(ci>rcui>ar.) I
GENERAL OkbERS.
Philadelphia > At/gtijl tg, i
IN Konfot-mity to the Aft of Congress of
June 24th, containing a tequifition
of the mihtfa of this state (officers included)
and in obedience to the commands of the
ifSdrrefntfr relative thereto, you are hereby
o.deredto hold in readiness to tharch at a
moment's warning, eight hundred and seven
teen militia, ftom your brigade and to make
4 me returns of your progress therein as fpeedi-
Jy as pcffihle.
By order of the Commander In Chief,
JOS. HARMAR, Adj. Gen.
To Lewis Nicholas
Brigade Infpeflor for the Ci- >•
ty of Philadelphial J
Post Officii, September sth, 1797.■
Cj* The Post Office will be removed
morrow at 3 o'clock, P. M. to Mr. Dun
lap's Coach house, 12 th street, between Mar
ket ar.d Chefnut street, where merchants and'
t others will pieafe to fend for their letters, as
the letter carriers during the continuance of
the present prevailing sickness will not he
sent out,
The Health-Office
tS removed to the City-Hall, aucf is kept open
flight and day, where pcrfons having bufin-fs may
apply. Wm . ALLEN, Health-Officer.
■>cpt. 4. ,dtf
' NOTICE. r
THE Offices of the Department of War are for
tfce present removed ntar to the Fatls of the Scdyl
kii), on the Ridge Road.
September 4. dtf
V\ anted,
APerfon to attend an Office, and a 5 *s a foef
fenger. He must be well acquainted with
the city, and bring unexceptionable recommenda
tioni. Inquire of thp Ptinter.
Sept. C ' IW
Imported in the iateit arrivals from
Amflerdam and Hamburg, and forfait by
B. W J. Bohlen,
A large assortment »f fine French ( Cambrics.,
Platillas KufTia sndDutch fail cloth
Bnttannias *" Writing, post, and print-
Rousnes ing paper
Brown Holland Dutch calf skins
Checks and (Iripes Prime madder
Ticklenburgs Shell'd Barley
Oztiahurgs Looking glalfes
Vv hite (heetings Hollow glass ware
I9iaper Slates
Brown ro'l3 Coffee mills
tTmbrillas Brass kettles
Hair ribbons Scythes and straw knives
Black and white laces Tovsaflorted in boxes
Btft Holland Gkn in pipes
Londcn particular Madeira Wine
July t4■ m&thtf
TO"BE SOLD;
And immediate poffeffmn given,
A Convenient well finifhed Brick Tenement,
with a cook house and other out houfes.fitu
atcd in a pleasant part of the borough of Wilminp
ton, in the State of Delawsre—The lot of ground
has forty feet front or Vfeft-flrret, and extends
through the fquarp to Padore-ftreet, on which it
ert jtcJ a flable and carriage honfe.
ALLEN M'LANE.
>|'ilmington, Aug. <O.
eicgant Iloufe in Arch Street.
TO be let and entered on immediately a large
and house at the Corner of Arch and
Ninth Street. There are two drawing Moms
a.idene dining rooqv— the largest is 31 feet by
it —and two are so connected by folding doors
as to make but one. Also, five bed rooms, be
fjdes 5 in the garret, well finifhed for
There are stables and a coach house, with evry
convenience for a family. Enquire at No. it),
in North Seventh street, or at No. ail, Arch
Street;
s^wjw.
Red Port Wine.
Just arrived, by the brig Iris, capt Rhodes, from
, Oporto,
Jted Port Wine in pipes,hhds. and quarter eaflM
4k. cwt. Cork, for sale by
Philips, Gramond, & Co.
July at., ' 5_
Philadelphia, l}thjuly, 179?.
NOTICE is hereby given, that separate pro
pofals withfealed covers will be received
at my office until the elevenfh day of September
next, to fumifh by contrail the following ar
ticles for the' use of the Army of the United
States in the year 1798- f
First Coiuradt for
8 Sergeants coats J
' 1 Musicians, do.
10 Sergeants vests Dragoons.
116 Privates eoats
116 Privates vests
64 Serjeants coats
32 Musicians, do.
Sergeants vests
191 Woolen overalls ArtiHerifts
192 Linen overalls , &
936' Privates coats Engineer*.
936 do. v#fts
, 1871 Woolen overalls
187 a Linen do. {
144 Sergeants coats
72 Musicians, do.
»i 6 Sergeants veils N
432 Linen overalls
432 Wooleti do. * Infantry.
189S
1 1892 do. vests
3784 Woolen overalls
3784 Linen do.
lit ContraSl, f«r 1288 Sergeants shirts
x 1816 Privates do.
12600 Socks
ad Contrafl, for '272 pair leather breeches ,
Sd for 272 pair boots
4600 No. 1
8000 pair do. No. 2
4tl> Contract, for 1032 Artilleries and Engi
neers hate 1
2108 Infantry do.
136 Dragoon caps
The tfhole to be delivered at the city of Phils- ,
delphia, viz. ,
One faurtb on or before the 13th diy el Fe
bruary next.
One fourth on or before the 13th day of A
)»ril next. 1
The remaining half on or before the ijtliday 1
of June next. . < It
The article" are to be agreeable t« such pat- ,
ferns as shall be direfird by the Secretary for the j
Department of War.
Payments to be made as f »on as the article J
ftull be delivered, and pasTed infpeiT.ion. 1 '
7'KNCH FRANCIS, Purveyor. 1
eotuihSep. - , '
■so)e dSajette.
———
PHILADELPHIA,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, September 6.
Lift of all the Burials in the fcveral Grave-
Tards of the City and Liberties of Phila
delphia, as taken from the looks kept by
Clergymen, Sextons, &c.
From Monday noon till Tuesday noon.
- m
Knme of Burial Ground. cj
.. Chcift Church ' r o
St. Peter's -i' o l
St Paul's i o
First Prelbyterian o o
Second Prefbyteri.in o o
Third Presbyterian o I
Scotch p resbyterian o o
AfTociatc Church c 0
St. Mary's Chapel I o
Trinity Church sco
Friends , o o
" Free Quakers o 0
' Swedes o o
> German Lutheran o o
F German CalvinilU o o
; Moravians I o
Baptifte o i
- ■ Methodists o °
Univerfalift* o 0
i Jews i 0 o
Potter's Field I o
City Hospital burying ground* 6 °
Kensington i o
Coates's © o
Total for the last 24 hours. ra 3
* Three of these were from the city.
The Commissioners appointed by thi
. Governor, to carry into effeiS the law for
alleviating the distress of the Citizen* of Phi
ladelphia, and the suburbs thereof; inform
their fellow-citizens, that they have attend
ed to their appointment, and now invite
them to recommend in writing, signed by
one or .more reputable inhabitant, such of
the indigent as may come to their know
ledge, who will be a flirted as they may stand
in need, by applying at the State-House,
from 3 to 5 o'clock, on the 6th inft. and
every feeond, fourth and sixth days of the
week, called Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday, at the fame hours, while neceflary ;
and those who want employ, may likewise
apply as above, or to either of thp commis
sioners at their dwellings.
Commissioners for the city.
Robert Wharton, S. lhird-ftreet, No. 135.
George Krebs, N. Fifth-flreet, No. 17.
John James, ditto No. 18.
Israel Israel, corner of Chefnut & Third St.
Thomas Savery, N. Fifth-ftreet, No. 20.
Edward Garrigues, Cherry-street, No. 39.
Commissioners for the Northern Liberties.
Samuel Wheeler, Vine-street, No. 99.
John Wagner, Noble-street.
George lnglis, New Market-street..
Commissioners for Southwark.
Samuel Church, corner South & Water St.
William Lennnrd, South Second-street.
Robert M'Mullen, Swanfon-ftreet.
* Philadelphia, September 5, 1797.
From the Tint PlBCt.
" According to English papers, Thomas
Paine, Hamilton fipwan, and James Nap
per Tandy were an in Paris on the 4th of
Julyiaft. The paragraphifts appear to ap
prehend something from the junction of
this trio ; convinced, perhaps, that the uni
ted force of these three honefl men in any
country are more than equal to the nefarious
machinations of all the knaves in the Uni
verse."
[As jacobinism has long been the sole paflport to
hooefty, in the opinion of Sintthefe may be
with him, three eminently ioittjl men. Though by
his italitifing this very delicate word, it may
be that he defigneda slur upon these poor patriots,
and 1 have mistaken bis meaning. Not that there
can be any doubts of the eenfummatc honefly of
all patriots. Freneau is doubtlcfs an bonefl man. so
is Bache, so are they all, all btnefi men. Every
man who seeks to fubflitute his own fyftcm, in op
position to the opinion of millions, for the already
established form, which they are attached to, is an
honed man and a good patriot! But some people
who are in more nice and scrupulous habits than
Mr. Freneaa, on thi» poipt, will require other
qualifications than a pretended patriotism, for a
paiTport to their good opinion.
A curious lapfu in the above, deserves to be no-'
ticed . The latter part of the paragraph would
have been fufficiently reconcileable with his own
tenets, if he had applied it to England—But take
it as it flands, and it contains a clear inference, that
his three bomji men are in a land where all the
knaves in the universe arc collected. Unhappily
this is not true.] . •
POLITICAL REFLECTIONS.
When the eye wonders back into the his
tory of mankind, and beholds with what
savage fer»»ity the nations of the earth have,
from the earheft of times, wafted ant} de
stroyed each other; when we observe the
sanguinary commptions of the present day,
and fee Europe, the mod civilized quarter
of the globe, drenched in tears and in blood
we are almost induced to credit the opinion
of Hobbes, that a state of war it the natur
al condition of mankind,
Let us firft, however, in*rrogate the
heart of man; let his faculties be analysed;
let it be enquired how far he is the creature
of education and of moral difciph'ne, before
we pronounce that natural, which be
charged to the imperfection of political in
stitution and positive laws. It will be found,
on a closer examination, that peace and not
war, is the natural state of man. The lat
ter, as may be demonftratcd from the records
of all ages, is the disease of society, genera
ted by the ambition of power and the lust of
dominion.
Amctfcans ! study tlje arts of peace. A
void as much as possible, any interference
with the politicks of Europe.—Beware of
the evil which so long has distorted the vari
ous government oftkeearth; and give lia
bility to the principles which fofter the hap- ]
pinefs and prosperity of fociat beings. Your 1
situation is truly critical. View the esifc of :
war. Deliberate wejl before ycnl tr.ake fi)e 1
last tremecdi«u3 appeal of society. On yenr 1
government the hopes a:id the tears of man
kind have alighted. With fe\y exceptions,
indeed, it is built, on principles that are de
duced from the fitnels of things. Its dura
tion or its decline will prove to the world
the strength and virtue, or the corruptibility
and wcakncfs, of the human character.
SPANISH TF..
PHILIP the Third, \iv\x\v gravelyfeated—asSpan
iards generally are, by a chimney where the fire
maker of the couit had kindled so grcata quantity of
wood that the monarch wis nearly fuffoc.ited with
heat, his grandeur would not fuflfer him to.rifc from
his chair; and the domed ics could not jirrfume to
enter the apartment, because it was against the
etiquette. At length the Mtrqwia DePotat ap
> peared, and tne King ordered him to damp, the
fire: blit he ejtcufed hirnfelf} —alledging, that he
) was forbidden hy the ETicyjtTTr to perform such
) a funilion, for which the Duke B'Ufle ia ought to
> ought to he called, as it was hie business. The
; Duke wJs gone eut ; the Jire burnt fiercer ; and
3 the-AVnjr endured it, rather than derogate Iromhis
j dignity. But hii falood was heated to such a degree,
5 tKat an eryftpelas broke out in his head the next
3 day; whkh being fucceederl by a violent fever,
3 carried him off in i6ar, atihe age of 24. Well
3 might our Engli(h satirist exclaim—
} " Spain gives us hmde, and Spain to all theea'rth
j " May largely give, nor fcsl herfelf a dearth !"
? CburcLill.
t OTWAY, a well known English dramatic wri
-3 ter, (asthe sailors fay) was generally kept (leering
3 upon a wind. He for a little time lived in a soli-
tary house in a place called East-Cheap, at that
3 time near, now in London. His plays did afford
him a nariow fubfillence. One night two or three
thieves broke into his houfc, under an idea that
> the man ifouft have great riche», who was lb much
> talked of as the author of " The Orphan/* He
treated them with complaisance, them
[ empty trunks and bare walls, adding, I wonder
nentlemefi robber!, what you expet7 to Jind in my haufe in
the night, when, by my foul, I can find nothing in it
•nyfelf in the day time,
An Irish schoolmaster, a great enemy to idle
ness, thinking the old copy. " Laziness will doathe
a min with rag 3," not correct, Altered
1 it, and gave it to onecf hisfeholars thus:—Lazi
neli will I loathe a ska# with naledneft,"
SAVAGB ANECDOTE.
: Ftom Mifi William') Letter/.
" A peasant ol d'Achicourt, a village near Ar
ras, came to fell butter in the town. As (he walk
ed along the streets. (he met a cart filled with vic
, tims who were going to execution.—" Vojla," said
this poor creature with naivete, " voila des gens
qui meurent pour bien peu dc chose !"* She was
indartly leized and led to the tribunal of Lebon.
During hor trial (he held in her r.rms her infant of
three months old, whom Ike futkled. When (he
heard ker sentence of death, «« Quoi!" said flu,
" quoi, pourun mot qurj'aidit, vous allex feparer
l'cnfant d'avec la mere ?"f Wlicn (be received the
fatal stroke, the dream of maternal nouriftimcnt
i*lued rapiJly from her bosom, knd, minjlingwith
her Mood, bathed her executioner."
* " Thrift people they die for very little"
f " What ! for one 'word I said, will you pari the
ebili and ks mother •
From the N. T. Daily Gaxelte.
Mejfrs. M'J.ean Iff Lang t
As the attainment of an end depends much
upon the means made use of, the friends of
civil liberty throughout the world have
great reason to fear that the monsters who
have adted in the name of liberty for nearly
eight years,' and have deluged France with
blood and committed the most (hocking out
rages on humanity, will have left such an
imprefiion of (hame, horror and vengeance
C!t the minds bf the French nation, as to
make t'be» throw themselves ifcto the arms
of perhaps <leipotf£u itfelf, to evince to the
wofld that they had no participation in the
revolutionary crimes which ha7<? left an in
delible stain on the national charaftef. To
every person acquainted with the paflions of
men and the history of past ages, it is evident
that anarchy, carnage, and civil diffentions
await France immediately on the event of a
general peace, when the public mind no
longer occupied with foreign war, will turn
its thoughts within, and fee and feel the ef
fects of the devastations committed on reli
gion, commerce, manufactures, property and
morals, by men profefllng to be the apostles
of liberty and a£ting in her name. The
deadly hatred and animolity which the dif
ferent faftions will feel towards each other,
will be produ&ive of the most dreadful anar
chy, and taking "the, history of past ages
for a datnm; it is not improbable that, tired
of the horrors of civil discord, and anxious to
rescue the national charadter from the odium
cast upon It by the sanguinary men who
have condudted the revolution—they will
seek for repose and national honor in the
arms of any chief who poflelTes their confi
dence. The abhorrence ofVthe French na
tion against the men who have carried on
therevolution,is increased by French writers,
who daily iiTue pamphlets reciting the hor
rid reign of the men of blood ; the tenden
cy of these writings in exciting detestation
of the men, will be to excite detestation of
their meafures-*-the event mull be obvious.
The following horrid pidturc ii set before
the eyes of the French nation, by the elegant
author of " The crimes committed during
the French Revolution." vol. I, page 72, a
work just publiftied at Parjs. Translated for
this Gazette.
" Ah ! behold the horrid pi&ure which
discloses itfelf to our view ! fee this land
strewed over with bloody carcafrs—torn to
pieces, mutilated, beheaded ; these heaps of
bones, of limbs, of heads—ghastly barrier—
which eur crimes have raised between nature
and us : hear the doleful cries of the ghosts
of our vidtims, re-echo in the woods, in the
fields, and in the cities ; rife up from the
bottom of the sets,, frpm the bosom of riv
ers, from the bowels of the earth, and with
their mournful and revengeful accents im
plore the too dilatory thunder to fall on our
criminal heads. See the dead bodies of
those cnildrcn rc-a'nimated, rife ou the
breads offhfir drowned mothers, and ftretch
mg out their arms to us, Hammering ex
claim, " it is through you that we are or
phans." See them follow us, and in their
broken Ikulls, present to our burning lips,
the innocent blood we have died.' See those
bodies deprived of heads, press towards us,
cling round us with their arms, like so many
serpents, pull tis dotVn, roll us in the bloody
mire where our horrid impiety aba'ndoned
without th« rites of iepulttire and de
cency. There, a head, stripped from the
reft of the body, rolls before us, bites at us,
muttering these words : " Butchering Le
gislators, what have you dim* with my bo
dy and limbs ? Whyhavayou thus murder
ed and separated us ? If yr a could
blood only quench your; thiril ?" Farther,
some arms, (hot off by our orders cling
round 11s, and by their menacing gestures,
excite the furies to torment us. Still far
ther, the genius of remorse, with a torch in
his hand, writes in letters of blood on tlie
sand : France, in naming a Convention, has
produced a movjler which males nature Jhudder.
Ah ! which of us will gue a mortal stab to
those people who continually hover about
us and a e forever befort our eyes ( tkey
make the earth appear barren and comfort
lefs to us, they rob us of the light of hea
ven, they co'ver the high roads, they darken
and render more glooniy even the forefts ;
they are round about us—they are near us ;
they are far from us." " Let us appeal to
fadts."
" Will posterity believe that France, that
the firft people in the universe, should have
had a senate, which, during three years,
fanftioned all forts of crimes ; a
which, during 18 months, saw coldly, cart
loads of victims roll towards the fcaffolds !
Will our defcendents believe that it was
to all the cries of innocence, that some of
these fenntors went from choice to dine in
view of the places of puni(hment,*that the
disgusting afpett of revolutionary murders
was the prelude to the pleasures of the table,
that the fail of the aftaflin's cleaver was Aie
signal for beginning their orgies, that some
of those conscript fathers saw their broth
ers in the hands of the executioners and
never took a single step to save them ; o
thers who signalized themselves by denounc
ing them ; others, in fine, who delivered
them up to death with their own hands ;
that gambling and plays finifhed the day,
that their bosom companions were the judg
es and jury of the tribunals of -blood, rob
bers, spies, and the fans culotte Sultans of
the revolutionary committees, and to carry
our national shame to the highelFpitch, the
members of the commune were vile enough
to be the horrid engines of the mo'ft horrid
senate t]jst ever difgrpced the annals of hu
manity."
" Will posterity believe, that those pro
consuls, those Angels of death, whom sena
torial Tartarus vomited on France, were
ftnt to rob, violate, guillotine, drown, e
goi'ge, (hoot, demolilh yet this was their
million, the deftruftion of the human race
did not even fatisfy their rage ; \jhen men
were not to be found, they destroyed works
of arts—the noblest monuments of human
ingenuity. Towns disappeared under the
stroke of the axe—flames effaced cities. O
posterity ! you will withhold your belief of
it! listen then, and tremble.
» The lame? of some of those procon- I
fills, you will find in the history, we (hall
leave you ; your aftonidied eyes will there
fee pieces, the authentic witnesseS of faCls
which we fnall only hint at here ; some of
those proconsuls killed with their own
hands the prisoners who made any com
plaints ; some covered with the dress of Re
presentatives of the People, mounting the
fcaffolds to harrangue x the unfortunate vic
tims about to die ; some cruelly, dragged
out women to be fpe&ators of the unjult
massacre of their hufbagtis; some threatened
to punish health officers, for having afford
ed medical afliftance to unhappy prisoners."
" Others caused citizens to be dragged
before tribunals or popular commissioners,
and said to the judges, " Condemn them,
or the fcaffold awaits you." Three judges
and one jurrie (or juryman) of the revolu
tionary tribunal of Paris, of the firft organi
zation, were torn to pieces, for wilhing to
acquit fgmeaccufed persons."
" Others {topped men and women in'the
streets, whose looks difplcafed them, caufetl
them to be brought before the tribunals,
where men hired by them for the purpose
as witnesses, appeared against them, the 1
judges were forced to pass fenterjee." * 1
" Another wrote to the authority of the
department of the Sommt where he was in ;
million, as well as to the committee of ge- 1
neral fafety of the convention :—" I have i
spread my large net to take all my guil- 1
LpTiNE game—l have finilhed loading for- 1
ty-four cart loads." (
" This proconsul iflued mandates of ar- 1
reflation against young women and girls, 1
and kept them in his apartment." i
" Others placed themselves at the win- c
dovvs in light of the fcaffold, demoli(hed the 1
buildings which might intercept the prof- j
pe£l, and there calmly tifted the horrid plea- s
sure of feeing rivers /of innocent blood f
spilt." r
" A woman dared to ask of one of th»fe j
monsters the liberation of herhufband—To- \
morrow, answered he, you will fee his head 1
on one fide of the guillotine and his body on a
the other. He was as good as hi 3 word." c
" Another obliged a young and beautiful a
w6man, who folicired the liberty of her 1
hu(band, to grant him some favors. The 1
great affection (he had for her husband, de- '
termiued her to the facnfice of her honor— h
(he inflantly flew to the prison to acquaint b
him ; that he was no more a prisoner,- telling I
him in confidence of the facrifice (he had e
made to obtain his liberty - Some days after, n
this proconsul guillotined the hulband, and a
even the wife."
" Another saw a girl in tears, imploring
at his feet, the suspension of the judgment, J
of her father ; tears aud prayers are of no .
avail; the proconsul kicks her from him, f
and tears her petition. Diftradted by grief' d
some expreflions escape her ; he had her ar- g
rcfted and dragged before the revolutionary «
tribunal of Paris—She was seven months t!
pregnant, when guillotined."' a
" Another, at the issue of an orgie, wilh- a
ed to fee a fh'r.v ; the judges were at the f;
feaft ; four prieltsand four nuns were drawn c
out of the dungeons, they appeared, were e
condemned and pcri(hc.d, after which the' si
guests put themselves at table again." • a:
Auother parodying the faying of Ti* h
" tui, said, " Lihfcrtjr his L.l * u no oiitfO—l
, has been guillotined." -
" Another bniijgtit up and
- guillotined an old man of So fmp, father
- of twelve children, under a pretext of hit
1 having monopolized the offices of mayor'and
,of judge of the peace. The'true motive wai
r an old personal referitmerit."
, " There is irr.t wheat enbugh in France
- for all the population, ftid another it is
•i neeeflary to facriirce half to nourish the re
e mainder.-—Above all, we ought to destroy
j- the women,. they breed too fall."
" Another burnt whole communes, and
3 guillotined part of the inhabitants."
t " Theft efcortcd by cannon, raised con
r tributibns to pay the debauches they were
• guilty of with the pretorian guards, and
- granted only four hours to funiift the sum
l demanded."
; ~ " These took to themselves the most beau
; tiful palaces in the cities where they (laid *
> affefting t,he pomp and - ease of kings; and
while the people overrun the court yards of
t tiieir palaces to wait their presence and
- bread, they indolently reclined on fophas in
, the interior of their seraglios, glowly occu
> PV'ng themselves with the important bufi
t ness of getting their likenefTes taken. 'The
! fa& took place at Bourdeaux."
f Instances of more {hooking crueW*s
f bound in this work of fix - volumes oftavo,
i which some other fnode besides a newfpaptr,
? will convey a history of to the world. The
s men who were principal aftors in the bloody
, scenes above described, are many of them
? flill in power, and will continue to exercise
: authority over the French people till the
- avenging arm of national juftiee shall cruih
1 them. As Barras, who was president of
the felf-created, blood-stained Directory,
- when his man Monroe presented his letters of
1 recal, has become known by name to the
; citizens' of the United States, from his in
, fulting language to the people of thi* eoun
• try in answer to citizen Monfoe's address, I
• thought proper to give feme account of said
Barras from the foregoing work.
" Our colleagues Freron, Barras, Sali
cetti, Gafparin, Robespierre the younger,
and general marquis Delapeype,
law of Freron, have charged themselves to
attend to the (hooting 800 inhabitants of
Toulon, to guillotine all the federalifts of
MarfeiHes, as well as to demolish the most
elegant monuments of art in this city, and
to del«ge with blood all the south of
France.' 1 "
Barras is the monster who was foremoft in
all the bloody maflacres of Robespierre
who voted for the death of his colleagues—
who headed the army against the fedtions of
Paris to force their acceptance of the prel'ent
constitution, on which day thonfands of va
luable lives were loft—who owes his feat in
the Direftery to-the monsters whose feats in
the Legislative Body he secured by force
and usurpation—who is a rank jacobin, an
enemy to peace in Europe, and a most bit
ter foe to the morally fubhnse heroes'who *
have administered ourgovernment,and whose
adminifl ration has been firm, pure, patri- *
otic and attended with a felicity which ap
pears incredible, when we consider the stu
died, continued system of disorganization
which has been praftifed in this country by
•every one of theagents of Jacobinism, Ame
ricans ns well as French. The moral charac
ter of Barras it notorious, the marriage tie
with him is an inducement to intrigue: lewd
to excess—-he disregards the most sacred feel
ings of humanity when they offer a barrier
to the gratification of his lust.—Yet not
withstanding the depravity of Barras, he is
the bosom friend of our immaculate ex-mi
nister Monroe—they held together their
nocturnal orgies and midnight associations,
they " parted with regret," but not before
Barras gave his dearMonroe a farewell feafl,
to which a great mob was invited, and a
mong the reft an opera girl by the name of
Clotilde, upon whose entrance, Mrs. Mon
roe, and the lady of the Venetian ambafTador
thought proper to retire. It is well knowt>
that Mr. Monroe was on'terms of the great
est intimacy with all the jacobin party at
Paris, a party who are most inimical to peace
and to the United but happily for
the human race whose reign is certainly
'hort. Not with (landing Mr.iMonroe might
be in dangerof losing his head from -?ue mo
derate party who are getting the whip hand
of the Jacobins, for the decided part he has
taken with ttt latter, still lam glad lie is a- ,
mong us, where, if he is detested and ex
ecrated, his life will not be in danger, -nor
our national charafter tarnished by the igno
minious fate of one of our ex-ministers
Although the people of these ftatesjuftly
ascribe the embarraflmeats they have felt
from I'rench depredations, openly and cri
minally passive, if not secretly aftive, in a
great measure, totheconduft ofMr. M e
whi': in France, still to prove himfelf not
so abandoned as to be altogether loft to
all regard for public opinion, he ought to
come forward to disprove the charge made
against him by Mr. Harper in the House of
Representatives of " being a traitor and of
having betrayed the intereftsof hiscountry.'*
1 his unqualified charge now stands against
him, and I believe ever will, an I am cred*
bly informed Mr. Giles called upon Mi:.
Harper, refpedting the business, who /hew
ed him such proofs and documents as ituu
ned even Mr. Giles into fileni astonishment
at the patriotiim and virtue of Iw's friend.
„.-New York, Au.puft JB, 1707. \
MjfrCM'LiAH SC Lahc.. V
/ Gsnt/emen,
/ In; Sir John Pringle's observations on the /
difeales of the army, 13 the following para- /
graph :—" According to the various de
grees of beat and moisture of the
the epidemic diseases begin earlier or later,
are oi longer t>r shorter duration, and are
attended, with milder or more alarming
fypiptqms. Wh?a heats come'on soon, ,gnd
continue throughout autumn, not moderat
ed by winds and rains, the season proves
sickly, the distempers appear car'iv, a'id
art; dangerous: but when the ftiuimcr is
late, w! tempered by frequent uioncrs