Sales at Ausl ion. On Saturday the ioth Apr;!, at-i o'clock P. M on the pie-miles. Sundry Building and Garden Lots, Some of them <!ontig>jus' to, and others at i small distance from the city, containing from about one quarter of an acre to about four a cres eich. Ihe fma ! l lots -front on Vine and Callowhiil Streets, near Schuylkill—the large lots front on tli'e south fide of Francis Street, on the eift fide of Srhuvlkilh river, on the weft fide of Schuylkill, fecoiad flreet, and »n intermedi ate streets —the whole containing about 142 a cres, being part of the tiafl known by the name of Jjpringeufburv. The situation of many of the lots is on high ground, commanding views of tVie Schuylkill, and supposed to be so much detached from the built parts of the city, as to be out of dailgfcr in cafe of an unhappy return of the fever. Maps (hewing 'be division of the ground, tnay be seen at the CoSFee-houfe, at Ogden's tavern in Chcfnut street, it Sybfrt'f tavern in tUe Nothcrn Liberties, and at the Midtllt and Upper Ferries 011 Schuylkill. The 'abrnicance of (lone, for building, on part of the ground, will prove 'very advantagenus to purehafi rs, as it is proposed to fell at the fane time thole large quarries on the east fide of the Schuylkill, nsar and above the bridge. terms will be ca(h for the lots «f 49 1-1 ah'l jo feet front, aird for those of a larger size One half cafii immediately, and the other half to be paid ill fix months from the day of sale. CONNELY a Co. Auctianters. April 4, New Philadelphia. THE proprietors of the high ground in the neighbourhood of this city, known by the name of Springetfbury Manor ; (bounded on the weft by the river Schuylkill, on the cast by Fourth ftre«t, from Schuylkill, on the north by Francis's lane, and on the south by Callowhill street) have agreed to appropriate it for the purpose of build ing a new city as a summer retreat. The plan in two fr&ions may be fcen at the Coffee house. The main street, 100 feet wide, run* nearly east and weft along the top of the ftriking Schuylkill a iittlc above the upper ferry, wher& nature has placed everlaOing ablmt ments.and stone in abundence to form a perma nent bridge of one arch, that eannot be approach ed by ice t floods. A (treat of 66 fe*t wide, is laid out on each fide of, and paralU ltothe Main street. Thefeare cross ed by five new streets at right angles, and by the continuation of Front, Second, Third and Fourth ftr<?ets from Schuylkill. The fituition is high,airy and healthy, and com mands an extensive pr )fp«&. The water is good. The canal runs obliquely through it. It is just a fnfiicientdiftance frowi the Delaware for a pleasant walk, to give an appetite to dinner nlVrthe bjfmefs of the day is ovar. April 3 lo be fold at Public Vendue, On Saturday the 13th inft. at 3 o'clock in the »f- ternooa, un the prcmifes, One fcundt/ed and eleven of the highest and brft litinted Lots in the New Town, Each.coii'air ins go feet front and about aoo deep. The whole is fruated on the weft fide ot Fourth Street from o'i the high ground opposite Bulh Hill agreeably to a plan at the Coftee House, a d at (he old city /tu&ioii Store. To purchafers. one lot will be put, up at a tim°. a r >d the buyer will have the right to take zs many as he may think poper, at the fame rate. The terms are, one third cash, approved notes at three months fur the remainder, when deeds clear of all in umbrances, will be given. Connelly If Co. Auct'rs. 1 S. April 3 For Charlcflon, (S. C.J <-3 THE MAIL PACKET TEA? MAN, Capt. Lo'JGrtEAD, —with goad ac &&Sccmmodarion for paflengers, will positively fail at 8 o*clc.ck on Friday morning the, 12th in ft. For freight or paffaga ap ply to the captain on board it Smith's wharf, the firft; above Race flrect. March'j FOR LONDON. j) I ** The dritifh armed ship D O ITG L A S, Tames Walker, captain. NOW ready, to receive a Cargo—fur freight or pafTage apply to John Ketland. -ril J •JUST RECEIVED, By the (hip Douglas from London, prime assortment of Morrocco and Kid Skins, cf various colours. A handfomc supply of MILITARY ARTICLES, And a few cases of the mod fafhionable Straw Hats and Bonnets. For sale at No. 87, Chefnut-ftrtet. MICHAEL ROBERTS. March 30 Just Received, From Hamburg by the Jason, Vissbr, and via Biltimore and for file by the fubferibers Flatillas, . Creas a la Moriiix, Dowlas Checks and ftiipcs, Liftadots Brttagne», Ticklenburgs, Harcflona Brandy in Pipes. P#rt Wlne in quarter caflo, On Hand, Claret in Hoglhead», Bonrdeaux Brandy, Uuflia Briftlts. Ertck is! Lewis Boilmatfc No. .10?, Spruce.Arett Snrit t NOTICE. THE partnrrJhip of Jolhua B. Bond, and John Bio iki, trading under the firm of Bond W Brooks, ii this day dissolved by mutual consent, all perl'ons indebted to them, are re qinfted to make immediate payment to Jo(hua B. Bond, and those baring demands to present th«fc accounts to him for fettlcment, Joshua B. Bond. Joiffl Brooks. April 1 WANTED '- po go to the Wefi-Indie«, in the capacity nf a J. Clfik, a Gentleman, an American or Eng. liftman hy birth (the former of whom would be preferred.) Hf! must be a good accountant, well rcconmu-nded. and capable of writing an fpcaking the French language—Such a perfori, on Duplica tion to the printer, may learn lurther particulars. Philadelphia, april 17J9. § <Sasette. P H i L AD E L P H 1A , MONDAY EVENING, APSIL 8. The Dire&ory of France had concerted a plan ot operation for Hedouviile their spe cial agent at St. Domingo, again ft the peo ple of' that Illand, and also for invading the United States from thence with < n army of blacks. The plan, in a very fortunate man ner became known to Totiffaint, the com mander of a very large army of black people there. He made a treaty with the Britidi general, whereby all hoftilitiee ceased cn each fide, and a mutual commerce between that illand & theßritilhdoininions Was stipulated ; and he seized the firfl opportunity to com pel Hedouviile to quit the illand and to re turn to France. Tims that part' of the projed of fending a black army to America for the purpose of exciting '4' rc b' L *llion among the black people in the foutbern Hates, and of lajing" waste the country, has been njoft happily fruftrated, without the agency of the Ufti ted States. Ihe plan was so combined, that the failure of one part led to the defeat of the other. Having two objects in view,, the weakening TouffainVs army, that his power in the iflancl might be reduced, and the invading of the foythern Rates for the most wicked of purposes ; the French have been difappoiiited in both, and in a manner that fliould impress every American with the most devout gratitude for this remarkable infta.ice of divine favour. ; MR, F F.N NO, BY publishing the fallowing extract of a letter Hated March 13th, just received from a ge.itleman of respectability iri Frederick county, Virginia, you will oblige one of your CUSTOMERS. " I cannot conclude without touching up on politics, with a view to rescue the people of Virginia, and this part of the state in particular, from the imputation of anti-fede ralifm, sedition, £cc. See. which the coriduft ot the Legislature during the lafl fcllion, gives good grounds to lay to their charge. You may red alTurcd notwithstanding the apparent declaration of the public sentiment, that the rnoft numerous, and molt refpeaable class of people reprobate the conduft and proceedings of the majority, and coincide in sentiment with the minority, exprefied in their counter appeal to the people ; on this fide of the Blue Kidge, the people, in particular, are federal, in the proportion of nine tenths ; and, fliould attempts be made in the lower counties to reful the general goverpment, would join immediately in the fuppreflion of thfm.— They are deteimined to i'upport the unit*, again A interna] as well as external sues. The conduft of the lafl affenibly has opened the eyes of the demiseratic party, that is, of the virtuous part, who have heretofore been milled by a few hot headed, ambitious men. I am allured from the bell authority, that even the Madifons are changing their senti ments, since the above proceedings, took place." tSat. But there was in the end of Charles the Seconds reign, another Species of French intrigue, an intrigue with members of par liament, which the Opposition thought fit to pass over in total silence. I know that I tiead upon dangerous ground ; I remember the indignation which Sir J. Dalrymple's discoveries excited on their fir ft appearance, " However, of late years, I believe no one has gone so far as to deny the authenticity of Barillon's letters to Lewis the r 4 th. If any defperatr republican would still support such a paradox, the answer rs obvious. The papers still exist at Paris, let him apply to his republican friends, and fee who is hardy enough to aiTert their falfification. Another opinion has been started by those who'can not bear the idea that so many Euglilh pa triots, and especially Algernon Sydney, took money of France ; that BariHon deceived his master, and under the pretence of cor rupting others, detained the money for his own use. I will notenter into the probabili ty of this supposition, but will frankly allow it to be possible, because politicians are not accustomed to give receipts under their own hands for a bribe. It is enough for my ar gument, if we may depend Upon Sydney's political opinions, as deicribed by Barillon, for he could have no interest to represent them falfely. 1 his important dispatch of Barillon, js dated Septembej- 30, 1680, and some of its most material paragraphs are (clolely translated) as follows : dtfri daw " " I here are some who have ap " plied themfclves fer some time to make " me understand that it is an old erf or to •' believe that it is against the interest of " France to fuffer England to become a republic. They endeavor to prove by " good reasons and the example of the part that the re-union of England under a pro " authorised as the Prince of O " range would be, is much l«fs conformable " to the true interest of France than a Re « public, which would be ramr' occupied « with trade than with any other thing, and " would believe as Cromwell did that it " ftiould gain rather at the expense of Spain » than of France ; ther add, that the inter " eft of England as a republic, and that of " Holland governed as it is, could not eafi " ly agree, whereas the Prince of Orange " could re-unite in his person the power of the States General and of England to e '• ther * * * * * * " » * * * * * " Mr. Sidney is one of those who talks to me with the most force and the most open " nels on this matter." Let the whole original letter be impar tially fludied, and it must be gathered from it tnat Sydney was a deadly foe to the. hmife of INallau, a warmer friend to' France than to the protefbnt religion, ai ,d willlrlg t0 lkcri . :© COMMUNICAfIOtt. extract. sice the independence of,ill pai rope to the am bition of Lewis, so he- could Jet up his idcl of a republic in England. 1 have long tho't it a great misfortune, that the illeptl con demnation of Sydney inclined the whigs ta rank him aniongft their martyrs along with RujTel, from whom his principles divided "him far as the poles al'under. They might both be honest" men in the abflract sense, for they might both follow the didtates of con science ; but Ruflel's principles in a better reign would have made him a molt ufeful English citizen : Sydney's sentiments would have always rendered him a molt dangerous citizen in any monarchy whatsoever. Let his republican imitators, in the mefent age coniider what discoveries some future Dal rymple may bring forth, and flop their li centious tongues on the fubjedt of corrupt intrigue. This noxious vice will flouri/h in other soils belides that of courts. The-following tranllation of a French dec ree, . and the address accompanying it, incorrect copies of which have beep publilhed in the Aurora, may be depended upon. LlBERfr. FRENCH REPUBLIC. EXECUTIVE DIRECTORT. Extract from the rcgifters of the deliberations of the Executive Directory. P.ISIS, .1 st Pluviose, 6ti> year of tbe French Republic, one and indivisible—-[Jar.. 20, 1798.] - The Executive Dire&ory, wishing to pro vide before-hand for filling the place of tbe Citizen Hedouville, in cafe of his death, Decrees, That in the cafe alluded to, the funftions of the agent of the government in the Island of St. Doming#, {hall be executed by the Citizen Rounte Saint-Laurent. The Minister of Marine and of the Colo hies is charged with, the execution of this decree, which lhall not be printed. A true copy : The President of the Execu tive Dirtftory, (Signed) 3ARRAS. By the Executive Directory : The Secretary General, (Signed) LAGARDE. A true copy : 1 he Minifler of Marine and the Colonies, (Signed) PLEVILLE LEPELEY. A true copj, which (hill be printed, read, published, po-fted- up and copied wherever it lhall be neceffanv At Port Republican [Port-au-Pfiijc«] the sth Pluviofe, seventh year of the French Republic, one and in divisible. ' The Special Age/it, (Signed) ROl/ME. The Secretary General ad hoc (Signed) MARION. Xi£s)trr. French Republic. ADDRESS. The special Agent of the Executive Direc tory at Saint Domingo, to the French Republicans of every colour, in the lame Illaud, The confidence of the Diredloi-y author izes me to execute th« fcn&ioji* of its ijx-- cial Agent at St. Dominge. The feerst decree pa (Ted, on this occasion, on the tftPluviofc, 6th year [2oth Janua ry i 79 B D was this morning published by the General in Cfcief, before the commune and garrison of Port Republican [Port-Mi trince] ; and means will be taken to make it known in the other departments. The confidence which you have been plea led to bestow upon me, 0 my dear fellow cicizens, encourages, me to encounter the difficulties of this important and delicate ap pointment., • My firft step is to conjure you, in the name of France and of youpfelvesj to co-ope rate, each in his public and private capacity, in the maintenance of order and tranquility. The virtues of the citizen general in chief Ton (Taint Lou vert ure, known in every place inhabited by civilized people, has at different t me J pi ef: r veil you Iram the imminent dan gers which furroundeed you : and France owes to this great man the possession of one of its mod important I'eCiions c you cannot therefore repose too much confidence in him. 1 lie decrees and proclamations of the agen cy shall he not less his work than mine, for >f the i/naratter with which I am inverted authorises me to speak and a& in the name of the national government, the interest of the Republic, lnfeperable from yours, impo- i !es it as a duty upon me to do nothing, ! without consulting the man who can give me the heft counsels. Let this harmony serve you as an exam- ' pie, that th= civil authorities should ahvavs ! agree with the military chiefs, and that, lay ing a fide all personal pride (or felfilove) they may ad\ like bi others towards them and eath other : let those authorities and those chiefs mutually encourage, enlighten and caution each other on every ueceflary occa- j fion J let them never forget that all power is derived from the people, and is confided to the publie fundionaries solely for the good of the people. And you, O my dear fellow-citizens, who, being free from all responsibility, ought to enjoy the benefits of our immortal cenftitu tion, enjoy them in peace : forget, if possible, 'he ills you have Cuffered : pardon the inju ries and the wrongs, which you may call to mind : remember that they are the inconve niences mleperable from a great revolution-; that this revolution has already revived'in France the iropreicriptible rights of the man irid of the citizen, rights inherent in human ature, and which appeared to be destroyed rorever ; and that the fame revolution is ibout to be extended to the other nations in lucceffion. In every thing, therefore, done in St. Domingo, of a nature to be blamed, behold nothing but the effefts (unhappily iieccflary) of causes priduced by your Veal situation j and turn away your eyes from that alH.clihg picture, arvet ai «eto plt.ee them but upon the h.ippy itityi'-* wffwch pre sents itlilf before vou. Place, I repeat it, entire confijent e in the general in chief, the'agent ot the Directory, and the civil and military author,ties ot your refpedtive cantons : continue, with ijcuritv, your occupations and your labors. Cjii tinually hear in mind that you have the hap piness to be French citizens, members ot the great nation ; and that your rights, guaran teed by the constitution of the 2d year, place "yoa on a footing with owr 30 millions ot brothers, who yVi contend for the caule ot liberty and equality, against the expiring remnant of the ..yrauts of Europe. If you experience a (lagnation of com merce, if you endure privations of every kind, you owe it only to the htll efforts of machiavelifm of our enemies : they have acknowledged the impotence of their arms : vou have obliged them to fly : thtv vvifh to starve us : but the Supreme being' will pro tect, and we will convince them that we are no less invulnerable by the fhafts of tlieir malice than bv the (teel of their Soldiers. Long' live the French republic ; —peace and prosperity to the department of St. Do mingo. F.QUALi-rr. Port Republican [Port-au Prince] the 4th Pluviofe, 7th year of the French Republic, one and indivisible [23 d January 1799.]' The Special Agent, (Signed) ROUME. By the Secretary general ad hoc. (Signed) ExtraA of a letter fr?m Capt. Alexanber Murray, dated en board the fhipof war Montezuma, March 9, 1799, to the Se cretary of the Navy. " The next day we fell in with the French brig lei Amis capt. Mallett, pierced for 16 guns, but had only 6 on board and 16 men, which I captured, and from the condition of her fails apd rigging, and little provisions on board, I was obliged to order her for Lucea, on the north fide of Jamaica, where I intend to call on my rojite to America. She was from Porto Rico bound to St. Thomas, laden with lu nber and a few hales of cotton.-—She is a well coppered and a fine looking brig, has been a guineaman. We va lue the whole property at 9000 dollars. <E»a3ette sparine JLitt. Port oj- Philadelphia, ARRIVED Days. Ship Woodi op Sims, Hodgfon, Caaton 160 Schr. Hannah, Barlow, Charleston 18 Roba, Martin, N. York 10 Sally, Tabor, Charlejlon 11 Sally, Haley, New Orleacs la Ship Boston Packet, Cowperthwait, from hence, ha 9 arrived at Charleston. EQUAiirr, Brig American, Venn, from hence, has arrived at Gibraltafriir 24. days and proceed ed fiom thence up the ftr'eighti, in com par.y with the ftii'jp Herald, of Boston, all well arid, armed. By letters from Curracoa, we have good reason to believe that the following vefiels from hence havr arrived at La Guira : Ship Alexander, Hall, Brig Maria, and (loop Dependance. Capt. Haley of the Sally informs that he left at N.Orleans, 12 th ult the brigOayofa, of and for this port, to fail in 4 days, and sloop Friendship, not discharged. Captain Haley came out in company with the fchr. Anne M<iria, for Baltimore and the sloop > Bradbury for New York. In the Miflifilppi met two fchoaners and a sloop bound up, from New York. 13th eafl of the river spoke the sloop Minerva, 27 days from Ntw York, in a leaky state, bound to New Orleans. i The (hip Woodrop Sims Hodgfon, failed from Canton the 27th of O&ober, in com pasy with the ship Betsey, Farmings, from N. W. coast ; parted of Java head. Left there the following vessels : Ship Concord, Thompson of this port, ar rived 24 Aug. Delaware, Swords, 12 Sept. Ontario, Wheaton, of >l. York 16th [Sept. Northern Liberties Afque, of N. York Elizabeth, Sage of Salem, Neptune, Green from N. W. coast. Swift, , from Batavia. Brig Mercury, ~fromN. W. coast. \ brig had jult arrived there, name uo known, when the Woodrop Sims failed. Dec. 5, Pafltd through the Streightsof Sunda, was there informed, that two French frigates had left that place for the eastward. March 25, spoke the brig William and 1 homas from Antigua, bound to Boston, who informed that a fleet of American vcf fels had left St. Kim the 10th of March for the continent. 2«, spoke the sloop Romeo, of Charlef tari, from New York, bound to St. Tho mas's. Ships Brothers, Four Friends, Terrific, and Jefferfoo, with the brigs Fair American, Flora, and several others went to sea on Fri day lait Ihe Four Friends loft her anchor at Reedy Island. INF/INI NAVY—INCREASING. Capt Jones, of the brig Anna Maria, 20 days from Curracoa—failed in company with four schooners, all for Baltimore, under convoy of the United States sloop of war Montezuma, Capt Murray, who accompani. Ed the above vessels as far as the lat tudc of 20. Capt. Murray informed capt. Jones, that a few days before, on his cruise from the Windward Islands, he had fallen in with, and captured a French privateer, of i6gun« which, after landing the prisoners at Curra coa. he had sent down to Jamaica—for which place ht failed after he left the above convoy. F. H. JEVERDAT, Grand champ. NEW-YORK, April 6. jlntc foreigner ticks CONTINUE D. Received 011 tbt late arrivals at Charleston LONDON, January 10. Although the Executive Direaory i n sist s on the moll rigorous compliance with its orders to prohibit the exportation of French papers, yet some few irregular numbers find their way into this country by every cartel that arrives at Dover. The papers received yefterdav reach down to the 6th instant. The principal news by these papers relate to the state of the army of Buonaparte in Egypt, and to the war which has recently broken out in the Roman territories. Al j though there is nothing official refpe&ingthe i infurredtion which was stated in the last ad | vices from Vienna to have broken out at Cairo, it appears that the Dire&orv has at I length allowed the information to transpire, , that the meeting of the Convocation at Cairo i had not been attended with the expe&ed fuc i ccfs ; that an insurrection took place, in which two generals, whose names are not mentioned, were killed, and that-Buonaparte at the head of the troops quartered at Cairo and at an adjacent camp contorting of 6000 men, attacked that city, and made a dreadful daughter amongthe aSaflins.' We doubtless mult understand by the word aflaflins, tie whole people of Cairo, who were defirois to oppote the lyllem of plunder adopted by the Republicans. We also learn, tiiat Buo naparte renewed the maffiicre on 11,500 of these unfortunate per fans, who had talc en re fuge in a rapfuve. Notwithstanding the success with Vhich these horrible cruelties were executed, the French commander in chiif was compelled to retreat to his camp. The impious fanaticifm of the French folrliers, and the insatiable spirit of pillage and devaluation by which they were adjusted, appear to been the two causes of this terrible infurreftion, which was principally direeled agaiuft the' Institute National, and broke out in confluence of a new duty of about two guineas imposed upon the houfepf each inhabitant. It would be tjfelefs to hazard an opinion on the difpolitions of the Einppror with re fpeft to the holtilities which have taken place between the French and the king of Naples ; < "but in corvfequence of the ineafures adopted by government to re-establish the correfpon dencc between the continent and this coun? try, \ye cannot be tong' unacquainted with ' his imperial majesty's determination. We are still inclined to believe, notwithstanding the statements copuiped jn the Paris Jour nals, that the Emperor who cameforward with l'ucb promptitude to prpt-efl the Grifop , will not bal'ely abandon the king of Napkl and the grand duke of Tufcany. The meflage xt£ the Direaqry, ontKiefub* jeiS of its viifloriesin Italy, merely contains a recapitulation of tbe. ad vantages obtained, by the French over the Neapolitans. The 1 necessary re Cult q! thele advantages has bet ft the ieta.kiasf.of; Rouwon the 13th of Decern ber, 17 days after the Neapolitans hajdjW fellion of it. ihe naelTajfe certainly gives M authenticity to the details pre*ioufly r«c«W- • ed, which they did not before pofftfs, though some allowance must be made for the customary exaggerations with whiek the official articles of the French govern* ment are generally filled. The circumstance which is related of two Englifli frigates and transports with 2,000 troops on board, having been aground and taken in the Mediterranean, is too ridi culous a falfehood to require coimnent. Yesterday arrived a mail Horn Qablin, ly which we haVc received the following out line of the plan to be proposed for an uni< n ; between Great Britain and Ireland, which is stated to be as follows, and we have reason to think that it is tolerably correit : Thirty-two Irish peers' to fit in the iir pt'rial parliament. Twenty-eight temporal peers to be elected for life ; four spiritual peers by rotation. Irish peers, not elected, may fit in the imperial house of commons for British Bounties and boroughs only, as at present. Ihe crown to retain the power of creating peers of Ireland, in order to prelerve the peerage from extin&ion. The Irilh commoners who are to fit in the imperial parliament, not to exceed one hundred. One to be chosen for each coun ty ; one for each of the great commercial ci ties and towns*—this arrangement would give 42 ; halt of the 108 boroughs to lend one member each for one parliament, the other half one member each for the next parlia ment, and so on alternatively. The capital and Cork might fend two members each. 1 hus the representation would amount to 98 members. The lord lieutenant and his court ; the lord chancellor ; the speaker; the great offi cers of Rate ; and all the present eftablifh mejats, to be continued precisely as at pre sent, without any diminution of salaries or patronage. Appeals from the courts to be made to the resident parliament. Irish fubjefts to enjoy at all time the fame commercial privileges as Englifli. The du ties between the two countries to be equali zed, regard being had to the temporary pro tection of the infaqt manufaftures in Ireland. The present advantages enjoyed by the lin en manufactures to be secure. The exchequer-os Ireland to continue se parate, Great Britain to be responsible f®r her own debt and its reduction. Ireland to be responsible for her own debt and its re redudlion. The future expences of Irelind in war and in peace to be be in a fixed ratio to the ex pences of Great Britain". When the revenues of Ireland fliall ex ceed her proportion of expense, the excess to be applied to local purposes of improve ment, or the reduiftion of Irifli debt ; or if not required for the above purposes, the tax es prtfiucing the excess to be taken off. January 18. At length, after an interval of many ,i weeks, we yefV. relay morning' received regu- j lar sets of Paris papers from the 2jth of December to the 13th inft_ir.c.!ri»ve, Thry. •
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