V. Philadelphia, -tb Sept. 1799. Mr. Fenno, loclofed I fend you a letter from tbe com"mittee of correspondence for Washing ton* county, covering a certificate from a number ot the most rcfpe&able gentlemen in that county, proving Mr. JAMES ROSS of Pittsburgh's attachment to the Christian Religion, in contradiction to a sal fe and fcandaloug report propogated and indultrioufly circulated, by the friends to Mr. M Ktan's eleftion, " that Mr. Rnfs is an Atheist, a Delft," See. I have known Mr. Rofs from his youth, and his father and friends of York connty, where he was born, and a more religious and virtuous -a mily is not to fe produced. In my long acquaintance with him, I have rev. r h«ard an irreligious or indelicate expression from him, and bsiipve him to be a wife and virtuous citizen a good Christian, and well qualified to fill the important office of Go- LEVI HOI.LINGS WORTH. WatbirgtM, August 28, 1799. Sja, THE. committee in this county for pro- Rioting tlx* flection of Mr. Rofs, have learnt where MivKefi is-lefs knov. n than here cur rency is given by the enemies to his eleilion, (the f«me f onfeientious men who Fupported the election of Mr. Tefferfon.) to a report, that Mr. Rofs is a Deist. 'I o prevejit the efFecFl of this /epoTt, one of the committee in this town, where Mr. JJofs lived more thau ten years, and until abort f.ve years ago, applied to such elders and other persons, noted for their piety and repaid for religion, as have known Mr.Rofs during the whole of this time, and as easily could bt applird to, and they chearfully ii;,li ed t'w'cnclofed certificate. It whs regretted that t u ; nbfer.ce cf the Rev. John M'Mjllan, (who is the minister nfarcft to this plaw, is jntimat.ly and has be«ii about twentv vears well acquainted with Mr. Rofs, and is zeal ous for his eloflion,) and of the other Pref- Byteria."" nit-iifters in this neighbourhood, who are now fitting in Prcibyiery, more than sixty miles from this town, prevented the r'otaining of t'-'eir contradiction to this faife and malicious report. But it was not tho't prudent for the fake of this, to fufier the import to gain force, by th« delay «f another week's post : t specially as ibbfe who have fignedj are dillinguifhtd characters, for good fenle, Horvftyand piety, and refucclahle for their flat ions in society. Mr. Allifon is jucige of this county, Mr. Swcarenger, Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Ritchie are justices of the peace, ansi the hfl-has been a member of af femfcly. Mr. Cott 11 and Mr. Brice, are •on ity and the last has been a rsrv ber of afTembly. Mr. Cunningham is a fubftsntial merchant and MY. Mercer a fuhftaiitisl farmer. 1 htf; gentlemen being ail in town at the time, were to. and you u!ay be a(Tured, that the certifi cate of .my one of them, is.fufficient to out wriph the report. Many more n '.ires could have been obtained, but to leek numbers was thought to be. Riving too much refpeft to the flnnder, and a feleftion of a few unqueltion able characters was tbought b< The presence of the Rev. John Smith, cf ! Capnonfbuigli, a .learned and refpe&able Se- ] eeder minister, who, about three years ago, I removed to this country from Octorara, in Lanc'jftei county, enabled us to procure his certificate also, and upon this we are content to reft the character erf Mr. Rofs and of our- frlvcs. We could -v\'ith as much ease have obtain ed as positive a denial of all the other mali cious reports lately propagated against Mr. Rcf» and we do pledge ourfclves that they are f illl . But we thought it not of conk <f»c!xe to-do so, as thev are, we trull, ge ♦rcfvlljr known to he falfe; and as ftich re- F» rts.from unpriiUiplrd and dinning rwe'fi ave lil'milly expected on i'uch occaflons. But 'twere are so few means of ascertaining the credit due to a report of infidelity and a re i'pcc > . for religion is of fuiih importance in public Nations, that we thought it a duty to our fellow citizens to disprove the aspersion of deism. Lead, therefore, this afperlion should mis lead good people, unacquainted with Mr. Rnfs, the committee here request that you vi'l publish, if you think proper, thefc do cuments in the newspapers or in hand bills, as" yon think best, and in such manner as ycu think noft fit. '.['be rriginaf of these certificates is in the hands of the committee of Franklin county. A. ADDISON, Cbcirruau of the committee of Washington co, Washington, (P-) dug- 26th 1799. TOALI WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. WE ths subscriberS, regular members of sundry Prefcytcrian congregations in the county of Wafhingto'n, have heard with fnrprife and regret, that r.morg the many slanderous reports propagated again ft the refpe&able fchara&er of James Rofs, Esq. of I'ittfturgh, who has been proposed to be. ahofeu governor of Pennsylvania, one is that he is a D.ijl. We trust that we have a fineere regard Jo truth and religion, and we feel ourselves bound by the duties we owe to both, so far as our testimony can go to remove from our fellow citizens, this ibftru&ion to the frte «xcrcife of our votes in favour of Mr. Rofs. ®<>d forbid that we should aflilt in pla< ing in fucU an important a ttation, a man defedtive jn refpedt fur religion. And we but obey the didlaies of our own consciences in ma king the following declaration of what we know of Mr. Rois, from our own obferva ♦ion and indubitable information. Mr. Rofs was bom of refpeftablc and piou* parents, of the Prclbyterian churc'i in a York county in this ftate,a»d received f om them a relijjous education. He is well in ftrufted in the feripturei and the do&rwcs ; of chriflianity as held by our church ; and' iwe are perfijaded believes and rtfpedls them. He lived long in this town, and long er in this county, and we have had good opportunities of knowing him. Where he haj lived, there has not been any ftatcd minister, and only occasional supplies for public worship. But he has contributed to the support of public worllvp where he liv ed, and attended it regularly and there is nothing known to t's to juftify the imputa tion that he is an infidel or deist, and we think this imputation sals- and malicious. In witness whereof we have hereto set our hands. A Sweatenger j £lder , of Wa /hin g to„ Robert Stockton > n b J -feph Wherry J Congregate J ohn Cotton 1 Elders of Bnffalpe Congre- Jatres Brice J gation. Jatne6 Mitchell, Elder of Peter* Coßgrega. John Mercer ? Eldera of Charters James Allifon J Congregation. Craig Riehie Alexander Cunningham* Since I lived in Wafliington county, < I have had opportunity of conversing and being wei' acquainted with James Rofs.Efq. of Mttfburgh, and of knowing his chara&er from lewou3 and refptiiable persons well aeqnainted with his opinions and ccnverfa t on, and I am well persuaded that he is sin cerely refpc&ful of the Chriftiaiv Protestant ReKgion, anj do verily brieve that the re port of h's being an infidel or deifl is alto gether'without foundation. JOHN SMITH, Mimfltr of Ajfociated Congregation Charlie t. At a meeting of a number of the ciizens of Philadelphia, convened by public no ticf, at the Union fchooi-houfe, in Gcr ibantown, on Saturday the ai ft of Sept. 1799, for the purpose of nominating suit able peifons to fill the* fewral offices , which wifl bcconrx vacant Tar the ea&inj .fileftion.— LEVI HOLLINGSWORTH, vis appointed Chairman: Whereupon it was uinnimoully resolved, That the wisdom, integrity, real patriotism, uniforti principles, and affable deraeapor'of J A MEIS "ROSS, of eminently quality Jiim tor the dignified fhuian of Chief -'lldgi Irate of this commonwealth, and jult ly entitle him 10 the fiifThitres of' his fellow-- Citizens J and that the prrfone computing' this will give tlwir votes, and cx evcife thrir influence, to promote his election to that office. ' Rctolved imanintocfly, That this meeting approves of the nomination of'JoHK Jones, of Low;r Dublin, by their fellow, citizen; of this rounty ; ami vfill Airport him and Jo seph Ball, at the cnfuiiig eleAion, as 6'r-. natars, for the rii!lric\ conipofed of the city and county of Philadelphia and of ihc coun ty of Delaware. < Rrfplvrd unanimcufly, That Michael K<fj>eie, Samuel iV. Tuber, JVilliam llall, Gc irge Fox, (iodfrej Haga, and Robert /raze'', deserving and pou-fling the con(i deiue of this mectingv be recommended to th<? choice of our fellow«citiaej)i as Mfm bers of the. House of Reprelentatives, Ref<>lv.?d unanimoafly, that the gentle inen 'whole names are mentioned in the sol? ]awinj>- tickets, are well qualified to serve our i'ellow-cicizens in the coiporatien Dt' Philadelphia. Seleft Cotincil. Samuel Miekle Fax, Samuel Coates, John Miller, junir.r, and Abijah lia&es. Common Ccuixal. Kearnej Wharton, John Ri.gan, Ihdrnas Ciflhberl, Joseph M-tffojiin, Laurence Her bert, Daniel Smith, Henry Dr-inAff, jtin Michael Keppele, Thomas P. Cape, Joseph Nopkhuon, Thomas Parker, -George Phmi /ted, Gideon Hill Wells, jtfaleom M*Don nalfl, Caspar W. Morris, Jonathan Jooes, Pascbal Hoiliagstvofth, Edward Penning•' ton, Timothy I'uison, and James Milntr. Resolved, That "J. Wall, M. Kepp-.-le, and Joshua Humphreys be a committee to ieforni'our fellow-citizens of the county of Delaware, that this meeting approves ©f the nomination of John Jon:s, of Lower Dub* lin, and earnellly rcque'is'their ooncurrence and luppoit in favour of the said John Jones and Joseph Bail, at the en I'uing election. Ordered, that thfl minutes of the procecd ings-of this meeting lie iigned by the Chair man and Secretary, and publilhc.t in the Philadelphia newspapers. Levi Hollingsvjertb, chairman. Z. Pcu'.ion, ju'.i. facretary. M'KEAN. To the Editor of the Tori Herald. Silt Please to i-iferl the following letter, and oblige y®ur'», &c. J. C. To tie Honourable THOMAS M'KEAN, j Doit or of Laws, Chief Jvfiiee of the State ef Pennjjlvania, CsV. &c. &c. Sir, 4 scarcely thought it poflible among the vicissitudes of human affa rs, that I should have to address you through the channel of a Ncwfpaper ; but it frems the period has arrived, wh n it has become neceflary for me, in order to contradict the vile (lander that has been | ropogated, and the odium I attempted to be thrown upon me, by thole, t who I presume, aflbyyour authority; I j mean certain Ad.lreffert of the Public in this place, that have, through the medium of your friend Solomon Myer's prefa, among other things stated, " Another charge is, " that M'Kean Ihould have said, that York " county was a Tory county } bui tl<e tf»lh ' is, Mr. M'Kean never either expressed "or entertained ftach an opinion. It is t e " fabrication of party rain, and. circulated "with a view, to prejudice the people of " York county against our Republican can " didi e." Whether the above charge if true, and the affertiou of your friends untruei 1 leave you and the public to determine, when I folerotjy declire, that yon, at the lioufe John Wctfon, Esq. in Mifflin county, in the presence of the honorable Edward Ship pen and Ed-ward Skipper, Burd Efqs. did a)Tcrt, without any previous provocation, " that the people of York supported the 4 British Corporal, and were a pack of " dewm'd Tories j ' and I replied they were (1 a-» good Hhigt a* your //on&r, &.c, 'At another time, at Hartley's Tavern, n>-ai Bedford, in tho prefenee of a Mr. " Shklh, yoj said'" th? members of As " fembly frsm York cou"ty, were damn'tM " fatAty a»«l that you coul-l not get them to what vou wan'eJ I" to which I replied that was the reason the county sent such men. for was it known that you had any in fluence over them, they never would b;- elefl• ed. At anutjier time, I heard you fay ' York waia Tory coun'y," and I then replied it was not, nor would I fnffer such fiander. I have also heard you fay. that every word of the letter written by Mr. JeJferfoi, to Mazzi, was hue; and that General Wajhlngton, had done great deal " ofgood during the Revolution, but a great " de-1 of mifchief since that period." '* Those who wiih for further information refpedUug your affcrtioris, and Conduft, at the lipaes and places above mentioned, have an opportunity offatisfying tkemfelves, by i applying to the yentlemen wbofe names with reluftance, I have been thus pub icly , obliged to mention j and as to the ether affertiens, if ncceffary, I am willii g to make ] »ath of lain sorry that you and those whom I have above alluded to, have mad" il ne cessary for me, thus publicly, to date t! e fails ; and the confluences that may arise thertfrom, you and them will know to j whose account tfcey ought to be placed. Wi.U a hope ihat you u ay not be ele&ed Gevern r, and a wi/h that y.u may re raiin in :h« ftajioti you now hold, I am, Sir, your moll obedient, JOHN CLARK. York, Sept. 13, 1799 MIt.LY ANDRE V Co. HA Visitor removed cut of town, and they have f.l file at their healthy (lore. No. 88, Ma'ket-ftreet corner of fotoh Thirtl ftrerl, A general tvlTottment of DRY GOODS, also, JuJl received frem Flrginin, 19 hogflicads of bell Virginia, TOBACCO 1 thev will difjjol'e of on reafanable terms. 1 Sept. 13. • 3teod 140 bum-Is Grten COt l'El'., ro». sat.i, By SIMON & HYMAN GRATZ, No. 132, lilarkel Street. WHO HAVK Ai-SO CK HAWD, 150 qr. chc'fls Hyson Skin T£A,"J of latest 3,Q (jr. clwfts Hylon dittc, I inter -10 cht-fts Bohea ditto, J tat;tn. Sept. 18. " dim. THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, That he fubferiher living it George Town, croii roads in that county and llare of Mary land, hath obtained letters of admiiiillration en ihe prrfonal eftafe of William Din«moore, late ol Kent Cjunty, merchant, d^cealeil. All perl',ini tuvi-.y anycliims ogainfl the la'td decesfcd, are reqwefled to exhibit them pro peily authenticated, either to the fubferiber or to William liarroll, Efq her atterney, living in Chefttr Town MarjrU-id. .\ll pert'ons indebted to th* deceased, either on B vid, Bill, note or iccaunt, are rarneftly re quested to discharge the fame without delay, fuits will !>e cMnnieneed against them. JSABI'LUA DINSMQORE, Admmillatrix ol Vv i'lijm Jeceafed George To-hj,i Croji-Roads Kent County, Aiigult 31, 1799. dzm. On Tucfi'ay the til of OAobtr next, jt the Ki»'->in Hood tavern, on the Falls road, at 11 o'clock A- iW, will be fuld by publicauftiofl, About eighty acres of Land, LAYING 4 miles from Philadelphia, on the eafl lide of the raid, which bound* it on the weft, and contiguous to lands of Mr.Clement Biddle, Mrs. Hlftnhrey, Mr. Thomas Ketland, Mr. Montniollin, Mr. Thomas Clifford,' Mr. Willon a"d others. A road of two perch&s, trading from the fr'alU road, at the top of the Robin Hood l i t, runs ealt through this land, and gives an easy access to the whole, which will be divided i; to lots of 7 to 10 icres, to fait the purrhafcrs. The number of beautiful fcitt* r>n this land, its healthy situation and pleafint neighbourhood, will no doubt attrait the at tention of the public. The whole now lays open, an 1 a plot of it may be seen at <he Ro bin Hood tavwn after the 20th in ft. '1 h« t«rrns will fee made known ;t the time of sale. LY & Co. Auff\ 9 rs< dts Septemper 14 Philadelphia, Stpt?a4th, 1799, SALES of the following Lots, advertised. the »cth inft. pollponed in cosfe- quence of unfjvcßrahle weather, until FRIDAY, t)ie 17th inlUnt) A l one o'clock, AM. At v/hicb time will bt Sold, On the Premise*, ONE TRACT, containing aScut jo acres lying in Springfield township,, Montgo mery county, fronting on a public road leading fieni diltance therefrom soar miles, and one niile and an half fn jn Flour Town. The country ie remarkably healthy, and fitiy tion for a farm or country, feat beautiful, (St good, and lime stone plenty. Also upwards of titty acres, choke young chef nut timber land, divided in convenient lots, situ ate in Upper Dublin townfliip, nearly opposite to the above To be fold as part of the eitne of the late Caleb Emlen, deceased, by JAMES VAUX, CHAULES PLEASANTS, Attorney: in faS to M. Stolen f»U Mxtcnirix. dt»;S. foreign -Jniclligetuc. FRANCE. . COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED. * JVhY ii- Thi3 being tbe anniversary of 36 Mefll dor, July 14., the President made a speech fnitable to the pecafidn. ... Talot rose. The malcontents indulge themselves in "propagating unfavourable re ports.- They publim that the two Councils ate to be replaced by aNatroDil on. You ought to declare yuUrfelyes on this occasion. ' No s the Conftittlu.jn of the third year,(hall not be viol <te t. V/e have rescued it from various faftion'j, qnd will preserve it entire QLive the Cullitu tion of the third vear refouud.-d from every (Corner.] This pathetic transport will in-, spire with confidence all good citizens, wko are tired with Revolutions. No ; no ty rant no triumvir (ball trample down the Jaw, or us, or our fellow citizens. No, no 1 Liberty for ajl 1 The rights of the People for all t Conscripts fly to*the frontiers} your young brothers .attend you, and the enemy challenges you { frenchmen be con fident—Your Conftitijtion (hall be main tained. Live the Republic, and the Con dilution of tbe 3d year! This exclamation was tepeated by the whole Council, which ordered the printing of the Speech { and the aaulic played the pwriotic air ofCa Ira. L. Buonaparte. Uurf3oubt:dly on the 18th of June you deilroyed the enemies of | liberty, aVid promised to the French peo ple to maintain the Constitution of the 3d 'year. This oath must be kept, and foreign influence guarded against. There is a small number of men who would wish us to pass the ConstitutionaL line ; .the friends .'of Kings also dire£i it. You must then de clare yourfelyss. The French people do jiot wilh for more convulGons, nor changes, nor lea Holds.—They desire no more of the regime cf terror of 1793. They want only n constitutional regime. But yeu know the coafequences of a political contest are not always thole w.iich were fought f»r. The: 9th Thermidorled to the 13th Vendemiaire, and 18th Fru&iilor, to the I2d Floreal. Why this ? Because party m:n placed ttmfelves behind Republicans for the pur pose of appropriating t* themselves the fruits of these days. • They had flattered tyrants, and flattered the multitude to make them forget their former infamy. Hid your at titnde been inflecifive, perhaps the confequerices of the 30th Prairial would have been as deplorable at they are now fa tisfa&ory. The revolutionary torrent, if not arrested iti its course, would have burst its bar.ks, and would have carried away theufands of fallen fcattered car cases. The Constitution must not always [land on such a column, like a viflira or the altar. (The Boook of the Constitution is opened on a column of marble placed in the middle of the Hall) The constitutional equilibrium must be maintained, and its powers must remain independent. Un doubtedly the Diredory must no-, influence th£ Legislative body, : nd ab certainly, nei ther (hould the Legislative Body influence the Direft-ory. The mrncalled tothehehn of the ilaite are,clonhed with your confidence, and will continue to drfcrvc it. Suriounded by the constitutional strength of the Lrgif lative opinjon, tbey will inarch in eoncert with you, and will rescue the Constitution from the dangers in it is placed bf men already persecuted by public opinion, and soon to be pursued by justice. I de mand that you (hall rerew the oath, to maintain in its integrity tbe conflitution of the third year. Live the Republic 1 Live the Constitution of the third to be printed to the number of twelve co pies. . I Blin—lt is not enough to swear to main tain the Constitution of the third ve r. We must farther adhere to the oath made to the F:ench people, to punilh the traitors who have endangered the fafety of the Republic. I demand that the General Committee be resumed. Marqnct fsconded this m< tion ; but feveri.l members observed that the Rep Tter of the Committee was not prefcat ; and the Council resumed the discussion of the pro jeift relative to the forced loan of one liun xirea millions. Lscude presented a-plan to authorize the Central Administrations to raiie themfcives an eight of the contributions, by way of advance on the loan, and to emp oy the pro duce thereof to the cloathing and equipment of new battalions—lt was ordered to be printed. Stevenntte wilhed that twenty one mil lion* for Delegations to the Departments should be suspended, and applied to the fame ulc. Jourdan (de la Haufe Vicnne), suppor ted the motion of Lacuee. It pr deter mines do thing, fsid he, on tiie diftrikutioa of the loau, and it calculated to expedite the raifmg of the battalions. There rxilts a grand confpira y of Royalills, which I promise to unmask at an early day. Their companies are organized at i'aris. Ttwy have their correspondences with the depart, ments of the Weft, with Conde, with Sh warrow, with Prince Charles. T-h'ty ex pert, with impatience, the moment when the armies of the enemy (hall be at our fron tiers, to em'iarrafs the operations ot the interior, and aflaffinate Republicans. An immediate levy i» then neciflary. I de mand that the proposition of .Lacuee be adopted, and that a Committee be charged to present a plan for detersiiv.inj; on what clali of the persons liable to contribute the allowance of twenty two millions of the forced loan (hall fall. Deillremn coincided in opinion with Jourdan, and combated with energy the / aWZXST. .* Jf J6KT3 motion of Stevcnotte as tend'ng to rijia public credit by attacking tranla&ions of the most facrcd nature. The propofhion of Sievenotte was rejefted by ihe Order of the Day. Tliofe of Lacuee and Jourdan ware referred tu a Committer, to pr«f«Qt to morrow- a plan on the lubje£t. LONDON,'JuIy 24. The new clubs at Paris proceed merrily in the work of regenerating the public opin. ion. One Citizen makes a speech, another fin js a long, and the whole company chear up om: another's spirits by r haunting the MarililoilV flymti in I'tiU chorus Such meetings. ra;.y produce riots., but they are not very likely to fabricate plots. she E:;-l)iw.'1»5ry Merlin is arcufed of a crime not peculiar to Republics only. They call hi;» t!K fabricator of conspiracies and plots. But this will npp-ar-a venial offence in the eyes of % tho«e who n?ive no other m.-ajis of perpetuating tlv..;ir power than by creating alarms, and nuking the people l» c . fie, ye jbat the country intvft Jhnd or tall with the faction. The French papers mention that Genera! Macdonald isgoing to Paris on a:count of his health. It is {{range that the present campaign lhould have been so fertile .in difor. tiers among command-is in chief, and more ft range that the air fcf such a city as Paris should be confulered as salutary ! Tin- principle* at lead of the Jacobins, seem to be adopted by the new Club at Paris Ofte member has proposed to cut off 50,0:0 lie ids in order to save the Country. There mufl be more leading men in France than any where else The new Club at Paris will b« of some service, by furnifhing us with a new epithet to throw on every on? who doubts the ir. fallibillity and omnipotence of men in p o iv» er. The word 'jicibin is aim oft worn out and become so very unintelligible, that whe-i even the miniftcrial writers fall cot they throw it at one another. The King of Sardinia has declared war a. g'.inft France, if thole who -have tafceahis runineiital dominions in truth do him ju. ilice, he will be a a ufeful aequifition to the Confederacy. His interests in Piedmont, however, liavr not yet been brought very much into notice. If he ijexs fair play he may again b: worth afubfidy. That Buouaparte and his atmy were in fait transported, has been long believed,and its being now aiTerted in the Councils of France is probably one of the confluences of a freedom of f»eech which the last Direit, ory would not have permitted. Whatever may b- thought of that proceeding at a crime, it *rs the only war in which the ab. llnce of such a man as Buonaparte, and the awiy which had been uniformly victorious under him, can'be accounted for. Some months ago a Pslifli Gentleman, who p'aved a great deal, was at Rome;af. tcr having won the young men's money he played for their pictures, and thus in less than a month hi collefted about pic* tures, among which are leveral Raphaels, •and other precious pieces. A Letter from Milan mentions'the I'itith fitr ciicnmftance ofthr ctittrny down four trees uenr Milan, in the hollow of one of which the body of a French soldier was found in a H-tte of, putrefaction. H'- had a confidt vable funi in bis pockets, and is fnpuofed to have been wounded and t > have got in 0 this tree to avoid falling into the hands of the Aiiftnaiis, where he expired. The Conte d.-'C;ib,irras, father 6f the cele brated Madame Tallinn, after having travel led through France and Holland uppn bis private affairs, is returned to the place of i'i; h'rth :« the !■,<.!;• hbourhiod of Bavonne ; and his demanded of the Coort of Spain ptr ruiffion to return to that countrji in order to live p.acs abljr in one of the provinces. He has received for answer, that if he wiflies to enter Spain, he must establish himfelf at B.idag.->s, on the frontiers of Portugal. St. Jean d'Ach: on the coast of Syria, so much the objeft of our att-ntion at pre f--nt, is fortified with a wall of very mode rite ftretigth, haying only one gate, and is a pretty large town, but many of the houses are Crop ty—the population is ellimated by a I ite traveller, Mr, Brown, at between fifteen and twenty thoufaud There remins part of a double folfe, which extended round the town, but is daily dilapidated for iwodern ere&ions. It has no castle nor other relique of atitiqtiity. Oxford, this year, has 7 regents, 3 doctors in divinity, 3 in civil law, 3 in medicine, and II 2 maAers of arts. In th: small village of Blickrod, near Sheffield, there are eight men whose united ages amount to 74; years; except one, tliey are (till capable of working at some employ* tnent. The Abbe D* Lille, so celebrated in the literary world as tlie be ft trench poet now living, arrived in England by the last packet from Hairttujrgh. It is underlined that he is come to London to -publilh several poems. FROM THE BtE Published at Edmburgb by Dr. Anderson NAVAL AFFAIRS; Accident frequently gives birth to discove ries of the highest importance ; as it often happens that men, in very oblcsre stations in life, are poflefled of some afeful branches of knowledge, which the keenest refeaiclies of phifol'opl.y have not beer, able to discover. An in fiance of this kind occurred some time ago, that ought to be univerfjlly known a mong all the people of a small nation sur rounded ami inteifettion by seas as ouvs is. A vefiel having fprunk- a-leak in the At lantic ocean, which admitted .more water than could bt voided by tbe pumps, the nia» ft?R aud irelt, to the number of were ob liged to betake thcmfelves in hafb to ,the*t boat, a small Norway fkifl, and abandon tbemfe'lves to the mercy of the wavesin that ■f:
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