i'or of America, I hope it cannot' happen. Our interest cm i ts in avoid.rg too close a conn.cti'.-n any, nation, and by a just and pacific policv to derive commercial ben efits fron all; and I trust there is dill a ma jority in Congrcfs who think with me, and prc/ering the interest of this country to thai of any otjber, will pursue those mea sures th.it pro mile the advancement of it. •" lam told, that at Boston the setters are playing off thd refugee article against the cominiiliqners. Thus the French will let no man maintain his ground who stands in their wavi It is howe'ver, a game I expec ted they would play ; and yet is the more wicked and unpardonable, when we know that VervSnnes caused the insertion of that article hi asclf, and did it too for the pur pofc of embarraifing us : that this was the motive, cannot be doubted, from the use that is now made of it by his emiflaries in this country. Would not the annunciation of this fad guard the public from any further jmpofition ? Could any e\il arise from its being known at this time ? It would be do ing the public an essential service, and would rescue some of the be ft diara tiers from un merited abtffc. « Jt is time that Maflachufetts Changed her as to refugees. Several of the ftites will receive anV and every body ; and it will at last Bfe found to be the dittate of found policy, and a regard to our own in terest, to admit all who are not remarkably rancorous an&aftWe against us. " I havt mentioned to you the ***'s peace eflabliilunent, the formation of a navy, and other favorite projedls of the Finangiek, and his followers and adherents ; but thefr proportions ought to be rejected by Con gress, and I think tbey will, though they will be backed by that influence which I have already defcribsd as being far too great. A thorough underflanding betwixt the French tmnifter, the Spanifli agent, and Come of the wealthier citizens of this place, forms a phalanx that attack with great force —and when their whole efforts are brought to a point, and their numerous dependants are brought forth to aftion, they are almost irresistible. It is their prattice to bunt down every man that cannot be brought over to their views ; and so many engines are fct at work to depress every individual oppo fer, that a man must have more than a com mon (hare of good fortune to escape them ; so that an independent l'pirit here is in a constant state of warfare. I find it difficult to be well with these people, and at the fame time aft honestly : but as I am not easily dis composed, I am determined they (hall finally tefpefl me in spite of themselves. " Massachusetts appears to be in a great fermentation ; parties runs very high there, and violent measures are pursuing The French interest is united with the * * *, and *** is their leader ; and it is well known to you, that he will be flopped by no principle or confiderati'oii. The communi cation with the army, and the refugee arti cles in the treaty, are made use of to inflame the people ; and it mnft be allowed the in. ftruments are well chosen, as no others could be used with equ.'l success. The Chevalier de Luzerne had the firfl notice here of the neku delegation, and disco vers the highest fatisfa&ion with it; indeed he had no small (hare in producing it. Hi found it neccflary to remove the men that thwarted his designs. The fame parties are unitad against Mr. J. Adams, and intend to run him down as loon as he arrives [from Europe] Great efforts are making ta render him unpopular, and the peace reprobated. The Trench have two points in view; to weaken us by INTERNAL DISSEN TIONS, and to prevent such a conciliation with the British as may be the ground of any future uftful conseAion with them. In all this, their conduct is natural, and (for the disciples of Machiavel) perfectly right. In pursuing their own interest, they f """ft keep us as dependent as possible." DONATION LANDS. ■ Notice is hereby given, ' I 'HAT Claims for Donation Lands granted l a- by tlie SfMe of Pernifylvauia to the Ofß "r® I""' S»ldlers of the Line belonging to the '^ e ' ite war, will be received at the Office of Comptroller General of said State »uitri the ift September next inelufive, and that fne Mbl'cribers ai.thorifed by law will fit as r. art, at the laid Office on every Monday from *OO clock, in the 'orenoun until one in the af ternoon, to bear and determine all unratified ** a,l ? s ' lrfJ dy filed, as well Js those which m«y be filed on or before the said firft day of September n«*t. John Donnaldson, Corat'r, Samuel Br van, Regt'r. Tv Pkthk Baynton, Trras'r. Uepartroent of Accounts of ) "nnfylvmia, May , 5| ' ?9 . J John Miller, }un. Xu - So, Dock, near Third Street, A" ,;r S'tlf, Cflffacs, v "\lV^\lTr^r<i. are no<w to ">}J at REDUCED prices N. S. . advantage tJ)li ffljTi m;ty bt P rintc<J to ®»y 16 •"■""V*?. ' TMsstKmard on^he^hfTV 1 ' 8 C ' ,y Guai ' d - hour e, 1 <«d..0rr,0,!l „f f ,lth William ,et: 9 inches °r 5 and buc VVK * 7 ibends I'aid iu*- Whoever appre -1 »'im in goal, or titlc,i to th ,k inne Chiracs 6 ibovt rcw "d, and ail reasonable c ... . ' JAMES M'KNIGHT, Buy pU,D »«mu! ? n<fiit| ( Marine Barracks. diw jfomgn intelligence* French Palate at Pera, neat Conjlantinoplc, January 15 1799 To his Excellency Mr. Spencer Smith, Mi nister Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majtfty at the Sublime Porte, the Offi cers and othev French soldiers, prisoners to the Efglifti, who have this day come from prison. April 1783. " We owe to your excellency our grati tude for the lirft steps which, in coi junftion with the efforts of brother, have been crowned with success for cur liberation—and we embrace the firll moments of our free dom to discharge the debt of thanks. Eu rope need not be told all that your Excellen cy and your brother have done here in fa vour of the Unfortunate French, in order to judge of the generofityof the nation whom you repr<;fent with so much credit to your ftlf—but 46 families, who are indebted to ■vou for the restoration of children, of hus bands, and of fathers, will feel the necelfi tv of making this public, and we are anxious to be the medium of it: unable to pay our refpe&s in person to your Excellency, we request the favour of you to accept our grateful acknowledgements and our pro found itfpecS. The Bretagne, French prize, which arriv ed here yefterdjiv, sent in by the Tartar pri vateer, of Jcrfey, was one of a fleet of 100 fail, bound from L'Orient to Bred, laden with provisions for the fleet and army equipping at that port. The Tartar captured four o thers of the fleet, which she sent to Jersey, bat it is feared that the remainder are arriv ed fafe at Brest. It mnft be a matter of astonishment to e very one who is not intimately acquainted with Naples, that the Neapolitaa nobility and offices (hould have betrayed their coun try to the French, after the examples they had before their eyea cf the fate of other nations. The elded sons of the nobility who inhe rit the whole of the landed property of the family, are all exceedingly ignorant : they think that having a title and an estate, edu cation is unnecessary. v As these noble heads of families live up to the utmost of their income, and generally beyond it, the younger sons are left almolt without any provision : thty either serve in the army, enter into convents, orftudy the law. The army not being hitherto on a very extensive f.ipting afforded maintenance for few : numbers went into convents, whose dissoluteness of manners a»d morals made the Neapolitan Monks and Friars proverbi al in Italy. Attached to tlie law, there were reckoned .30,000. AHthefe younger children, however, received a very good edu cation, and whatever talent w s found in Naples.it was amongthem. Of the hard nef> of their destiny they had long complain ed, and many severe fat ires have appeared at different times, both in this and the lait century, againfl thi9 distribution of richest. July 21, 1783. We think after this statement, there will be no occasion to point out how easy it has been to the French to find partizans. As to the Lazarani, they would have been faithful to their sovereign, could he have remained with them ; but being as creduhus and vrrfatile as they fuperftiti oHt and bigoted, they will easily be made converts to the French, do&rines. The state of Calabria, a flrong country by naturt, and inhabited by a bold, or ra ther ferocious people deferres some notice. The Barons who mostly live at Naples, are nearly sovereigns in their estates, and the people almofl en slaved vaflals The Barons havefoldiers of their own establishment (ex clusively of the King's) who enforced the payment of taxes, pursued fmuglers, &c. and in general the people were diflatisfied with their Lords, as was the Court, which always thought it prudent to treit them with great indulgence. From this fiatement it would appear, that the French will, with as much facility as ihey have marched to Capua, march to the extremity of Calabria. The proclamation published by General Duhefme, on his entering the Abruzzoes, combines in a striking manner the traits of falfe liberty, perfidy, and hypocrisy which have marked all the produ&ions iflued by the agents of the Direftory during the war. It is peculiarly reqparkable for containing a molt unequivocal and formal declaration of war againlt all existing governments whate ver, and this declaration is announced in the following language. " The king of Naples in violating the molt sacred treaties, has dared to rouse the fluKibering Lion. God, who judges Kings, has had pity on our miseries. He imagined he could refill the Great Nation, and change the order of the Supreme Arbiter of Em. pires, who has chosen the French people to renew the furface of the Globe, disfigured by the crimes of governments, and to estab lish upon it the reign of that Liberty and Equality to which he has destined men." jawtf tCfA C.HAnirr SrrmosvjUl be preached at St. Mary's Church on Sunday morning next t for tb? bencjii of the Free School of said Cturcb. LONDON, March 8. " The Chief of Battalion of Engineers, « PASCAL VALLONGE, For himfelf and comrades.?' Plymouth, (E.) Mareh 7. NAPLES, May 14., 1799 MADEIRA WINE. FOR SAT.F, nr THE SUBSCRIBER, 18 Pipes of Madeira Wine, GIDEON HILL WELLS, Market ftrc.t, No. 13 f. iaw4 vr tntj 16 NORFOLK. May 9. Extra a of a Irtter from St. litne't. Martin "]ue, to a gentleman in this to-run, dated 2 ctb March. " Admiral Harvey in the Prince of Waits of 58 puns, and Vengeance of 74 guns, besides frigates, in conlf-quentes of advice from Lord St Vincent (per a feliooner arri ved 6- days finer from Gibraltar) embarked upwar.ls 4.00 f Idiers ;it Fort-royal, and proceeded immediately to the foutliward; they are now at Corland bay, Tobago. It is said a Spani/h fleet of Mercliautmcn with a convoy, are expefted on the Main, and that admiral is watching them, as their route is between Tobago and Trinidad. The A merican cruizrrs are very aftive, and have re-taken fcveral vcffels of their country" The Schooner Elizabeth, captain Robin fori, arrived yeilcrday from Martinique; (he failed in company with a fleet of 32 fall, un der convoy of the United States and Consti tution ftigates, with the Merrimac bri£. Thecruife of the United St3tes and Conffi tution is out; the former has gone to Phila delphia, and the latter to Boston. By a schooner which arrived here yester day, from Alexandria, we learn, that the, tornado on Saturday the 27 h ult, had done ccTiderablc damage in the neighbour hood of Porr Tobacco—At King George court house several carts were .carried by the wind a distance of 150 yards and dashed in pieces ; several people, as well as horses and cattle have been killed, many houses have been blown down, and trees torn up by the roots. On Trefday arrived the schooner Nymph, capt. Smith, fhewas taken by the Englifn fri gate Trent, in lat 25, on her passage from Port de Paix, to St. Thomas's with a cargo of coffee, they took out three of the hands,, and put a prize master and three men on board and ordered her to Bermuda ; (he struck on a "rock going in, and the prije master and English fiainen went on ffcore to obtain afiittance to get her off—during this time a frefh breeze springing up from the (hore, and the schooner backed into deep water, when captain Smith made fail, and arrived here in a leakey condition, having only 4 hands on board, which were the cap tain, mate, cook and cabin boy. NEWBURYPORT, May 7. ORIGIN OF JACOBINS ; 7'HE FJI'HSR OF THF. SACS OT'JACOBISS. Cj* Y 1 are ef your Father the Devil, and the work: of your Father ye will do. Our Sav. —A certain Mr. M. in the county of—, who is a firm friend to his country and to government, being somewhat exasperated at the feditiou3 ptinciples and praftices which prevailed among some of hit neighbours, was inveighing bitterly one day against them —setting forth the criminality as well as dangerous tendency of a disorganizing spir it, fee—and in the courfc of fiis harrangue he frequently made use of the term Jactbin —An infignificant booby Handing by, who felt his Pygmean foul swell with rsfentmtnt at feeing his own cbarafter and that of his bret bren in iniquity, let in a true light— demanded of Mr. M. in a very imperious air •' What do you mean by Jacobin t" To which Mr. M. replied, " He did not know that he could give tie proper definition of the wor ', but he'could tell who was the firjl of that order" On being desired to fay who it was —atifwered, " 7'he Gentleman who tempted our firfi parents in Parudfe It rebel againjl G»d their rightful ting and lawgiver." This answer produced considerable merriment in the company—and Jaco feeling rather cha grined at hearing the vires of his great grand father exposed in public, and not ha ving any thing to reply—hastened away to eonfult with his companions how they might obliterate from the m nds of men this true hiliory of their contemptible origin. iftefc^Xfjeatre, On FRIDAY EVENING, Mav 15, Will be presented (thr second time rhi» feifon) a TRAGEDY, called Tancred & Sigifmunda. (Written by Thompson, the admired Author of the Seasons.) Tancred (by a young gentleman, being his second appearance) Earl Ofmor.d, Mr Mirfliall Siffredi Mr Warren Rodolpho Mr Warrell, jun. Officer Mr Warrell. Guards MelTrs. Lavaucy, Di<ftor, &c. Lauri Mils L'Eftrartge Sigii'mimda Mrs Merry End of the 1 ragedy, the favourite air of the " BONNY BOLD SOLDIER," by Miss ARNOLD To which will be added (not.adled this season) a CO MED V, in » aits, called THE LIAR. Tickets to he had at H. & P. Rice's Book store, No. 16, South Second Street, it Carr's Music Repository, N<y 36, South Second street, and at the office adjoining the Theatre. 0- Mrs. INCHBALD's celebrated Play, call ed LOVF.RS VOWS—taken from the German of Kotzbue's—and theßomanceof BLUE BEARD, are in rehearsal and will be»fpeedily produced- Laji Notice. r "P'HE Commifiioners appointed for carrying 1 into effedl '.he Twenty-First Article of the Treaty of FrUndthip, Limits an»J Navigation, between his Catholic Majesty and the United States of America, hereby give notice to tliofe persons whole claims have been filed in due'time but who have not yet furnifhed the neceflary documents, to produce the fame at their office, c before the fevmteenth day of Augufl next By order of the Conimifiioners, FETER LOHRA, secretary. Philadelphia. May i 5» '799- d,m %\)z (^asette. PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY EVENING, M.-iy li The prefeiit. ftag'iiation of business, how ever melancholy, will not probably continue for any length of time, being.evidently to be traced to causes entirely within our own controul. To the ej.ifling Scarcity Money, no caule, perhapi, has contributed with so immediate and .exLenfive efFedt, as the 8 per cent. loan. Mercenary declaimers had ma ligned the Secretary for fixing the r«e un jieceflarily fq.high : the event has.(hewn their ignorance and impudence. Another pow erful drain upqn the circulating medium of the country exists in our India trade : this has been yearly increaling ; and the exports of cash for the lap year, to India and Canton, will, it is believed, have exceeded all our former experience. The difficulties arising from both theic causes, will remedy theni felves : foreigners will take part of the loan ; and the natural cpurfe of that commerce will retrieve the inconveniences it gives rii'e to. The origin of the prevailing- embankments, we owe however to a- deeper and more pow erful, cause—to which, too, the remedy is simple and easily put in operation. A war with France'would in too months revivify .every department of society. Commerce would be invigorated—t!i funds would rife, and every employment of life would receive new vigour from its connexion with with them. This ifiue we are in a fair way to attain from the uncomproiniiing hauteur and brutal rapacity of the enemy We published, yclterday, a ftateuicn.t, wkich was communicated by an eyr-witnefs, of a flagellation Lnflidled upon one of the United Irishmen concerned in propagating that Diablerie of and lies, called the Aurora, and wife it {'nice appears, is the fellow that calls himl'eli " the Editor of the Aurora." Although the punishment of this caitiflfis oi 110 more consequence, than that of any other vagabond, yet, as h.' has the impu dence to make a parade of his fuffrrings aud his republicanism, we shall be Row a remark or two, which the infignifica.nce of the ob jeft would not otherwise require. It is not for me to fay any thing in juf tificatioji of the officers ; but this I will fay, that to have borne in silence to be called thieves, ruffians and caitiffs, as they were called, would have been to rdign all preten sions not only to the character of soldiers but of men. A body of men, as refpeftable in charac tet as any in the United States, after great expence and facrifice of time in equipping ar.d training themfelvts, make a further fa critice of business and of eale, for nearly two months, in a tQilfome enterprize, in de fence of their country and its constitution. In their absence on this expedition, they are maligned with' every slander, that the foul malice of an incendiary can invent, and af ter their return, are insulted and braved, even to their very teeth by accusations of the mod atrocious nature, heightened in their ca pacity to irritate, by their utter falfity. When the officers reflefted on theft,- things, and more efptcially when they refleiled, that the fame villain who uttered them had called a man whom they in a particular manner le vere (many of them having fought the bat tles of Independence by his fide) as a com mon friend and father, when they refk&ed that the fame villain and the fame paper had calL-d the great and good Washington a hy pocrite, a fool, a liar, a coward, a tyrant and a murderer—the present illustrious Chief Magistrate, who co-operated so powerfully in council with his immortal compeer in the field, in obtaining our Independence, " a blind, bald, +oothlefs, crippled dotard"— the brave Commodore Truxtoti, and all his gallant officers and crew, treacherous aflaf tins and murderers, —when they reflected on these things, afidreflefted that the author of them was not an American but a foreigner, anit-not m-rely a foreigner, but an United Irishman, and not merely an United Irilh man, but a public convict and fugitive from justice ; they might have determined that no thing from so vile a source could stain their well-eftablilhed credit, and they might have let him go on, as he would have done, from calling the whole body of horse a gang of thieves, to applying the odious epithet to in dividual troopers by name. But theu mull they have ftifled every diflin&ive attribute of a soldier and a man of honor, and funk to the level of the Democratic crew. This infernal Aurora, and the infamous United Iriftm an who condufts it, are ex prefsiy chargeable with the Northampton Iniurreftion. An unhappy man, lately brought into a melancholy lituation, declares that hf dates his ruin, from the day he firft saw the Aurora. Added to this, is the uni form tenor of that paper, lince the Inltir re&ion has been pending. They early pro nounced, in the face of day, and after the Proclamation of government, that there was no Infurredtion—that the marching of the troops was a government-trick to extend its powers, and did whatever in them lay, to thwart every step taken for quelling the re bellion. We have foi borne to approve the flep taken by the officers ; but the scoundrel on whom it fell, is the last who should com plain—having juftified every species of out rage, however ianguinary and cruel, when exercised on a particular description of per sons. The whole of what this lying zni coy ird ly caitiff has asserted, refpefting the officers, or any one of them having pistols, is totally falle, and attributable perhaps in some de gree to the influence of terror, as well as to a natural propsnfity to lying. He asserts a nother falffiood refpetting the number of per sons who struck him. One circumstance ought not to pafi awr.y unnoticed, cn ac«ount of the extravagant «Ul ridiculous tiiidiuery it .!>,> es»!s himfcil ;t Repnbfieap. know ni republicanism? and what li u '» ' W,: a Republican ! Jails and dungepi ~ur ' • j. lories are forfooth pretty lenwßtnes c; H-- publitanifm ! % Communications. Murder ! Murbkr ! Murj,!./ Citizen Dwight in his candid accou&t c f. the magnanimous manner in which he receiv ed his flagellation, has forgot to men *>05 that be bellowed murder ! from the tima lie was taken hold, p£ till the dii'cipline w;is completely gone through—l dare fay thi», omilfioii has arisen from the baste in which he drew up his statement, and he will no doubt corre& the error in bis next edition. Jasper Dwight told his customers, on Sa turday last, that in Monday's Aurora he Ihould publish a laboured vindication of the. troops employed in the Northampton Ijifur reftion ; and he has this morning exhibited himfelf as a BElabdured vindication of the feme fubjedt. We would advise this gen tleman to change his flima.te—the cow/kin of America cuts as keenly as the lafii of India. MARRIED]—Laft Evening by the Rev. Dr. Ewing Mr. Samuel Baker to Miss Isabella Phimfs, both of Mont gomery County. £@ariw %ift: Port of Pbiladelph ia, ARRIVED. . * Days Ship Eliza, Bafp, of,Ch3rlefton, prize to the Ganges floop-of-war. Cargo dry woods, wines, flour and rice. Fame, Rieard, Havanna 16 Lenox, Lark, d-o. Diana, Flinn, do. Brig Bttfey, Howard, do. Schr.Charlofte, St. Johns Mary Saddler, Havanna Swift, TilletvN. Carolina Fanny, Winflow, N. Providence • Harmony, Houston, St. Thomas' Sally, Church, St. Marys George, Ellifon, N. Carolina Sloop Supply, Town, Havanns Sally, Potter, Norfolk "3 The following American vtfiels were at N. Providence the 29th April ; Ship Harmony, Wi li::gtcn, belonging to Philadelphia, Eagle, Dennet, do. Brig Nancy, Coffin, N. York, libelled. Schr. Two Brothers, , Boston Perseverance, Monfyard, Charlelton Beifty, Pelton Chatham Sally & Peggy,—,.Baltimoie, libelled Mark Antony,—.Wilmington, n c. do* Sloop George and Jane, Ward, New Haven Sally. Ant9ny, Providence, R. I, John, Fitch, Savnnah Maryland, Wbeatnn, R. Island libelled Ship Jefferfon, Morris, from hence* has arrived at St. Croiz io 14 days. Brig Ariel, Griffiths, from hence, has ar rived at St. Ooix. Ship Jane. Campbell, for Jamaica, went to sea yesterday morning. Sbip9 New Jerfry and Woodroop Sims, layjuft below the Fort yesterday morning. May 16. Ship Charles, Brice, from Jamaica, is b*- law. Brit; Abigail, Thompson, of this port, from Havanna to Caropeachy, was taken on the 28th ult. by two Providence priva teers, who put 2 prize-matters and 6 men on board, and ordered her for Providence—On the zd inft. Capt. T. with the assistance of Mr. another, retook the vessel, which has lince arrived at Charleston. A schooner, supposed to be the-Hetty, is below. CITT BRIDGE. THE President and Dijeflors of the Company incorporated for the puipofe of erecting a Permanent Bridge over the River Schuylkill, at or near the City of Philadelphia, having contra&ed with the Selefl and Common of the. said City for a site for such Bridge at the weft end of High-street, hereby give NO HCE—That a pre mium of Two Hundred Dollars will be paid by the said Dire&ora far the moll approved plan of a Bridge fcr the laid site, the calculati h of which (hall be confident with the following general lim tatiors. The material to be of wood, iron or flone, er of these articles combined. The coiiflru&ion to h« fuilable to rhe charailer cf the river which is as follows—fubje& so exref. five frefties, occasionally Hopping above or below the said High-street, in the firfl instance breaking loose and bringipgdown large mafles of ice, tim ber, &c in the latter instance causing a back wa ter swell equal to 19 feet above low water level, and at that height covering a trait of ground near 5 miles in length, by a very coniiderable width—Therefore, As ,f«w pieri as can be confident with fafcty, dr without a pier if equally fafe abd permanent. The opining between the 'abutment* to be hot more than 400 feet, nor left than feet. The plans to be accompanied witlj elevations— explanatory defcriptiom and estimates—the elli mates to fpecify the quantity of materials of each kind, theftparate and eoWeflive coll thereof when wrought and laid or fixed, the quantity of filling in of dry afches with the backing fuperfti u&ure and causeways complete. Offerirgs confident with the foregoing Will be received at any time prevlom to the firft day of A'i guft next. — A seCtion of the river Schuylkill with the adja cent grounds on each fide at the welt end of Hiy h - street will he (hewn to thofa perfnns may be dtfi rous of exhibiting plain a id etliraates JOHN DoRSEV; (ec'ry t jt» ttm< Philadelphia, May 1,5,1799. The printers of news- papers throughout the U llited States are reqa Red to insert the a>ove a few timea, tuth» tftA 'Just Landing, From on board the febooner aibsrt, Joseph Paul, niallir, fropi St. Croix, A Cargo of excellent St. Croix: R VM, FOR SALE, Enquire of ipfil it } JOSEPH SIMS.
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