on!y to April 3 —no more recent than by capt. Davis. A Hamburgh price-current of March 28th dates, the premium of insurance from thence to a port in the United States, at from 5 to 6 per cent. Captain Williams ef Conne&icrvt, whom we lately mentioned as commanding a French privateer out of Guadaloupe, very narrowly escaped the twigging, which such privateers men deserve. His vessel has been taken ; and he made his escape it) the boat. GAZETTE MARINE LIST. Pout of Philadelphia. ARRIVED. Brig Packet, Strong, Charleston 8 Sloop Sally, Watts, Havannah 16 Schr. Ramble, White, N. Carolina 3 ' • Betsy, Dougall, Ditto 10 Polly, Wefcot, Ditto 10 Baltimore, May 19. Yederday arrived, snow Hannah, capt. Ea fton, ao days from St. Bartholomews. Left there—ship Cecilia, Andrews, of Rof ton, schooner Stephenfon, of Wilmington, Del. schooner Little Tom, Dennis, of Portsmouth Virg. April 29, was boarded by a French privateer, the captain of which overhauled his papers, detaining him half an hour, treated him po litely and dismissed him. The privateer had ' captured the brig William, of Wifcaffet, — from Demar.tra, bound home, and sent her for St. Martins. The brig Polly, of Portland, (Mass.) wa» lying at St. Bartholomews, (he had been captured in January lad, by a French privateer, on her passage from some part of En gland to Norfolk, and sent in there ; the go vernor of that island had seized on her as neu tral property, brought into a neutral port. — Captain Eaßon brought with him the letter bag, with some other articles, and two elegant stud horses, which were on board of the above ship. Captain E. saw four British frigates, about 4 leagues inside the Capes, who fired eight (hot at bim.bnt were not near enough to reach him. Yederday arrived the snip Hampton, Capt. Stafford, in 50 days from Hamburg.—April 7, lat. 48, a, long. 7, o, well, was chafed fix hours by an armed (loop. April 10, lat. 45, j 29, was chafed five hours by an armed (hip, took her to Ik French ; April Z4, lat. 41, 57, long. 40, o, spoke the Clip IncWtan, Indiaimn, from Port-au-Prince, danding to the ealtward, full of troops - ten fail of vessels were in com pany with the Indoftan. April 26, lit. 38, 38, '® n S- S7> °> spoke a (hip from Norfolk bound to Bremen.—April 30, ipoke the brig Beifey, captain Norton, 25 days from North-Carolina, bound to Hamburgh. Left at Hamburgh (hip , Dafhiel, Balti more, to fail in two wteks - the (hip , cap tain Moore, failed two weeks before captain Stafford. Also arrived, ship Aurora, Brantz, 15 days fr»m Cape-Nichoh-Mole.—The brig Dolphin, of Savannah, and schooner Thetis, of tJa'.ti mere, were taken out of the c»nvoy by armed boats on the 20th of April ; the brig was ran on (bore on the Platform and plundered;— schooner Hope, Kean, arrived at the Mole the 28th April. Norfolk, May 13. Extradl of a letter from Jean Rabel, to mer cantile gentlemen in this tows, dated April 24. " 1 v/ifh you would have the following few lin«9 published in the nevrfp;-* ers through out the United States,forewarning all mallets and mates not to sign any paper or writing whatever if they are captured by French pri vateers, as by so doing they very often (igr. their own condemnation. On tliurfday arrived here the brig Norfolk, t 1 days from the Havanna ; informs, that the Governor of the Havanna has tfftied an order to allow no more Atneiican vefftls to enter that harbour coming from an enemy' 9 port. An Ameiican (loop from Jamaica ar rived off the Moro Castle with a caigo of slaves, on the 22d of April; they would not allow her to enter the harbour nor anchor on the outside : the capt. being In want of wa ter and provisions, requelled permifllon to go on shore in his boat and acquaint the mer chant to whom he was addressed (Mr. Fra. zcr) with his situation ; this was alio refufed, and the next day the (loop was captured üb der the guns of Moro Castle by a Ftench privateer, carried into the Havanna, and the Capt. robbed of 2000 dollais, his books and quadrant. THIS DAY PUBLISHED THE second edition of the Auiora in 1794- —The variations to suit the circum ftancci of the present day are trifling indeed N. B. The viewj of the proprietors art the fame. The Subscriber, Determined to retire from bufinefi, invites all who have any no:e, bill, bond or acceptance of his, now due, to call for payment ; and those who wish to anticipate may receive the money at a reasonable difeoui"* JAMBS SWAN. May 22. <i2W. DorJieft.-r, ocarßoftoa, 16th May 1797. No American prizes, hare as ye', been "ondrcnued «t the Havanna ; bin they arc l"fTered to lay there and sre ftiipped of their ai, J maten'jls. Two French privateers werecruifing w/'th io two' or three leagues of the Moro, and one under the guns of that Caltle, wi:h the avowed determination to capture all Ameri •an, vessels that had been to Eritifh ports lince they left America, The fr.ow BolWn, >apt. Daugherty, failed tor Philadelphia in i inpany with capt. Rey* .uilds—parted with her ofT Florida on the 4'h inft. Capt. Manning, formerly matter oT the fhip«Unio4i, of Norfolk, V.is entered as fee ond lieutenant on board a French privateer. Capt. Reynolds was embargoed for 14 days before his departure. New York, Mat io. ARRIVED. DATS. Ship Cygnet, , Hamburgh 50 Brig Jihza, Tewnfend, Salem 4 Boston, Mat 17. ABRirED. Ships Minerva, Hinkley, Hamburgh ; Mi rier va, Eidridge, Bristol ; Miierva, Turner, London ; Charles, Blouat, St. Übes ; brigs In dbftry, Bagley Liverpool ; Juno, Atkins, Rot terdam ; William, Bradford, Havannah ; fchr. Friendship, Mart. Capt Keefe, of the fhx p Fortitude, from Mar tinique, has entered a protcft before Mr. Jufties Barrett, that on the 12th iutr. he tell in with a iifhing boat in the bay, which he hailed and re queued rite feipper to exchange a fifli for feme pork ; wlr.i-ti he confcnted to. Previous to hail ing, capt. K. told the man at helm to keep up near the boat, hut to be careful not to run her down; the peopl: ih the boat feeing the fliip come near them,called to put the helm up,which the man at helm mistook tor capt. IC's ordei t, and complying therewith unhappily ran the boat down. Every effort was used to lave the men —the (hip was hove too, and the boat hoifled out immediately, and rowed to windward, where the men were supposed to be, hut two of them were unfortunately loft, and only one far ed. The names of the two unhappy men 1011, were James Atkins and fames Jones, belonging to Cape Ann. C»pt. Keeft feels the highest e motions of regret at the unhappy event ; and sincerely condoles with the families which have met the unfortunate <y!araity. £ Anelucidation of the report refpecling rec booters at hand," infertei in our lafiJ\ Arrived at Kennebusk May 7, schooner Co lumbus, B. Mason, niafter, 26 dayj from St. Vin cents —left there no American veflcls—failed in company with (loop Claiiffa, Berkley, of Wea thersfield, (Con.) parted with her in lat. 20. In lit. 29, long. 30, sapt. M. was boarded by a French privateer, who detained him fix hours, and " fraternized" him out of aboHt Go gallon* of rum, one bbl. sugar, one bag coffee, 2 fire locks, and a number ot velTels tools and papers. The privateerfmen said they would haue carried him in, if they had found property enough on board worth their attention. They brought fire from the privateer, ordered the boy to kindle it in the caboose said they were a going to burn the vessel, and ordered the crew to put their things on board the boat, and convey them to the privateer. One of the privateerfmen then carried a fire brand to mart head, another took one into the cabin, while a third conveyed one into the steerage ; but, on capt. M's declaring that he had no money, and rcfuiing to quit his veffsi, they defined and permitted liim to pro ceed. " Our ilties the French area -very polite nation J" On Sunday arrived at Salem, capt. Rope* in a barque from Calcutta. Onbei passage, in the W. India latitudes, was brought to by a French privateer, and eoramanded on board with his papers—When 4 men from thejßepublican veffd were sent to the barque. Capt. Ropes difcovetincr that the privateer had fcui few men on board ( having been weak ened by manning other prizes) and they in-' tended to eapture his vessel, he hailed her, and commanded the mate and crew to confine the privateerfmen who were on board, and use a few carriage guns they had |un board, to keep the privateer off. After a few inef fe&ual attempsn to 1 educe the American, the I'renchman at length came to terms—agree ing to put capt. R. in poffeflion of his vessel if lie would ii.sure the return of the 4 priva teerfmen. This was. readily canfented to, and capt. R. got on board, and purfacd the remainder of his paffaee in fafety Richard Bayley Qs? Co. Late John Whitesides & Co. No. 136 MarketJireet % HAVE received per the (hips William Pcnn and Star from London, a large andfaflnonablc aT fortment of the following articles : viz. Chintzes, and printed Cottons, of the newest patterns Furniture Dimities and Chistzes Ginghams, plain and figured, Muilins, printed and embroider'd Do. tamtour'd, plai*, check and ftrip'd Do tamboured, of a very superior quality Fine Book, Jaconet z\id Dccca Handkerchiefs Dimities and muflinets Damalk table-linen, ia setts and in the piece Diaper ditto in Cloths and in ditto Holland and RufCa Sheetings Loop'd Hollands and Irifli Linens Long Lawns and Cambrics Sattins and Silks, plain and figured Ribbons and Gloves Crapes and Gauzes Straw, Chip, and Paper Hats and Bonnets, new Shapes A Fancy trimmings, &c. With a variety of articles in the Linen-Drapery and Haberdashery line. May 22 §i©t This Day is published, By THOMAS DOBSOW, At the Stone House, No. 41 south Second-ftrcet, Price 37 i-i cents, 1 wo LeHures on Combujl'ton, QUpolemei tatyto a courfeof Le&urci ooCHE- O MISTRY ; containing an Examination of Dr. Prieftlcy's Confident ions on the Do&rine of Phlo giston, and the accotnpnfitioß of Water, Ky JOHN MACLEAN, Profcffor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the College of New-Jersey. May_2j mwfip Advertiiement. To be fold ut private sale, A LIKELY strong bay HORSE, $ year* old, fit for tliefaddle. Also, a likely full blooded MAKE, 4 years old, ruijs wtll, aHd.is now fit for the path—They are lately from Vir ginia, and may be seen at the ftafc'.cs of Jarcss M'Cawley, No. 45 in Cherry alley. Any per son dcfirousto buy either or both, mufl apply to the owner, at Mr. Valley's corner cf Cherry - alley and Fourth-f.reet. May 2». 3t
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