PHILADELPHIA,
TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 45.
KEFLMJTIOXS C'/ PE ACE.
In mferiesofltttenjtoaSinaXotoftbfXjnUedStatet.
P'. AR SIR,
IK contemplating theaJvantages which man
kind dierive from the introd'uilion apd
or civilization, the mind is eq'i.»l!y difpoftd to
a and to praise that goodness which-, with
the bl'-fJinKscf christianity, beßo'.ved the difpp
fition to mild and gentle iof.ans ps jullice.
The fpir(t c,f " Charity, which like the dew
of Heaven", it 'inspires, ha» hj<|a general tcu
,deney to she adoption of thofefyftems ofgnvern
mcirt and codes of laws f by'-which men obtain
security and fmd relief from iryuflice, more fa%-
appealiiij to the uncertain, iffie of
powerjor individual flrength. " The
raee being not to the fwift, or the battle to the
flrong."
In the firft flages of every rude and lavage fo
tiety, it appears that the difpufes between its
memb."rs w ere generally determined on princi
ples neither relevant to th# cafe nor likely to cfta
hlKh justice. In England as well as in France
(1) an appeal to arms, a perfooal combat was
for a confideralilc time the only critenon by
which right and wrong was determined, or even
truth or talfehood eftablilbed or believed !
On similar ground-', for n®ne other could ever
horiginated tha barbarous cuftoin, we are
t.t l'iir,i;iMe that firft and greatest evil to man
kind, A warring distortion began.
The jjleas of juftification which the modern
tnaKifeftoes 0/ civilized nations generally offer,
tor continuing thn bloedy proofa of error or of
injiifticc, are as futile as the flame which th«
purf'uit is meant to eftablilh.
To obtain redress for wrongs, or reparation
for injuries, real or pretended, by a national
cuarrel, hai been founij " the feeble resource of
weak-mind v\ mifcifters and wicked men. To
To juftify the nvfulal of a demanded right, to
renair or defend the miflaien jtnloufy of nation
al honor, to gratify revente, majnuwv usurped
ruthoritv, or fatibfv amsiiion and tiie love of
fame, '• the dogs of war" are let 100 e ucon
ninltiad ! llow unlikely to produce the deO'jns
of jnfiice ! Th? gidcy libertine or drunken ra
viflier, the liar and the thief, if but of rank to
<<l)tain a like di-nfion, will juftify and dtfst'id
tneir deeds by the fame policy, in the tame way,
snd with equal propriety too I ! I Look at ihofe
nati.-ns. of v.-hom the'hili ric page relates the
vi<florJi- and recounts the conqjeUs ! Examine
the interesting voluaies ot their expetlltiorK, ar
mies, equipage, prisoners and plunder, and thm
retlcih like a politician, a? well a man, upnn
the C;>NslqutNer. 1 I Where hnsv is the iame
of conquering Home ? of proud Carthsge >. of
Athens ? Where it the fading tame of the con
quering nations of Europe flyinjj to at
it.': :;::.! —To every spot where Industry
or Freedom can find a the Olive
branch of peace -vears a futile, th; Tree of
Liberty bears a
The ifl-r.ds of It»ly were peopled by fugitives
frotn tVeius of war m.I dtfolation I They erect
ed th' standard snd fprrad the fads of Com
merce amongst barren finds, ihillles, and
.briars ! they demonstrated that ivhere Peace is
fcur.J Commerce r ~vi!i d.ftre to dwell, and where
there is Commerce there :s Plenty. Let it then
be eftjd)li(h»</ an a CREED in the mind of every
g#od Man, of every Christian, and of every ;
Politician c«id" Patriot too, that the Arts of
Peace are the fafeft,- the belt, the ulti.Tiite an '
the only tcrreftial national btelTings, jntler svh'cli
A PSO»LE rfeferve or can obtain, Gthbri'j for
Wij'dom or Fame for Hafflinefr.
In tracing arvd confid'ermtc the prncrtfs of eve
ry 1: iticn of which Ifftcrj records rfee condufl,
we Ciall find Improvement to hare' Been mote
impeded l>r WAlt, than by everv »ther evil or
obflatlc which the infant knowledge of good
Government must, in early times, have had to
encounter. Tte acquisition of Wealth has been
discouraged the natural flaw of its in
crease, by the usurping and greedy hand of
Power, thereby become neceflitous divnted
from the channels of its general cifrfent thro'
the beil »f Induflry, into courses of more con
fined individual speculation, deception and dif
guifc. WAR has, in e?ery age and ceuntry,
from the savage to the civilized state, not only
produced many evils, but tWe of the greatest
magnitude and importance to the society.
It has »n immediate aud inevitable tendency
to diminilh the national Revenue, when ( at the
fame time, it is plat ed m'oft in need of aug
mentation., Its effcifls on Industry are not kfs
injurious or less certain, by curtailing the Oe
niand and consequently »he reward of Labor
under thole difcouragemeuts Cultivation lan
guishes, Trade and Corpmerct become enfeebled,
and Improvement? cease !
But its effects on Domestic Tranquility, what
pen can eve,- feebly paint ? Memory of Ameri
ca revive !*•"*.
Once in the history of a nation u may happen
thatH eaufe occurs to juftify, in every view, the
fad resource of " flight to arms" -such was
yours I . But let oblivion fpohge up the floods of
sorrow which it caused to flow from private fuf ■
feriug, and Hop thol' rivers of tears which even
yet are not dried up ! Genius of Humanity! pour
balm into those wounds which the strength of
the purest patriotism scarce cae mitigate ! *hich
»o viflory or success can heal I The trumpet,
which announced «' a ro»ted enemy," made
tremble the tender firings of every tie for which
the t'.i:riot bled ! The amiable Matron breathed
the p'aife of thanks " thjt dearest connex
ion wis in the field»f Viflory ! When, lo I ano
ther found •« A truce to bury the Dead !"
Behold her they bereft of,h : m for whom Ihe jutl
bad praif'd e'en Heaven itfelf ! in vain'her fup
plicvting eyes retail him from the grave. Her
unprotedled prattlers join their innocent hfpings,
their'tears, their invocations I bis.foot is heard
m more 11 her neighbours afford , nnly the too
. feelingfympatby of fell+w-fuffering, for each has
. 4oft a hufb*nd, father, brother, or friend !
where then to them is the glory or the gratifica
tion of the viflory ? Who will feed or educate
their little ones ? Who guard their infant growth
snd *ead then! up to men I Who caution them
'affMaft ttffc'fnares of'vice, and psiut out the
paths to >duftrloUs preferment» Who form,
thcirtUaraclers, that '« they miy biufh whofc
fathers were tte r fees ? (, i J *' _
Behold th,e catalogue of the flam . filled -With
the ti*mes of the .bcO citizens, the fc'ilt patt.on,
and the best men ! those " where emin ncereu
dsr-d their names umverfaily their influ
ence extcnfivc, and their attachments numerous."
{*) -Contemplate the ucprovided widow Knd the '
ejpofed virgin orphan ! year clittl / that thought
oive death a fling, and made i- smart, which else
had scarce teen felt—in vain they call "leryert er .
<lay to come," and think of all the dear domeftie
" jrps departed never to return —Oh I how pain
ful the ren embrance "
/l) Spirit of vol. 2, p. a.i3 i'f/eque'-
(1) Army's nridrefs tc Genual H'ajbir&to::,
November, 1783.
. (i) /Jventurer, W-'. 4» t Z4-
Tijc trcly chrulian I oiidw». et-gaai'.y o
f-icyrtc, in his p...er.i on ,iea+h, i-uti ..]
sji'- Cur ,71,/.r/itrmaln .r wilUTn, n } 'tr »/" '
Tile firil >fT.>tisof our fchjooU ihculdeipcfe th:»to
infancy, and " iinpreft upon ca.h growing.ip.nd" j
tl«e ni. i?:ichot^'it; jllitc >v!»ich !ii°;acy hasmsdc.ia ,<0
hblditig up a iomjufiror to sSaijiaiiKD, iiilleaj 'jf a a
tyrant AJ (j yer ot the human rvcej to g' n I'a! ai>-
hoijrvoce !in
cf men under the -cliara&ew of heroti whose
conduA (hjuld be tranfmitsed with d<t.aftatioii to 11
the ljuSft poft;r;fy ! and the narfies of Cain and e
Alexander, Cxtar, Curt », Charles and Ctive, be
b'crded In on - common view of horror! while
the friends and promoters of human felicity,the p»- ,
riot dele-ndcrs of freed,;m alone filould he held i(p J
as 01-jefls oF admiration and praise, a» fit ex- J 1
aniplse of imitation. ji
To tlie of a p?ople It is nceJlefj ta' J
ol'fervc thar war has ever been dcP.ruftiv, 1 , the
c-p(ifle hi'tffi i'y j-rcfervrd, tfie who!cfolVi*' trl^*vi
re_ raicts imposed in times of p;ace, accord but4.lL j. '
with the relied (late cf morality current a nr n
a licentious folc'.iery ;jn army in time Of war, coir.- t
posed of the idle and indolent, who millakinj;ikc'J\
campTatr a'plaad'ttr indulgence, seek lhelterfrom i c
obfervaiion, or perhaps from juflice, asd wwtr, 1;
their wortlileflhcfs or ofifertee with an uni-orta, „.I
coat, »or can the UtpioiL vigilance of the belt o {ft - ;
errs, joined to the good disposition of those men , I
who are well Inclined amonjft the privates, pre ! t
vent the adoption of those habits which at the end f
of the service they retire with, the fuhjetSs of ap
prehenlion ai.ddread, of which every eoantry that 1
has dilbandejl an array is too well convinced. (J ) '
All or piuft of these evils areinfeparab'efrom,
and proved by the dear bought experience of every
nation "eiilUng as well as txtinfl, to be conlequent
to WAR:
In tracing the decline and fall of empires, dates
and Kingdoms, we should be much more Qonneft- <
ed wi hthe principal caufethan hifiorhns and fpe- "
eulative writers generally a»e, fairly and candidly J
to impute it to that scourge and curse of nations,
a disposition to W AR. It it not however meaut to '
recommend a cold, inaAive and inattentive difpofi- '
tioa and preparation for even that calamity, that
always to be deprecated (late of national fituatioii, ,
but to consider, and recommendilf ta be uiiverfal
ly considered, as tit htm of politicalhealth- to in im
proving and prof permit people.
I am, &c. yours, and always
A FRIEND TO LAWS & FREEDOM.
(\) See the records of the Old Bailey at it he
cloft *f the. war, 1783 —in September Jefie.as
17S were convificd of filoniei, in De -ember
113 more, ofivhicb 81 receivedfentence of death,
.3 to be transported.
/5J The United States arc an \m\<\ut-excep
tion, having mire to boajt on the condufl of the
late continental army than any country upon earth,
nnd more, it is to be fitted, than <wi.'l ever be
the enje ajain. The p .triot army of 1783 de
\ferves to be celebrated tts a theme for praise
<wherevep freedom flourifhes, or car) but ruife her
head. '
Philadelphia, Dec. 23d, 1797.
MR.-FENNO, '
jThe following address is now circulating for
Subfcripticn ; and, it is hoped, will receive
the ftr'wus attention of the citizens of'Ph'da
delphia.
To the Select and Common Councils
of the City of Philadelphia.
The Address and Petition of the sub
scribers, Freeholders and Inhabitants of
the said City.
Fellow Citizens of the Corporation,
While the fufferings and distress of ifar
city, Qpcafioncd by the late contagious fiek
nefs, continue frefli in our memory ; whfld,
in-the (hort period of four years, we can
not ha\? wholly forgotten a former afflic
tion of the like kind, nor the »umber of
our deat friends, relatives, and neighbours"
whom we have" lament at the nnurnful
vi&ims of both visitations ; —and, finally,"
while we are devoutly to acknowledge that
kind Providenct which has fparcd ©tir cJv/n
lives from the (hafts of mortality which ftcW
thick around ut, and hath restored our city
to its usual .state of health and prosperity,
we ought not to be unmindful of the means
which, under the fa>or of heaven, may ap
pear the melt effeftual, to prevent or miti
gate the return of the like calamities.
The chief magistrate of the common
wealth, in his address to the legislature,- af
ter a pathetic detail of some of the parti
culars, relating to the progress and extent
of the mortality, hath with a solicitude (uit
ed to the occasion, recommended certain
measures, as peculiar objects of legijlatlve at
tention aud provision, " in order to guard
more efFe£tu3lly against the introduction of
pestilential and contagious difeaTes from
foreign countries ; founded on plans detailed
to him by the College of Physicians, by o
ther learned members of the faculty, and by
the Infpe&ors of the Health-office."
He has also proposed and recommended
Other remedies, absolutely necefTary ia co
operation with the legislative provision, Whe
ther the contagion be imparted from foreign
countries, or may be generated here ; and
chiefly, "An attention to the clcanlinefs of the
city, its avenues, and vacant lots, together with
the infuringfuch a supply of water, through
the medium of canals, as appears now to have
become ejfential to the general convcnienee, at
well as to the health of the community,'' both
in the city and its suburbs. Fof this end,
the exertion of tire corporate bodies, which
are constituted for the local purposes of the
city, the Northern Liberties and diftridt of
Southwark, with the extension of their pow
ers, as well as other legislative aid, are
pointed out as neceflaryJ
In this great Work, we trust the city cor
poration will consider it as their duty to take
the lead, not only as particularly interejled,
but as having the chief means iu their pow
er. For it seems demonstrable that the loss
to the city, in a fingli visitation of this con
tagious disease, (if it could be preventpd_<p.r
greatly allayed by cleanliness, and a copious
supply of water, not to mention the use of
water for preventing or subduing the devas
tations of fire, is more, perhaps, thai? ifie
capital neceflary to insure such a supply o£
water in perpetuity, even if no interest ,werv
to accrue (on the capital to be expended)
for the use of water in families.
It appears from the statement in the gov
ernor's address, tkat even in the late fiekneft
the incidental orextra expences of the health
office, the legislative grant, and other contri
butions for the poor amounted to 42,000
dollars; and the loss arising from two ol- three
months fnfpenfion of our commerce, of ma
nufacturing- and mechanical bufincfs; the
expence ofthe multitude of families by which
near half the c!ty vvEscvscuateil, nottofpeak
>f the rnvftiin-L'e loss of fit lead 1000 valu- 111
>ble citizens, who fell victims to the' disease tt
aftfily be imagined, than accurate- rr
.y calculated. Add to'this the immense loss c:
jftqi experienced fiom fire, when but only
* fe«v houses are consumed, and what might tl
be thiflols from a more extended fonfiagra- n
t:on, for want of a ready supply of -water I
need liardjy be mentioned. Your petition- It
ers, lhere[ore, earricftly requejl, t'
That the corporation, as fathers of the p
city, as gqardians bf the poor, and of the c
health and prosperity of thfcir fellow citizens il
ii) general, willt3kethe premises into their a
jmmtoijte wife and efTc'dtual Consideration ; I r
i ) (Jqißg v.hieh, your fetitiotiers wi(h to f
mwißtlku your refolutidfli by h
Tliat, as t ¥ar' , 'li»^.fiejr : &n collect the fenti- a
riients sis their fellow citizens in general,
is 'bo bßjedt of'tlfe or ornament, to
\vhtsh H Wi'eral proportion of the city funds i
applied,thati to the
preieViti; tvtn'if no ret-ufti of Intereji on the f
Capitil were to be expedted. We therefore j c
have a full confidence in the patriotism of' c
those whom we adclrefs, that speedy and ef- j t
fcdtu.'.'l measures to accomplilh our wishes j 1
will he devised and pursued. v
iQIIIjIHIBI 11l 11 ■ t
Foreign Intelligence, 1
WHITEHALL, Oft. 17. I
The king has been pleased to grant the '
dignity of a viftpunt of the king of Great- 1
Britain, to Adam Duncan, Esq. admiral of '
the Blue squadron of his nujedy's fleet, and
the heirs male of his body lawfully begot- '
ten, bj the name, dile, artd title of Viscount '
Duncan, of Camptrdown, and of Lundieln <
our shire of PertV
The king has also been pleased to grant 1
the dignity of a baronet of the kingdom of
Great-Britain to Richard Onflow, Esq.
of the Red squadron of his
maj^dy »nd the heirs male of "his
bggstten.
LONDON, Oft. 10.
Wethis morning lefume our extrafts from
the French paper*. The report of Ramel
couveys some idea of the state of the French
finances, when the grant of two hundred
millions in paper, was reduced, by the de
preciation of the credft of government, to
the vfdyu of less than nine millions in specie.
The French plenipotentiaries at Lisle, in
fending away Lord Malmediury for the
purpose of obtaining new powers to treat
definitively oq the basis of the total restitu
tion oronr conquests, made from France
and her aUicvwcre desirous to appear as if
they were not the fird to break off the ne
gociation. It nqw seems, that in order to
give fonae colour to that design, the plenipo
tentiaries are to remain at Lisle until the
16th ind. in expeftation of Lord Malmef
bary's return to that place, with the necessa
ry powers.
In eonftquenee of these proceedings,
Viek, the messenger, was dispatched to Lisle
soon after ( Malmeftjury return to Loo
don, to figflify tl>at th« basis of the nego
i j) by waS such,
tfijjt.it could,not lead to an happy termi
nation. But the dlreftory (lillperfifling in the
delfgtf bPgfvTbg' i plausible air to its exor
bitant pretensions, sent Moufieur de la Clue
Wout' Wth a note, e'6ntaining in faft
demands as imperious as before, but glossed
terWis of grfat civility. Indeed**
trf it may be remarked as the
mod polite of any that has yet passed from
the French
"Lisle, 10 Vendemcare (08. S.J 6thyear.
" The plenipotentiaries of the French re
public, charged to' negociate peace with
England, have the honor to inform Lord
Malmefbury, that having addressed a copy
of 5 his lad note t>f Sept. 25, 1797, to their
government', the executive direftory has di
refted thfm to declare in its name, that it
has not Ceased to desire peace ; —thpt it gave
unequivocal proofs of the sentiment which
aftuati:d it, when it ordered theminiders of
the republic to demand a categorical expli
cation, with regard to the powers veded In
its minister plenipotentiary by the English
government; that such a proceeding neither
had, nor could have, any other objeft than
to bring the negociation to a speedy and
happy issue.
The order givan to tha miniders plenipo
tentiaries of the republic to remain at Lisle,
after Lord Malinelbury's departure, is a
farther proof that the direftory'defired, and
provided for, his return with foch powers
as would not be illusory ; and the limitation
of whieh would no longer afford a pretext
for retarding the conclusion of peace.
" That luch are invariably the intentions
and hopes of the executive direftory, which
enjoins the miniders plenipotentiaries of the
republic not to quit Lisle, till such time as
the' prolonged absence of the negotiator
(hall no longer leave room to doubt the in
tention of his Britannic majelty to break
off atf negociation.
" That, in confequeftce, the 29th Vende
maiie inft. (Oft. 16, O. S.) is the period
fixed for the recall of the miniders plenipo
tentiaries of the French republic, in cafe
that the minider plenipotentiary of his Bri
tannic majedy fliould not return to 'Lisle by
the above epoch.
" The executive direftory will experience
great regret, In cafe that an accommodation,
1 already twice entered upon, (hould not be
' cqnfummgte4-t; but its own conscienCe, and
• all Eilrdpe will render tedimony, that it is
1 We' EiVg!ifh'ghvernrneiit that will inflict the
f £courge of war on the two nations.
1./ miniders plenipotentiaries of the
French republic beg the minister plenipoten
tiary of his Britannic majedy to accept the
- affuranw sos their high consideration.
1 (Signed)
" TREILHARD,
" BONMTER. ,
i " DERCHE, the Secretary of Legation."
The answer returned by our Cabinet has,
we have no doubt, been as polite, in point
1 offynn, as the note of the Direftory ; but
as the dignity and the interelt of the nation
unite iu refufmg our aequ'efctnce to the ex- v,
traordinary demands of the French frovern- tl
meut', it is highly improbable that the nego- v
ciation will be resumed for the present.
With refpeft to the sorrow expressed by w
the Direftory on the unfortnnate turn of the C
negociation, and its appeal to the powers of a
Europe, that to -the Engliftt-government p- J
lone is to be attributed the continuance of h
the war, they can only be confidercd ashy
pocritical pro'eft at ions, of which no person fc
can be the dupe, who diverts them of those I
illusive expreflions which the new republican I
adminiftratiort has fubftitiited for the Car- f
magnolesof the ancient committee of public a
fafety, the spirit and znimofity of which it i
has, however, preferred both izt the aftual t
and preceding megocktious. J sri 1
Oftober 12.
The army of the Prince $f Cofide is now t
in the service of Ruilia. 1
We learn by a letter from. Madrid,.iu- c
fcrted in the French papers, that the Prince f
j of Peace, who was comptomifed in the de
-1 elaration made by Dunan, has declared to f
j the French Arabaffador, that his Catholic 1
j Majedy has condantly rejedted all the infin-
I nations and propufals whidh have been milde c
to hiro, to engage him to break or.to violate j
the treaty which he had entered into with
the French government. He also made, a
protcftation of his own unlimited attachment
to that goveenment ; and adds, that every !
thing contained in Duncan's declaration is I
merely founded on fuppoliti'on and calumny. 1
What therefore are we to think of this con- I
fpiracy, under the ma(k of which the Di
tory has proceeded with such severity a- i
gainst the deputies who were in opposition i
to its power, has no other foundation than
in the declaration of Duuan ?
One of our papers dates, that the city of
Aix is declared in a state of liege, and its
inhabitants disarmed. ,
Oftober ,
The price demanded bjr u the Exeeutive
Direftory. for the liberation $f Sir Sidney
Smith, has been erroneogfly stated ; it was
not four hundred but four thousand men
that they have required. It is also untrue
that Sir Sidney is.on his parole ; he is Hill
in close confinement.
Our government, it is said, have declined
to purehafe the exahange of Sir Sidney
Smith at the price put upon his liberty, by
the Directory of France. It would certain
ly be edablifliing a veiy bad precedent to ac
cede to the unreasonable proposition of re
turning an officer of equal rank and 4000
men for any officer, whatever may be his
merits.
A Utter from Udina, dated September
13; contains the following Statements':
" After the fitting of the nth, the Pleni
potentiaries fcparated, observing that they
were not to meet again. A total silence
prevailed relative to whatever passed at the
late conferences.—lt is supposed that the
parties would not have been so discreet, pro
vided they had been enabled to communicate
good and fatisfaftory intelligence. What
renders us dill more easy, is the sudden de
parture of general Meerfeldt, sent to the
' Gongrefs by the Emperor 1 " Such are our
advises from Udina.
Thofa fromStradmrg are far more fatif
faftory. We fliall insert them to the end,
that our readers may c'ompare'them with the
[ foregoing «x tract. Our article is dated
from Strafburg, September 27, and is as
! follows:—" An agent of the Landgrave of
Darmdadt, who relides at Cork, has juit
received a paeket from the Landgrave, in
which he dates to him, that his nliiiift#r at
Vienna had just transmitted to him an cx
( traordinary courier, with the agreeable in
[ telligence, that the Emperor had just ratifi
ed the'definitive articles of peace iigned at
Udina, and broyglit to him express by gen
eral Meerfeldt. This important intelligence
has been proclaimed throughout the whole
1 extent of the right bank of the Rhine, and
' has just been communicated by adjutant gen,'
feral Poliffart to the generals redding in this
city."
By this day's Mail.
1 NEW-YORK, December 25.
From the New-Fork Gaxette.
, LATEST FROM M.IJf
-1 The various and conlradid'jry Reports at-
I the Coffee-Houfe, on Saturday evening,
s are condensed into the following, which are
i direst from Capt. Peterfon.
t Captain Peterfon, of the brig Eliza, of
Philadelphia, arrived here on Saturday,
? from Bourdeaux, which place he left ou the
1 26th of Oftober, and the mouth of the ri
c ver tht firft of November.
9 On the 29th of October, he went on
r fiiore at a froalltown, called Royan, on the
. North fide of tie river, for the purpose of
c laying in bread for the voyage; at this place
he saw several French seamen, who had thai
- day arrived from the fleet at Bred, and were
i then embarking in a small vessel for Bour
!- deax. One of the sailors, who belonged
e to Royan, ftnd whose wife lived there, in
formed Capt. Peterfon, that the fleet at
y BREST WAS LAID UP, IN CONSEQUENCE OF
THEIR. NOT BEING ABLE TO MAN THEIR,
e ships; and, that the French Direftory had
1, issued a Proclamation offering their frigates
e to such merchants as thought proper to ac
d cept of them as privateers, they allowed go
s vernmetT? one-third of the priiie money,
e This datemeut, we thinkftoiay be depen
ded on, for these reafons,—-\Captain Peter
t son speaks the French language, appears to
1- be an intelligent man, ar.d was folicitons to
e be the bearet of NEWS—[truly worthy im
itating.'] This is evinced from the circum
dance of his detaining his veflel several hour*
after he was ready to fail, for the arrival of
1 the Mail from Pars, which he did in cxpec
" | tation of receiving intelligence from tfoenee.
I Mr. Fenwitk, our Cons il at Bourdeax, told
s, f captain Peterfon that he did not think it
it j worth his while to wait longer—-The Ca;jt.
:t' then rcqiieded the Cooful to favour him
>n : with jtffcal news he was in poffeflion of, lt>
which he replied,tha: lis kn- •• n<*'t&iri "
than Captain P. did. and failed without e
ven an inclofiire from him.
The news of Admiral Duncan's vi&ory
was publilhed in France forne dayß before 1
Capt. P. failed.— A.t this event, it was faS4
at the Tontine, " the French took tnrltrsge.'/**
Put no accowues of aiiy engagement byiand,
had reached there.
Capt. Petcrfon left at Bourdsaus, the
brig ik'njamiii Franklin, Loyd Jones, of
Philadelphia, to fail in ten days—the shipS
Hope,' Bainbrige, and Alexander, Brown,
for the Weft-Indies—(hips Echo, Gibfon,
and Louisa, Roger Kane, the latter to fail
iri three or four days for Philadelphia; and
the schooner Virginia, Cirfliirtg—all of '
Philadelphia. '
The (hip Mary, Staibyck, brig Washing*
t6n, Graham, and barque Frieudfhip, the
latter reputed to have been condemned —all
of New York, and the copper bdttofned
(hip Eliza, of Baltimoie.
The (hip Aurora, of and from Chatlefton,
failed for Charkfton, in company with capt.
Peterfon.
A brig from falem in 35 days anchored
off the Cordavan a few hours before Capt. Pi
got under way. i
From the Commercial Atlveriifer. *
We have received by the brig Eliza, from
Bourdea'ux, a number of Paris prints down
to O<S. 25, but they contain not much itt
terefting news. The following is the fnb
ftance of the important articles :
A letter from Semlin mentions that the
disturbances increase in Turkey, and that
the rebel? threaten the capital of the Em
pire.
The Bafliaw of Belgrade has received
orders to restore to the fubje&s of the Em
peror all merchandize taken from them, on
occasion of certain disputes, demanding on-\
ly a trifling indemnification from the own
ers ; and alio he is prohibited fro*) giviti§
fhelterto the fubje£ts of 'the Enrperoi* 1 who'
may hare taken refuge in the Turkish terri
tories, and enjoined to treat the Germans,
in all circumstances, with diiliinSion.
A conclusion has been drawn from' these
orderfe, that a good understanding subsists
between the Ottoman and the two Imperial
courts.
News from Udi»a to Sept. 18, relate*,
that the fufpeßllon of arms between Gen-
Buopaparte and the Atillrian generali
had been prolonged for twerity days. Ge
neral Meerfeldt had just returned from Vi
enna f the plenipotentiaries had an interview
at the end of whioh a messenger had been
difpatehed by Buonaparte to Paris.
Gen. Angereau had arrived at the head
quarters of the army of the Rhine.
Considerable movements appeared in the.
Imperial army : a body of troops had mo
ved towards the lower part of trie Black
Forest, towards Pfortzheim, Calo, &c.—
■ The artillery at Heidenheim had been or
• dercd to approach the army. Acconnts
from Stutgard and Frankfort agree irj fta
■ tiug the movements tol>e general, 6flt _ftrqyg
hopes were entertained on the Rhine that
peace would take place without a renewal
of hostilities. [We do sot know nor can
we conjecture on what grounds these' hopes
1 are cherilhed.J
Jouidau lias pronounced funeral eu
' logy of General Hoehe and Ignore Ri
> ouffe that of Louvet. A fubfeription is
f opened in the army of the S-ambrc apd
• Meufe, it* raise a maufnVuH) to the memory
1 of Hoche at Wcififenthurn. ■
At Rouen the young men of the requili
- tion are daily arrelled, and compelled to join
- their standards.
From Grat/, wt have the following state
: meat of the Austrian force to oppose the
• French— 109 battalions, 68 private compa
: nies of infantry and 26 squadrons of caval
■ ry—commanded by two generals of artille
' ry—twelve field marshals and twenty-nine
' major generals. There are 137 pieces of
• cannon in the park of reserve. The left
wing commaiided by general count de Wal
-1 lis—the right by general Hoze, the center
by Gen. Terzy. Besides these troops, there
is a body in. Tyrol, uuder General Ker
oen ; another in Iftria under general Keb
lerfch, and a third in Dalmatia under gen.
Rtickawina. <
New'difcontents arise in France. The
proposed law respecting the nobles is fevere
t. ly censured in furiae of,the gazettes, as un
, constitutional and ruinous to the creditor*
: of the nobles. At Bourdeaux, the direc
tors of the grand theatre advertised a piece
f entitled " The three Sultans, or Solyman
, II." The constituted authorities no soon
; er heard of it than they took severe mea
- Aires to prevent the reprtfentation of tile
piece, and the manager Latappy received a
1 lesson calculated to let him know that the
• period of audacity was plffcd,
f At Paris the Gazette Politique is fup
e preifed, for pursuing the path of tht gazette
; of France..
e Great movements are mentioned to have
- taken place in Bi-etagne; since the t8 Fruc
-1 tidor, among the dilaffefted ; colleclions of
- men in various places, in l'lile and Vilsine,
r on the confines of Mayenne and , Loaer
p Normaady, threaten serious dillurbances.
r. At Caen and its vicipity laws are violated
J with impunity. Liberty trees are. cut down
■s in the night, buildings burnt and persons al
faffinated. Measures of severity are every
i- where taken to suppress these difor^rs—
every day fume leaders are arri-ft:d—Tha
1- police'of Paris has fe&eft a work by Prud
■- hommf, called the " crimes of the levqlu
o tion." Multitudes of emigrants are con
o UausHy palling thro' Bade, bidding a final
i- adieu to France—their property and con
i- neftions.
■» A Paris article of October 12 fays, the
>f treaty with Portugal was to have been rati
tied by the court of Liftjon in 60 days—6o
r . davs have already elapsed, and the ratifica
d tion is not arrived. The chevalier d'Aran
it jo is uriealy, for fc?r that court has givea
t. way to the influence and menaces of tiie ca
rt biixttjaf St. James's. But an article from
t> Bayonne of Oft. 17, fava that two cowers