" 'TKj'es not this attrocious and dangerous ] ir .ixfm seem to revive around us ? we per- fto ceive that the revolutionary government is is < pad : th'ey would perhaps re-eftabli(h it un- wh der another name ; they would give us a wh military government. The latter would be noi more fangjiinary still, if it is possible, than Fr the former. Wo Unto France, if they ad< (houW organize it ! but vro unto those like- the wife who (hall have conceived and put it fel< in aflion ! pel " After the murder of Geta, the prefeft the of the pretor's court, Papinian, received an rat order to employ all the force of his elo- de] quence, to apologize for this crime : the philosopher Seneca, in a like cirenmftance, fitt blushed not to fell his pen to the son and are affafliri of Agrippina. Papinian refufed to me obey the tyrant : it is easier to commit a frat- the ricide than tojujify it. Such was the reply bee <>f this illustrious personage, who hesitated not between the loss of life and that of the honor." ' "w More fortunate than Caracalla, the exclu- ric; Jives have found, and find every day, (hamelefs nci ?. polo gifts of their old crimes, and of the new Th crimes which they meditate ; but if alFthofe the Who love order in France had the courage on to watch the brigands who plot their ruin boi and their death, we might reft very easy a- wh bout the manoeuvres of these enemies of hu- grt manity, who are ftiong only bythevemem- to trance of the £artlefi>efs with which we fuf- ofi fered them to organize their firft outrages, ex] i . : —■ NEW-YORK, November 3. wa Accounts by the Elefta arrived yesterday me from Leogane state, that the (hip Andro mache of this port, lately taken by a French to privateer and carried into St. Domingo, ha 3 ,°f been released—and, as is said, in confe cuence of a late decree and order received the from France. r "5 It rnnch to be hoped this information of may be aronrate ; but the late aecO Jnts from Europe p greater part of neutral veflels which come in- 1 ai to our bays. If we persevere in our (yftem jee ofinjuftice ngainft the Americans, we might j c; exp«& the Englifli would imitate us against ; 01 others, and we (hould be exposed to the ! F want of every thing, and the French com- ja* merce would be totally I w If your commifllon is not yet in readiness p to report on the decree of 12 Ventofe,we beg ti of you, citizen* representatives, as an urgent d and eflcntial matter, provilionally to suspend j ri the falcs and proceedings against the Ame- ] g ricans. This plan will not injure the right j U of p 1 ivateers, if any there are, if there arc- , o none, (he wili dispose of the public tr«afure ft 'to their interests, and indeunification which f< may h»ve been repeated against the Ameri- h cans by being condemned. t! Signed, &c. a: * Lift of the (hips crew (or compliment) ti w Tranjlated for the Nciv-Tork Gazette. f LAF.-iVJITTE. b ( Gilbert Mot tier i;) Deputy from the city of Rioni in 1789 ; eom nm"'k'.nt general of the I'arifu i national guard in I -89, 90, and 91; general of the army of the w Moselle, emigrated in t"79». • C I Hiilory will perhaps be aftoniflied that he join- c l ed all the verf'tiliry of a courtisr with all the en c ergy «f a revolutionist ; all the fineffe of intrigue with all the herp fm of conrage Frefm hii tarli- I eft youth thrown by the court of France in the 11 ' school of revolutions, he palled from onehemif- Is phere to the other, to learn under Waftington tl the firft rudiments of war, there to enjoy the ido- t; Utry of an imotnfe people whom his sword re»- dered free. Called, by order of the nobility, to ' the states general, he saw clearly enough that the 0 ' popular party would triumph, that th« revolution v was ripe. But thi eventi of America had made him old enough at thirty years to know the pro found ta.clic of enchaining fadions Nobody ' ku«vv Sett. 1 than him how to draw part from in- furreflions themselves to stop their effefli. No- body knew better thin him kow to profit by the h : science of courts, to accommodate himfelf to the e follies of that which then reigned oTer France. If r | the sth O&ober, to stop tha greatest part of the diforderi, which might have been expeded-to ke - the confeiueace of that day. he hadtheartto " force all the parties to unite thcmfslves Under his v standard, by provoking violence against himfelf J 1 from the adherests of the court, in order to get j himfelf declared ehief of the infurreition, did be . . not on the seth June fWlowing, open the gates to . Louis 16, on purpof« to stop him at Varenpes; ; and by this bold stroke to confuramatc rhe great t I work the constitution which neiiHrr *he Jaco. t .bins nor the partisans of the» court, would aflow 5 tke completion of- With vrhat presence of mind . did he not play off the manoeuvres ol the day of the poignirds ? With what courage, the fame < , dayi ami ahm»ft at the fame moment, did he not : ' go and offer his head to tha battallion of Sanrerre, c 1 in revolt at Vnlencicnnes, while Gouvion hisbro- f thcr ofliccß and friend, completely difperftd tho t conspirators of the palace,of the Thuillcries ? 1 . saw him, Worthy of commanding, go froip rank t to rank of this revolted battallion hara»guing the ( e seditious, r nd turning aside with his sword the ba- ( t yonets wkich threatened him. . f How completely had he organized the national ' 5 f'jards 1 What a public fpTrit had he created ! r What reciprocity of ties and obligations ! Thou- 1 , rands of citiiens, not long before timid and with- ; out country, becarae at his voice, )o many heroes | e for the conqueftsnel.prelervation of lib rty.'Per haps he talked too often Fauxboorst the s laAguage which he held to the savages of Ameri ca. Some pcrfons were moved from without, the 1 movers of the Fauxbofcrgs were there—But there are enough who will recite the history of his vir tues or of his fault* If he was a traitor, lam r ignorant of it, All his accusers have perilhed on „ the fcaffol,d, and his long captivity among our for j eign enemies docs not appear to prove that he fer . ved them well, d _____ 1 CHARLESTON, Oftofcer 19. y It affords us great fatisfattion to be able to inform the public, that capt. Story and r- the crew of the English (hip Aracabeffa, ir which was burnt in Five Fathom Hole on r- Tuesday morning, the 17th instant, by a n French privateer or pirate, arrived yefter e day in town, in Mr. Taylor's canoe, from le Stono, where they had been landed by the :• pirates who had destroyed the veflel. An r- opportunity offers at the fame time, which ie we (hall readily embrace (as it is not proba ble rtiany such will occur) of greeting the iy humanity of pirates who spared the lives i- which they had power to take. It would :d have been much too sanguine, to have ex »s pefted their outrages to have been limited p- to plundering, burning and destroying the ig property of their enemies, prote&ed by t- the neutrality of our port: —we do there in fore moll heartily congratulate them, for re the violence done to their natural inclinati n- ons. t»; The following deposition of capt. Story, ot made before col. John Mitchell, dates con u- cifely their fraternal a£ts after having poffef le fion of the Aracabeffa. Iy Jonathan Story, mafler of the flip Araca er beffa, of London, ife Depofeth, lhat on his voyage from JV > a rriaica, loaded with sugar and rum, bound Jr- for London, He frtet with severe gales of on wind, by which he loft his main and mizen ch mad, and sprung a leak ; that being in great distress off the harbour of Charleston, the Bricilh consul, haying had information of ha his situation, sent or seven men to alfift th him and enable him to get over the bar, gu and up to Cliarlefton to repair the said vef- sri fel ; that after several days lying at anchor , C: off the bar, on Friday afternoon, the 13th ! th of this instant, O&ober, he got over the m( bar with the said (hip, and came to anchor th i« Five Fathom Hole, ir. the harbour of ha Charleston afore said.; the wind being con- tin j trary he could not proceed up to the city ; wi that on Monday evening, the 16th of the frc said month, about fun-down, he saw a small ex armed schooner come over the bar, and foi | come to anchor to the N. N. W. of said wi i (hip, but (hewed no colours ; that immedi- j in i ately after, the said armed schooner weigh- . pi; ed anchor, and came close up under their ; vie (larboard quarter, came to anchor, and or- ho dered him to hoist out his boat ; but on hit ch answering his boat was ftdved, they sent n3 ■ their boat with an officer and four or five alt j armed men, with pistols and cutlasses, took Cc 1 forcible poffeflion of said (hip Aracabeffa, m; ! ordered the deponent, with liis papers, on ' ly ' board the said schooner, and carried him mt : and one man on board, and sent the boat ! with four or five armed men on board the 2(j said (hip ; that whi?n he got on board he fcl perceived two carriage-guns, but the small M 1 arms were concealed from hrtn ; that he a(k- as; ]ed the name of the said schooner and the ve ; captain's, but they refufed to inform him ; wi • one of the men said (lie carae from Cape th " Francois, and was a Frencl} privateer : that flu 'as soon as the boat went the second time T I with men on board, he saw them begin to pc plunder the vessel and cargo, and they eon- de tinued to do so till eight o'clock on Tuef- P day morning ; that they brought as much an 1 rum and sugar of the cargo, and the rig- te i g"'g and fails of the vessel, as they could tit J (low in the said privateer; that at nine di I o'clock they cut the cables of the 'aid lit (hip Aracabeffa, and set her on fire in four lit several places, viz. fore, main and after ; th hatchway, and io the gun room ; the (hip j fe then drifted on the "breakers near the ' fc after which the captain ojf the said privateer 111 told him he had fifty men on board, but tl would not tell his or the yeflel's name, also ft said that the captain of a British frigate had w burned a privateer he commanded, in Hamp- 1 ton roads, and for that reason he burned the b (hip, but could he have carried her off he tr would have done it j. that the deponent re- n ceivcd part of his clothes in a bag, and re- » ccived no personal bad treatment himfelf or c crew ; immediately after set ting fire to the tl (hip the privateer weighed anchor, got over li the bar, and went into Stono Inlet, and a landed him with 15 men on the beach, being n the whole number on board the (hip when t taken at anchor in the harbour of Charles- a ton, contrary to the laws of neutrality an 3" ii of nations ; that they got to Mr. Taylor's, si who treated them in a very kind and friend- f !y manner. . t a In addition to the / faiSs dated in captain e Story's affidavit, we have been informed by i him that some of the privateerfmen were t eitherEnglilh, Iri(h, or Americans as they c spoke and understood the Engli(h language c —that it was impossible to learn either the \ name of the privateer or the captain, or from j whence (he came : (he was a fmaJl pilot boat \ Sf 25 or 30 tons, had two fix pounders t mounted, and was said to have come from f Cape Francois, which is not very credible, c The seaman whowas firft carried on board •> the privateer with capt. Storey, is one of the men who was sent Yrom this city as ?n aififtant, and informs that he saw on board the privateer, a tall, thin man of a brown complexion, whom be has frequently fcen in this city, and who was ouce a pilot out 5 > of Savannah, at which place he now has a wife. 1 Mr. Minot who went down in a schooner to lighten the (hip, was also on board when , : she was taken, and fays that he faw'there 4 ( ■ or 5 men whom he knew before in this city, ! particularly the pilot above-mentioned, for ( whom he wrote a letter to his wife, while on ( !. board the privateer and proaiifed to forward - it, but afterwards loft it and a free 5 fellow of this city, and a runway negro of ( Mr. Hornbeckt. , Turner the pilot who was unfortunately | . on board the (hip when taken, has been de : tained on board the privateer ; at least there ■ is not yet any account of his'having been 1 put ashore. The boats which were sent down yefter . day to fee if any of the Jliip's cargo could be saved, returned with the accounts of her gone entirely to pieces and that nothing could be recovered. C jtlgjjp—— Ifj Hi ■■ ■ "''.H H——l By this day's Mail. n a BALTIMORE, November 3. '- In the Miraculous Pitcher, arrived from n Cape Francois, Mr. Jacob W. Giles, of C thes city came passenger, from whom we n received the following : h Arrived at the Cape on the 12 th day of i- from Gonaives, a port within the ie bite of Leogane, after eroding the moun ts tains of St. Domingo : when Mr. G. left Id Gonaives, there were little or no business to £- be done, on account of the market being :d glutted, from the number of American vef >e fels, tound to English, Spanish or French >y ports, taken by French and Spanish cruis e- ers, brought into the above port, and declar er ed good prires. Mr. G. during his (lay of :i- fourteen days at Gonaives, was daily a wit ness to the sale of American vefftls and car y> goes, eight out of ten of whom were taken n- bound to French ports ; he heard wth pain if- the sale of those vessels, the day previous, announced to the town by the public cryer ; the pretext for condemning those vessels is ■a- a want of papers, which the captains of pri vateers take care to" destroy the instant they [J- b'card a vessel. During his day at the nd Cape, the brig Sophia, capt. Baily, arrived of there from Porto Rico—(he is a brig in the :en fcrvice of the United States, sent out to sat the Weft-Indies to aflift our poor unfortu •be r.tte countrymen, a number of Whom, after • having had their vessels tafcen from them, ' the captain informed Mr. G. he found lan guishing in jails, and without money or S!< friends : on capt. Baily's arrival at the Cap*', he immediately made application to Sn the French commiflioners, Pascal and Ray mond, for the state of AtVn-rican seamen at Br the Cape ; capt; B. told Mr. G. that after Sc having made known to the above citizens Sic the purport of his million, they treated him with the ntmoft ;nfolencc and contempt, from which treatment he had vary little .to Ba expeft ; he intended to fail in a few days' Sit for St. Jago in Cuba. An immediate war with America, was viTy generally spoken of in St. Domingo, when Mr. G. left that Sic place, and from the-conduft of every indi vidual, either in or out of office, the most hostile in tcntions were'eafily difctrned. The Ri change in their corr.miffioners, from Santho- i6tl n3x to Pascal and Raymond, has made 110 ("d alteration in favor of the United States. the Commodore Barney's Vefignation of his com- o mand, under the French Republic, was hour- ult ly expe&cd, being disgusted with the treat- wi ment of Americans. t in Mr. J. W. Giles left this place on the he 29th August, bound to Gonaives, 'in the fchiy Somerset, capt. Stevens; the mate, he Mr. Defhield, died with the yellow fever, after having been five days at sea ; the abo'ie CI vessel experienced a most dreadful gale of* wind in the latitude of Bermudas; fhemadc L the Weft Caycoson the 19th' Sept. where th (lie wa3 boarded by the Briliih frigate Thames, and although bound for a French port, permitted to depart without one hour's detention ; (he was again boarded by the Pel 1 an Br'tifh f!o >p of war, of the Mole, and treated as before. The Somerset's wa- w: ter being spoiled on the paflage, the capt. of 2C the (loop supplied him with good water ; di during the examination of our papers, the ns lieutenant informed Mr. Giles, that the Pe- lc lican had had a very severe engagement with df I the French armed brig the Trompeufe, a la I few days before, they were of the lame m ' force, which lafled one hour and twenty mi- re [ nutes, at which time the French brig, from w the quantity of {hot received in her hull, lo funk. The Somerset, on aceojut of head |Ol winds, was d«tained fix -days in the Bite of 2< Leogane—(he was boarded off the Platform IS by two brigand boats, under French com- tl millions ; those boats Mr. G informs, were K manned by not less than fifty pirates, black, f{ white and yellow, not one of whom could be i compared, with refpeft to appearance, with tht word of our wheel-barrow men , the on- le ly arms 011 board these boats were, in one a small swivel, and in the other an old rusty t< musket ; they all however, wore daggers in their belts ; we could hear them coming at a great distance, the noise of their oars keep- n ing concert with the most savage yell; their firft salutation was a (hot immediately at us I from their swivel, and the words, " heave I too you damned rascals j" when they came < along fide, they all boarded the schooner, entered the cabin, and began eating, drink ing, destroying and Healing every thing they could lay their fingers on ; mothing could bear a stronger resemblance to a feaft of savage canibals, than the one Mr. G. was then witness to ; they kept forcible poffeflion of the fcheoner for 12 hours, after which time, having destroyed almost every thing, and fearing a visit from the Britifli from the Mole, they left us to continue our course to Gonaives. PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6. Thevßoard of Health on the 1 3th Octo ber, advised their fellow citizens to employ proper per lons to cleanfc their houses, pre- j vious to the return of their familiei to the ■ city. < • This advice the Board fear has not naet j that general attention that the importance 1 of the objeft required. 1 ' The infpe&ors hope they will, therefore be excufcd for a A raiablc, Tillinghaft, out 73 days from Hav re, bound to this port, Ihort of ptovifions, which capt. I. fuppl'ed—lßth, lat. 36, lo» loi.g. 71, spoke the ft? o n?r IV ai y, Croicier, out 46 day* from Guernsey to Virginia— 20th, lat. 36 spoke a b; ig Out 4 days from New London to GuadaLupe—26th, ofF the Capes of Virginia, spoke the Industry, Rudd, from London to Norfolk—2jth, spoke the brig Philip, out 2 days from New- ork, for the Welt Indies. Capt. Kenny, of the foop Dependence, left St. Domingo the 2d ult. Brig Mal.bir, Da Costa, of this port to fail in 4 days. Schr. Ann, Hall, ditto, difiharginj;. Sally, Hughes, ditto, for Jacque* mel. On the i'sth ult. spoke the United State* Brig Sophia, Capt. Maley, boun:i to Cape. Francois—all well; For Sale by the Subicriber, White Plattillas Brown Hollands White Sicetingg Dowlafles Sili-fu burdered Handkerchiefs Striped SUmoufes PUck Ribbons, No. 3 and 4 G'tifs Tumblers, and Looking Glafles, in in cases, &c. &r. George Pennock. nowynber 6. eod_\w All Ferfons who are iridebflEfi to the estate of William Hstsham, fen. o Phila delphia, deceased, are reijuefted lo make speedy payment; and those who have any dem4nds a gaind said eftste, will please to present them, pro perly attested, to the fubferibers. William Heyjham, "J Robert Heyjham. >- Executors. Francis Bonvcs Sayre, J novembtr 6. ?a*v/w Five years old Madeira Wine, OF the very fifft quality, in pipes, lihds. and quarter caflts, just Itndc' frnmthe (hip Edward, from Madeira, and for fsle by JOHN CRAIG, No. li, Dock-street. WHO HAS FOR CHARTER, ■ CHARLOTTE, r Burthen a'.out MOO barrels, jnrt hove down and put in com plete order, and now rtady to ree< ive a cargo. ' A lfc, Ft SALE or CHARTER, ; jo s e"p ik us, Burthen about 1800 barrels. '>■ lawtf- A Negro Man. "IVOR SALE, the unexpired time (four years) .L of a stout, liealthy, a&ive N--gro Man. He >' is by trade a Cooper, v. as brought up when a boy to the farming Vuf:nefs,isa good ploughman, un derflandsthe care indmanagement of horses, and 'lis a good driver He has lately been employed in painting a new house a»d paints well—he is good tempered, and believed to be very honest, fold part ly for want of employ, but mors for Icing addift i» ed to liquor—For term* apply to No. 14, Dock -a street, near Spruce street. Nov. 6. tf Drawing & Painting Academy, No. 63, Walnur-ftreet. JAMES COX, ln -*-* ASPECT FULLY informs his friends and the a IV -generous public, that his academy opens this •d day. November the 6th. . . e- Hours of tuition lor ladies from 7, till 4>n the , y afternoon, and ia Ihe evening from 6 tiU 8 for ;h h; , co ]i ec abn of copies a va riety of fine views, &c drawn from nature during _ hii obfence from the city: • All ki/ids of colours prepared, and every article 'used in the different branches of drawing and painting, fold on rqaforubie terms. Terms of Tuition, Six Dr.Lars and J Lalf pSr ''• °' 1 'A'morning daft for grown hdies, frrom 11 till 72 " °' clac,t - d3t - n ° V ' - Young, Hyson » loado.of Hylon, 23 the fubferiber, corner of Second and- me 12 ftrect - C.Baiglt. 1 a novembtr 6. -