NEW THEATRF,
Will open on MONDAY even'.ng next, Djc. ; J,
With a Comic Opera, called
ROBIN HOOD ;
Or, Sherwood Fore/l.
RF.tIDFKTS IN THE FOREST.
Robin Hood Mr Darley
Little John Mr Wigncll
Scarlet Mr Francis
Bowman Mr Warrell
Archers, Miflrs. I3liflVt,T.Wan<.ll, 13 often-,
Laffcrty, Sully &c.
Allen-a-Dr.le, Mr Warrell, jun.
■Stella Mils L'Eftrange
Shephcrdeiies, Mrs Harwootl, Mrs Dtictor,
Mil* Anderfon, &c.
VISITORS TO THE FOREST. ' J
Rutted in Mr Bernard
(Being his firft appearance in Philadelphia)
Friar Tuck Mr Warren
Ed"in Mr Marlhall
Ctorinda Mrs Warrell
Anette , Miss Milbouriie
Angelina Mrs Oldmixon
Wirh the original Overture, by l?au*ngar;cn. I'bc
rr(l of the Music atfd Accompaniments, conSpo
fed by Shield, with additional airs by Mr. Rei
• najrle
Tho which will be added, a CbMiDv, in two adts,
called,
THE LYAR.
Old Wilding, ■» - Mr. Warren
Ylong Wilding, - Mr. Bernard
Sir Junes Elliot, - Mr. Warrell, jr.
Papillion, - - - Mr. Mat'fhall
Servant, - - Mr.'F. Warrell
Miss Grantham, - Mrs. Francis
Mils Godfrey, • - Miss L'Eflrange
Kitty. - - - Mrs. Doftor.
Box, on? OnlUr ; Pit, tHre* quarters of a Dol
-1 tr ; and Gallery, half a Dollar.
l doors of the Theatre will open at five,
»nd the curtain rife precisely at fix o'clock.
Ptaces for the Hoxes to he taken at the Office in
tV;e front of the Theatre, from IO till i o'clock,
a:id from 10 till 4 on the days of pcrf-ifnjance.
Tickets to be had at H. and Rict's book-flare,
No. and at the Office adjoieipg
the Theatre. VIVA T RS&SIZJUIGA !
JUST RECEIVED, ~
(via New-York)
itio NOW OPENING, BY
George Dobson,
No »5, fauth Third flreet,
An cxtenfive and general aflbrtment of
HABERDASHERY, viz.
Bell London mixt Pios Galloons and Ferrets
Common do. do. Voj-fled Bindings, aflor-
Makenssie'sfuper,patent ted colours
v.-i>ite chapel N edle, Imperial, diaper, and
Nurs Thmad no. 6to Thread Tapes
40, regularly assorted hite Edgings
I.isle do r.o. x,;o to 500, Black nd coloured Chi
regnlarlyafiiorced nefe Ribbands
Coloured do. Sattin and figured do.
Slack fevvipg Silks Black Velvet, 1-4 to lid
Coloured do. and Twill Velvet & pelon Sattins
Silk and cotttn Wires French Catubrick
Do do. Ribbands Scotch do.
•Shirt Moulds and Wires Plain gilt and plated
Black brulh Feathers Buttons
And a compleat aCTortment of Gaods, suitable
to the pr-sent and approaching season, at reduced
prices D«c. 6. dtf
" rnlTslL B,
By JOHN MILLER, jun. 0* Co.
No. 8, Chilrut-ftreet,
One hundred and eighty bales
BENGAL GOODS,
/.mongft which ar?,
Gurrahs Mamcodies
Baftas Sannls
Gu2z<nah* Tafida'Collates
Guzzifst Emcrtics
Blue Cloths Calico s
Palampoors Romall Handkerchiefs
Amongil them are a great proportion of the
msnufa'dturcs of Patna..
Decemb-r I, §
Imported in the brig Eliza,
Capt.yYiASTii, from Bourdeaux ;
Claret in Cases of a very superior quality,
White Sauterne Wine in Cases,
Olive Oil in bafcet9 of 11 bottles each,
".Vhite and coloured Kid Gloves,
do. ' do. Silk do.
A fsw pipes of Bourdeaux Brandy,
For Sals by
JAMES I ATIMER, jun.
7lvSouth Wharr«s.
Who hai also for Sale,
A few qr. Calks Old Sherry Wine.
Dec. ?. d2w
French Circulating Library.
JOSEPH E. O. M. De La GRANGE,
_Np. lie Walnut-street, vs.
INFORMS those who wilh to recur to the only
means of becoming per ft-(3 in the Freheh Lan
guage,that he has jutt opened his Library, con
fitting of upwards of 1150 volumes, the bed cal
culated to afford either ufeful inftrudlion, or plea
sure. The conditions, together with a catalogue
of the Library, may he seen at every book-feller's
in town.
n. n. All translations from and into the French,
Engtilh and Spanifii Languages, execu:en wkh ac
curacy and dispatch. coim nov. 15.
~ PROPOSITION. 1
A handsome and roomy house, with a quanti- ]
ty of feood land, wi'hin a few miles of this city. |
A House in an eligible situation, and several
Lots in the eiiy.
A valuable body of I,and on the river Ohio,
yilfo, many tracSs of fine Lands (military
rights) lying near the Obio, on the Mi?mi and I
Sioto Rivers ,
Titles are all clear, and will be made with un- ,
txeeptiillable security.
A resident of this city is desirous of exchang
ing this property for Goods—Haft or Well India
would be peeterred.
If the specie value of those Lands at a dillance, ]
cannot be ascertained fatisfaflorily, they shall be (
rated at fuels a price as the purchaser may have it
at his option to return them at the fixed price with .
interelt, at tin expiration of twelve months. 1
Notice left with the Editor shall he attended to.
December 6. » I
"DANCING SCHOOL: 1
WILLIAM M'DQtJGALL preflnts his ;
mo# refpe.'lful compliments to his form- i
er employers and the citizens in general. a»d re- !
tutnf his moll grateful thanks, for the very (
tountifuLencouragemeut he lias expetienced for
these twenty-five years past, takes this opportu- {
nity of informing tbern, that-his fchoal is now
open, at his 1
Elegant Ball Room, 1
in South Fourth-Street, between Chefnut and
Walr.ut-ilreets. To begin at 10 in 'he morning 5
for young ladies, and 6in the evening l<si young /
gentlemen. , r
His firft Pra&icing Ball will be to-moirow p
evenings Saturdjy, the 9th inft. '!
Dec. 8. iawtf. t
Xi isoasCttr.
PHIL ABEL P HIA ,
SATURDAY EVENING, DE.CE M3F.R 9.
fy C 0 N G R E S S.
c . n HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
:ts
ell
FRIDAY DECEMBER 8.
Mr. Thatcher prefented-the petition,
n _ °f Daniel Sevvall, as the reprefentatrvc of
Parsons, praying to have two Loan
brought forward in proper time. Referred
to the Committee of the whole to whom was
r j referred the report of the Committee of
a y Claims pn the expediency or inexpediency
e „ of excepting a certain' proportion of claims
jU from the operation of the Aft of Limitati
-1 on -
M r^r - ; ColT moved, that the report of the
, n Committee of Commerce and Manufadlutes,
he made during the lift winter feflion, on the
0- petition of Pierre Joseph Flammend, in be
half of Louis le Guen, be referred to a
, _ Committee of the whole.—Agreed for Mon
day.
Mr. Sprigg moved, that the report of
a Seleft Committee 011 the petition of John
Carr, which appeared in the report of the
Committee of Revifal and Unfinifhed Bust
* ness, be referred to a Committee of the
whole. Agreed for Wednesday.
L _ Mr. T hatcher observed, that yesterday
there had been a resolution laid upon theta
>e ble by the gentleman from Vermont (Mr.
I Lyon) which he thought ought to be dis
posed of. It proposed a retrenchment of
e, the unueceflary expences of Government.
Mr. T. sAid he had observed that a refold-
| n tion of this kind was always brought for-'
ward in the feflion preceding an ele&ion.—
e> He did not wi(h, kowever, that the propofi
ig tion ihould lie longer on the table. ■ If it
__ were true that the expences of Government
were excelEie, they ought immediately to
set about retrenching them; and if it were
not true, the sooner they t*ild the people
so, by reje&ing the motion, the better.
The question for agreeing to the resoluti
on was put arid negatived, 33 to 30.
Just as the Speaker was cbunting the
votes, Mr. Lyon entered, and said, had he
been present when the question was pat, he
■- should have called the Yeas and Nays upon
it.
Coit moved that tlie report of the
Committee «f Claims, made in January last,
1- on the petition of Edward St. Loe Liver
more, be referred to a Committee of the
j whole. Agreed for Monday.
The fame gentleman moved a resolution
to the following effedt:
" Resolved, that the committee of ways'
d and means be inftrufted to enquire whether
any, and if any, what alterations are proper
j to be made in the aft for laying a tax upon
licences for retailing wine and spirits, and"
that they report by bill or otherwise."
Mr. Coit said, that, as the law flood at
present, licences were taken for a yeai from
the time at which they were granted, be
that time when it might, so that they were
constantly becoming due. He wi/hed to
have riiis inconvenience remedied, by put
ting the law upon the fame footing with the
carriage tax, the licences under which all
became due at one time ; as when a licence
was taken, it was taken so as to fall due at'
the time fixed.
The motion was agreed to.
Mr. Williams said, he found in the re
port of the committee of revifal and unfinifh
ed business, the report of afeleft committee
on a letter from the Secretary of State, in
clofmg a report of the direftor of the mint,
suggesting the expediency of some altera
tions in its eftablilhmcnt, to render it less
expeufive to the public ; and as he wilhed
to render that establishment less expensive,
he moved 'that the'letter and report be re
ferred to a conlmittee of the whole house.
Agreed for Wednesday.
Mr. Harper said, that the committee
to whom it was referred to report a bill for
establishing an uniform fyftcm of bankrupt
cy, conceiving this fubjeft to be of such
general concern, embracing so great a varie
ty jof interests, and a question in which the
meraantile affairs of the community were so
deeply involved, that they had wished him
to request an augmentation of the committee.
The motion was agreed t®, and eleven
members were added to the committee, com
prising a member from each state.
No business being before the house
(though only twelve o'clock) it adjourned
till Monday, a previous motion having been
passed for adjourning till that time, when
the house did adjourn.
NEW-YORK, Dec. 4.
The second part of the Medical Reposi
tory has lately made its appearance in this
city, from the press of Meflrs. Swords, prin
ters to the faculty of physic of Columbia
College.
The firft article is a communication from '
Dr. Mease of Philadelphia, on the Digita
lis purpurea, or purple Fox Glove, as a me- '
dicinal plant, in which the writer attempts '
to (how the rcafons, why the exhibition of
it has often failed of success.
The fecdnd article is from the fame gen- '
tleman, relating totheeffefts of eating phea
sants * [partridges] in the spring of the \
year, when their flelh is poisoned, as it is
(uppofed, by eating the berries of the Laii- i
rel. This article is of praftical use to all !
descriptions of people ; as there is real dan- '
| ger of eating those birds from February till J
May. Persons, in a few hours, after i'wal
lowing the flelh that is tainted with the ber
ries, are seized with giddinels, slushing of '
* It is wished that the people of the United ,
States might all use the fame language. The
fbeafart is net known in this country. Tie
people in the middle and southern dates, .call 1
p-artrirges, pheafarits ; and qiuils, partridges. '
'I he New-England people tall tKofe bird* ly !
their true Englifli names.
' face, sickness and vomiting, followed by
delirium.
Iwo clergymen in Boston, a few years
a S°> fullered fevcrely from the fame cause.
Fhe third article is a letter from Dr.
Davidfon of Martinique to Dr. Mease, con
taining observation? on the yellow fever iir
1 793• From flirhe observations and experi
ments, the writer is led to afcrilje the fever
• in Grangers from a northern climate, to their
imbibing an unilfual quantity of oxygene
gaS \
i v The fourth article is a singular cafe of a
" child, apparently fatiphulous, by Dr. Hedg
. es of Newburgli.
1 The fifth article is an account of the fuc
| eefsful application of caullic to a ftridturc
. in the urethra,'by Dr. Seaman of this city,
f The fifxth'artrcle'is a"cafe of Mania cuYed
r tiy mercury, producing
. "salivation, by'Drt Sriiith of this fcjty.
The seventh article contains fails and ob
fcrvations of Dr. Mitchel, explaining the
. true OperatJbn of Alkalis and lime on other
( fiibftances—in a.letter to Dr. Beddoes, at
. the .close-os which the phildfopber turns po
et and takta a tt-ip to ParnafTus ; and we
, confefs, the Doctor on the parnassian deed,
. appears to be very well mounted.
The.eighth article, contains some judici
p ous and ufeful observations hfDn Mijlerof
, this city on the effefts of 3bftineace in pre
venting ot mitigating diseases. We have
great faith in his opinions, arid firmly be
lieve, >hat abstinence, at the approach of
disease would prevent much sickness. '
The ninth article is the cafe of change in
the human liver- by pntrefaftion, from
Fourcroy.
The tenth article relates a cafe of fever
• supposed to he caused by putrid beef, by
Dr.Ofborn, surgeon to tht gatrifon on Go
vernors Iflatx^.
./ The remainder ,of this number of the re
pository is occupied with a review of medi
cal b6oks, meteorological observations for
July, August and Sept;mber, lift of patients
adrr.itted into the hospital, Medical news,
} Concluded with art 1 Appendix containing a
lcttef fnem-Dr. Mitchell to Dr. Percival of
Manchester, on the use of Alkaline remedies
in fevers ; and an article on the use of ijitrous
acid in Syphilis, by Dr. Beddoes.
It mull give plealure .to the lovers of fci
enee and truth, that this attempt to colled
the particles of knowledge, which are scat
tered over this and other countries, and save
them for future use, is in a fair way to suc
ceed ; and we expeft this repository will in
time be .a large and valuable magazine of
medical truths ana experiments.
Continuation of Late Foreign News,
By the Britifli Packet.
LONDON, Oft. 2.
The follovying is a letter from a naval officer
(late aprifoner in France) to his friend
in Greenock, dated on board his Majes
ty's ship Inipeteux, Torbay, 16th, ulti
mo :
" 0 n the flocks in the different building
yards at L'Orient, four ships of 74 guns
each ; one of was ready for launch
ing, a second qfarjy f», the other two only
in the framep,,and no workmenabout them.
In the harbor pae large frigate fitting for
sea with the greatest expedition, destined
for the East-Indies, and will be ready for
sea in ten days. There were likewise a
great number of privateers fitting for sea
with no less dispatch ; one ofthemmounted
28 guns, and would fail in a few days ; her
cruising latitude was from 49 {o 25 N. and
from 19 to to W. While I remained in
L'Orient, fix privateers failed, although the
signal was flying every day in the dock-yard
for a British squadron on the coast. I was
told by the merchants at L'Orient, that they
could fepd to sea from the different ports in
France, from 400 to jooprivateers, and that
they did not mind losing a few of them ;
they flattered themselves that one British
merchantman would make up the loss of a
dozen of their JVnall craft ; indeed the crews
of these veflels prepare themselves to be cap
tured, by taking no clothes with them but
what they' have on their backs, and one
change.
" I left L'Orient on the Bth of August,
and arrived at Bred in three days afterwards.
There ygrejn tjjat harbour four ships of
the line,two of which are three-deckers,
and two two-deckers, viz. l'lnvir.cible, and
l'Ocean, of.ioo guns each, the Berwick 74
and Jupiter 80 guns, and two frigates and
a corvette, all ready for hending their fails,
except the Berwick, which had her top
mad an end, none of them well manned.
There were on the flocks one of 140 guns,
Le Vengeur, in the frames, but no people
employed on her, one of 80 guns in the fame
date, and two frigates. 111 the docks four
of 80 guns, and two of 74, but no men.em
ployed about them, three of which were in
the engagement of the id June 1794, viz.
L' Aigle, Trajan, and Tyrannicide ; and
have not been at sea since. There were in
the Inner Road 16 fail of the line, viz. two
of three decks, and three flags, the flag ships
are La Terrible and.Le Republicain of 100
guns each, aqdL'lndomptable of 74 guns ;
nine of them had their fails bent, and in a
date of readiness for sea ; the others are
not half manned, and nothing but discon
tent prevails among the seamen, on account
of want ,of wages. In the Outer Road
there were Iyi«g at anchor two ftiips of the
line, four frigates, one corvetSi, and a lug
ger, all readyi&nv;iea ; they were to be
joined of the line and two fri
gates from the Inner Road, and were to pro
ceed to feti iu a few days, but I could not
learn thcir.'dedinatiorf.
" I was informed, by a person at Bred,
on whose information I could place a little
dependence, that the French were making 1
preparations for a descent on Ireland and
Scotland this winter, for which purpose 1
thty had 40,000 men in the neighbourhood
of Bred ready to embark. I saw part of 1
the troopsat exercise on a grand parade day,
city ; they expedl that thisarmame\it j
before failing, will be joined by the Spaftjfh
and Dutch fleets."
> A letter from an officer in the Orion, of
• 74 g uns > dated Sept. ii has been received
. here this morning ; by this letter we learn,
■ that the Orion had been at Gibraltar to
i .Water, whft;- they lay ten' days; when they
• came away an attack on the town was dai
r ly expedted from the Spaniards, who feem
r ed to be making formidable preparations
: for that purpoic. Flags of truce are cou
| tinually passing between the commanders at
i I Cadi/, and lord St. Vincent, and a report
- Was prevalent in the fleet,nhat the guillo
tine has raised its direfulhead in sundry pla
ces of Spain;
; Cflober 3.
The Dutch papers to the 25th ult. state
1 that an oflenfivc and definitive alliance has
r been concluded between the Batavian R«-
public and the court of Maffrid, on which
- they engage to ad in conceit dining the
2 prefen't war. The king of Spain, as a proof
r of his sincerity, has pmniifed, to indemnify
t the Dutch merchants for the detention of
- their (hips in the years 1,779, 80 a
e 1781.
> A Britifli veflel, the cargo of which was
valued at 60,0001. was lately seized on the
- Barbary coast by fix Portuguese, partof the
f crew, while the mailer pr«ceeded to Ceuta
- for provisions. They had taken shelter in
; one of the ports on that coast, but werepur
- sued, and probably ere this taken.
f The three Spsnifh Prelates who have
been so long upon a million at Dome, have
1 left that city, upon their returp to Madrid,
1 carry ing with them the fanftion ot his Holi
nffs for the reform of the Spanish Inquifitf
■ on, the reftri&ion upon religious foundati
■ ons, See. The Inquisition in Spain is uot
. totally abolished, as has been, reported.
Though in none of the papers
by the Triumvirs in order to fubdantiatc the
. charge of a Conspiracy, the least mention
is made either ofCarnot or Bsrthelemy, yet
1 it is easily conceived, how extremely impor
tant it was for the Triumvirate to get rid of
these two Directors.—Both, and especially
Carnot,could not but be intimately acquainted
with the secret of the adtual Caufpiraey of
: the Triumvirs against the Legislative Body,
and of the measures planned for the dettruc
tion of the new Third. In order to blot
out every trace of the traiterous scheme,
nothing could be more convenient than to
murder one and to transport the other to a
distant country, in the paflage to which he
may perhaps find his death in some means or
other, in the manner of Carrier's downings
at Nantes.
In refpeft to the Fast of Carnot's afiafii
nation, whether by the hands ofßarras, or
of two Myrmidons whom the Triumvirate
had placed in the Gallery of the Luxem
bourgh to do the deed, at h« pasTed from the
Council chamber of the Directory, after re
fufing to give , his afTent to the plaa of the
late revolution, there is no doubtoffthe mur
der, nor of the person* who gave the order
for it—the truth will come out. Carnot's
Brother is also fuppufed to have been afTaffi
nated..
This morning we received the Paris Jour
nals down to the 30th ult. of which the
following are the principal contents.
1 lie moll remarkable information in the
French papers, is the appearance of a coun
ter revolutioo in Poland, about to commence
under the auspices of Buonaparte. To that
effeft he has written to Count Potocki, for
merly anibaflador at Cendantinople from
Poland. The French General earneft'y so
licits the speedy assemblage of the Marshals
and Chiefs of the Diet of 1791 at Milan.
The exiled Poles, driven from their country
on account «f the lad infurreiSlion in Poland
and who have lately reiided in Paris, have
left the latter place, by invitation, for Ita
>y-
Odtober 4.
The latest advices from Admiral Duncans
fleet off the I exel, give the following infor
mation.—" By a Danish ship, which left the
Texcl yederday [Sept. 36], we have ob
tained ih formation, that in consequence of
lome serious misunderstanding between the
Dutch and French, the Dutch f »ilors had
lefufed to go to sea, when the Admiral
made the signal to weigh ; upon which most
of the officers had their baggage lent on
fliore ; and very soon after they followed it
{hemfelves. Their transports have been re
move 4 from the outward to the inner road,
and the troops are disembarked."
A young captain (of great military tal
ents, no doubt, though not quite twelve
years of age) was asked the other day, what
regiment he belonged to ? The of
light dragoons." " Are you sure you're
not miftaflen ?" said an elderly gentleman
in company—•' I (hould rather suppose you
belong to the light «y"b»<-ry !"
Madame Carnot, with her children, now
reside at the house of a relation near Arras.
We are intreated not to confound the
seducer of Miss King with'a gentleman who
is generally known by the name of Flying
Fitzgerald, and who wounded Harvey Al
ton in a duel about fix years, ago, in conse
quence of a dispute at Ranelagli.
Maj. Wood, who was second to the hon.
col. King in a late duel, is nearly related to
the fami y of lord Kingfborough.
Colonel Fitzgerald is half-brother to lady
Kingfborough. His father's second wife
was her ladyship's mother.
The unfortunate Miss K is describ
ed, by tbofe who are acquainted with her,
to be one of the fined young ladie&rin this
country.
A barpnet atithe we# end of the town
has, withitr these few days, been discovered
by his lady in an amour with .his cook.—
The enraged midrefs beat the peccant fair
t/.ie so fevercly with the heel of her shoe,
that it is supposed she will lose the fight of
one of her eyes.
Why Sir Benjamin Hammet should de
cline the honours of the civic chair, it is ra
ther puzzling to conjecture. Now that
certain parliamentary regulations have per
rnitted him to rcpofe from the endlcfs toil of
f:anting, surely the leisure he has been thus
indulged in, might as difni e r.dm!, be de
voted to feajling for the public good N6r
can we he induced to believe, as has beer,
nuliciou fly mfinuated, that his rehaance to.
enter ori the d'lties of the digeflive dire&or
fhip can poifihly arifr from any dread of iu
belrtg ihftng employment ; on the contra
ry, according to an experienced writer, he
will then be entitled, as alderman, especially
as city chief, to make a trade of his eating,
and, like a cock, to f?ape while he feed*.
The privateer L'lntrepide, belonging to
Nantz has sent into Minden the Mary, an
American brig, laden with sugar, eoffee,
cotton and pepper. The privateer fell in'
with two American vessels, on their way
home, with 450 passengers from Ireland on
board.
| Storaee and Braham are now termed the
two Canaries, from the eireumftance of those
amorous -warblers Wia-gjhut up in a cage !
OFTICO or THE MINISTER OF MARINE.
' {From the French papers.)
The privateer La Reprise, from St. Jean
, de-Luz, mounting two guns arid eight fwiv
| els, after three-attempts to boafd, and an en
gagement which laffed five hours, has cap
, r turcd a Portuguese ship,' named the Caro
! line, of 400 tons, carrying fix 12, 8, and 6"
pounders, and copper bottomed, returning
from Fernambuc to Oporto, with 6000
quintals of sugar, 242 bales df cotton, 2135
cow hides, 431 logs of wood for furniture,
and 1900 cow horns. This rich vessel has
been earned into Vigo. The captain of
the privateer is citizen Lavagne, 80 years of
age, who took on him the command of the
privateer in lieu of his son, detained on shore
by iicknefs.
The privateer La Mouche, belonging to
Rochelle, has carried into port an Engliih
prize, the cargo of which is estimated at
1,700,000 livres. This privateer has also
captured two Poriuguefe vefTels.
The privateer Le Castor, belonging to St-
Maloes, captain Leredda, lias captured the
Resolution, belonging to Limeriefc, laden
with fait, and has carried her into Rofcoff
The privateer Le Lazare Hoche, be
longing to Brefl, has sent into L'Orienr,
the O.iio, of 300 tons, laden with pitch, tar,
wood for building, cotton, See. under A
nierican colours. _
The privateer Le Voltigeur, belonging to
Calais, has captured and sent off the Uhe,
the English brig the ReMiition, captain
Long, from Memvl, laden with timber for
building.
The privateer I'Enttrprize, belonging to
Nantz, has sent into Minden an English ves
sel named the Grace, of 460 tons, on her
paliage from Liftjon with a cargo 9f fait.
The fame privateer has sent into the river
of Nantz the American ftiipthe Light Horse
laden with beer and other commodities,
s j n Ebglifh galliot, laden with 74 pip&
and 150 cases of Fort wine, bound to Gib
raltar, has been aaptured hy fomc French
vessels, and sent into Cologne.
The privateer I'Aigle, belonging to L'
Orient, has entered that port with the Ra
ven, an American vefTel of 300 tons, laden
with sugar, cotton, nankeens,
The privateer L'Entrcprenant, belong
ing to Dieppe, captain Black, has carried
into Cherbourg- an Eirglifl, brig named the
Hope, which (he cut out of the road of
Guernsey. She is laden with wine, hrandy
and gin. 1
From the Whitehall Evening Pojl of Oa. 7.
ABRIDGEMENT OF TH E STATE OF POUTICf,
FOR THIS WEEK.
We have not been informed of any thing
remarkable, in the course of the present
week, in the interior of France. The Di
rectory mud, no doubt, be busily occupied
in filling up the vacancies occasioned by
their late violent proceedings in the Coun
cils. Indeed it mull, we are afraid, he a
long time before any tiling very remarkable
eau happen' in that humbled kingdom : in
which as complete a tyranny fcems, for the
present, te prevail as ever existed, and in
whieh the very voice of liberty is not heard.
The people, wearied of fruitlefs efforts for
the re (iorarion of tranquility, and afraid of
the Direftory, consults every one his own
fafety.—Such are the fruits of jacobiaifm !
the innovations of vilionary politicians ! the
(ticklers for the rights, but the defpifers and
violators of all the duties of man !—The
French revolution mult be allowed, at the
fame time, to be a warning to kings, as well
as to the people ; for altho' the prince on
whom the florin broke, had this world been
3 place for an equal diftnbutJon of .rewards
■andpunifhments, would have been secured
from such extreme calamities by the inno
cence of bis life, and the sincerity of his d-.-
votion ; the elements of that storm were
prepared for ages, in the opprefiion and the
profulion of his predecessors on the throne,
and in those unfortunate councils by which
he was, soon after the commencemeftt of his
reign, and without experience ofthe expence
of war and the inconltancy of affairs drawn
in to take a share in the contest between A
mevica and Great Britain—The appearance
of Flags of Truce and frequent lieffrngers
from Fiance, with difpatchjs addrsfled, not
to lord Grenville, the miniller of this coun
try for foreign affairs,-but to Lord Malmef
bury, has been considered by some as an
indication, on the part of the Direaory,
as a disposition to Peace, and a wi.ih to re'
Hew, or rather to continue the negociation,
which, they think, has never been entirely
brojeen off. But to thitf conjecture we op
pose the aftual breaking up of the conferen
! ces at Lifie, and the interest of the present
rulers of France to carry on the fyitam of
war and plunder—to go on with pillage and
conquest—to make their neighbours pay for
the maintenance of armies, by which they
keep themselves in power, trample on their
own countrymen, and harrafs all the nati
ons around them—Nothing new has tran
spired on the fide of «-
SPAIN and PORTUGAL;
nor yet have we been informed of what has
t iken place at Udlna, the feat of negociati
an in