©p tt)is 3Dap's floail. BOSTON, April 9. TRUXTON FOREVER ! On Sunday niglit arrived (loop Phenix, capt. Doane, 17 days from Antigua. Two day* before he failed, a veflel, in 24 hours from St. Kitt's arrived, the captain of which informed him, that he there saw a French privateer schooner of 18 guns, and 150 men which was sent in by commodore Truxton. That officer had failed from St. Kittson the ,oth of March, in the Gonftellation, in company with the Infurgrnt. Theyfepara ted as they approached, and when they came in full fight of that iiland, (agreeably to a plan concerted) they both appeared to bear up for port—the one under French colours, tke other under American. They soon met, and affefted a very furious combat. The French on Ihore, deceived by these appear ance, hastened the failing of the above men tioned privateer to aid their countrymen. She came out accordingly, and did not dif cever the deception till too late. i 3 shot were fired at her- ffowever, before fl;e was brought too. Captain Doatfe, (onr inform ant) (peaks with confidence of the cor re (St uffs of the intelligence ; fays lie had a long convrrfatiAh with the captain from St. Ivitts, a, had others at Antigua, *!n:re the news credited. .The Conftitutiou- frigate was hying at Antigua, in order to have her foremaft fifh cd. She hail not captured any thing. The General Greene frigate, equipping at Newport is nearly ready for sea. The frigate building in this town, it is fiiid, will be launched about the middle of May. Englifli papers assert and French deny that Touiflaint considers St. Domingo inde pendent of France. Information frcm the Havsnnth, states, that exertions are making to put it in a per fe£t slate of defence from informatien that the F.nglidi have a design upon it. Rice was from three to five dollars pr. cwt. Foreign Papers. We have been favoied Lon don papers to January 21, and Cork to January 28. The slate of our paper when we received them, com pels us to notice their contents in a brief and desultory manner. Gen. Championet promises a purgation to Rome, after he has fi niflied with Naples. Three Americans were arretted at Paris on the 2 d of January, an J sent to the Temple. The French papers fay, two Eng lilh frigates, with several transports, having on board 3000 Neapolitan troops, got aground, and were taken near Naples. The French Minister at Ham burg, has ceased his funftions in con feq'uence of the refufal to liberate Tandy, &c. The French Deputies at Raftadt J have demanded of the German Ple nipo's, that the Emperor cause the the Ruffians to retreat from his ter ritory, otherwise they (hould con sider it a violation of its neutrality, and all parties as returning to the fame situation as before the signing of the preliminaries of Peace. It is said Lord Nelson took 70 Genoese vessels at Leghorn. French papers agree in the infur r eft ion at Cairo—and add many in stances of Arabian hostility. A London paper of January 18 fays, the late demand of the French Deputies at Raftadt has resulted in..a declaration of War by Prussia and Austria against France. The French Journalifis fay, they give implicit credit to news of the embarkation or 100, coo Turks at Adrianople to r.£t against the French in concert with the Pacha of Damas. A large Edifice in Paris, erefted in the middle of the Garden of the Palace Egalite, which comprised the Lyceum of Arts, a Theatre and 50 lhops, has been destroyed by fire. Seven other alarms of fire occurred about the fume lime. %\k <sajette. PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL li —«■» €S>■■ PRICES OF STOCKS. Sir Per Cent. Three Per Cent. 9/8 Deferred 6 Per Cent. >4/4 B \NK United States, ij percent. Pennfylvania, 21 ditto. Noith Atrierica, 46 ditto Infuranne comp. N. A. fliarej 31 to 31 Pennfylvania, fliares, 38 to 39 8 per cent Scrip 5 The {hip Ocean, of this port, mounting 21 guns, and 80 men, after a gallant de fence, has been taken, off the Havanna, by four French privateers, and every man of her crew cruelly murdered in cold blosd. I he motives of Coxe for recommending M'Kean, on the l'core of his zeal for inde-> pendence, are not i'o deeply veiled as iome have imagined. A more indefatigable of fice-hunter is not to be found ; and this is a cafe, in which, though he may reap no Iju rels of honor, yet lie may derive from the gratitude of his new matter, that profit, which, now that he has pal Ted the hot me ridian ol youth, he has wifely learnt to pre fer to barren honors and to empty crowns. It is very much to be apprehended that the result of the census to ensue the present year, will throw a decided preponderance into the scale of southern politics. T hen the sanguine visions of inveterate Democm cy may be realised in a diviiion of the Union and a civil war. Indeed, so confident do they fetm 011 this iflue, that it is already spoken of as as extant topic of difcuflion. This result, which would be fairly attributable to the principles of modern republicanism, is not at all foreign to its charadter. To prey in rage, upon itfelf for want of a foreign en»- my, has long been its direful curse. The flatement i«,-pu'olilhcd from in Eas tern paper of the nefolution of the Prefideflt, to raifean additional force for the defence of th» country, we believe may be relied on. IF there be one cavern of Tartarus morfc inteniely excruciating than the reft, it is surely the destined scene of expiation to those villains who continue to abet the de iigns of France upon this country ; but since over the allotted purgation of the Here after, we have as little control as they, it behoves us, here, to heap fueh judgments as we can, upon the heads of wretches, who uncealingly watch for our deftru&ion, and, most assuredly will not long watch in vain, unless some higher degree of virtuous abhor rence against these tygers of society, can be brought speedily intaaftion. ["Mtrcury. The French faction in America (howev er we may deceive ourfclves by delusive lines of diflinttion in favor of our countrymen) are composed of materials as inflammable and ' deleterious, as thole of the original French revolutionists themselves ; nor do they want any thing but a form and pressure to com mence the holy work in praitice, which by daily It-ffons they inculcate in theory. For this they look in a primary degree, to the ele&ion of Fouquier Tinville. That they look to it, juftly,as a very eflential step in the fur therance, cf their designs, can be doubted by no man who refle&s for a moment on the ac tively daring spirit, of this audacious and ty rannical demagogue. That he would very fpredily bring to pass a co-operation on the part of Pennsylvania, along with the land of slaves in Giles's holy fchtme of dismember ing the Union, mull be, I think, a matter of very little question to any one who refle&s on the violent and unprincipled ambit'on by which Fouquier hat ever been animated. What incentives wbuld he find to remain subordinate to the general, supremacy ? fiat rex si ruat iflum, he would fay, and the herd of Asses who follow and obey in his train would all bray amen. Let us then by tiiuely adlivitv, and by a perfeveringdifplay of abhorrence at principles and eondutf, de ligned for our ruin, prostrate l'o potent a fa biic of mifchief, ere yet the top-stone be put to it, and our liberties with an useless groati, flee indignant to the (hades. MR. FETJKO, HAVING read in your paper of evening, a publication of several rerlons, ftil.ng themselves a Committee of Correlpondei.ee to circulate the intelligence Of the ,mporjmtfrleftion of Thomas M'Kean for the oihee of Governor at theenfuinßelec tion, I was led to make lome enquiries re fpefting the charafters of the persona com peting tins committee, and a m informed that the Tench Coxe therein mentioned, is the identical Tench Coxe who adhered to the Britifli cause during the American revo lution. That the Alexander I Dallas, therein named, is the iery identical secretary of this commonwealth, of whom Fauchet, the French minister, in his dispatches to this government, during the western infurre&ion makes the following honorable mention. " Of all governors whose duty it was to appear at the head of the requ.fitions, the governor of Pennsylvania aloife enjoytd the name of Republic-art : his Opinion of the fe. cretaxy of the trtafury and of his fyflems was known to be unfavorable. The secretary v r this state pofTrfird great influence in the Popular Society of Philadelphia, winch in its turn influenced those of other state? ; of course he merited attention. It appears therefore that these men with others un known to me,' all having' without doubt Randolph at their head, were balancing to decide 011 their party. Two or three day; before the proclamation was published and Philadelphia, Aml 13 16/4 FRENCH CRUELTr. COMMUNICATIONS* of course before the iCk'uinet had refoiwi on its mealiires, Mr. Randolph came to.lee me with an air of gre?t eagerness, and made to me the overtures of which I havs given you an account in ivy No. 6. Thus with l'ome thousands of dollars the Republic could have decided on civil war or on peace ! Thus the confidences of the pretended patriots of A merica have already their prices ? I.t is very true that the certainty'of thttle conclusions, painful to be drawn, will foreverexift in our archives ! What will be the old age of this government* if it is thus early decrepid !" "As loon, ~s it was .decided that the French Republic purchased no men to do their duty, there were to be-feen individuals, about whole conduct the government"«oSld at h'ait-form uneasy conjectures, giving themie' ves up with a fcandalons eftentation to its views, and even seconding its declara tions. The Popular Societies soon emitted resolutions stamped with the fame spirit, and who, although they may have been advised by love of order, might nevertheltfs have omitted, or utterred them with less folemni-' ty. Then were seen coming from the very men whom we had been accuftoijiedto regard &S having little friendfl»ip for the fvftem of the treasurer, harangues without end, in order to give a new direction to the public mind. The militia, however, manifeft some repugnance, particularly in 'Pennsylvania, for the service to which they were called.— Several officers resign ; at last by excurlions or harrangues, incomplete rt q uifitions are obtained, and fcattcred volunteer, corps from different parts make up the deficiency. How much more iuterefting, than the changeable men whom I have painted above, weir thole plain citizens who answered the felicitations which were made to them to join the volun- tcers." As to the remainder of the committee men, I Teave their biography to other hands, as I conceive, from certaio circumstances, they had not an equal fhait in the produc tion ; thus, for instance, the following ex traft was exclusively -the produciioo of the laurelled 7 ench : " I here is scarcely a page of the American revolutionary history that does not yield some teftiniony of- his aflive snd efficient patriotism." And th? clause following, viz. " The t;\<yiits and dii'pofi tions of Mr. Kofs are devoted to the ad vancement of a political fylhtm which in our opinion can only be eftablillicd on the ruijj* of the Federal Government", inuft bavp been written by that fame secretary whyfl* aflift ance to destroy.the constitution »i'th<? United States could not be procured without money. A VILLAIN UN-HANGED. The following Dublin article was published some days since hi most 'of our Gazettes. January az. Another mail from Dublin arrived this morning by which we have rtceived papers and letters of the 16th and ißthinfc In the county of Clare, it appears an en gagement has taken place between' the insur gents and the military ; for the "Dublin Jour nal fays, " Bythe latest accounts frtnn Inrftt, we learn that' troops have mai-eheA from Li merick against the infurgeirtfin tha*ntig[h bourhood ; a short conftifl-'toofe- plate", in ' which the rebels were routed perfed : several of theip leaders have been taken, among others the infamous Bur Ah, who was expelled the college of Dublin for blasphemy ; and O'Gorman, whtf,the in stigation of the editor of The Prcfs, engag ed last March in the plan to affaflinatesMr. Macartney, and was for that and other crimes expelled the college. Burke, has been hanged at Ennis ; O'Gorman is in Limerick goal. The country is nearly quieted by this timely interference of the military jov/cr." [We fufpe&edat the time that the perfoti of Burke (or Burk, as he sometimes calls hirefelf) so cirsumftantially stated therein to have been executed, wculd be recognized in the Editor of a Democratic newfpapei- at New-York ; and from a knowledge of the man's stupidity, expett'ed that he would idenr tify himfelf. We have not been pointed : See his own words. What degree of credit ought to be given to a man, who can declare with Compot'are that he has not been hanged, we leave the reader to detide : That he has been actually hanged, is not the less probable on the account. On one point, however, all decent people must agree, that whether he has or has not been hanged, at any time past, it is high time he werer] From tbe Argus. " The Same (gentleman." We may judge of the degree of credit due to the London prints, from an infpeftion of the accounts detailed 1 in them concerning Ire land ; in speaking on the late tranfa<3'ions there, we delivered an opinion, that the in furreflion fa id ts have taken place, was much exaggerated by the tools of government, to promote their deligris ; w<s are now fully con vinced of it, when we fee falfe names pub lished as leaders of the infurre&ion. Mr. John Burke is stated to have been hanged at a place called Enhis ; this fame gentleman is at present in this country, and has proba bly read the account of hi? being taEen and and executed ; our readers will perceive how liable they are to be impofedupon by the lies and calumnies which fill the columns of the venal prints of Britain. [A wretch who can quote an account of his expulsion trom a ieminary of learning for Blaspheming his Maker, without attempting to controvert,»t, and a detail of his having been hanged, as the due reward of his infa mous courses, merely for the pleasure of call ing himfelf a Gentleman, or of citing an evi dence oi the incorreftnefs of newspapers,— will readily be allowed a fit agent to flir up '-: ie populace again ft their government, and to set the poor and idle, like himfelf, at log gerheads with theft, who, by honest indus try, have acquired those comforts of life, which attraft the jealonfy of luch lawlefj freebooters. We have ;i villain here ofexaflly the fame def< ription of chara&er, and another wretch very little better has , just commenced hi? career at Kew-\®rk, Are such the foun tains /«f our republicanism? are fiich til" litercti of our cotuKry ? through such hands mlift th - iufocmation oi the community p.ifs One have thought we had fallen so low in. this regard, as to precliide- nc.w dil graces. Rut it was not enough, that a fel low who (:ad escaped from.Newgate andth.* pillory, (liould print a. newspaper, and call it the Merchant's Advertiser, or that ano ther fellow, contriving t6 fly from irons and a dungeon in Britain, fliouid print, another newspaper, in the very capital* under a Re publican government, and cal/it-the exclu sive fountain of Republicanifiri :—no, no; all this was not enough. Other Illuminators must be imported, more effectively to incul cate upon the susceptible ,Simplicity of the country, the tenets of pure and undefiled Republicanism. A fellow whole nickname had become the fynonime of every thing dif gracefuUevery thing opprobrious, flying from the puriuit of justice, and another expelled the College for Blafpheining the Most High, must be added to the lplendid galaxy of Re publican worthies. Thus arc we, the free and enlightened people of America, taught' leflons in govern ment, by the refute of Britilh jails, dun geons and jibbets—thus are men qualified by long experience of a severe despotism (and that government'is worthless, which to i'uch wretches is not despotic) to afi\ime the lktion of centinels at the vestibule of the temple oi liberty.] MR. FF.NNO, A due rcfpcft to th! opinions of my fel low citizens makes it neceflkry that I Ihould publilh the subjoined explanations of the cer tificates, which dottor Hall procured. He will begin to believe that we are not " adlly where we started." ■■ y' \V. JACKSON. April i&. Ido hereby declare that by the certificate which I gave to dottor of his converfa tianwith me on the fubj<?a of the Ihip Tho mas Wilson, Ididnot i}*ean,inthemoftdifhint manner, to question -tin: truth of major Jack fou's aflertion tjwtf a different declaration had been made to liim on the fame £ubje£t by doftor Hall. 'Benjamin smith barton. April 16. I do hereby declare that by the certificate which I gave to docYor Mall of his conversa tion with me on the fubjeft of the vessel mentioned in my certificate, I did not mean, in the most difhnt degree, to question the truth of major Jvtckfon's aflertion that a different declaration had been made to him on that fubjeil by do&or Hall. PETER BAYNTON. April 16. I do hereby doclare that by tfce certificate which I gave to do£tor Hall of his conver sion with me on the fubjett of the ship Thomas Wilson, I did not mean, in the mod distant degree, to question the truth of major Jackson's aflertion that a different ,df£lar4tibn had been "made to him on that jjibjecl by dottor HalL FRANCIS JOHNSTON. April 16. A King Ron, (Jamaica) paper of the 2d March, contain* the following paragraph— " It i» reported, that the French frigate La Vettale, arrived about 14 days ago at Cape-Francois from France, with difpatch e*. &it now at Port-au-Prince. It it men tioned, that by her information has been re c-ived of three of the Members of the French Directory having been put to death. B<tr ras and Merlin aie said to be the ttvo fur- vivors." (sasette Marine ILift, Port of Philadelphia. ARRIVED, Sloop Experiment, Gillman, N. Yoik Sally, Vance. N.York CLEARED, Ship Fame, Jones, Juno, Wolters, Brig Sally", Montayne, Schr. Sally, Haley,' Rcba, Martin, Sophia, Feffinden, Betsey, Afhton, Sloop Sally, Denyke, • Sally, Gardner, Rebecca, Strcakee, Arrived Schr. Harriot, Ruft,.St. Bartho lomews, 25 days. Sailed in a fleet, under convoy U. S. (loop of war Richmond. Several before failin from St. Bartha lomews. two N. Carolina veflcls were captu red and sent into St. Martins condemned and crews difchargtd ; fchr. Industry, White of Ntwburyport, carried into St. Enftatia, condemned ; and supercargo and 2 men dismissed ; remainder sent as prisoner* to Guadaloupe. The day before capt. R. failed brig Penelope, ofN. York, and Fan ny of Baltimore, were brought into St. B. by a French ich. of 14 guns, all. the crew confined on board, The Cancellation and Insurgent had failed on a cruize.—Lat. 21, 30, long. 63, 30, parted with brig Two Sif ters. Folger, and fch. Argus, Fowler, for N. York. Sch Amazon, Burn», of Charleston, of 8 gnn», and iz men, has been taken by 9 French privateer of 8 guns And men after a fight of five gla flies, Most of the Americans were wouncLd, 7 Frenchmen killed, and 9 wounded. A letter from Malaga, mentions a Bos ton Brig, Capt. Freeman, being brought in a prize. Site was ei;ga K ed a long time and va'isntly defended. At Itngth the Pri vateers got so t ear that her guns ci uld not be so pointed as to do execution- The Frenchmen then and carried her. Two cf her men were mortally wcunded. NconYmit, A.p*i 1 iv.v* ARRIVED,,'-, » i'» ' SMp Shepherdcfy, Rogers," SswattnaV ,<j Brig Juhanne*, VcMih.'MaTaga ' rtj CLEARED, | Brig Vsnils, Shaw, •AiitifJ.:; Sufannah,-Combs, ' St. Thomas' Schr. Tanner; Delight, Euflman,' St. Au [j.iftine Eghntine, Haff, St! Thoftias'i Brig Diadama lias arrived at New Or leans , Brigantine Maria, Jcffi y, ij captured and carried into a port in France Ship Anfierica, Furger, is.taken by the 'French and carried into Dieppe; The Schr. Tele-, gruphe Cheefbrough was at' New Orle?r* 24th March lall ; Skip , Hope, Cidhrfiiti from Savannah to Liveipool 12 days lut all well spoken 19th March in lat. 38. Ship. John, Watson, is taken by the French, and Tent ta Barbadoec./- In the lift of the Committer of Elcdtion, for the county of Lancaster, published in this Gazette, on evening, read John Jof&ph Henry, Lancaster, vice William Henry, Dr. App.n, 15, 1799. ALL o£ficer» within the StJte« of K'ew- Hamplhrre, Mifiachufetis, l< hode-ffland, Connecticut, Vermont, New-York, New Jrrfey, Pennfylvar.ia, Delaware and Maryland, belong ing to the firft, second, third' and fourth regi ments "f frifantry, and the firft and second re giments ol Artillery, now 11 pan furlough, or ah - their commands will, withvUt delay, them lei ves to Major General Hamilton, and obeyhin ordon. %* The Members of the So ciety of the Sons of St. GtußCt, ettabliftie-fi at Philadelphia, for the Advice and Afiiftam e of Englishmen in dillrefs, are requested to attend their Anniversary Meeting, at the City Tavern, on Tuesday the 13d infiant, ut 1 o'elock in ihe afternoon. GEO. DAVIS, Sec'ry. A pundloal attendance, at the above hour, i» deGred, at several new members will be b'ai lotted for. Dinner to be on the table at 4 o'clock pre rifely. April 16. 1799. dts.3 NOTICE, : : To the Inhabitants Of the City and County tf Philadelphia. IT appearing from the returns received by the Afieffors of the firft division of Pennfylvsnia, confiding of the C!ty and Comity »l Philadelphia! under the Alft " It frovidt for tic valuation of Landt and Dwelling Houft. an J the enumeration of Jlavci ■within the United Statu," that due attention has not been paid to returning vacant Lot',or property held in other parts of this, orfome other ps the United States ; and as heavy fines may be recovered for such tiegleit, it is requeued that all persons resid ing within the aforefaid division and owning, pof. felling or superintending any property at aiorefaid which they hive not glreafly cejm rncd, Wll forth-', with retnrn tht fame to the affefTor of the ward i townfliip or dillrift in whi«h thay reside" (or in which the property lies,if in the aforefaid division) from Whom on appliation they will receive the ne ceflary Blankfornr sor from Mi. George WeOcott, No. 4, North Fourth-street. Those who do not' comply with this requett previous to the 13d inft. can blame thewfclvcs only, <or the consequences. April 16 Just arrived, in the Sh.'p Delaware, jtrom Canton—and for Sale, by Joseph Anthony, £s* Co. Imperial "J Hyson, and V TEAS of thefirft Quality. Hyson Skin 3 days 10 4 Havanna Hamburg St. Vincent Biddeford Baltimore N. York JACOB PERKINS, HAVING invented aAef&dual check for de testing counterfeit Bank Paper, which has received the fandlion of on* Bank, and the approbation of the undersigned eminent artists, and having obtained a patent, securing to him, and to hit afligns, the exclulive right of the io veution, hereby offers to his fellow titiiens the privilege of using it upon term*, to be agreed en between him and any person disposed to av4il theiafelves of a guard againlt counterfeits. Nixonton Fredsrickfburgh Bolton Burlington Boflon, April 7. THE underlined having examined Jacob Ptrkin's new invented method to detefl coun terfeit Bank paper, do approve of the plan, it being inpoffible to engrave or fink two plate« perfeiily alike, without the original die nr hub, the counterfeiter ueild find it impoflible to make an imprcflion which would perfectly gage with the check from the original die. ROB'TSCOT, Enjravpr & Die linker JAMES SMITHKK, Engraver. JAMES A KIN, Engraver. The terms mav lie knowu by applying to No ill Sou.h 3d street. rpHE creditors of TODD Is" MOTT are rcqaeO ed to leave their accounts calculating intcrrft to the aid of November, 1798, the date of I odd sad Uotts's alTigrmcnt, with W. Mott, no. Market street, on or before tlse firfl of Ju'y ne*r, as a dividend will he immediately made alter that time ; those wfco negleik to fend in their accouxti will be excluded fiom that dividend. John H r adclinston,~\ John Rhodes, V Assignees. Jokn Allen J apill 13,1799 FOR SALE, A Capital Printing Prefg. £nnATj?&. War Department, JAMES M'HENRY, Sec'ry of War. 6t NOTICE. An elegant Coach FOR SALE, Bnqairc it No. j, north Fouith Areet. April 16 «, ~ China Goods. yusr IMPORTED, In the Ship Du. avtari, from Caifcin, (nverial Hyf ° a n nd kin ("AS. YeungHyfou J A very handsomely aflorted Small invoice of Silks ; Alio, China Ware, assorted. For Sale, by WILLIAM SANSOM. divr aoril '6 ALSO, A few Bundles of Nankeens. April 16 Eawim March 13 tf O 7 J ,C £. Eryuire at ilis offite. ppr;l lj fl t g I aajvif taw 11Jy (« Ct
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