It appe.ir:, iilfc, t!ut t':c French 011 leav
ing Genoa, 1; iJ u hta.y contribution. Thus,
they not only take a place and lay contribu
tion, but demand it when driven awny.
BOSTOK, Augnft 8.
It has ever been aflcrted by men of pene-
tration, tliit the French revolution would
coni'umr itfelf by its owtl heat. The time
has already arrived, when the glare of eon
quefk no longer dasales the eyes of the French
nation when they must fee, what they sensi
bly feel, tlie fylkmized and unparralleled di
lapidations of their palm-itching rulers and
when they will begin to curse their venal ad
niiniftration, in common with other nations.
It can no longer be denied, even by,the
refined theorist in modern phylofophy, that
the man, who has no local attachments, and
none, but abftr itt principles has no pledge to
offer to his country for his fidelity and that
his rarified ana expanded philanthropy, what
ever it " ay be to theory, will center in hini
felf in praftice, and make it his fir ft objeft
, to enrich his coffers at the public expence,
and when he can pilfer no more, to retire
from office and enjoy the sweet of—his plun-
der.
It i; the curse of almost every honorable ]
ferviee, to bare partizanp vho disgrace it ; '
and who are void of every principle, except i
inWencc and rapine : "tich we learn with
i egret are some few fit the commanders of
Britifll cruizers in thi Weft-Indi» seas
whose piratrcal condud innit excite the con
tempt and indignation ot those gallant offi
cer* who so nobly venture their lives to re
store to Europe, its government, property
and franchises.
From the CENTINEL.
THE FOREIGN ARTICLES
THE FOREIGN ARTICLES
Which contain the debates and denunciation
in the Frewch councils, are highly important
They devel ope situations and circumstances
which, though for a long time pronouncec
audibly in the United States, have been de
fied with tenacity ; and have been heard ir
France only in whispers, commented or
with half-made (hrugs, and communicated
to the world with the mod timid caution,
Thr brilliant successes of the allied arms, have
Worked miradts ; they hive caused the deaf
to hear \ the dumb to utter ; and the blind
to fee. The conferences have been, that
even Frenchmen now declares ; and even
Frenchmen perceive—that they have been
duped and betrayed ; that the press has been
padlocked ; and the truth bafti'ed , that the
moll lhameful dilapidations have been made
fcn the public treasures, by men who despis
ed refponfjbility, and who were bold enough
t» praftice their cupidity with " unwaflied
hands that diflrcfs anddefertion have been
the effeft in those armies, which, as Carnot
fays, '* do not live at the expence of the en
emy." and the cause of nunierdus delertions
r-. ot the conferipts; the apathy, avarice and
■want of public fjpirit in the interior ; and
the innuirifraWe murders and affaflinations
which deluge the republic. Hearing and
ieeing these things, it appears the people be
gin to fpeak,to their rulers ; malting enquiry
into the flat,: of affairs ; that feme of the
coujjcili, not having the fear of Cayenne be
fore their eyes, exhibit a determination to
unma/k the villains, whether.they be clothed
in the purple which Cover? the representa
tives of the people, or the mantle which en
velopes the director ; and that it is the exec
utive aireftory which is Jirst to be inculpa
ted, is evident from the indignity (hewn to
.iiewbeil (a late director) in passing to the
order ot the day on his motion excalpatory
of his late brethren.
NotwithlWing all Rewbell's challenges
about contrasts, and his m®deft wish never
to rife above mediocrity, he isfaid to be the
richcft individual in the French republic.
As the French want " a great deal of mo
ney," he, perhaps is marked as the fatted calf
for the facrifice.
On the lubjed of the Fv ; di finances we
nave.fr quently given our Opinion. On the
faire lubjea, a judicious writer has remark
cd ; '• 1 he direftory, not knowing where to
find money, which they cannot do without,
have demanded and obtained new taxes. But
to what can the deficit in their revenues be
owing, but to the impossibility which there
is m France of paying the tax es ? How peo
ple who are unable to pay one sum are to pay
double that amount, is what we are unable
to conceive, and what nil the despotism of
the riireAoiy, ftruggliDg for exifttn e, can
not areomplilh. 1 heir ordinary and extra
ordinary revenues are not fufficient for half
their wants ; tney cannot raise a loan either
m . or in foreign Countries ;
:t is not m their power to restore thecurren
v) ot paper money ; their armies are driven
back either to their own country or countries
already exliaufted."
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PRICES OF STOCKS
Six per Cent.
Deferred 6 per Cent.
Three per Cent.
B ANK United State*,
1 North a merica, * 45 to 47
, l'cnnfylvania, 14
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COURSE OF EXCHANGE
On London, 51 at 30 days
50 at 6c a 90 day»
Amsterdam, 3j 37 i -too per florin
Hamburgh 30 S3 a-100 per Mark Banco,
The following facts, are feletted from
Rose's " Brief Examination into the increase
of the revenue, commerce and manufa&urcs
of Great-Britain, from 1792, to 1799."
I. That Great-Britain is now raising
within the year, by a war tax, a large pro
portion of tbe whole supplies.
2. That to carry on the present ivar,
>ning from the year J793, to 1798 in
dative, the government of Great-Britain,
has created a capital by loans, amounting to
169,927,789 pounds ; to pay the interest,
management &c. ot which, (he raises a tax,
equal to 1,215, independent of her
taxes, to pay the interest Sic. of the debt
created befoje the year 1793.
3. That amidst all the difficulties of the
war, and urgency of providing money to
carry it on, she has not trenched in the
smallest degree on the fund dotted, for the
extinction of the .old and new national debt,
and has with inflexible perfeverence, pursu
ed the raeafure, of providing in every new
loan, a surplus for the redimption of it.
4* That the sinking fund of and
the finking' fund of 1792* amount to
jC4»*94»®*3* '
5» That the finking fund of 1786, has
redeemed of the capital, of the old debt, j
of the capital created in the present war
jfß, : so that there has been a total
capital a£tually redeemed, amounting to
£37>3 8 «>77«-
6. That, by the sole operation of these
finking funds, without any further interven
tion of Parliament, supposing the 3 per cents
to be on an average at £75, the capital of
the old debt, which was about £240,000,000
will be completely redeemed, in the yea r
1842 : and if the fame price is assumed, in
computing the period of redemption of the
new debt, created since the war, the 3 per
cents will he redeemed in less than thirty five
years, from the time of making each loan :
But at the present price, Viz. 535, the 3 per
cents, created by new loans, would be re
deemed, in twenty three years and a quarter
from the time each was made.
7. That the old taxes, existing previous
to the war, have produced annually, on an
average of seven years,from 1 792.£ 1,080,000
more than on an average of leven years of
petei preceding, notwithstanding tfee itnpofi
tion of new taxes, to the ampunt of
£7,500,900 a year, within the fame period.
8. That the imports into Great-Britain
have on a similar average, during the last
seven years, exceeded those in the former
period of seven years df peace, annually
£4,230,000.
9. That the Britifli mannfa£lures exported
have on a similar average, during the Lift se
ven years, exceeded those in the former
period, annually £4,008,000.
io. That foreign goods and manufactures
exported from Great Britain, have on a simi
lar average, during the last seven years, ex
ceeded these in the former period, annually
£5,085,000.
11. That the probable balance of the trade
of Great-Britain, is in her favor dn an ave
rage of the latt four years, to the extent of
about £ 14,800,000 per annum.
The preceding foVis Ought to be well
weighed by our politicians, and the conside
rate and reflecting part of the community.
Admitting, what carrnot be doubted, the
correclnefs of the fa£ts, to Great Britain in
ber decripitudc, or at the eve of a general
dissolution, political, moral and financial ?
It is with this nation, so competent to every
purpose of mar and every public exigency of
stole ; I'd ftourifliing in her commerce and
revei.ue ; and so triumphant ct sea, that
:©
Pim.ADti.pniA, August 3
15/3 to '4<l
X 4/4 jd
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15 to 16
If
•i«i
■ the f.ij- wit r of the letter tv ;
i and the lesser sages, 'who peepabroad for a
f moment } i;i morning ami evening Chronicle;,
Aurora's and Examiners, tbinl\ it advisablt,
the United States fliould avoid all commercial
or political connexion, leaf! they be over
whelmed in her fall, which a few weeks
ago, was con fid. red as ineyitable.
The United States, you fay, Lave per
ceived the danger of French principles.
Good my friend, and vbat preservative have
they provided ? , They -have fortified their
harbors. Very well. They have taken
mealures to provide an immediate, and an
eventual army,. Very well. They have al
io di retted a species of reprisals, and inter
dicted trade '.vitk France. AH very good.
But now tell me, my friend, when dossgov
ernment intend to dispatch tbeir ministers to
the Directjry, and are these nise men, to
obtain an artie'e, in the Neiv Treaty, to ex
clude the introduction cf Frtr.cb principles'?
No. XI.
To the Managers of..the._ Alms Hcufe and
Houle of Employ.
CEtrriENEN,
YOUB more able advocate, as
C.haritas calls him, has condelcended to make
an Apology to the gentleman whom he in
iulted in the public papers without cause or
provocation.
White he is in that Ipirit, jullice requires
that he should make one to your physicians,
for an obvious, though indireft, aocufation
of cruelty. Their fe-lings and medical 'repu
tation imperiously demand it, and nothing'
but a confelfion of the error can extenuate
the charge, unlefj you will give a correft
statement from your records, which can be
readily done, if you have kept any ; this ex
planation isdue to yourselves, as well as your
dottors, for if the pofltion is true that 26 J
out of the whole number of 6o6perfons, are
proper fubjefts of a hospital, 192 able to
work, and 153 children, you are placed in a
very lingular and awkward situation : Guar
dians of a House of Employ in which little
or nothing is done, and Managers of an
Alms House, in which, excepting what care
the children may require, there is not an ob
ject that comes within the original design of
such an institution !
Permit me now to make some further re
marks upon your 7266paupers,maintained,as
you fay,in the Alms HJttse: In order to make
up this number which is exhibited to us as a
just statement, every jjerfou that remains 12
months in the house, is counted monthly,
and in summoning up the annual returns,
made to count 12 ; and every one, that has
I been 11 months, t ] ArftjnS per fans, and so
'on throughout the year .4 in order to (hew
1 the' fallacy of this mode «f calculation, if
elucidation is neccffary, suppose you were to
count them daily, and sum up the daily re
turns annually, the nuiiiberof your paupers,
would then be 220,825, jjiore than three
times as many as the wWole city contains.
This you may.objeiEl to as being quite too
wild, but remember, it is but an elctention of
your own principle ; if this proportion takes,
you may tell the public that you maintain
this mighty host cf paupers a year, for the
trifling i'uni of £12,284.11.7.
This, as it relates to the general principle
of truth or error, would be as proper as your
annual iliftemeut ; for you will find it is as
easy to make the people believe, that the
whole of this exceflive number paired through
your house in that time, as tlut one ninth
of the inhabitants of Philadelphia are inci-bt
ed to public charity for support. As this
ft range and deceptive statement, ii the e Hence
of your account, «.nd the only source from
which a probable idea of economical or pro
ful'e expenditure can be drawn, I hope you
will forgive me for presenting the reflecting
mirror once more before you, and however
you may be dilpofcd to consider tlieie hints.
I am not without hope that they may IVrve
as, land marks to your faccefiors and assist
them to avoid thole Hioals, on which the iri
ftitdtion is in danger of ihunding.
Piracy.
I am informed by Joseph Yznardi, Esq.
atting as American conl'ul at Cadix, that the
mate and four of the Crimen of the Ameri
can hrigantine Nancy, whereof Stephen-
Vltiniens was master, piratically cut her ca
bles "in the Bay of Cadiz, in the nig! , of the
7th of June la ft, and carried her out to sea
-without her papers. The said brigantine is
a fquate fterned veflrl, 86 feet in length, 26
in breadth, jo in depth, of the burthen ot
t9i£4- tons, and had on board a cargo as
follows,
it butts of Sherry wine,
14 barrels do of 11 arroveseach,
66 quarter calks do ef 74 do
100 barrels do of 4-} do
109 butts, >,, .
10 half do.S UWknM " ne '
3 butts bralidy,
1J half do ViDC^
3000 jars of oil,
800 do olives,
' 100 bales paper.
AIJ custom-house officers and others arc
therefore u que Red to fcize and detain the
laid brigantine and the fuid mate and sea
men, to the end that they may be dealt with
according to law and right.
TIMOTHY PICKERING,
Secretary of State.
Department of State, ?
lath Aug. 1799. 5
<!sasette Ararat %ift.
Port of Philadelphia.
Capt. Sherer, of the fch. Sally, tailed from
Mcntcgo fouy the 2id Jnh —Left ther„- tfc'
Cutlo Wilg vcffej* s '
Brig apd Mary, Stevenson, of N. J
for Turks
Huiinah, Hui>t,
Holiduras. ...
Sufamihii, Spencer, of 1 a fid froni Chsrljf
ton. . ..
Sthr. Rainbow, Griflfen, of N. London, ly
ing at Martha Bay, to fail 23d.
Brig Rofstuta, Mansfield, of Salem, St. Anns
to laid 23d.
Oil the 31th inft. off the Dry Tortugas,
was boarded by the Britilh frigate Greyhound
hafmg in pofleffion 7 Spanish prjz.s, all
richly hden and bound for Kingfton—off
Cape Florida, spoke the fliip Rose, Nicholas,
ot N. York, Ship Independence, of Button,
and a fillr. belonging to R. liland, name
un.know, in company, well armed, t>jm the
Havanna,bound to America.
The Congress <>£s6 guns, building at the
United States Navy yard, at Portsmouthy
will be launched in 10-or ti day?.
Baston, August 6.
Arrived (hip Polly, Drummcm!, 57 days
from the Iflnnd of Jericy near England.—i-
The Pi,l!y was on her pafTVje from Liverpool
■when Die was taken by a F retich privuto?r and
afterwards retaken by the Englifli and feet
into Jerley, where she was cleared 011 paving
salvage. Passenger, Captain Hackel, of the
tcliooner Mary, of Norfolk, whose vejTt-j
was taken by a French privateer, on her
paflage from Surinam to H trribmgh, and re
taken by the Englilhand cleared ; afterwards
had the misfortune again to fall into the paws
of the French and vefTel and cargo condemn
ed at Morlaix. The fchr. Alert, of Bever
ly, captured some time fiuee by the French,
was retaken and arrived at Jtrfoy May 20th.
She was in polTeffion of the French and had
a French cargo 011 board ; the name on her
flern had been rubbed out but was vilible,
and it is expected the right owner may obtain
her again ny paying salvage. July 18, lat.
44, long. 50, spoke brig Neptune, Dodge,
15 days from Wifcaflet, for Greenock ; 26,
lat. 43, fc. long. 61,40, spoke fchr. Eunice
Frazer, from Portland for Liverpool, all
well.
New-Tor k, August 12.
By Arrivals on Saturday.
The schooner Eglantine, Capt. £JafT, left
the Matanzas, on the iftof August—.Sugar
—to. Gouverneur, Kemble and Co. Charles
Seton—Sailed in company with the brig Pa
marebo, Chew, and the brig Quantaby,
Earns* for Boflon Came out uflder convoy
of the Unittd States' (hips South Carolina
and General Pinckney. Left there the Hi
bernia, of Newburyport.
The brig John Henderfon, Capt.'French,
of Perth An:boy, left Falmouth, England,
June 11, and Plymouth two days before.
The William and Mary, King, cAme out
from Plymouth in company, but was flop
ped by the Amelia frigate—did not know
the reason, but i'uppofed it was on account
of d'.fcovcrirtg some people that were secre
ted.
June 27, spoke the ship Fume, froir. Phi
ladelphia, lor Huwbiirg, out 17 days then
in lat. 44, 40, long. 40.
July 13, (poke the {hip Rose, from New.
York out 13 days, then 011 the Grand Bank.
July 21, in lat. 40, off Nantucket Ihoab.
spoke the brig Peggy, from N-W-York to
Bclfaft, out 5 days.
August 2, off Nantucket (koala, spoke
the ship Mars, Weft frjm. Liverpool, for
Philadelphia, out 50 days.
By arrivals ytjierdiy.
The Adventure, captain Hutching, arri
ved here yesterday, via. St Kitts. Sailed
frcm Antigua the 24th lilt, to join the Ee
glifh fleet at St. Kitts, in which were
about 70 fail of American t litis a number
of which were for America—left the eonvoy
on the Ift of Anguft, ib late 22, 30.
Captain Hutchins inform., that on the
ijth July, at night, schooner William',
Lamb, of New-York, was cut out ot the
harbour of BafTitcrre, by five Frenchmen,
who had been prisoners at St. Kitts, and
were permitted to go on boari another ves
sel to assist in loading her .to fail with the
convoy, whose boat they took away, and
possessed themselves of the William ; when
they mafTacred one of her people a« he was
coming out of the steerage, and made seve
ral attempts to broad-ax fcveral others.
They said they were going to take the
Schooner into St. Fuflaia, The captain of
the William was not on board at the time.
After thefc villiaus got out three leagues
at sea, they set the William's men adrift,
and after rowing all night they arrived at
Ba(Taterre>
Yefterdfcy arrived here the brig Alfred,
of Providence, Capt* D. Lee, in 29 days
fram Surrinam.—Left there nearly 50 fail
of American veflels, amongll which were the
(hips Wattlington, Bunce, of New-York
(hip R'fe, Chace, of Newport—brig
Almira, Waite, Portland, to fail in 6 days
Between the id, and lOth of July, there
were captured within 5 leagues of Surrinam
River, 6 American veflels, viz. fchr Sally,
Larobe, n. Yarmouth, fchr May, D. Lee,
M.Yarmouth, a fchr. S. Clark, Bollon ;
fch. John, Lufkin, of Glocetter—ranfomed
his vcfTel.and arrived at Suirinom—twoorhcr
schooners were seen beating up (or Cayenne,
in company wi h a French privateer. Ltft
tfie United States (loop of war Portsmouth,
lying off the mouth of Surrinam river.
There had jnit arrived at Cayenne a
French 36 gnn frigate, and an express-boat
was dispatched from Paramaribo, to inform
her of the Portlmouth's being there. It
was expefteit Ihe w culd come rou d to at
tack the Portsmouth.
n 'S'T tt:' irr rr"
13ALMMORE, Augufl*ro.
Zxtrfittdf j I. t:cr ftom an intelligent. gen::?-
I*o* at ,Jlarrc.co; I, t) his friend hire, uaich
July *9. • ' ■ 1
. aufes.that led tottiis event ; ii i s i'uiKcitrit
to ,know th:u i: exists, and is Coiidu£l<-d with
briitai ferocity. The favorable reception
;iv--n to the Kngliih by Touflain:, is t!,c
clua. He accuses the former with an in
tention of delivering; up the island to them,
or at lea ft of putting it under their protest,
preme command, the other ecualJy desirous
to pofiefiit.
lc * n Hidouv:lle was sent off tc France,
he wrote Rigaud, and directed him to 31-
lumc the command, should heobferve Touf
laint was about to take any steps to render
the island independent From that moment
to gain Overthe several chiefs to his party ;
and when ht believed the critis wus^.ar
rived in which he mightdeclare himfe|f dpen
ly, be marched a body of troths. to Petit
G"iive, which was taken, delivered up to
piilage, Dnd molt of .the whites niaffacred.
ijie Standard of revolt was now feared.
He expe&ed at Pott-au-Pi'ince the i'iicitr
Icene would take place, the chief ol'jy.'iich
ertions of his adherents at Go.najves, Pott-'
de- Paix Mole St. Nicjiohft, Jean R.vl J,
and other places. Mcltofthe.k- -plots Ij:a c
except at the M<,-.ile,- where a regiment
which w?s ordered to iwarch, expeiied the
commandant, and took 'f the town
and torts. The persons of the, inhabitants
and property tiave hitherto been refpefted.
The fills a.nd-rudders of.the vefllls 'which
lie in were taken on fhorr ; though* it
is said. they have since bwn reftoiedto tliern.
All army of 30oemen is 011 its march to that
place, and as the garriibn is. but fWll,.'it
may be soon reduced. After the capture
of Petit Goave, a party advanced .is far as
Grand Goave, and took polfcflirtn of ablock
houfe—thev are now surrounded by a detach
ment of Toudjint's army, and ir.uft be scon
forced to surrender.
" Touflairt has puni/hed some of the
chiefs who have b:er, found tp,Jiave
intelligence with Rigaud, by bio win. them
off at the month of cannon. It isTit ;>i>fcd
that these ievere examples will intnni la c
the-others who raay .be difcontcnted, and at
an army of 10,090 men n his
command, he is fuppofcd.to be thf flrongefl
party, especially ,a» who c> m<
mands at Jacmel, has declared 'or Tim.—
1 Rigaud has been-.proclaimed a rebel t t}y
[ dt'reftory. All v£ffe<? going V>.Ti« pa ts,
i are to be reputed lawful prizes Barnes aod
vessels of for e are fining out by.hr th pir
ties, and it app ars to be man; than mete
report that the barges of Rfgaud have put
to death the crews of one or more French
vcirels which ihey haye captured.
V Which of thrifr two chiefs' mar gain
the day, is doubtful, b.-t while hnftiltties
cxift between them there can bebuOli'tle
fecuriry for the American commerce—-even
should the commtinication.be d<>r*«d> The
rifle which muff be ron from the barges »f
either party, will be great; an t should the
vessels arrive fafe, the Tiumher of lu ds ta
ken from Agriculture to recruit the armies,
will render coffee fc.irce, a'd prevent either
admit,iflration or individuals from pntform
ing their engagements.
" I know not on what footing the Eng.
lifh trade with Hifpani la is to be placed.
By a proclamation of the kins;, the govern",
rr of Jamaica is authorised to grat t pass.
P_ rts to voffe s, tor certain ).orts ;' tut' 3
veffels are at Port aux Prince unrer
fiparilh ta'ours—they csrritd them a Vet jr
seasonable jiipply »f p 'jviiions, flour bji g
in proportion. They have feivt*d to atfg
mept the price ef coffee,-and it aiaybpViii."
fed so kigh an to'render it. when the trade
is permitted, an Unprofitable- article of remit
tance. 7; '
" One piece of intellgence more—is is.re
ported and g neralty bc leved,' th* t pofi'tive
orders have been given by a rtu'ral. Parkar,
to flop the /hip Kingdtn* if "flic should be
hiet w.th, and f;nd her to Jamaica.' 4 / •
* The I'jftltvhUh tool out' Dr. Ste verity
the . meru in agtut to L'ip.inijia.
ll.iverhill-"-E:iy
The remainder ot' the CARGO of the (hip
Souehontt J
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Four Canada Kcii^b^
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