tion/ at Lisle. A letter from llyjt place, da ted I.he 4-th -and iuferted in L'Eclair of the Bth, fays—" The conferences, lately fuf- for 12 days, have been renewed this day, and some hopes yet remain for them. ; It appears certain, hojvever, that the peace 1 still not take place until a proper undemand ing between the councils and the direftory shall r. e restored." Upjn the fame topic of the Republican Francois, a refpeftable journal, deemed half official, fays—" As to peace, all that is known on the fnbjeft is, that the negocia tions, which have been suspended- iit Lisle and Montebello, have been resumed, through the exertions of the new minister (M. Tfallyrand Perigord) are now aftually in a g.iod train." The Bred fqtiadron appears to be in a 1 vTet J;hed state, as the pay of the officers and sailors is still greatly in arrear, and continual complaints are made of the bad quality of the provisions with which the fhrps are sup- ' pliefi. The Hamburgh mail, which arrived this morning, brings nothing of importance, ex cept wig the repetition of the general opin ion, that in consequence of the firmnefs and , address of the emperor and his allies, a ptace, in vvhich England would be included, ! might be Shortly txpefted. We are concerned to state the loss of the . Artais frigate of 38 guns, Capt. Sir E. Na gle, belonging to Sir E. Peilew's squadron, 1 on the coast of France. She was wrecked at high water on a rock near the Isle de Rhe, as She was looking into Rochelle. The whole of the crew were providentially saved by the reft of the squadron. On the 29th of July, the Galatea and Doris frigates carried into Cork, a French privateer and two large Portuguese (hips from thf Brazils taken by the privateer, said to be worth i 20,0001. One of the ships got on shore in Cork rivtr, and most of the sugar will be loft ; (he had 900 bags «f cotton, 450 chests and 300 barrels of fu-j gar, with an immense quantity of hides on board. It is reported a third Brazilman/is come in. The privateer threw all her gi/ns overboard in the chafe. The present general eleftion in Ireland, it is thought, will not cause a change of 20 rtprefentatives iiWthe house of commons, a circumstance unexampled on any fqrmer sim ilar occasion. AS THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT THE PAPISTS HAVE EXERCISED THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE IN THAT KINGDOM SINCE THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE, this clearly proves (they being so numerous in Ireland) how highly pleased w-rt with all the proceedings of the last parliament. The poor King of Sardinia's whole terri torie»are in a terrible state of anarchy. In many places the inhabitants are in insurrec tion agamft the government, and stile them selves sovereign people. Buonaparte affefts to condemn their conduft, and threatens to inarch agamft them. On the 24th ult. the Diet had a meeting at Ratifbon, in which the greater part of the deputies delivered their opinion, that the political and geographical integrity of the empire ought to be infilled upon in the nego ciation for peace. • August 15. We have received by express, the Paris journal of the nth and 12th inft. The following m*(Tage, which -appears in the Redafteur will (hew that Portugal has concluded PEACE with the French Re public. The terms perhaps are not, fucb as this country could have wished ; but let them be what they will, they must be favor able to our withes for peace ; for now our negociations can make no prttext for delay on account of the intefefts of our good and faithful allies ! - Mcjfage to the Council of Five Hundred. " Citizens Representatives, « The executive direftory has just de creed and figncd a treaty of peace, conclud ed ytfterday the 23d of the present month, August 10, with Portugal, negociated in the name of the French Republic, by citi zen Charles Delacroix,,minifter plenipoten tiary, invested with powers to this effeft by a decree dated 30th MefTidor last, and in the name of her faithful majesty the queen of Portugal, by M. d'Aranjo, invested with full powers, signed at the Palace Quelun, June 10, 1797• The direftory has trans mitted to you this treaty, in crd?.m, and Briitolin e England, which lad pert file left on the 18th of August (in ballall) bringing Bristol paperspf the 17th, and London papers of the 16th of that month. Y From the r e papers we have given as mary extradts n this day as poffihle, under our foreign head, and shall continue them to narrow. \ The great outlines of the accounts are, That the profpefls of fuccefiful negotiations for PEACH had renewed in some measure, liotwith '* (landing they had appeared in thr back ground for feviral days, owing to a total f ffcvjimfur II days. 0 which recommenced on the nihof Auguft—dur y ing which interval it is said the negotiators visited their rcfpedlivc courts. That Portugal has made a peace with France ! *" which peace (though the ,T-eliminaries do not ap > pear) cannot be advantageous to great Britain. fhat tranquility continued to r;ijm at Varwmau )t gn the intrigues of the royalifb. That th»re seemed to he a will) in the direftory 1 and council cf five hundred to close th- late family e quarrel, by njiietiny each other on middle ground -t —they had traced the march of the troops to gen. y r Hoche': oriers, who said he Had marched them it ft" Lvljn.l r by which mean* '.' ie .liieSory j ■ were chared" ol\the charge an-1 a reconci|i;tion too!: place Thai 3 per cent Consols were ;i J-,} at the last dates. None of our papers mention, that Lord Malrjef hury had been to I.oo'lon, we therefore it an e-ror. This breaking off ot the negotiations would seem the lame as we heard by the 1; ft arri val, as the renewal,is said to be on the 4th j The accounts given thi\dsy are * rincipally from the Briflol Journal of Auauft 17. The Couriers of At.g. 9, sn d ro, con*aia lengrhy report on the French finances, ar.d other importal t matters which we (hall notice. It \yas said that Gen. Hochc had refigctd in a pet, but that his relignation was not accepted of. The,« Stars" of .A ug 9 and 11 will also afford us an interedingfclrition for t:> morrow, fhc King ' of fru.Tia has rvacnateiitd Stales. They are now waiting in *a date of tht* mod dis agreeable suspense and anxiety for the due fulfillment of the treaty." , Remarks and further information by the E ditor. The dory of this rebellion at the Natches, | appears to have originated in information ; received by Qen. Wilkinfon, that about ,os Ga!lo-Americans near Kafcalkias or Ca hokia had bound themselves bjc-an oath, to observe certain rules and articles of a treason able nature. That a candidate for this or der was firft obliged to swear to secrecy, and an obfervunce of these rules before being made acqaainted with them or admitteo in to the society—That one or two of them had declared they were French and not Ame rican citizens, and had got.a notion which thiy weri circulating, that a French army was on its route and would be there about the 20th of Juney It was further faid— that this confpiration had raised the flandard of the French Republic, and called themselves themselves the company of the fans culottes. The Editor does not dute thisfrom autho rity, but he pledges himfelf for the truth of the fadts. This confpiration oftcltofrle in the North Wedern Territory, will efince to the pub lic, the intention of the many visits made to | that part of the United States by Frenrh and Spanish cmijfaries—fome under color of collecting natural curio/ities for Air. Adet— others of makingphilofophical observations for j the centralfchoot of same —arid a few of frad -1 ing tuith the Indians. I What will our ext'ir/i™ patriots,ourQhron ! icles, Arguss, Time-pieces, and Auroras fay to this second iveflcrn (Zplrjion—this new confirmation of the fydem of French rulers fully exhibited by Genet'-; isdruftions and : conduit, and ftrictlv persevered in bv his : ;7 M- . ' fuceefibrs in office. Ar,d what ought we to * tliink of certain legijlators, who furni(hed some of these emifiaries. who produced this last petty MsrreSi'jn with lettersof introduction, ' calculated, to obtain for them, from the peo ple of our ivejlcrn country implicit confidence i and the mod friendly reception for the propaganda feed they have sown, the crop of i which, as it would feemby the Pittfburg accounty"will require a part of the army to cut doirn. ASiAULT on the LIBERTY of tfc, 7 PRESS. X : / i ( From the PHir.J)r>Er.rniA Gazzttk. " Mr. Brown, i " Having brought actions againd John- ! Fenno, junior, and William Cobbett, for ; their publications against me in their pa- i pers, I request you not to insert any thing i in your paper which may be offered, in an- i fwer to those publications, or in defence of < my chara£ter. " BENJ. RUSH." 1 [Whatever imputation the Dr. may have i fought to repel by instituting his prosecu tion, I know not. But he will come ofF . with the consolation of having fixed on 1 himfelt the very heavy one of commencing, ( in the land of liberty, a persecution of the : prrfs, alike unfounded, unprincipled and I unprecedented- j The Dr. requests his friend Brown not 1 to publish any defence of his character—Thus i implying that ne it to have been attacked.—So far as relates to myfelf, this i I think may be fafely denied. His do&rineS i have been attacked with ridiuulc through i me, because they have been held dangerous if not fetal to society. But with regard to his charadter, the cafe is now changed ; and this daring and outrageous attempt to crush a fellow-citizen for presuming to dif fer" from him in Opinion* will, I prelume, not only exonerate me in future from that delicacy, in th;s refpeft, which, in what ever has palled, has been mod fludioudy observed ; but place it in a new point of light to many of tboft even, who Jiave been accudomed to look up to him as an Oracle, both in politics and medicine. The plain fad ij, that the Dr. still re- ' tains that fame principle of ambition and that fame thirst for popularity, which has ever didinguifhed him through life. His great aim seems to have been to retire from the praftice of medicine, with the fame of an Efculapius, and to carry to his grave the credit ot some wonderful discovery, which (hall rank {iim with Harvey, or Chifelden, v or Hunter, or Boyldon : But finding as he advanced in life, that he had all along grasped at what could never become other than a shadow to him, which as he clutched at it, vanifiied, and left on his mind no other trace than, that of forgetfulnefs of what he was in pursuit of, —luckily for him along comes the French revolution, rendering 1 Blood the moll popular topic of conversati on. Whether the firft rudiments of the subsequent sublime discovery were drawn from his correspondence with Condorcet, BriiTot, and other fellow-philanthropifts and philosophers, is of little moment. Certain it is that about the very time these philan thropic correspondents underwent the sans culotte venefedtion, an opportunity offered for him to break forth upon the aitonifhed world, witli his discovery how to prolong a i man'a illness for a good number of weeks, or to carry him off, by drawing all the blood out of his body. Immediately his name was extolled as the father of medi- j cine, the great philanthropist, the friend to j mankind, by the afliduity of his frier.ds, : and certain extraordinary means, which no - man knows better how to avail himfelf of. j Instantly empiricism took poflefllcm of the j throne of medicine ; and the Dodtor and I his apprentices drove about the city in their i chariots, (heading blood in torrents where ver they vfriit—till four youths under his own tutelage, fell victims to that very dif ordtr which his vast invention had reduced is much under the power of medicine as any (light cold." This naturally daggered people; and men now.began to assume to themselves the liberty of dying in their own way, Or at any rate rather of the disease than of the Dodtor. As the Dodtor, how ever, failed Hot in a very main chance, the opposition at this time did not so greatly injure him : and the zeal of his friends con soled him under the mortification of having his ipfe dixit disputed. In vain did any one represent that the honors claimed by the Dodtor to a physician of Spain, who had by the pradtice of them, procured himfelf a transmission to posterity in a cele brated romance. It was for a long time dangerous to dispute the efficacy of the no ble science of bleeding. A more considerable opposition has since arisen to the fyfteni of extravagant bleeding —and men's eyes have finally been so open ed, that no other man of the lead eminence in the pradtice of medicine, is found hardy enough to avow his co-incidence with this great empiric. For the part I have borne in the traufaclions which have brought on the " prafecution," or rather persecution, I might owe an apology to the public, con sidering iny almu.t total unacquamtance with medicine, but that I have been rather the medium thaiv-the Originator : But let any man, whatever his ignorance of medi cine, who podefles fnfficient uriderdanding to draw an inference froirt fed nnd praftic#, enquire, Who loses seven patients out of eight ? Who pompously announces or causes to be annoucced the recovery of almofl every individual cafe of bleeding ? The answer is so plaiti, that he that runs may read. Who are those men that lose sewed patients ? The answer is, those that bleed ■ fp«ringly. Who is that physician who has • loft one patient only out of seventy, and that one, through disobedience of advice ! Let it be anfwercd, a. man that bleeds spar ; ingly. Are these not fadts of public notoriety ? s Are not murmurs, ag?ind unnatural cyurles 1 in the practice of rtiediclne, loud in ourea-.s s —is it riot publicly and' openly said, th?,t numbers have tlui3 untimely been hurried into their graves— And Stall zrn'.man in a land where! freedom of opinion and of expressing that opiuiou is fantlioned by tha laws, be only bullied out of the plain conviftions of his understanding, Bui be vexatio-ifly persecuted, for ridiculing th« excess of what is granted to be, in its proper • measure, valuable ? ■ . The fa£t is, and I have before glanced at it, that a grand fcherae of the Doctor's ambition met a.rough blow in 1793, and in 1797 a repetition, which threatens in pro grefsto caftthefchemeandits author into the [lhadfr of obfeurity. This has been effected through the medium of the Pref? —and the press, therefore, is the firft obje& whereon his vengeance is to be wreaked. Confciou* as I am, of the pnreft views, and molt up right intentions, I fliall await with entire corhpofure the issue of a trial, which I have no .doubt will complete the downfall of quackery and empiricism ; and will at lea ft be valuable in one point of view, as it will serve to (hew on what ground (lands the Liberty of, the Press ; —whether it is in America an empty name or a valuable rea lity—whether that to which this., .country owes every poffeflion of which it can boast, aye ! even its liberty and independence, {hall be trampled under foot by groundlcfs pro tections ; and all those barriers creeled by the spirit of freedom, as entrenchments round poverty and obfeurity, ag*inft the pride of wealth and the iafolence of power, ars to be rudily thrlift down, and a liberti cide medical tribunal established on the ruins of reason and the wrecks of common ' COMMUNICATION. Tt is ?. fa ft of a nature highly interefttng and fingiiirr, that the chief of our blooci-let ters is highly democratic, and that his fedh ries bleed in a direst ratio to their political concurrence with him. Does not this cu rious circumstance afford room for a theory ry quite as ingenious as that of the harmtny of aliment, and many others of a like nature ? and may we not fee in this dreadful propen sity an onjen of what the reign «jf Jacobin ism would produce ? CITY tiUM-'iIA.L KEPORT, From the 2d to 3d Oftober, in the morning. Admitted, since last report, Joseph Muehie, (Frenchman) unknown. Mary Cavenaugh—Second near Catharine street. Sarah M'Coombe—lß6, South Water ft t. , Patty Lyon—2s, Walnut street. John F. Richard, 12, Stamper's alley. Discharged since last report: Margaret M'Clafkey, admitted 7th nit. . Sarah Lo»g, 14th Esther Launfon, 21ft Maria Fisher, 28th Died since last report: 1 - when admitted I pre | vioustoadmiihon. Jas. Montgomery sth ult. consumptive James Moore, 29th 2 days. Clarissa Graham, 30th I day. Margaret Gueron 21ft' I day. Remaining last report 58 Admitted fmce 63 Discharged 4 ' Died '4 8 RemainsinHofpital. |g n k | 55 Five of whom are dangerous. In erred since last report. From city andiuburbs 5 Hospital 4 Total g x Stephen Girard. (Signed) Calkb Lownes. JoHM CoNSELLY. Publiihed by order of the Board, Wm. MONTGOMERY, ; Chairman pro tem. Deaths in Baltimore on the 29th Sept. 5. gazrttTTTJTine list. Pout cf Philadelphia. sßtirFu. Days Ship Columbus, Vanick, Havanna 3a Brig Eagle, Shields, Bourdeaux 58 Two Sifters, Paul. Curracoa Schr, Nancy, Inman, . Georgetown Industry, M'Kain, Klr.gfton At New CaJlJe. Ship Clothier, Gardner, Liverpool Arrived at' the Fort. Ship Commerce, Simmons, St. Bartholo mews. Brig Governor Brook, Baxter, Petit Guave Sunday arrived in this port the snip Good Friends, capt. Smith, in 49 days from Ain fterdam, having left the Texel the' Ift of August, at which time the Dutch fleet-were lying at anchor at the mouth of the river. Capt. Smith brought letters for the Secre tary of State from Gen. Pinckney. Came out'in c6mpany with the fliip Brothers, cap tain Henderfon, for Philadelphia. Sunday arrived" at Marcus Hook, the (hip Clothier, capt. Gardrffr, and the fliip'Sey mour, capt. , both from Liverpool, in 60 days.' Mr Samuel Emlen, a brother ot Mr. George Dobfon, Mr. Harrifon, part ner of Dr. Betton, and several cthers came paifengersin these vefTels. • Entered at tfie Cujlom Ifcufe r Ch jler. Brig Thsrefina, London, from St. Thoma9 Two Sifters, Paul, Curracoa New-York, Oftcber 2'. ARRIVED. Days Ship Portland, Huffey, Eriftol 40 Packet Aurora, Cahoone, Bristol 3 Brig Maay, for this port, fail ed in company with cape iin Huffey. Capt. Halley spoke nothing on his pas sage, except a French pr'vateer from Bour deaux, the Cafrnagnol of 20 guns, who treated him politely and difmifled him. The Carmagnole had taken a number of jiriz-.*, among which were the Britift fa gar /hip Commerce, from Jamaica ; sn Fn liftv trig ft ith lumber, from Quebec ; and a Porta gnefe cottar, (hip from The Brazil: to Liibon.