JForcifltt JntelHscnte. LONDON, February *6. * ■ GoVernrrent, it is said. lias at length re ceived advices from Lerd Nelson, of the French troops having entered Naples. Two very fine Neapolitan (hips of the line were brought away; but four others were left be hind to be destroyed by the Portuguese ad miral and an Engliflj captain, to whom this business was entrusted, though the success of its being rxecuted was doubtful. Letters from Barcelona, by the Lisbon mail which arrived on Monday, mention in a very positive manner, that the Court of Madrid has granted permission for a French army to march through Spain, and that a diviljon of French iroops were expedted at Barcelona in Mayijext. Private letters from L'fbon mention reports of a (imilar nature ; and is believed that Lord S. Vincent's dff patches, by the Hyenna (loop of war, re ferred to this circumstance, although it was at fir ft ccniradi& e d. The information received, it is observed may not be decisive for the event; for, in spite of the aeknowledg«d weakness of the Court of Madrid, and the disposition of the direftory to pillage and revolutionize both Spa n and Portugal, yet the final de termination of the northern powers in re gard to the que (lion of peace or war, must in a great measure influence the proceedings I of the French in attacking Portugal, at lead for the prefcrt. The blockade of the island of Malta by the English fleet has been much interrupted by the late tempeftuons weather; and it is thought that the French have availed "them fel ve9 of this opportunity to throw such fuceours into the fortrefs, as may prevent its surrender. There is advice from the Texel of the Bth ul'. that the preparations for the failing of the Dutch fl-et have again ceased there. The floating of the ice was several days be fore this intelligence came awy so violent, that mad of the (hips were obliged to hea»e anchor and go to New Dieppe, where they are fafe from the ice. A letter from the Hague, however, of the til in(l (late, that in consequence of the ab feenc of he BritHh squadron from their coast, the Dutch fleet was on that day appointed to put to sea, mitw:thftanding the impediments which the ice presented to such a measure. The famous Vandcr Noot has been ar retted in Holland, and is now confined in ths citadel of Antwerp. KOSCIUSKO. By lettere from Vienna we learn the Baron de Thuguet hai fe*t orders to all the minif tsrs and diplomatic agents of Austria, to keep a ifr'& watch over all travellers, and demand tl e arrelt of any that answered ihe d fcription of Kofciuiko—information ha vr g been just rcctived that this ci-devent Chi. f of the Polish infarreiSion was attempt, ing to repair to his own country, taking the route to Munich and Ratifoin. A similar vi ilerce is observed in Russia, where any trave l?r bearing resemblance to Kofciuiko is ordrn-d r<> be amftcd and sent to Peterf bnrgh, the Empc.or himfelf being desirous to afcertai:- the idenity. \ In Pruflla there is not less uneasiness with respect to the condudt and projects of Kof ciuiko. In the open threatre at Berlin, an iii.k cwn pctfon was lately arretted, who i:?.d fomr principal age- t of < hat ex general. But fr ■ ng on enquiry, that he was not the per son fought for, he was immediately set at liberty Liters, It is said. were ycfterday recei ved by government from the Cape of Good H' pr, conta nring the disagreeable intelli. gence, that some incendiaries had set fire to two cf his Majesty's flore houses, which were entirely destroyed. February aI. Mr. Bo v lea, the Dire&or General of the Crrrk tndiar*, left London last week to em balk for Florida. He came to this coun. try sft-r making hi* escape from the Spa niards, who had detained him a prisoner for iix years. This was one of the mod signal branches of the laws ot nations which has occuired in any nation, the French Repub lic alone excepted. He went to the gover nor of Louifiaua, upon the faith «f a fafe conduft, to treat of the affairs ot the Creek nation ; the governor referred hjm to the go vernor general of the Spanish colonics, at the Havanna, who sent him prisoner to Cadiz. From thence he was conveyed to Madrid, whe e he underwent a long imprisonment, and vai ious interrogatories. Not being able to prevail with him, either by threats or fple did offerj of rank or emolument, to come into the views of the Spanish court, and not well knowing what to do with the man whom they htd so basely injured, the Spanish go vernment resorted to the fingu'.ar mcafure of embarking him on board a galleon, for the Spanish colonies. In this manner he failed from Cadiz, and went ronnd Cape Horn to Lima, the capital of Peru ; and from thence to Manilla, one of the Philippma islands. Upon the return of '.he galleon to Europe, he *was again embarked, and prdceeded to the isle of Fiance, and thence !o the Isles of dt Los. on the coast of Africa, where he contrived Jo tfeepe from the fliip. and, get ting to Sierra Leone, took his passage in a vessel for England. His health had been extremely injured by the length of hj's and change of climate ; hut during a residence of five monthsin this country, it has been complete ly re-tftablifhed ; and he is now going to re filme his itation among a People, whofc n'«|. fare and prosperity depend so much upon the txirtioh, good and aftivky of th?« extraordinary man. SPOitlCftiC . NEW-YORK, May 3. - Peffdence is not perhaps the ivorft of all evils, but it surely falls little fliort of the worst. One would think, at fiift light, that the inhabitants, of cities, liable to this evil, would take great pains to Ihut it out ; that if the miseries of others can, in f ny cafe, pro duce companion in us, it would be the mise ries con sequent on peflilence; and that, if any motives were" fufficient to make men fore go their private interest, and to facrifice a . little fordid gain to the general welfare, the removal of plague from the doors of the in dubious and the indigent would produce thateffeft. I his, however, is the speculation of closet ed and visionary men ; who draw their ideas of human nature from the contemplation of theoretical systems, and not from the fp-cn lation of life and manners. Experience shews us that men can, not only be indiffer ent to the fufferings of their fellow creatures ariling from plague and war, but can even desire the continuance- of these evils, when ; they happen to promote their own felfifh in- ; tereft. Whole nations are ravaged with fire and sword merely for the fake of glory, and there are men who would willingly enrich at the expence of the lives and fortunes nf half their fellow-citizens. Our city has been twice desolated by a contagious disease. Various schemes have been suggested to prevent the return of this malady. All these fchenier resemble each other in their costliness. Very large funis of money are required to carry them into effed. The momentous question has there fore been, how is this money to be procured ? It Icems tacitly admitted that it cannot be railed in the way of taxation, much less will munificence of wealthy individuals open of their own accdrd'their hoards, and contribute the needful sums, without any hope of re compense but that which flows from thecon fcioufnefs of having- performed a good ac tion. 1 wice the sum required is, indeed, tcn sunftd in idle or pernicious luxury, in the course of a few months. Men throw away on sycophants and baubles, that which would prolong the life and enhance the comforts of tlioufunds. Yes, and the fame use will con tinue to be made of it. The sage may wonder, and the fatyrift may 1 rail at the de piavity of mankind; but that depravity fwill continue undiminifhed. Our purpose can only be effeded by making it the pecuniary interest of the rich to contribute to the ge neral happmefs. Convince tl.em that by placing their money in this fund, they will merely be placing it at interest, that tkey will gain more by this appropriation than by any other, and contributors will not be wanting. A tingle man will contribute a twentieth of the whole sum, though tlie whole sum may amount to two millions of dollars. Call at his door for a tax or a donation of a dollar,' and he will probably refufe ;,or if he com plies, will comply slowly and with murmurs and relu&ance. "1 o gain an excellent purpose, we n:uft profit by the avarice and le!fi(l,nefs of man kind. We must accept the contribution, even upcn fordid terms, Wit cannot be obtained on any other conditions. We must eredl a chartered company ; afford new in citements and gratifications to the lust of gain ; generate a new swarm of ftock-jpbbe'rs and enlarge the field of artifice and fpecula ti°n, if by that means we can save ourfeJvts from pestilence or war. We are reduced in this, as m ijiofl other cases, to a choice of evils—and though the evils of a joint stock company are great, thole of pestilence and war are greater. A company of this kind has accordingly been ereSedby the Legislature of this State for the purpose of supplying the city "with water, and thereby furnifhing the only or the btft security against the visits of contagion. If the institution answer this end, aH must letond and applaud it, but some fcave insin uated doubts that'no other end was intended or will be accomplished by it, but the enrich ing of a few persons, by whom the proieft was contrived. This is a flagrant imputation, andfurely merits to be thoroughly examined. Have any employed the pretence of a be neficent and public purpose, merely to en hance their own wealth ? Have they profit ed by the general terror of the yellow fever, in order to gain apolitical fanftion toa scheme by which merely new occallons and new means are afforded to luxury and vice ? Will not the funds thus created be applied to the salvation of the city, or have we been cheat ed by nefarious artifices into a 'grant by which eight or ten persons will be made rich er by some thousands than they are at present and by which the c-afty and the prodigal will be supplied with new materials for fraud and new means of dissipation ?'ls this to be the lfliie of our toils and lticrubations ? ( Surely this is a matter that ought to be invefligated. It is our duty to detett the posture by which our undemanding is delud ed and our country betrayed. These schemers ought not to be l'uffered to hug themselves in the success of their wiles, but if their pro ject cannot be effefhially counter-worked if the institution cannot be dissolved by the power that made it—if their golden profpedls cannot be hindered from being realized ; let their success be circumscribed within'due bounds—let their recompence be wealth, but not honor—let their projedts be seen for what they are, and if they deserve the suspicions that are cast upon them, let every honest hand contribute to drag them from their co zert, and hold them up to the abhorrence and contempt of mankind. ALBANY, April 30. It is the opinion of some that the fhiiieit nium is to commence in the yczi ißoe that tlie devii has been let loose, with great power, will not be contested by those who have attended to the various rtiovecients' in the world for forte years past—whether,' however, the fcigtujof. tlie fivft I-iciA'n h;:? coil tinned a period fufficientlv Jcilfcth v (ftc <'arding to the prophecies) te jtiftify an ex pectation of the commencement of the mil lennium in the fucceedingyear, is rather un- certain. Madam Greenleaf'S Man, speaking- of the Turkish government, concludes in the following metaphorical flight : " Philanthrophy and benevolence hope (hortly to fee the downfall of this Gothic barbarian government, which has so long opprelfed its unhappy fubjefts, and renderrd the fineft countries in the world pestilential deserts and dreary wilds." Pestilence ,' then, is cattfed by despotism ! Pray, Ma dam, would not a change in the Administra tion, upon this principle keep off the. Tellcw Fever ? PhylicUfis have Kever considered this rightly. t f JfTRACT. " In every country where jacobins have existed, a principal means of their success has been to excite jealctilies and discontents, and spread mifreprefentatioiis in the petty diftridls where they have influence. By thele means, and by promising to relieve the peo ple from pretended oppressions, many a man is elefted in this country from a ssjall district, who would never acquire ref pe(Stability enough to be ele&ed by a large number of his fellow citizens. On this dif ference turns the whole theory and prattice of for eleftions. It is al ways a jacobin operation, and on that ac count, a proposal was made . last winter to divide the state into as many diftrifts as there are senatorS to be chosen. The firm nefs and wisdom of our senate have, on ma ny occasions, prevented the adoption of the moll improper measures." Heywoocl, the eoiframmatift, being a/k ---ed by queen Mary I. " what wind blew him to court ?" anfwerefi her, Two winds. The one to see your majesty. "We thank yoif for that, raid the queen ; " and what is the other?" 5 hat your majesty, said he,might see me. When Mrs. Macauiey publiHied her Loose Thoughts ; Foote, who was in com pany with Garrick; said, 4 - it was a very improper title tor u l.vdy j" to which the o ther replied,. Le 7:1 as of a different opinion, for the soon r a woman gets rid of such thoughts the better. A gentleman speaking of those who mar ry pietty wives, ftid that in (ix months a beautiful woman became ugly to her husband; and, what was worte, flie continued beauti ful to others. -•>: <£> BERMU' 'A, April 13. The schooner Maria, (-f ( harle/W) T Corlett, Master, from Philadelphia for Charleston. ttas'upfet the 2d of April in Ist. 35, 32. long. 74 53, half pad one P. M. in a heavy squall of wind. The master and crew took tar thfir boat, and were picked up the 6th of April, by the (loop Peggy, (of Warren, Rhode Jfland) |o: C ph Smith, master, bound to St. Bartholomews, who treated them-iri the mod fhameful manner puflible, not allowing hardly any provifioos or water, nor would the master allow one of the people or master of the wreck to go be low or dress thefr provisions; when they were picked up they had only half a pound of ham as much bread and two bottles of porter for eight persons—The sloop making these Is lands, put the people into a fiftin? boat, which brought them into port Such an inhuman brute we hope will meet his deserts the supercargo of the Peggy was equally brutish- POSTPONEMENT. For Sale at Public Autficn. On Wednesday morning next,at n o'clock at the Mill House wharf, for account of the concern ed. The cargo of the (hip Terrific, conflfling o: abut Bop barrel# ftiperfirie flour, 6 caflsshams,, 100 kegs crackers, and And a quantity of lard. Likewifethe remains •t iome fails cut away from said vefTel in a gale ot wind. BENSON and YORKE, Aufl'rs may 4 Will be. fold at Public sale, Agreebly tothe iaftwill and tefiament of Jame, Cannsn, deceased, at the Merchant's Coffee- Hour*, on Thursday t he 9 th inft. at 7 o'clock in the evening, A *j°J Or °Uod and Buildingsthereon errdt -0 °" thc file of Delaware, No. 84, South Third-street, adjoining gro*nd of Wil liam Lewi«, esq. 14 feet f.ont on Third street, and 100 feet o inches deep. There is a two !>ory frame building lront.a good two flory brick kitchen and piazza back, and at the extreme end of the lot there are two tenements of brick and stone, Terr, s o» fale-ont third cafb.one tfeirdin fix months and the remaining third in nine months, with the latere! and approved security. The title is indif. putable.andpoffeffien will be given immediately BENSON & VORKE, Aufl'r.. dt9m. May 4 iS"/. Croix Sugar Rum, Und. B g from „„ board the brig Two s.fter,, L i if ' rr,n()er ' al: I-ankenbcfger'j Wharf below Chefnut-ft.ee>, and for sale by OfiOß9£ ARMROYD. may 4 Received by f ßn dry late arrival, from Hamburgh Pr „, and f or/»le by the Subfcnbers, Creas a la Morlau, ") f bowlas, C oi different qualities,widthi Platillas. 3 "id prices. Barcelona Brandy'in pi pcs . Aho cm Hand, Old 4th pr»otj Branriv, Rice, '' Horse Hair, curled and unctirkd 80. Deck Nail Rods, and ' American Steel. Isaac- lla%hburst W April jO Late and Important Boston,.May 2. Yesterday the sbip Packet, captain *i rat arrived here from Liverpool, in 36 day bringing London Prints to March ai. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 3. Sir Sydney Smith, brother of the Briti! ambaflador at this court, who has beeii ( long expe&ed, arrived here towards the en of last month in the Tyger of 84 guns. Th wind being contrary the Tyger could 11c fail past the Seraglio, and was therefore obi ged ».o come to anchor behind the Castle c Seven Towers. Sir Sydney, with his Stafi marine guards, and a number of Ibliliers, an some French emigrants, repaired, by defir of the Porte, to the beautiful palace of Bay los, formerly occupied by the Venetian Am baffador. The above emigrants are said ti be those who a IHlied Sir Sydney to efcap from the Temple at Paris. \ efterday Sir Sydney alTumed the charafte of accredited Naval Mihifter of the Kingo Great Britain at the Porte, a diploinatii charafter very proper at the preferit crisis and ot which hitherto there has be;en no.in stance. Captain Smith, it is fuppoied, will direst the operations .of the Turkish navy during the present war. He will not long remain here, as he will fail towards the end ®f the month, when several Turkish (hips, now fitting out in great haste, fiiall have joined his squadron. The Pacha-os Acre, who is 90W march ing against the French in Egypt, has de manded 1 o*ooo purses or about four millions of florins, to defray the of the war, to pay his troops, &c. which has been com plied with. A Ruffian {hip arrived here, brings intel ligence that the port of Alexandria has been bombarded by the allies. January 18. The French government, through the in tervention of the SpanHh, Swedish.and Bata ' vian AmbafTadors, has exprefled its wish to ve'« k " ow f " r certain, that more tLn , halt of the army of Ch.-mp.ionet Was & ' ftro H b >' the Lazzaronif, and that the 1 i Uty of putting a strong garrison in fc* 1 «-" ders the French army unable to com!," , thecoiiqueft of that unhappy ki„gd om . P I ; as I have before said, a number of R„vell as at r • : ta Vecchia, it will be easy to regain theter' , ntory wh,ch has been loft, and even to •', / , ter the theatre of the war to the Bologna. 6 re °i NUREMBURG, February 2 g J he Austrian troops on the frontjfc- , Bavaria reckoned at 40,000 men, are "" 01 ceivecbnliderable reinforcements from lj h ' mia. Magazines have been eftablifl led I vV eeden and Ahibergi LONDON, March 10. I.3ft nfght the Paris Journals, f rom tfe 12th to the r 4 th inft. inclusive, were receiv l ed ln to y The >' col)tain more i lnpor ' tant intelligence than has lately come O that quarter. On the 12th and lith'inft rh Direaory sent messages to the two council containing a foimal requisition that ' A DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST THE EMPEROR si AD THE GRJND DUKE, might be decreed by the French nation. Nore I of the journals that have arrived, cortab full copies of tHese important documents • but the following extraft from the Patriots Franco lfe, of thc I4 th, will enable cur re ! t0 *° rm tolerably correct ideas refWfl ing them. * " COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED;- 23 leiitost, Martb i-, « Delbrel, the Secretary, read me ii ages from the council of efders, cor.tim ing the resolutions of that council on , he ;,f_ .übjea of the message of the dire&orv !}„• , c , .ng that the French republic is at war with t0 the emperor, king of Hungary and Bohemia , a . and with the grand duke of Tu,fcany. ' he I he directory has explained at length in i'o ,ts message the complaints of the republic a is SWl*thole two powers. It declares, with reipeft to the emperor, that the treatv of at Can.po lormio was misunderstood in its prin ce CI P ,e > an d not carried into'effed in ore of l!e its principal articles ; and that the conduft n . ot the Austrian cabinet has been always in W opposition to peace. It adverts to the coW jt reception of our ambassador Bernadotte, at v lenna ; to the affront offered to him' there • ;e to hypocrisy of that court in the negociation d, ot Ivlth, which was the nrf>re evident, be !lr cauic Baron de Dcgellman aid not repair to » V to t l' e I>endin ff count Cobentzfl m to Benin and Rufliajand the difficulties fl, railedl at Vienna to receive the Cisalpine • h ambassador. It finally iirmonfira«-»-(!,* liof. E- l '' e difpolitien ol the emperor with refpeft 3 f to the march of the Ruffians acroi's Moravia and Austria, wliiph are on the confines of m Bavaria, already occupied by an army of h 100,000 Auftrians. d " I directory in the fame accn* le les tne grand duke of Tufcany of perfidy to* 0 wards the republic, and of connivance with e the enemies of France- It exposes his Co lt cret negociations with the cabinet cf St. James's, particularly by the possession of LS Leghorn by the English, against which he a merely opposed ill-dilguifed efforts. i he message concludes with a formal proposition of declaring war against the em prror and the grand duke, e "It was ordered to be printed, and was rec ei\ed with shouts of ' Long live the rt |] public !" s Thus is the great qucftion at last decided, - Lurope, miserable unhappy Europe! is r doomed to luffe-r lindefcribable horrors, and . to heai the waitings of widows and orphans. Already have the French bigun their ope - rat ions. Ihe Patriote of the 13th gives the s following account of the'- firft successes: " Vv r e joyfully announce a happy prelude of fucccf; on the part of our armies. A cou rier just arrived from Switzerland, brings . intelligence tnat the troops under the com mand ol M;i (Tena, and another general, have taken four thousand Jive hundredAuftrians, together with the commandant 'of Coire (Chur) the capital of the Grifon county, and ; all the ftaff of that army." No further particulars are mentioned, nor has an official communication been made on the fubjeft.—The Austrian General, Count Bellegarde, was according to the last advices at C oire^; but had an officer of his rank been made prifoper, the Paris papers would fist have failed to notice it. It was only on the 2d inft. that general Maflena entered the country of the Grifon% •> His army loft no time, we fee, in proceeding to hostilities ; and'it is probable, thrreforf> that before this, the armies that have eroded the Rhine have regularly opened the cam paign ; for thc Notes and Proclamations re ceived by the last mail may new be conside red as mere blinds to lull the Germans into an idea that they meant only to induce thc Emperor to order thc Ruffians to retreat. T he following appear to be the different pofiiions of the French armies that ha»c crossed the Rhine, according to the rood re cent advices : • ' The French column under general Ber nadotte, which passed the Rhine near Man heim, of which it took possession, continued ?ts route with the utmost rapidity by HubeJ berg and Heilbron. It is said that the ge neral made this hade for the pnrpofe of :be ing before hand with the Auftrians, and to farm a line from Philingen and Heilbron, along thc Nccter,'on both fides of which ri ver are high mountains and advantageous po- General Beriudotte. afier crcfiinp, the Rhine, fumnioncd ihe Fort of PhilipftjuigH to furiendcr, which th« Governor rcfufed.