©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.
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A few Bundles of Nankeens.
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