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PHILADELPHIA,
fJCCXDA r EVENING, SEPTEMBER, it.
DEATHS li/ fftrs art.
6n §at'?i\jay liijl, James E\vlng,'o/
tot Jhip America.
A fc*x dapJitiit, Mr. Peter Serafendikei
Oft Saturday tinning, in Mis, Hin's Court,
nftir pock ahd Second J{t:cct, Mr. Timothy
Rutfeil, Printer, ahd a fndy and he? Daugh
ter, lately arrived from England.
Yejlerday morning, Mr. Nathaniel- Bar
nett, of North Thirdflrett, and Mr• George
DarmSn, of the Cuflom Houfti
The OoveTnrtr of Charleston "has issued a
proclamation offering a reward of One Thou
sand Dollars to any- person •who may give
information which may lead to thedifcovery of
the principles or accomplices in a plan,
■which he has reason to suppose is earried on,
for making secret iiiiiftments for improper
and illegal purposes.
CO M WUNICATIO V.
S-nie vcfTet, illy e»<>sgh employed, wafted over
foßeflort, a turbulent Paddy, who was perrnitre-i
Kv pood will of the oiptain, and sft r earned soli
citation a land, (unhappyin belngcho
fen tor jr. afvlu-n hy too maTy ft oundrels) as a tlecr
age vi(Tcn;»ft. This hoir-hred Cub lud no fnoner
fct foot In Airleriea, than he gave nat that he fled
fror* govs rrnienta'
to for,era! himfelf for nruty w. j eks previous to his
di parture—Though it is,a well known ftfl that he
came down on board the vcCcl daily, for wunv
d yspr-violl* to her failing. Having thus e*citod
aJittle attention by dubbing himfelf a prrftcutii pa
tricl, he loon became emboldtncd to the greatest
height of impudence and as it is the prerogative
of his inture, to feel no lack of afTurame, be soon,
by tl.u hrlp 6 r a number of turbulent and fa&ions
demagogue', set up an IriQl daily paper, which,
during the short time it laded, was sedulously im
proved in impudently ctlumniating that govern
tnent, nnder tbe protection of whose lenient hind
the pcnnylefs Pad y had met a refuge from flarva
tion : 1 his, naturally, soon died ; and our booby
became an underftrapp r to a f (3'ous Theatre ef
taMJlVd by a vile crew of Ja obias. Here he
produced an Irish tragedy- ("Thin day at eve
I'll meet thee here again") but the few filly pud-
tfaped and flared at the wil : phantasms
of his lunatic brain, arnufmg at length their b
mifte 4 senses kicked the tiagedy. together with
Mr. P-iddy, into contempt. Thus he failed here—
hr spite of allhi« Tudiet at Trinity Colkge, from
which, however, by his own flunid eonfailion, it
epp ars he had been expetle with contumely and
tU£j;: ace. A short time flnce, he informed th. pub
lie, in the trnth-lovisg Chronicle, that he was in
volved in debt, and designed to tax. their juries
With another tragedy, whereby he means to
pay his debts vid transport his filthy carcase
rack agrin to that I»nd, from which he was driv
en by gtvcrvmr4.il perfnation ~t We is valouroufly
going t» dive into the LnnV mouth, and his n :w
Irifk tragedy, by the fubli.Tte litctary feaft it is to
afior.i his gaping creditors, is to compensate all
their deinan is.
1 his insolent intruder could not cjuil the foil to
which he has already too long ben a pollution ;
without a rew l'pecimen of Jacobin-Irish Impu
&nce. He hands to the Lying Chronicle a mess of
botheration and nonsense, which even their ftuptd
intellects perceived to he unworthy of publication
But net* light beiig thrown upr.n the fubj:3, pro
bably by the additron of a little C ash to th" com
munkation, by forae friend of the needy citizen,
the ill '.crate ard heterogeneous hodge-podge is 6
na' y thrust upon the puhlie. Independent of the
chara<fter upon whom these dirty off i'o,nrin ;« of
the kennels of Jacobinism are h- aped,bsing a iif
tinfuifhed public servant, the intrirific infolei ce ol
tone, and knldmfs of public insult, mull arouse
the true American bl«od in the veins of every man
who lus net too great a contempt for the worth
less bully t» notice him. These raftals will ky ana
by turn u out of our own ho -f t, and take pof
ftffion of our goods and chattels, in th« name of
liberty and equality. Indeed it 1« high time to re
pel their unbridled insolence, and o hu'l hack in
their teeth their own vile calumnies The lying
Chronicleers who preoounced -he Irish nonsense in
the firft inflanc* to be unworthy even their own
proflituted anJ dir'y pages, have since informed
their readers, that it ought to be read to the chil
dren, aiul deposited among the vatuakli papers of
•very citizen. The whole piece discovert a brutal
ignorance, and a total üßXcquaiiitance with chrnn
obgy—'• Cicero and Demotthenes" with other in
flancts of the fame kipd, abound in the stupid
medley of fcurrilit/ and impudence. Cato'i tam
ijbmnl is l'poken of in another place; hat it is ftonp
ing too low to criticise on so paltiy and con empti
ble a produflion.—Regard for the laws ia the sole
confederation which could save the puppy frpm a
lcick'd hreech or a wholcfome flagcllatiau of the
horsewhip.
" Learn, mangy cur, who 'tis youfiiarl at,
" You fpur.ging, funAion-lacVing varltt ;
" Though fools are hcens'd flaaderers
" This may not save your forfeit ears."
«' Dear spirit of our happy clime,
" With Star deck'd tiara and port sublime,
" Canst thou believe, oh ! Goddess blest,
'* Such Stygnn fiends thy realtii infelt ?
" Me*; such against thy ray ferane
" Do darkling howl with wolfi'h spleen,
" And wish to fee th.-e crucified,
" Thy ftamlefs garments to divide."
" Can he who 'gainst his country rais'd
•' His impious arm, by us he prais'd ?
" No ; rath r, each Colupii'ian briafl
" The vagrant catifF will detest,
" Can he who made the law hi< foe
" At hom.\ with us b* faithful ? No ;
" The doij that bit his master there
« Walks in a longer tether here."
From the NEIV-TOSK GAZETTE, W/.
EXTRACTS, tranflaled for this Ga%etU,
from the Hi/lory of Crimes, committed during
the French Revolution, jufl publijhed at Pa
ris, in fix volumes o3avo. Volume ijl,
page \fl.
" Others (of the proconsuls sent into the
different departments) put in requisition the
best wines, and expressly forbid all citizens
to buy any thing in the markets until they
had supplied their tables with the greatelt
rarities, and those of the ftaff-offieers of the
revolutionary army which accompanied <
them."
" We have seen those rascals abuse their
authority, I will not fay to fcduce, tor it is !
necessary to please in order to corrupt, but
to violate their young and innocent prison
ers, tp wrejl from them those precious fa- ;
vors which love reserves only for love. Some 1
of those prifoaers, rich and interesting, but <
subdued by terror, have been seen to give J '
their trembling hands to their executioners. ; i
Ala» ! some of those marriagee formed un- | i
der fueh fatal auspices, have been fometiroes ' i
ufcful to , humanity. They stopped the i
blood which flowed on certain occasion*." ■ ]
it {t would not have been prudent to r t '- {
fufe their alliance, as many of them guillo-, t
t|ucd tlw fathers fcr having refufed their j t
aaJgKters in narriage, whether to them
selves, or their fon9."
One of them diftinguiihed himfelf by
i deed (till more a'i'ociouS, -if possible. He
arretted a number of farmers. The pretext
r* was, they had not paid their civifc gift.—»•
Their unhappy wi<fes, at the feet of the pro
t cftnful, solicited the liberty of their lidf
binds. ■' Let them pay the sum they owe
' and they shall be free." " But what shall
we do ? We are poor and cannot." «« Bor
row—do as yon please ; but no liberty tin
lefs you bring what I demand of you
. They went out : in fine, at the end of fomi;
days, after having cxhaufted eve'/y possible
refoiirce, they brought the sum. Go—fays
! he to them, in three days you will fee your
_ husbands. Alai ! what is th« firft obje£t
, on going out \fhich strikes their view ? It
p was' their husbands going to the fcaffold, by
cJrder of the monster ; to whose house they
( , went in tears. lam very sorry for it, fays
. he ; very serious denunciations have' been
produced to me against them; you your
fdves are very happy nrrt to have shared the
fame fate. The stroke was too strong ; the
■ nlimber was too griat—he was denounced
I to the committee of pubucjifety. The
' | proconsul was summoned to give an account
! of his condu6t. One of his friends expressed
j some apprehensions of the result.—" This
I affair," answered he, " will be soon ir
-1 ranged ; I will carry some money to the
' committee." He was right ; one of the
members declared that the denunciation was
I ill-founded, and the tyrannical monster was
continued in mission.
" Others depopulated whole communes,
loaded multitudes of carts with human vic
' tims, from the great grandfather to the
child in the cradle, and sent them to the
slaughter house, established by the revolu
tionary tribunal of Paris." " Brave repub
lican," wrote they to Fouqu'cr Tiaville—
Brave republican ! (the villains !) —" Brave
republican, I fend you game for the guillo
tine, which soon I hope will be taken out
of the bags, and they sent back for more.
Take courage, support your energy ; we
will not let you want employment."
" One Twote to the committee of public
fafety, to complain to it that the law rela
tive to the military tribunes, was not adapted
to empty the prisons promptly, and that the
guillotine loft its prey."
" Another Wrote to his colleague :
" The guillotine continues to operate with
full force. I yefttrday caused 28 to be ex
pedited in the commune of " « In
three days it will begia its exploits here - '.'
This colleague answered him : I dined with
■ Robefpierrte yesterday, when we received
your letter, we laughed heartily ; go on as
you have begun—be not alarmed ; the guil
lotine ought to move more rapidly than
ever."
" Another said, in a popular society :
" The society reproaches me with being too
tender, too moderate ; they shall, damn me,
they shall fee,, if I am not soon at the sum
mit."—-The fawe caused a mother and her
daughter to be arretted in a promenade, cau
sed them to be ttripped, and run his hand
down one of their throats, under a pretext of
her reading counter-revolutionary works,"
" Some fans-culottrs complaining to a
priest who was pro-consul, that they had no
work and that they were in the greatett mi
sery. This scoundrel of a senator said to
them : " YOll are damnation fools ; don't
you know some rich persons? denounce them
to me ; I will have them guillotined, and
give you their property." One of them
answered : " Representative, I have a wife
and five children, and am without bread ;
Well, I would rather that myfelf and my
family should die of hunger, than to givf
them bread at that price. The rich of my
neighborhood have always supported my an- j
e;ft<»rs and myfelf, by paying us well for
our labor ; I will not repay their goodness
with the fouleft, blackett aft that can be
committed."
M A carrier of the mail faying tb one of
those proconsuls, that the roads were very
bad, that he had much trouble in getting
horses, was answered : " Address yourfelf
to the representatives near the armies, it is !
their business j mine is to cause heads to j
be cut off."
" The fame wrote to an administrator of J
thp diftrift t " Take courage, take energy,
do not leave at liberty a single man of wealth
or talents." And he answered to a keeper
of the prison, afked permiflion of him
to get the prisoners shaved : " I will have
them shaved, fays he, with the national ra
zor." He put on his .door the following
infeription : " Those who enter here to so
licit the enlargement of the prisoners, will
only go out to be put in a state of arrefta
tion." His agent 3 obCerved to him the
ho experi.nced in feeding the pri
soners, from the amazing quantity of them:
Oh ! damn them, give them a wooden bowl
of verdigtis, let them eat that or nothing."
" No, No, criej another, we must make
them soup in a large copper kettle ; we will
throw therein a quantity of verdegris, it will
be thought to have come from the kettle."
" Another agent wrote : " I am at pre
len< grand seigneur, I cart offer to my
friends every day, 011 leaving the table, a
large dish of mens heads."
" A commander of a detachment of the
revolutionary army, who was under the or
ders of those proconsuls, transmitted the
I words following as the order of the day :
PILLAGE, RALLYING, HOR
ROR."
JIKMJJIKS.
Truth begins to appear ; already in the '
above work has she broken her chains and 1
begun to tear off the veil from the ciious 1
of the Jacobins, and to expose them to the i
view of the .world in all their horrid defor- 1
mity. France is expressing the (hnrne it 1
feels in haVing givep birth to such monllers (
and in fuffering so long a time the scourge
infiifted on her by him.,. Americans fym- 1
p»ilfaized with France in her struggles a- r
gainst the combination against her; the t
freedom of the press being totally desTroy- t
cd, and, the tlirt&wa and controul 1
1- jof the party dominant, oh tins fide
\ the Atlantic, were ignorant to -What extent
y j the honors of the Jacobins extended. Lit
e tie did we think, that REGULATED
t i LIBERTY, that firft idul of our hearts,
- that objedt dearer to us than life, and with
>- ; out which life itfelf is, a burden, was daily
f- | bathed and almost drowned in the blood of
e her most virtuous and zealous worshippers
11 by hypoerites abusing and adling in her
name—Now that we know the truth,
1- ought not such among us who have advo
cated every measure adopted by the different
9 fa&ioas, who have governed France for
e eight years pas!, candidly to confefs that
s they had not till now the most distant idea
r of the exceffe6 to which things were cSr
;l lied, and of the danger to which CIVIL
t LIBERTY was exposed in creating an
y sbhorrence to it among the French them
j selves ? Ought not our " exclusive patri
-8 join the French people in execrat
n iri{( the raonfters, who have tyranized over
- France and drenched her in the blood of
e her bed citizens ? Ought they not particu
e larly to Join the Legijlativc Body in con
i demning the conduit of the jacobinic Di
e re&ory> with rofpect to their treatment of
t this country ? JTo, my fellow citizens, we
1 have fiends among us, who, with patricidal
s look and fatarrnic grin, have expressed satis
- fadtion at all the losses we have sustained
i from fm arbitrary, villainous order of the
'■ Executive of a foreign nation, which the
s people of that country have themselves
s pointedly called a piratical decree."
Let no fueh men be trusted either in
, public or private life—they are not radical
- ly found. It is remarkable that not an
: American privateerfman in France, not a
: traitor who has been in public office and
- betrayed and attempted to betray the in
- terefts of his country, but what has befcn
- a diforganizer, an enemy to our national
e jrovrnment—to virtuous Federalists
- who have administered it, and adtive .pro
t naoters arid insolent approvers of French de
. prtdatio*s on our property. On the con»
e trary, I defy our Jacobins to produce a fin
e's friend to our federal conflitution and
c its hitherto virtuous adminiflration, who
- has been concerned diredtly or indirectly in
1 privateering under French colours agatnft
: their countrymen, or who has abdfed the
sacred trull reposed in them as public offi
- ceri. N No, my fellow countrymen, you
1 j will find privateerfmen and traitors only
- among the " EXCLUSIVE PATRI
-1 OTS," the revilers of Washington, Adams,
' and fom« other real friends to their country
1 and civil liberty : It is high time to detach
1 yourfelvei from them, and rally round the
3 friends of Virtue, Order, and Federalism.
1 FRENCH CRUELTf.
HOM THE HISTORY OF THE FIVE INDIAN
NATMNS OF CANADA.
> " The Count dc Frontenac waspierced to
, the heart, when he found that he could not
• revenge these terrible inenrfions of the Five
• Nations ; and his anguifhmade him guil.y of
• such a piece of rtlonftrous cruelty, in burn
l ing a prisoner alive after the Indian manner,
f as though I have frequently mentioned to
have been done by the Indians, yet I fore
-1 bore giviug the particulars of such barbarous
1 afts, fufpedting it might be too offenfive to
• Christian ears, even in the history of fava
» ge». Here however I think it ufeful to give
: a cfrcumftantial account of this horrid ait,
1 to, shew on one hand, what courage and re
-1 folution,-virtue, the love of glory, and the
1 . love of one's country can instil into men*6
! minds, even where the knowledge of true
1 religion is wanting ; and on the other hand,
' how far a falfe policy, under a corrupt religi
r on, can debase even great minds.
The Count dc Frontenac, condemned two
•! prifouers of the Five Nations to be burnt
■ publicly alive. The Ihtendant's lady in
i treated him to moderate the fentcnce, and
: the Jesuits, it is said, used their endeavours
I for the fame purpose. But the Count de
Frontenac said, there is a necessity of ma
king such an example to frighte® the Five
' Nations from approaching the plantations,
I fihoe the indulgence, that had hitherto been
1 i shewn, had encouraged them to advauce
1 with the greatest bofdnefs to the very gates
los their towns ; while, they thought they
' f run ao other risque, but of being made pri
' foners, whire they live better than at home.
He added, that the Five Nations having
burnt so many French, juftified this me
thod of malyng reprisals. But with sub
mission to the politeoefs of the French nati
on, may I not ask, whether every (or any)
horrid-aftion of a barbarous enemy, can juf
tify a civilized nation in doiag the like ?
When the governor could not be mo
ved, the Jesuits went to the prison, to in
ftruftthe prisoners in the mysteries of our ho
ly religion, viz. of the Trinity, the Incar
nation of our Saviour, the joys of paradise,
and the punishments of Hell, to fit their
fouls for Heaven by baptism, while their
bodies were condemned to torment'. But
the Indians, after they had heard their sen
tence, refufed to hear the jesuits speak, and
began to prepare for death in their own
country manner, by fingiug their death
song.
Some charitable person threw a knife in
to the prison, with which one of them dis
patched himfelf: The other was carried out
to ihe place of execution by the christian
Indians of Loretto, to which he walked,
seemingly, with as much indifference as ever
Martyr did to the flake. While they were
torturing him, he continued singing, that
he was a warrior brave and without fear ;
that the most cruel death could not shake
his courage ; that the most cruel torment
fhau'd not draw an indecent exprefuon from
him j that hie comrade was a coward, a
scandal to the five nations, who had killed
himfelf for fear of pain ; that he had the
comfort to reflefl, that he had made many
Frenchmen fuffer as he did now. He fully
verified his words, for the most violent tQr
rrient could not force the least complaint
from him, though his executioners tried
their utmost skill to do it. They firft
.broiled his feet bttwesn two red hot stones;
r <
then /they put li is fingers into red hot pipes,
and though hfe had his arms at liberty, he
would uot pull his firjgers out ; they cut
his joints, and taking hold of the sinews,
twilled them round fraall bars of iron. All
this while he kept singing and recounting his
own brave a&ions again!! the French. At
last they flead his scalp from his (kull, and
poured scalding hot sand upon it ; at which
time the intendant's lady obtained leave of
the governor to have the coup-de-grace giv
en, and I believe she thereby likewise ob
tained a favour to every reader, in delivering
him from a further continuance of this ac
count of French cruelty."
MORAL.
Thoughts on Miff, confident! as a Microcofmos,
or Little IVorld.
Man has been considered, and with good
reason, as an abftraft or model in miniature
of the universe. God made him the last and
mod excellent of his creatures. He inter
nally endowed him after his own image,
with a divine understanding, whereby he
might contemplate and serve his Creator ;
and he furnifhed him with the powers and
faculties of reason that he might govern the
world and all the creatures fubjeCi to his
command. God also having created
three forts of living natures, viz. angelical,
rational and brutal, gave to angels an in
tellectual and to hearts a sensitive nature ;
but to man he vouchfafed both, together
with the rational abilities peculiarly be
longing to him ; and hence he became the
bond or chain of union of all the three, and
by his participation of them may be truly
said to be a little world, as presenting so ex
actly its component parts.
God therefore placed on the earth, the
man he had made, as it were another world ;
the great in the small: For out of the earth
and dust was formed the frefh of man, and
therefore strong and durable. His blood,
which is dispersed by branches' of veins and
arteries throughout the body, may be re
sembled to those waters which are called
brooks and rivers over all the earth ; his
breath to the air ; his natural heat to the
warmth which the earth Contains in itfelf,
and which, stirred up by the heat of the
fun, afliits naiui e ~nr iTuT fpeed:Vv procrM
tion of those rarities which the earth b'ring
• eth forth ; hi* radical mnifture, oil or bal
: sam, on which thr natural heat feeds and is
I maintained, tothefatandfertililyoftheearth ;
j the hairs of his body which adorn or over
i shadow it, to graft which covers the upper
j face and (kin of the earth ; his generative
t power, to nature which produces Ml things ;
his determination?, to light, wandering and
unliable clouds, wafted away by uncertain
winds ; his eyes, to the light of the fun and
moon ; the beauty of his youthful days, to
the flowers of the spring, which either the
fierce puffs of wind blow from their stalks,
or in a short time the fun's piercing rays dry
up and wither ; the thoughts of his mind,
to the rapid and inftananeous motion of ce
lestial fpiriti ; his pure nnderllanding to
those intelledtual natures which are always
present with God ; and his immortal foul,
while righteous and exalted by the beauty of
holiness, to the image and fimiltudc of God
himfelf, for, though in respect to God, no
man is just, or good or righteous, yet, with
such a kind of difference's subsists between
the substance and shadow, goodness may be
found in man, and God being pleased to ac
cept it, has therefore called him the image
and similitude of his own righteousness.
The allusion may be drawn out to a still
greater length, and man as the measure of all
things, may again resemble by his fevtn a
ges, the seven planets. Our infancy may
be compared to the moon, in which we
seem only to live and grow as plants ; the
second to Mercury, wherein we arc taught
and inftrudted ; our third age to Venus, the
days of love, desire, and vanity; the fourth
to the fun, the-ftrong, flourifhing and beau
tiful ag»of man's life ; the fifth to Mars, m
which we begin to take ah account of our
time, judge ourselves and grow to the per
fection of our understanding ; last, and se
venth, to Saturn, when our days are fad and
overcast. In these we find by dear and la
mentable experience, and by losses never to
be repaired, that of all our vain passions and
affections, sorrow only abideth. Our atten
dants are sicknesses, and sundry infirmities,
and by how much the more we are accompa
nied with plenty, by so much the more
greedily is our end desired. When time
has made us unfociabfe to others, we be
come a burden to ourfeWs, and are of no
other use than to withhold the riches we
possess from our successors. In this time it
is, that we, for the most part, and seldom
before, prepare for our eternal habitation
whith we pass on to with many fighs,groans,
and doleful thoughts* and in the end, by
the workmanship of death, finifh the forrow
fuT business of a wretched life, towards which
we are always making advances both in
sleeping and waking ; never have those be
loved companions of honor and riches any
power to hold one day, by flattering the
promise of entertainments ; but by what
crooked path foevtr we walk, the fame leads
on direftly to the house of death, whose
doers lie open at all hours, and to all per
sons. For this tide of man's life, after once
turning and declining, ever runs with a per
petual ebb and falling flream, but never flows
again—our leaf once fallen springs no more.
Neither does the fun or the fumm'er adorn
us again with the garments of new Leaves or
flowers. Foryf there is any baiting place, or
reft, in the course or race of man's life, the
fame might then be perpetually maintainal
livings, and as the"sap and juice, wherein the
life ofplants is preferred, does evermore as
cend or descend ; so it is with the life of
man, which is always either ipcreafing to
wards ripeness and perfection, or declining
towards rotteanefs and dissolution.
NO TI c £
THE Office* of the Department of War are for j
the ; r sent removal near to the t'il's ef the ScuyT
kill, on the Ri<lj; Roid.
September 4.
iiy this day\> Mail.
( NEW-YORK, September 9.
It appears by a New Prbvi'dence paper,
handed us lad evening by capt. Johnson,
that th« privateer Revenue,, tvbich captured
the (hip Asia, is owned by citizen Jean
Baron, residing in Philadelphia, as appear!
by a copy of the privateer's eortimiflW
found on board of the prize {hip.
The above paper is dated at Nassau, '
Aug. 11,
BOSTON, September 6.
fICKAROONERY.
Captain A 'jams arrived at Gloucester,
from Martinique,' l'rt lat. 40, long. 67, was
boarded from the piratical French privateer
which lately failed from Marblehcad, and
robbed of his light fails, a barrel of beef,
and some fmaii articles. The officer told,
captain Adams he should make a prize of
him, were it not that expeaing to fall in
with some Indiamen, he did not wi/h to be
detained.
CADIZ BOMBARDMENT.
By arrivals from Lisbon, we learn, that
admiral St. Vincents, after having obliged
the Spanish fleet to take fhelter'in Cadiz
harbour, had inveftcd that city. In the
prosecution of his plan, he captured port
St. Mary's, a place* about fix miles from
Cadiz, and from whence the city is supplied
with water, vegetables. &c. ftje Spanish
fleet having retired beyond the part of the
island on which Cadiz'is situated, St. Vin
cents proceeded to bombard both the city
and the fleet beyond it. By the last ac
counts from- Lisbon, the bombardment must
have commenced about the 4th or sth of
July, and had not ceased on the 9th or 10th,
as will be seen by Mefirs letters.
Lord St. Vincents' ffeet has been strongly
reinforced since his engagement with the
Spanish : And the troops which lately eva
cuated th£ island of Elba, in the Mediter
ranean (4000) are said to have joined him.
It is said. » gif«t »art of the inhabitants
-have rr-TI, 3l~tfieTjparufhfleet~27rccwered no
disposition to meet the' English ; which
from its length of time at sea, and experi
ence of commander*, was in.a high state of
discipline. The damages done to the town,
and .fleet, are variously related ; but the fa&
of the bombardment may be relied on.
The pofleflion of port St. Mary's was ne
ceflary to the supply of the English fleet
with water.
Letters from Lisbon suggest it as the
opinion of many, that admiral Jerri# means
to destroy as much of the Spanish fleet as
possible ; and then lay Cadiz under' a heavy
contribution a la mode Francaije.
In such contempt does admiral Jervis hold
the Spanish fleet, th»t while lying ofTCadiz
harbour, he by turns unrigged and rigged
the veftels of his fleet, n open view ; and
it one time, we are informed by an Ameri
can captain who saw it, five ships had aau
ally their t&pmafh on deck at the fame timt?*.
and fevcral ship's of the squadron (ailed into
the harbour, gave the forts a broadside, and
returned. C. : i
Capiain Alien, arrived at Gloucester from
Lisbon, 50 days, confirms the of
the bombardment.
LATE FROM FRANCE.
' [Through the friendly attention of Mr.
John G. Rogers, of Gloueeftcr, we were
Lift evening favored with Paris papers to
T u 'y 16th, received there by captain Inger
fol, from Bordeaux.]
Afteracurfory perusal of them, we can
only fay, that the Courier Ju Corps Legifla
tify of July 16, informs:—The negociationa
for peace are seriously entered upon at Lille.
Every day the two legations meet 3t 11 in
the morning :—Their conferences are never
long. The English conduft with prudence ;
and are much esteemed in Lisle. The mi
niflers of the French legation are also held
in high refpeft. Fifty cannon were fired cm
the arrival us lord Malmefbury, at Lisle.
" Letters from Italy state, that general
Meerfeldt has again arrived at Montebello ;
svhere he had a long conference with general
Buonaparte ; which terminated to the fatis
ifaftion of the two parties. Buonaparte im
mediately difpatehed a courier extraordinary
to Paris. Ti"» fame letters kate, that the Ift
July was fixed on for the |>urpofe of pro
claiming at Milan, the definitive treaty of
peace ; and the independence of the Italian
republics."
In the fame paper of the 15 th, in a de
bate upon the celebration of the 14th Ju
ly, Vaublanc congatulated the Council, that
the mediation of Buonaparte, fupportcd bv
the pacific disposition Si the Directory, had
succeeded in the liberation of La Fayette,
Latour Mauburg, and Bureau de Puzy,who
are reflored to liberty and independence.
The negotiations at Lisle are to be car
ried on solely with the English Commiffion^r.
The " Pojlillor. d;s Armeei" of the 14th
July, fays, that Perignon is recalled from
the embafiy to Spain ; to which place Per
rochel has been sent.
" It appears positive that the emperor
has difpatehed orders for the liberation of
the prisoners at Olmutz." This paper of
the 6th July contains" Prefidtnt Adam:,'
speech at full length.
FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVES.
In the 4th middle diftria we reafon
to think, that Bailey Bartlett, Efq is chc
fen to supply the vacancy occasioned by the
resignation of Judge Bradbury.
In Rhode-Island, James Burrill, jun. Esq.
i was generally voted for.
In New-Hampshire, the accounts stand
in favour of Mr. Livermore, te fucceedMr.
Jeremiah Smith.
On Saturday the Chevalier d'Yurojo, vf
fited the Prefidcnt of the United States at
Quincy.
The Chevalier attended the theatre on
evening, and ye.lsrday gave an «n-