v»ind< 01' if tVto nutiMr.nai void,; begU early,
the -'feafes arc few, their symptoms miLl,
and their cure easy."
The fi-ft is a -jirft description of the Hate
of the air, wcathir, and the effeCts of the
fame daring the Cummer and autumn of
179;,. and t\ie last of the pall ftimmer, and
that part of autumn gone by. The pri«f.
peCt is, thr,t in the remainder, ,we flinll
have early colds. What a call for grati
tude to the Sovereip;n Ruler of the ufliverfe,
for his diftifignfrhtng' naercy. to this city,
that we have, and do ttill enjoy such wea
ther and state of the air, as ha 3 hfen, and
may yet be conducive to the general health
of the inhabitants. What motive to con
tinue our exertions in keeping our houses,
yards, streets, and docks clean, and in co
operating with our worthy healtli commis
sioners, in the measures recommended for
preventing the introduction of contagious
diseases. We have reason to hope, that by
God's blefiing on our exertions, we may
escape the introduction of the yellow fever,
or should it unhappily make its appearance,
check its progress. A few inifances of
that, or of other malignant fevers, should
not be much cause of alarm—the last has,
more or less, prevailed in this city for a
number of years part, and which is always
the cafe in populous cities, at certain sea
sons, and in particu'ar situations ; yet ex
perience has taught us, that by the use of
proper precautions, the effeCts of contagion
may be in a meafure counteracted.
In the year 1793/ while the yellow fever
was so mortal in Philadelphia, 'several cases
were introduced in this city, and although
mortal to the sick, few or none of the at
tendants on the sick, took the disease ; and
Svhile the fevei; raged in tW city in 1795,
its mortality was not extended far from its
■ fouree, with the removal of the sick to airy
situations. Should" contagious disease make
its appearance in this, city, which God for
bid, next to the most early application for
medical affiftancc, the following, has been
found very beneficial to the sick, and de
struCtive to contagion.
. " Removing the patient from places
filled with corrupted air.
" Correcting the air from which he
canuot be removed.
" Avoiding the accumulation of the
patient's own effluvia, by a conftani
ventilation.
" Frequently changing the bed clothes r
and body linen.
" Removing carefully and speedily all
excremental matter."
To which may be added—
Irnmerfing the clothing, &c. taken
from the sick, into cold water, but
by no means into hot at firft.
Removing all fuperfluous woolens and
cottons out of the sick room, and
every thing that may retain infec
tion.
Sprinkling, the sick room and houle
with vinegar.
Fumigating the fame with, the fmoak
6f gno powder burnt, brown sugar,
eafcarella bark or other odoriferous
barks or jtfftods ; a small quantity of
cinnamon bark burnt has been found
to changcthe air and smell of things
in a sick room, better and for a
longer time than any thing else.
The lteam of camphorated
warmed, is very good.
Cleanliness, especially, ought to be striCt
ly observed ; and if the room the sick are
removed in, had been previoudy whifre
wafhed, scoured, well aired, and dried, it
would have a remarkable good tendency.
Mr. Howard, while detained in the Laza
retto at Venice, experienced the most sur
prising good effeCts, resulting frosa white
washing the room h« was in.—See his ac
count of P»g e 2 -
I could give you a number of instances,
in which air, efpecial|fy that most replete
with nitrous particles, fire and fmoak, wa
ter and vinegar, and lime properly applied,
have been found the most powerful agents
for destroying infection and contagion—but
must conclude this long letter with one more
observation—Let the sick be attended by
none who are fearful of the disease, intem
perate, or indisposed themselves.
I remain, gentlemen,
Your old tViend and well-wi(her,
A. B.
"foreign intelligence.
BRUXELLES, July 8.
Letters from the Hague remark, that all
the best generals of the Batavian republic,
who are in th'e service, who are in the fer
tice, are aCtually at the Texel; and appear
ready to embark with 10,000 troops. This
circumllance, and the enormous > quantity
of provisions of all kinds, now on board the
ships, make us believe that there is an expe
dition designed against the Cape of Good
Hope. The Dutch troops discover great
aversion from this voyage, and some have e-
Yen refufed to embark.
BREST, July 1.
You believe there is prepared here, a for
midable armament; that we are going to
put to Tea a naval force of 66 ships of the
* line, like that of Count d'Orvillier, which,
in conjunction with the Spaniards, perform
ed such fine mancevres, and such little deeds
in the last war ; or like the invincible fleet
of Philip 11. or of Hoche, whicH were
both vanquished without a combat.
Your journalists make a frightful noise a-,
tout our thousand (hips, which are going to
cariV terrror and death to the shores of Al
bion. But this is the simple, mqdeft truth
—we have 4 (hips of the line, 6 frigates, and
some corvettes. This , division will proteCt
that which i 6 at Bertheaume, and the arri
val of the convoys.
No one thinks here of the projeft of a ie
eon'l rlefcent. The prudence of the authors
of the firft does not shine in the diMers of
Bantry Bay. There is no doubt but there
are men, void of experience, and endued
with fufticieut presumption and folly, to puff
out projeifts of the Directory, at once mur
derous and ruinous ; but t!n;y will be ne
ceflarily restrained for some time at least by :
the weakness of our marine. With money, 1
sailors may be procured ; but there are not ]
more than 26 ships which can be / ferit from ;
Brest. Those which are begun to be built 1
are' exa&ly as forward as they were three 1
three years ago. v ou t h en t j, at we mu st ,
adjourn the conquest ofEogland, andbound i
our views, by peace, which is worth more I
than even fuccefaful invasions. 1
•' 1
LONDON, July 5.* <
In the note dated from Downing 1
refpeCtitig Lord Malmefbury's embaTiy to ;
Lisle, mentioned in the Gazette of Satur- i
day last, we find the acknowledgement <
that we recolleft of the French Republic, on 1
the part of his majefty. i
The Repulse of 64 guns, capt. Alms, iV 1
come to Chathpni to be docked. This is i
the (hip which the crew of the Monmouth '
so very uncivilly handled on her late attempt '
to escape from the mutinous (hips at the <
Nore She is very materially damaged, 1
particularly in her quarters and (tern. t
There are now on board the Eagle prison 1
(hip, 256 prisoners taken from different (hips (
in the late unhappy mutiny. They ' are ) 1
not fuffered to come on deck, on any pre- \i
ttence: nor are boats fuffered to go along- t
fide. ' | f
On Sunday afternoon, about four o'clock i r
an express arrived from Colchester, with an 1
account, that the crew of the French priva- ' «
teer had landed at Great Clacton, about 15 1 1
miles from thence, and were proceeding to 1
cotnmit depiedations upon the coast. At
the fame time, orders came from Sir W. t
Howe, commander in chief, for some of the 1
flying artillery, and a detachment of the 1
Warwick fencible cavalry, to proceed to 1
Clacton. About five miles from their defti- <
nation, they learned that the men were all 1
taken. It appears that tHey were the crew I
of the French privateer; that captain Adams
of a Excise cutter belonging to Harwich, 1
had ran on (hore, and the crew had for some 1
time escaped. They were in number 24, 1
and were'conveyed with the vessel to Har- 1
,wich: (he is a lugger; was close in (hore I
when cjipt. Adams fell in with her; and, 1
after the crew hnd escaped on (hore, part of 1
captain Atfems'* men, aflifted by the far
mers and their men, secured them. They
had done no mifchief.
Mr. Todd, of the Hull, has lately inven
ted a new Hydraulic pump, of very Angular
properties, viz. it will raise twice the quan
tity of water by the force of the common
piston, can be converted into a fire engine
by the addition of a leather tube and fire
pipe, and can water an acre or ground in
five minutes, in the fame manner if it hadbeen
rained on for four hours, by the application
of the large watering pot, at the end of the
sice tube; it is workedby the hand winch,
and accelerated by a fly wheel.
STATE PAPER.
Answer of the Spani/h miiufler to a memorial
or rrmonflrance, presented by citizen Perig
non, French ambnjfador at Madrid, upon
the defeat of the Spanifb fleet, off Cape St.
Vincent, by the Britifb fleet. #
" CITIZEN AMBASSADOR,
" I have, with great reluCtance, laid be
fore the king, the heads and purport of the
memo'rial presented by your excellency, in ■
the name of the directory of the French re- '
public ; I fay the heads of the memorial,
becanfe the language it contains is couched
in terms so offenfive, so debasing, and so
infolant, to the ears of a free people, that
I deemed it quite inconsistent with the dig
nity of my station, to present it in the form 1
in which it ftcod, to an independent fove- J
reign.
" The king, fir, laments with great sin
cerity, the unexpected and severe loss which j
has befallen his majesty's arms in the late
engagement with the British fleet ; and is
naturally led in support of his own honor,
as well as the honor of the Spanish nation,
to make a becoming enquiry into the cause
of that misfortune : but he will not fuffer
for a moment, the directory of the French
republic, nor any foreign power whatever,
to.assume a privilege of interfering in the
smallest degree with the concerns of his
kingdom.
" It is true, as dated in the memorial of
your masters, that tbt r.aval arms of Spain,
have hitherto been eminently diftingui(hed
among nations, and on that account any hu
miliation at sea is felt'with' the greater force
and mortification by Ms majesty. But it
cannot but seem very extraordinary indeed
to the king, and to his majesty's subjeCts in
general, that the loss of'one aCtion should b»
viewed as a matter of surprize by the French
nation ; surely, fir, the direftory ot the
French republic are not unacquainted with
the reproach of a naval defeat : they are
pleased to observe, that the Spanish flag has
fuffered a remarkable disgrace to its honor,
and that they as the allies to his Catholic
majesty, cannot with indifference behold
such turpitude. Are these gentlemen th"
members of the fame assembly, who embark
ed on board your fleet on the three memora
ble days of the 30th and 31ft of May, and
the lit of June ? Are these gentlemen the
commissioners who assumed the rank and
station of naval field marSials on that pcca
fien ? Who, before the commencement of
the aCtion with *he Britifli fleet, sent a fri
gate with ail insolent message to each (hip
of the line, viz. That the commjflioners
gave positive orders to the separate captains
that they were to fink to the bottom every
engli(h man of war, only excepting the Roy
al Charlotte, which carried the British com
mander's flag : out of their mercy, that (hip
they were to spare, but they were to bring
her fafe into the harbour of Brest, in order
to grace the triumph of the glorious new re
public but who, in the end, were glad to
make their escape from the cowardly Eng
' lifti, with the loft of nine capital ships : afid
are these the gentlemen who are prescribing
to the king of Spain, what jpuulfhment he
is to infliiS upon the commanders of the ,
Spanish fleet, for the loss of one battle,
while the En.glifh have in their pofTeflion
at this moment one half of their navy ? We
did not hear,' fir, of any punishment piro
pofed by the directory for 1 the dtf:r,t of
your impregnable fleet on the Ift of June.
On the contrary, it was afTerted in the so
lemn assembly, that for the arms of France
ever to meet the English in an adlion at Tea,
it was of itfelf fufficient, and equal to a vic
tory. I am stating here to your excellen- j
Cy, the history of three days only of the
naval exploits of your republic, but almost i
every day since its commencement might i
have accilftomed the eats and the eyes of
your dire&ory to the turpitude of naval de
feats ; therefore, previous to your excellen
cy's approaching the presence of his majef- : ,
ty, where you threaten to speak your opin- I
ion of the guilt of the officers ,who com- •
manded his fleet, I would advise you, as a
friend and ally, to balance the disgrace of
the two nations ; take in one hand the
lingle defeat of the arms of Spain, off the
Cape of St. Vincent's, while in the other
you carry the various defeats and difgrac/s
that have befallen the navy of the French
republic ever since the commencement of its
career, and fee which weighs the heaviest.
Your direftorv will then be convinced, that
for either of our two nations to attempt to
bring reproach upon the other, for their in
feriority to the other in naval skill and cou
rage, is nothing else than to arraign the Al
mighty Power, who has thought it good
and proper to grant the decided superiority
upon the wide antj extended ocean, to that
brave people. -
" The king, ray mailer, has, in the mean
time, commanded me to fignify to the mem
bers of the French republic, that whether it
be true or not, that it\'s the infirmity of go
vernments, as they state, to be seized with
certain cancers, which contaminate and cor
rupt the state,(it is not/his majesty's inten-'
tinu to follow the example of regenerated
France, by applying caustics and the knife
to remedy that evil ; for which reason he
has ncf occasion to fufpeiid, even for a mo
ment, the di&ates of his paternal affe&ion
towards the fubjeft of his own states, which
he is more than ever determined to cherish
and' cultivate ; being firmly persuaded, by
his own observation, and which is confirmed
by the hiflorical experience of all nations,
that no evil can be so great as to submit to
the tyranny s and oppreflion of a foreign go
vernment, nurtured and supported by the
very dregs of the lower order of society."
By this day's Ma]].
NEW-YORK, September 5.
There were several MOMENTOUS
reports in circulation yesterday—such as, de
feat of the Spanish fleet; cutting of throats
at Paris ; breaking off nejrociations ; renew
al of the waii with Austria ; &c. but we
could not trace'them to any certain source.
We shall know further on these important
points by this day's southern mail.
( Argus. J
On the Z2d inS. Mr. John Koomc was
committed to the common gaol of this city,
on the suit of Mr. Luke Kelly, for the sum
of thirty-fevtn cents, with one hundred and
cents COST !
Last evening the citizens were delighted
with the musical bells erefted in the steeple
; of Trinity church, the found of which is
charming, and exceeds any thing of the
kind in America.
BOSTON, September {>
NEWS OF EUROPE.
Capt. Ives, who arrived yesterday from
Amsterdam, on Wednesday spoke with the
capt. of the ship Sea Horse, .from Brttir
deaux for Cape Ann, out 50 days, who
| had spoken with the capt. of an English
frigate, who had fpoktn with the capt. df
a British packet, from Falmouth for Hal
lifax, then off Sambre, wfyo informed, that
a general peace was concluded previous to
his quitting England.
A gentleman, who arrived in town yes
terday from Newport, acquaints us with
the arrival there of the Tanner, M®cey,
|in 32 day* from Kinfale, Ireland. No pa
| pers were brought ; but verbal information
| stated, that all was tranquil and orderly in
j that island. On 'her passage, the vessel was
I boarded from 4 frigates, examined
1 very ftridtyy, but finally fuffered to proceed.
Htr cargo was '
Paris, June 26.
Rear admiral Riehery has met with an
accident which has deranged his intelledtual
faculties.
London, July 3.
In the Historian, an avowedly Jacobin
journal, of June 29, "we find the following
remarkable afTertions: " The lift of the
devoted members is made out. It consists
of the greater part of the last two-thirds,
with about twenty of thefirft thud. After
their death, a revolutionary government is
to be proclaimed Until a peace shall have
been concluded."
The Senora del Rofario, of 20
guns and 100 men, commanded by Don
Juan Antonio de Carega, was captured
without a shot fired.
[The gazettes contain a letttr from admiral
Kingfmill, relating the capture of the
Spanish- privateer brig Sau FrSncifco,
alias Les Armigos, of 14 guns and 53
, men, by the Margaretta, eapt. Parker.
. Another /from admiral fir Peter Parker,
giving an account of the capture of-the
French privateer Le Suecefs, of 6 guns
and 42 men, by the Telemachus cutter,
lieut. Newton, with the latter'e letter on
, the fame/übjett.
r Likewise a letter from capt. Bowater, of
[ the Trent, relating the capture of the
Poiffon Volapt, French lugger privateer,
} of 14 gui\s and 50 men.]
The I'itepus Virgin Maria, a French
j privateer from Malaga, has been taken by
T an Englifn stoop of war iu the Mediterra
-1 I neau.
The courts martial proceed in the trial I
of the principals in > the late mutiny. A
London paper of July 3, contains the trial
of W'lhara Welch and one Lee : the latter
mentioned in the course of his defence, that
he had travelled through the greatest part
of the United States. Their f'entenees are
not contained in the above paper.
The letter of one Morris, alluded to
in the last Centinel, we have had by us
more than a month. We intended giving
it publicity, but interesting Intelligence fre
quently intervening, the efforts to set fire
to towns having ceased, and a curious ec
centricity in the lptter, lessening its impor
tance in our minds} we have thus far de
ferred it. In our next, ho*-ever ? (if it is
not previously ppbliflled) we shall present it
entire.
Hon. Bailey Bartlet is probably
•hofen federal representative, vice Mr.
Bradbury resigned.
On Monday, the inhabitants of Ports
mouth afTembled to vote for a representative
in congress, vice Mr. J. Smith resigned,
when W. Langdon, Esq. had 387 ; E. S,
Ljvermore, Esq. 38 ; and P. Sprague,
Esq. 21.
A person ill with a malignant fever, was
yesterday removed to Hospital Island, We .
feel - the most compleat assurance, that the
vigilance of our Sele&men, will preserve the
Health of the town. Boston was never
moi;e healthy than at present. *
By the request of the Seleftmen Hrs Ex
cellency the Governor has direfted that all
vessels from the Weft India Islands, Spanish
Maine, \or ports of the U. S. to the South
ward of New-York, he detained at Caflle
William, till afcertaioed co be free from a
uy infectious distemper.
Yesterday afternoon arrived here, the
Chevalier Don Carlos Martinez de
Yrujo, Miniller Plenipotentiary of his
Catholic Mjefty to the Federal Govern
ment, on a tour throught the Eastern
Statts.
alette,
PHILADELPHIA,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, Sf ptembfr 6.
CITY HOSPITAL REPORT,
From sth to 6th September, inthe Morning.
Admitted, since last report',
Peggy Sileox, opposite Norris's,
alley
Elizabeth Ellis, Mifflin's alley
Elizabeth do. (her daughter) do.
Mary do. (infant do.) do.
Sarah do. (infant do.) do.
Daniel Sifco, workhouse
Henry Titt, Harrowgate, taken in the ftt.
Jane Montgomery, taken in the streets.
Polly Varinele, Third, 2 doors below Chris
tian Street.
Thos. Bute, Thomas Hardy's, Golden
Swan, North Third Steret.
Thos. Townfend (a lad) Hill, Tobacco
nist, New Market.
Nely Coneli, Second Street, 3d door below
Catharine street.
Hugh Parry (a lad) C. Martin's, Little
Water street, 2d door to South.
Di scharged.
Wm. Overman, admitted 31ft ult.
Henry Gingle, 3d inft.
DI ED.
.Nathaniel Foster, admitted Ift inft.
Mary EUis (aged 16 months) 8 hours af
ter admiffiou.
Remaining last Report 26
Admitted, 13
39
Discharged 2
Died 2 4
Remain in Hospital, 35
Convalescents 6
Sick 29
Account of hurials in city ho r pital burying
ground, from sth to 6th September, ip
the morning :
From the city and suburbs 2
From the city hospital 2
Total 4
The Committee also report that since yes
terday morning persons were appointed'who
continue night and ijay at the City Hospi
tal burying ground to inter such bodies as
may be sent from th,e city by ordft- of the
Health Officer, as well as from the City
Hospital, and to keep a regular account of
such interments. . y
Stephen Gir.ard,
(Signed) Caleb Lown«s,
John Connelly.
General KoscU'SKO, we hear, ha* lcf' the city,
on a visit to Genera! White, of Ntw.Brunfwick.
Before he left town. We understand, a gentlenian
in office presented him with a land warrjnt, to
which he was entitled by his services, and intima
ted there v.-as a sum of money due to him, for hi.
services in the cause of .this country. W« under
stand that the General that whilll fortune
smiled upon him at home, he had no intention of ■
any pecuniary reward from the United States, but
thit, in his prelent circumstances, he should not
deoline, the acceptance of what appeared to be his
due. We believe that, with principal and inureft,
his pay will not amount to left than 18 or io.oco
] do'lars, as the Pel *al entered : nto the service » a
Colonel df Engineers, in O&obcr, 1776, and re
mained till th; end of the war. 7he land war
rajif, we are told, the General presented to a
Welch Farmer, of the name of Thomas, who was
a passenger in the fame ship, and of whim he had
conceived a high opinion.
A Jacobin wolf at Hull has bowleg over the ash
es of the great Burke. This i* N f'et in oppotitior,
by Bache to the honorable mention cf him in the'
j Gazette cf the IJnitrd States. Bafeas ate the Eo
| gliik Jacobins, they at lenfl are equalled in f.nliA*
by our own. No one will find any difficulty.
' therefore, iraffleeing with thecitizeu Editar that
it would be n: tural to fuppcfe the latter either a
fellow-citizen giving ver.tfto his leelir.gs at tlii
breach ill the harrier the public weal, or s.
foreigner payinghisrev r.ntialtribute to the worth'
of the departeii; aud the.fo'mrf a Freuih or st
American Jacobin, gnaftitig his tecth and ventipj-,
curies »vcr the mones of t'-e corft nt aa<i " deter
mined !c : e" of the whole 'venal" Land.
QAZETIE MARINE LIST7~
\' '
Post of Philadelphia..
ARRIVED, DAYS*
Slocp Felly, Rile-/, New Lendon g
C.jnts up from the Fort.
Ship Jofephtis. tfHkirw, Martini*#
Erig, Fntcrprire, I.:mgdon, Jamaica
Schr.Friendthip, Odhn, Acquiil
Arrived at the Fort*
Ship Jean, M'Pherfon >St. Kitt»
CLEARED*
Bfigjenfiy, Alcorn, La Guira
Weft tndian.i Carlton, I.anceVcau
Schr. Patriot, Hammett, , \Vilmingon
Rambler. Clark, Currjcoa
Ifsbella, Urifcolc, Jamaica
Thefeliooncr FriendiUlp, OdKn, ha?gqne op ia
Burlington tP linifli her qrarastine.
New York, September 4th.
\ ARRIVED. DafS
Brig Bellona,-Crooker, Savannah 6
Julia, Graham, M.irtinico 10 ■
Chatham, S*nwood, Jamaica 21
Sc{ir. Quaker, Ddvel, St. John's, n. b. 10 -
Sallv, Lane, do. -
Galiatia, London,' 'Guadaloupe 16
Betsey, Brewer, Newbern 6
Arrived brig' Julia, capt. Graham, 20
days from Martinique. Capt. Graham was
informed from good authority at Martinique
that there were 12 fail of Dutch ma of war
cruizing offDemarara^
Handed for publication by the mate of
the English tranfportj Two Brothers,
Sixty four failof Englift ships frota Fal
mouth bound to Barbadoes, under convoy
of the ThamesHrigate and Scourge sloop of
war 011 the 23dlaft July at 4 o'clock (morn)
made the land and breakers, close aboard,
the frigate struck, and 17 fail of merchant
men on the Ctibler's rocks, north end of
Barbadoes, two of which went down, all
hands loft, their havoes unknown. Four
more totally loft, all hands fared, viz. Three
Brothers, transport, the Prince Willianl
Henry, tVanl'port, the Ellen and Jackson/
Welt Indiamin.
Capt. Dyer of the (hip John and Phcebe,
from Liverpool, handed us the following in
formation, *iz. on the icth of July, whe*
15 days dut frpm Liverpool, in lat. 49,100.
17, was brought to by 3 (hot, from the
French privateer Viftoranc, of 16 gnnS,
and belonging toNautz,at 8 o'clock, a. m.
i who plundered us of all our stores, broke
open all the letters, and tore other papers,
then ordered me on board the privateer, who
after some hours examination, put. a prize
master and 8 men on board the (hip ; at 8,
p. m. took out of the (hip my mate and f
seamen, leaving on board only I
t cook and boy, besides myfelf, and ordered
me for Nantz—July 12, ot 6, a.m. was
bro't to by the Briti(h frigate Unicorn, of
36 guns, capt. Young, who re-took us,'
treated us very politely, and ordered me to
proceed on my voyage. I represented to
capt. Young that without his assistance, £
eouldnot procecdfor want of hands ; he thea
very kindly offered me 4 of the Frenchmen,
which I acccepted and arrived fase in thi*
port. Tho' the utmoll vigilance was neces
sary to prevent them re-taking the veflel—•
The frigate went in pursuit of the privateer.
The captain of the privateer threatened"
1 not to let capt. Dyer on board his own (hip,
I except he swore the cargo was English pro
-1 perty —he likewise said he cxpefted war
woulfl be declored between France and th*
United States.
Charlejinn, Augujl 23.
Capt. Briggs, of the Daniftl fchoonet
Friendfliip, from Kingston, gives the follow-
I ing information, viz.
; .Two American brigs', named the Dol»
! phin ofßofton, and Recovery of Weathers.
field, the former commanded by capt. Gor
ham, the latter by capt. Vernon, failed freiu
Kingston about the 2cth July, for WiU
mington, North Carolina. The brig Re*
cdvery had a few guns put on board to pro
test herfelf and the Dolphin from pirates.
Capt. Briggs fell in with these two veflel*
off Cape St. Antonio, and T>eing acquaint
ed with the captains, he ran close up to the
Recovery, and the firft fa'iutation was a gun
fired at him, and he was immediately or
dered to come to anchor, which he did with
all expedition ; but they dill kept firing at
him, and at lall boarded him ; they carried
him on board the brig, and there informed
him thit the day before cajlt. Vernon went
so dine on board the Dolphin, and part of
the crew Jxring Frenchmen, fqur or five in.
number, they took that opportunity of re
volting against the mate and remaining A
mericans on board, and took poffefiion of
the brig, to carry her, as they skid, into th*
Havanna. They told capt. Briggs' the
mate had jumped over board to escape to
the other brig ; but from the blood he saw
on deck,'and other circumstances, he fear*
the poor fellow haa been murdered. They
threatened to carry capt. Brigg3 to the Ha
vanna, he being from an jSnglilh port ; but
after extorting a little money from him, he
was permitted to proceed on.
They told capt. Briggs, on leaving him,
they were determined to pursue the other
brig, (then in fight) and fink her ; for the
captain, thfey said, was a d—d American
b—r.
Capt. • Briggs was afterwards boarded off
the Havanna, by a Spanilh frigate, and wa»
treated with the greatest civility and polite
ness ; he gave the capt. of the frigate infor
mation of the aforementioned business.
BALTIMORE, September 2.
For thtfe two eveningspaft, the Comet
which was leen to the .qaftward, has been
obfervedhere On his wy to the Sun. His
diredtion last evening appeared to the eye a
bout E. 8. E. Through a common glass be
appears of a confiderabk magnitude, and to
travel with great veloc. 'v. We hope the
learned and curious in astronomical research
es, will not fuffer the oppoitunity of being
'.till better acquainted with this phtnomei;©*
of nature, to efcaps them unimproved.