Macpherfon's Blues.
Friday February I, 1799.
THE Horse, Artillery and infantry of j
the Blues will parade, in front of the Com
manding officer's quartei-s, No. 9, North (
Eighth-llrcet to-morrow at 3 o'clock P. M. ,
in uniform with lide arms—in order to join j
in the procelEon at the funeral of George I
Hughes, Esq. deceased—late a member of 1
the First City Troop of Light Dragoons, 1
and an officer in the Navy of the United ,
States. ,
ROBERT HEY SHAM, Adjt. p. t. |
&• The Members of the First
City Troop are requeOcd to attend the Funeral of 1
Gkorgs Hughes, Esq. late of that Corps, to-mor- (
row afternoon, at three o'clock, from the house of
Mrs. Whirc, No. 9, North Eighth flreet, in uniform £
and with tide arms.
February 1.
Second City Troop of Cavalry.
THE Members of the Troop are reqnelted
to attend the Funeral of Geo. Hughes,
esq. late a member of the First Troop —'in uni
form, from the house of Mrs. White, No. 9,
North Eighth-flreet, to-morrow afternoon at
three o'clock.
feb 1
Volunteer Greenis.
THE Gentlemen compofiug the -Troop of
Volunteer Greens, are requeued te attend the
funeral of Geo. Hughes, esq. late a member of
the First Troop from the hotife of Mrs. White
No. 9, North Eighth street at 3 o'clock to-mor
row afternoon, in uniform with fide arms. J
JOHN MORRELL, captain,
feb 1
Alexander J. Miller, 1
No. *4, South Front-Streft.
HAS JUST RECEIVED,
By the Atlantic, capt Read, arrived at S
New-York, from Madras,.
TBE FOILOIFING
WHITE GOODS, _
Which will be ready for Sale on Monday next,
—viz.—
Gaunjces
AMiabatd Baftas ,
Tandah Coflaes
Fine Long Cloths
Moorie., and Short Cloths. ,
feb r « <}
Insurance Company of the State of Penn
sylvania.
February i, 1799.
THE Directors have this day declared a dividend i
of seventy-soar dollars on each (hare 01 the j
Stock of this company for the last fix months which 1
will be paid to the Stockholders or their legal re
presentatives after the loth inltant.
JAMES S. COX, President.
feb 1 diot
NOTICE.
ALL perfonsare hereby requested not to a
trull my way Sarah Fifs, from this 5
date, as I am determined not to pay any 4
debts of her contracting. - •'
WILLIAM FISS. *
F" 1'» jt_ |
Lots on Ground Rent. u
SEVERAL, advantageous Lots (or Building, on '
Oerinantown street, between the 5 and 6 mile
stone, to let on ground rent —Enquire at No. Ito
North Second-street.
Jan. 30. tuw&f
POST-OFFICE, - 1
Philadelphia, Jan• 28,1799-
LETTERS for the British Packet, for Falmouth, :
(England) will be received at this office, until
Tuesday the uh February, at ia o'clock, noon. ! g
N. B. The inland poltage to New-York, must ;
be paid at this office. !
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, 1 I
Two uuftirnilhed rooms, and the use of d
a kitchen for a small family; a front parlour n
on the firft floor will be preferred. Apply j
to No. 18, Branch Street. 0
jan. 29. _ ___! S l s
ANY Persons wanting f
palfage to France, can obtain it in the Swedilh f
Barque Neptune, Daniel Jaderbom, master, lying o
at New-York, by applying to Mr. Letombe, or to f
Richard Soderstrom, Cenful General of Sweden,
in this city. r
jan. 24 §
50 Hljds. Santa Cruz Sugar,
IN Store; of John Nixon, esq. & Co. aquan-
tity oi Iri hSa 1 Canvass and a Box of Mace,
For fait by ,
STEPHEN KINGSTON; \
46 Walnut street. e
jan. iq. f eodjt d
All Persons J
Indebted to the Eflate of HENRY HILL, deceased t
are requested to make payment to the fubferiber ;
and those having any demands on the fame to pro- .
duce their accounts for settlement. '
GIDEON H. WELLS,
no. 139, Market street
Philadelphia, dec. 4, 1798 cots
TOBE LET, j
A COMMODIOUS THREE STORY «
BRICK DWELLING HOUSE,
in Walnut near Fifth Street, and adjoining the "
fubferiber BENJAMIN W, MORRIS. »
January 26. eod3t si
— C
To be Sold, or Let
ON GROUND RENT, FOREVER, j
A NUMBER of very handsome Building Lots, h
on the South fide of Arch-street, near Ninth
ftre»t, and on Ninth-street, between Arch and f;
Race-flreets. 1
ALSO, C
A few Lots of four acres each ; on a high, dry, ti
and elegant situation, witkin three miles from the a |
city—Enquire at No. aiß Arch-street. t<
jan. 30. 2aw;w h
THE PARTNERSHIP OF al
John S3 5 James Poultney, ti
BEING dissolved ny mutual consent, all persons
Indebted to them are requefte 1 tomakeim
mediate payment to either of the fubferibers; anil P :
those having demands to present their accounts for P'
settlement. P :
JOHN POULTNEY, fu
JAMES POULT NET, f°
ift mo 30 w&litf J."
THE Book for Subscriptions to the Company St
fr.r ereiftiiig a permanent Bridge ov .r the ri
ver Schuilkill, at, or near the City of Philadel he
phia, continue* open at the house 01 the Treasurer
of said Company, No. 13, Church Alley.
January 8, 1799. «od6w
11 Two_ Dollars Reward.
ELOPED on the nth instant, an indented
Black Lad, named James Matthews, be
tween 16 and 17 years old, and has 4$ years to
• serve, his time was lately purchased of Micajah
j Churchman, of Coecil County. Maryland .
He 13 about 5 feet 3 inches high, of grum coun
tenance, has a remarkably flat large nose, wide
mouth aHd thick lips; had on 1 blue coating
jacket with a scarlet collar, a drab color waistcoat
blue coating trowfers, yarn (lockings, a good
pair of Dines tied with leather firings, and a
round black hat
It is fufpetfled that he is eiirhcr harbored by
his mother Katharine Sands, a black woman
who lives in an alley between 6th and 7th,Cher
ry and Race-ftreeti, or is loitering about
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE.
The above reward will be given for bringing
him before the Mayor of this City, or for se
curing him in any jail.
Housekeepers, Mailers of Veflels and others
are forbid harboring or employing him.
IiDWAKD DUNANT.
No. 35, Unios-flreet.
jan 31 jfdjt
Neiv-Yorh, January I, 1799*
PROPOSALS
FOR PRINTING BY SI7BSC HI PT lON ,
MEMOIRS,
ILLUSfRAfING THE
;Hiftory of Jacobinism.
In three Parts.
Part L The'Antichriftian Conspiracy.
B, The L Antimoiiarchial Conlpiracy,
•m. The Antisocial Conspiracy.
A translation from the French of the Abbe
BARRUEL.
Cot/DirroNs.
I. Tbis ivork to be printed on a good type
and fine paper—in 3 volumes, Bvo. 400
pages each.
11. Tie price to subscribers, bound and let
tered, will be 4 dollars 50 cents ; in boards
3 dollars 75 cents,
Subscriptions will be received by Cornelius Davit,
■ No. 94, Water street; and by others who hold
fubfeription papers.—Booksellers the us
ual allowance,
jan. 28 taw 3 w
City CommilEoners Office.
January Bth, 1799.
THE followingarrangement was made by the
Board, for the more effaSlual cleansing of
the City j each Commifiioner to superintend a
dillriil, —vi-.
Nn. 1. Nicholas Hicks, from the North fide of
Vine ftraet, to the South fide of Mulberry
ftreet.
2. Hugh Roberts, from the South fide of
Mulberry-street to the South fide of Chelnut
flreet.
3. Joseph Claypuole, from the South fide
i- of Chefnut-ftreet to the North fide of Spruce
J street.
4. Isaac Jones, from the North fide of
Spruce flreet to the South fide of Cedar-flreet.
Note.—When any of the public Pumps are
out of order to the Southward of High-flreet—
application may be made to Thomas Dixcy in
sth near Cedar-llreet, or Godfrey Gebler in
4th between Walnut and C'hefnut streets. And
for the Northern part of the city to Dixcy and
Dehaven, in Bth street, between Saffifras and
Vine-flreets.
Meetings of the Commiflioners are as
usual, every Tuesday evening, atj o'clock, a
th« Old Court-Houfe.
Jan. 19.
City Commissioner's Office,
January 15, 1799.
For the information of the Citizens, the falloiu
ing extrad of an aS of Assembly, passed the
( 18M day ef February, 1769, is now re
publi/hed.
SeiS. 4i. A " f^urt ' ler enabled by the au
thority aforefaiii, That it any per
! fen or persons, lhall, after the publication hereof,
j prefum* to cast, carry, draw out, or lay any dead
horlc, or other dead carcase of cattle, (heep, hog or
dog, or any excrement or filth from vaults, privies
or r.ecelTary houses, and (hall leave such carcase,
carrion or filth, without burying the fame, a fuffi
depth in the ground, on any part of the commons
ot che said city, or on or near any streets, lanes,
alleys or highways, within the said city, diftriit or
township adjoining the fame, every person or per
sons so offending and being convicted thereof, be
fore any justice of the peace of the city or county
of Philadelphia, refpeiUvely, lhall foifeit and pay
for every such offence, the sum of thirty (hillings.
Agreeably to a resolution of the SeleA and Com
mon Councils, dated the loth of January 1799,
Notice is hereby given,
That a Pit or Holi, is now prepared on the
weft fide of Fifth street, from Schuylkill, betw s «n
Vine and Saffafras streets.
And one other Pit or Holi, is rpened on the
weft fide of Fifth street, froria Schuylkill, between
Walnut and Sproce streets, 'where all filfth or ex
crement from vaults or privies, of the city o( Phila
delphia, (hall be deposited. Wherefore, if any
person or persons (half be found tranfgrefling, they
must expefl tobepunifhed as the lawdire&s, and
that the fame will be ftriilly enforced.
Jan. 19 I2W2W
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
JUNI 27, 1798.
Notice is hereby given, That by vir
tue of an a&, passed during the present fef-
Con eT Congrrefs, so much of the aa entituled
" An AA making further provision for the sup
" port ol public credit, and fer th« redemption
«« of the public debt"—passed the third day of
March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety
five, as bars from settlement or allowance
Certificates, commonly called Loan Office and
final settlement Certificates, and Indents of 111-
ferefts, is suspended until the twelfth day 01
June, which will be in the year one thousand seven
hundred and ninety ninj.
That on the liquidation and settlement of the
said Certificates, and Indents of Interest, at the
Treasury, the Creditors will be entitled to receive
Certificates of funded Three Per Cent. Stock equal
to the amount of the said Indents, and the arrear
ages of interest due on their said Certificates, prior
to th* firft day «f January one thousand (eveD
hundred and ninety one.
That the principal sums of the said Loan Office
and final settlement Certificates, with the interest
thereon, since the firft day ©I Janpary, one thou
sand seven hundred and ninety one, will be dif
chirged after liquidation at the Treasury, by the
paymant of interest and reimburfcment of princi
pal, equal to the sums which would have been
payable thereon, if the said Certificates had been
fubferibed, pursuant to the Aas making provision
for the debts of the United States, con-traced dur
ing the late war, and by the payment of other
sums, equal to the market vilue of the remaining
Stock, which would have been created by such
fubferiptions asaforefaid, which market value will
be determined by the Comptroller of theTreafury
OLIVER WOLCOTT,
Secretary of tie Treasury.
June a 8 , awt j^
PROPOSALS
BY BENJAMIN DAVIES,
AFTER the many fruitlefs attempts, which
have been made to eltabl.fti a publication
of this kind in Philadelphia, the proposals bow
submitted, will, perhaps, at firft fight, appear to
be nothing more than soliciting d fappo.ntment.
When, however, we observe an eager search
after knowledge spreading through all parts in
our country, anl when we confuier, that, In
these pursuits, Magazines and Reviews are of
universally-admitted utility, we are led to be
lieve, that former undertakings in this way have
failed from some other cause than the want of
discernment or liberality in those, to whom the
Editors looked up for support.
From causes, which are too evident to need
enumerating here, America is, and long must be
beholden in a very considerable degree, to the
presses of Great Britain. The literature of the
two countries is, indeed, a fort of common
stock ; but, for one publication of ours, we re
ceive, at least five hundred in return While
this is the cafe, it is extreme tolly in the puhlifh
er of a periodical work, to from a lort ot
spurious patriotilin, all information, however
ufeful, and all amusement, however delightsome,
merely because it is not of native prodmftion.
Obvious, however, as the justice of these »e
---marks must appear we have very little douWt irt
our minds, that an obstinate adherence to a con
trary notion has been the principal cause of the
want of success, experienced by thole who have
gone before us.
Reason and interefl unite in dilating to us a
different plan. The MifceHane»us part, and
principal pah, ther'efort, of the Philadelphia
Magazine, will torififtof choice feleiflions from
the newest publications of merit, thit shall ap
pear in Eurojpe but, particularly from the va
rious periodical works publilhed in Great-Bri
tain, of which we have taken care to insure the
very earliest supply. At the fame time, we trust
it is unnecessary to fay, that we shall always re
ceive with pleal'ure any eriginal produf\ions of
genius, in verfeor prose, of our own country ;
and we flatter ourselves with the hope of being
often favoured with the agreeable talk of giving
to such produftions merited praises and exten
sive publicity.
In felciling and arrangiug these materials, to
suit the various tastes of our readers, we are sen
sible how difficult a talk we have undertaken.
To pleale all, we do not expedl': it would be a
vnin presumption. But we are resolved to give
offence to none, so far as conftlls with the supe
rior refpedl we owe to the sacred cause ot" reli
gion, morality, and social order. In these are
involved the glory asd welfare of our country,
and they will always be the Pelar-ft»r, that shall
guide our l.bors.
Th« Adifcellany will be followed by a month
ly Smmmmrjr of A civs and politics, foreign as
well as dtuneftic 1 under which head will be
comprised a fuccimSl account of the Proceedings
of the General and State Legifiatuies, and the
titles, at least, of all the laws they (hall ena<s.
The next part of our undertaking, is a Re
■viiKU, of the principat works of note publilhed
in Great-Britain. For this we must necessarily
have recourfc to the Reviews of that country.
Though it will be impofiiblefor us to furnifh as
complete an analysis is that from which we (hall
take our materials, we lhalt not fail to give such
an account of every publication reviewed in that
country, as will c mvey to our readers informa
tion fufficient to enable them to avail themselves
at a very early stage, of every valuable perform
anc« that shall appear. The Advantages arising
from such information are evident. For want
of ir our profeffional men and men of taste are
always kept a year or tw» in the rear of those
of Great-Britain. We do not hear of a work
till a long time after it is publilhed, and many
very valuable ones we never hear of it all. All
the various injuries and privations we fuffer
from this source will, we flatter ourselves, be
entirely done away by a steady adherence to our
plan.
To that of foreign, will be added a Review of
Domcjlic Publications ; and here, we must con.
fefs, that we feel some diffidence, betaufe the
execution of the talk must depend, in a great
measure, upon tVie abilities of ourselves How
ever, with a firm resolution tobe guided by de
cency, candour and truth, and to take genius
and virtue by the hand, whenever, and in what
ever garb, we may find them ; with no wilh to
wound the feelings of anv but the wicked, and
with the most fince»e desire of feeing our coun
trymen shine in every department of literature,
we doubt not, that we shall he able to acquit
ourselves to the fatisfa&ion of all those who
have the good-nature fairly to appreciate our
motives, and the justice to make allowance for
human imperfedlions,
The work will close with a monthly record
of Marriages, Births, Deaths, Promotions, and
other casual incidents.
As to what concerns the politics of this c(»un
try or of Eurspe, at this momentous period, we
shall always view with jealousy every meafHre
of the French Government, and it's everadlive
emiflaries j and it in thisrefpeft fjme men con
sider us as partial or prejudiced, we shall submit
to their censure. For so full is our convidlion
that the war, which now desolates Europe, and
menaces this country, is a war of ambition and
plunder, on the part of France, that nothing
ean induce us to conceal our sentiments, or to
withhold the /mall affiilance that we can con
tribute to oppose them. For this reafun we in
tend to devote a page or two of every number
to hiflorical faifls, anecdotes, and remarks on
the Politics of France, from the age of Louis
the Fourteenth to the present more alarming e
poch. For more than a century past has that
reftlefsand ambitious peop ebeen nke a volcano
in the centre of Europe, disturbing the surround
ing States by its intrigues, and once in every
eight or ten years overwhelming its most fertile
countries with devaluation and carnage.
Indeed it is more than eighteen hundred years
since the grvat Roman Orator* thought il his
duty to warn his countrymen against that con
diia and ihofe principles, for which the present
race of Gauls are asjuftly to be dreaded as their
savage ancrftoi s'; «' C-allisfidemnon habendam,
bominibus levibus, porfid 'u, et in ipfas Deos im
mortales impiis."
By the proper management of this tepic our
countrymen wiUbe able to fee the real chara£terof
the nation, which they formerly corfidered as their
friends, but now more justly execrate as their most
dang-roup enemies; and they will be better prepar
ed to appreciate any overtures, that may be made
hereafter, for the reoperation of jeaoe and amity
In the execution ol this part of our dffign, par
ticularly " we look with confidence for the tupport
and afpftance ot all perfors who' shall consider our
motives as laudable, and therefore wish to contrU
bute to the success of our design of all who
ih'.nk, with us, that the prefshas been to© long an
engine of deftruilion, and that it ought, at length
to he rendered a mean of prefervatiou, and an in
strument of prott&ion."
* Cicsro.
" Literature, well or ill conduced, isthegrear
" engine by which, I am fully persuaded, all ci
" vibfed States must ultimately be supported or
" overthrown." Purjiiiti cf Literature.
'The CONDITIONS.
rhis work will be publilhed in Monthly Numbers;
and if a moderate encouragement is given, the
firft number will appear or. the firft day of Feb
ruary next,
Each nuinnur will contain at least Fifty pages 01
letter press, in oflavo, under a blue cover. It
will be printed on a lair and good paper ; and,
asfoon as our lift of Subscribers will warrant
the expenee, every number will be embellifted
with an elegant engraving.
The price to the Sublcribers will be twenty-five
cent! for each number, to be paid on delivery at
some one of the placet fpecifiea below, where
the fubfeription has been received ; and as soon
as there are lufficient to make a handsome vo
lume, they will be bound together, for l"uch sub
scribers as choose it, they paying the additional
expenee.
Subfcriptionj will be received by Benjamin Davie«
at No. 68, High Arret, where thefavours of all Cor
lefpondenti of which :he pottage bat been paid, will
lie received, and duly attended to, as well a- b\ all the
principal Book-felleis in the city; by George Hill,
Book feller in Baltimore ; and by .Irchibald Drum
mond, Book feller in New-York.
dec. 14. 1 awl w
TO THE
Promoters of Literature.
THE managers of the Betila Seminary,
impelled by motives of pure morality,
having resolved to dispose of the following
property by way ef LOTTERY, in order
to aflift them in ere£ling a convenient build
ing for the accommodation of ctie hundred
students, and the neceflary proVfloft in the
different departments of feietice—d<> offer
for sale three bundled - and fifty lots fn
BEUL A, each fifty -eijrht feet by one hun
dred and twenty-five, at twenty dollars' per
ticket, each ticket entitled to a lot to be'
determined by ballot; tea dollars to be paid
on receipt of the ticket, and the remaining
ten ®n the delivery of the deed. The bal
lot to take place before impartial men, as
soon as th« whole number of tickets are fold.
The managers, anticipating the difficul
ty of obtaining calh for the whole, have re
solved to receive an equivalent, for some of
the lots, in fcle& books ; philosophical ap
paratus, or in produce and materials for
building, delivered on the spot.
It may be observed, that the value of
prizes in this lottery will be more than dou
ble the amount of all the tickets ; for 350
lots, would at their average eftimatton, pro
duce at least 15,75 c dollars ; whiltt, accord
ing to the present proposals, the sum ob
tained for them will be only 7,00 c dollars.
Tickets may be had
during this winter, of Morgan J. Rbeet,
prefidcnt of the board of managers,'no. 177,
iouth Second-street, Philadelphia ; who will
receive proposals and plans for the iredlion
of the building. It is intended to be of brick
or (lone ; its iituation on the ftimmit of a
gradual rising eminence, commanding an ex
lenfive profpeft of thefurrounding country ;
an observatory to be on its top.
Land and out lots in the vicinity of the
Town may be had on moderate terms by ap
plying as above. Mechanics and laborers,
of good morals will meet with encou ane
mcnt.
Jan. 19. 3awzm
Is there an American,young tfr old, not in
terested in the History of the first Rise
and Progress of bis native Country, and
from so celebrated open as that of Doctor
Robertfon ?
Just Publiflied,
ANI) TO BE SOLD Jir
JAMES HUMPHREYS,
No. s9, south Third street, oppolitc the Bank 0
the United Stares,
(Price one dollar neatly bound and lettered, in
boards, fix /hillings )
Dr. Robertfon's History of
fBRITISHJ
AMERICA,
Containing
The history of Virginia to the year 1685, and the
history of New-England to the ye .r 1651, be
ing what the Dodor had completed pre
vious to his death. It has lately been
given to the public with a pre
face by his son at Edin
burgh, has already pair
ed through three or
four editions, and
hrsbeeutranfla
ted and pub
lilhed in
French at Paris.
Mr. Robertfon in his preface observes,
" During the courfeV tedious illness, which he
early lorelaw would have a fatal termination, Dr.
Robertfon at different times destroyed many of his
papers: But after his I'eath, I found that part o
the History of (Britilh) America which he had
wrote many years before, a::d which is now offer
ed to the public. It is written with his own hand
as all his works were ; it is a* carefully correfled
as any part ol his manuscripts which I have ever
f«cn ; and he had thought it worthy of being pre
fer ved, a*it eftaped the flames to which fo'many
other papers had keen committed I read it with
the utmost attention; but,'.eforc I came to any
rofolutinn about the publication, I put the MSS.
into the hands of some o{ those friends whom my
father used tD consult on fiich oicatio is.as it would
have been ralhmfs and preemption in me, tohave
trulled to my own; partial-tfeiifion: It was pera'f.
cd by f>me other pcrfo** alio, in whose tafle and
judgment I hav« the greatcll confidence : by all of
them I was encouraged to offer it to the public, as
curious and interesting in itlclf, and not inferior' to
any of my father's other works."
The Editor of the Paris Edition apojlrophizes
the above work in the folio-wing manner.
" Every thing enfurts success to this volume
the talents and reputation of the author, and the
imprefiion flill recent in the mindsiol all who have
read the excellent work of which this i. the com
pletion—all conspire to give i: an extensive spread
The hillory of America was the mafter-piect of one
of the two ablest, or rather one of the two only
modern historians. He has created this part of
history. diftinguilhed this chaos of the New World
diftinguilhed with the hand of a master the part of
genius, fortune, courage and crime, and conquer
ed as it were America, for literary, commercial,
and political Europe.
" "Toenfure this last volume circulation, it is
necessary only to name its author, and to r.marh,
it possesses all th.t acutenefs of observation, that
perfp.cuity ol exposition, the art of refe.ring «f
---f 0 cauf ® s ' a " d of mingling with the account
of events the wholefomdl and moil approved
pnciple, of morals a,,d politics, for which this
Zll Tl Co " f P> c ««us-ln ihort,
that it exhibits the talents of Robi* rson "
JJni 9- . fit
MAYOR'S OFFICE
REMOVED to is 7 South Second street.
CONTINUATION OF
fUte jforctgit Articles
Received by His Britannic Majesty's
Packet, which arrived at New-
York on Monday afternoon.
PARIS, November 21.
Letter of General Kosciusko to tie Emperor
Paul of Russia.
SIRE, 1 profit of the firft moment of the
liberty I enjoy, under the protecting laws
of the greatest and mod generous nation, to
return you the presents that your apparent
bounty and the atrocity of your niinifters
forced me to accept. If Ido wrong, fire,
attribute it only to the irresistible force of
the attachment which I bear for my compa
triots (companions in misfortunes) and the
hope ofyet serving my country. Yes, Ire
peat it, lire, and I am desirous of making
to you the declaration ; your heart appeared
to me to l>e touched at my disastrous iitua
tion ; but your ministers and their satellites
have not conduced themselves to me ac
cording to your wishes. Should they at
tempt to impute to my free will a measure
fhey compelled me to taste, I dcvelope toyou,
and to all men who know the value <)f fconor,
their violence and perfidy ; and that it will
lie to them only you owe the publication of
their crimes. Receive, Sire, the teftimo
jjjies of my refpeft. (Signed)
Pans, 17'rhennidor.
KOSCIUSKO.
Five ambafT.idors from Morocc® have late
ly arri\ed at Paris.
It is reported that the Porte, by virtue of
the treaty of Seirtoro, had demanded from
the king of Prussia an army of 30,000 men,
to aft against France on the banks of the
Rhine ; but this strange demand will proba
bly be rejefted by the cabinet of Berlin.
1 he following important communication
was received in a letter by the la ft Hamburg
mail : &
Ext raft of a letter from the frontiers of
Switzerland and Milan.
i w i Sept. 2 , i 798.9 8.
" Wc '' ve llere »' » state of great uneasi
ness, but have every reason to hope that it
will be soon at an end. To all appearance,
hostilities will be recommenced ere long
I he Anftrians, in conjunction with the Gri
fons, have entered Val celine country, which
was immediately by the fmaH number cf
French and Cisalpine troops, who had taken
post there. Several gentlemen have been
comnuflioned by his imperial majesty to col
left provisions in the neighborhood."
The Valteline country is fubieft to the
confederacy of the Grifons. About ig
months since General Buonaparte took pof
feflion of it, by the most scandalous abuse cf
the right ci an umpire which had b£en coi -
ferred upon him to accommodate Come mat
ters in dispute between that country and tl e
Grifons ; and it was afterwards incorporatt d
with the Cisalpine Republic. It borders up
on the territory of this new Republicthrougl -
out its whole nothern extent, from Tyrol o
the Lake of Como, and is of theutmoftim
pvrtance in the preient war, as it takes in
flank all the French troopS, from Mantua to
Milan.
T he S r L nc ' ) ' " IVite J !'>' forae malcontent
took poflVflion of it without any fort of ce
remony ; and the Grifons, it would seem
have re-occupied it in the lame manner. It
will be easy for them to keep poffe-flion of it
with the aid of the inhabitants of the coun
try, who from the rxa fTa committed by
their new affociatw, rose upon them in the
courle ot the last Cummer.
This bold ftrake may be considered as a
formal declaration of war on the part of the
Grilons against theCifalpine Republic. These
two states can only be considered in this
quarrel as the heralds who and receive
the challenge of two great powers who direst
their movements.
From the Propagateur, dated 3 Frimaire,
November 23.
The following details are taken from 3d
authenuc source: Buonaparte did not make
h.mfelf master of Egypt before the end of
the summer. H e f ound at Sufz but >few .
vefTels, and those in bad condition. The
monsoon being against him at the autumnal
equinox; h. found that he had no time to
caulk those v e fTels, or to put to sea He
immediately abandoned hi, plan of g.iinjr to
Indu, and his anny began to consider it
fll, 33 r j Th < loss of our
fleet ensued, and this was followed by a de
claration of war on the part of Turkey
their threats of invasion, &c. The French
finding themselves thus shut wp immediately
turned their thoughts to defending them-
Mves and the.r conquefU. The month of
the , " feVerc ' on a «ount of
extreme swat, the calms, and the exhal
t«»n. whicll, followed th ; retreat of the
N e, but in the month of Vendcmaire, the
flefh fift C ° V r Wkh trefoil - Mi,k >
flefti, fifti, and vegetables were all abundant.
Ihe army recovered fro n its fatigues. It
is about to pass the winter 1
(At r,s fk- i- , ntcr , and inure it
. t cUate -, ln them «» "me Buon
to teaL a himfelf
ou ft h T'f ra r° n ° f this 'mP°rtantcon
> d * fcendß t0 Damietta and Rofetta,
and puts the coast in a (late of defence at
every point Be orders the necessary fort,
b the H?5 n " T ? fthe defart near Su «. »»<»
n the, Higher Egypt. He keeps his troop.
and m V r 3 ' , recruits ia the country,
and makes use rather of art than force to
3? ""ongft the natives. He a
.. . himfelf of the diftinftions, civil and
religious, to attach to him the Cophtis, the
Bedoumo and the peasantry. He fla'ter.
their itlf love by adopting several of their
cu oms, in order that thty may more eafilr
accommodate thtmfelves to ours. He found
them melancholy, choleric, ard fretful,
through the influence of tyr.nny. He ha»
rendered fhem gay, good, and amiable, by