" A deferterfrom the Murdoos fays, thatChin na Murdoo has loft his son, and that another of the family is Ihot through the neck ; a number of their people have been also killed and wounded. The artillery have had i 5 men wounded, but no officer hurt. Some horses, alid a quantify of prain were found in the place. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 22 WE learn that the Ruffian fleet has again ta ken pofleffion of the island of Zea, after defeating the Algerine squadron, and that the commander of our fleet in the Archipelago has loft his head, by order of his Highness, for not: opposing the ravages of the privateers there. VIENNA, Nov. i.j A courier has this moment arrived with the news that General Fabry has taken Cladova and consequently the whole diltritft of Krafnia, coin prifing 15:0 towns and villages. What renders this conquett of more importance is, that it will hasten the fall of Orfova, which receives nijft 0 f its proviiions from that quarter. An officer from Prince Potemkin's army brought intelligence of the surrender of Gender on the isthinftant, the garrison of which for trefs, with as many of the inhabitants as were dis posed to follow, were to be escorted to Ifmail. LONDON, Dec. 31 By the Austrian accounts, it isfaid, that the va lue of the stores taken from the Turks last cam paign, amounts to twenty two millions of florins. The veflels dispatched from England to Ame rica for wheat, may be expecfled to return in the middle of March ; but Ihould they be delayed e ven a month after that, which is very unlikely, their arrival then would destroy the combination' the effeds of which mull have at that time, and till the harvest, been (everely felt, had not go vernment wifely opened the ports. Extratl of a Letter from an English Gentleman as ' \ Br-ajfsls, Dec. i j. " At half after three o'clock, while I was a dinner, the town bells rang th« alarm, the patri ots flew to arms, seized the critical moment, o verpowered all the polls in the lower town, mas tered the Mint, &c. This work was over by fix o'clock, but the worse was yet to come ; neither reason nor argument could prevail on the Patriots to desist from attacking the grand place opposite the Maifon de Ville/which they hazarded against a whole battallion, furnilhed with eight pieces of cannon, and every avenue guarded. At half af ter nine the ailault began, and continued with un remittingfury till halfafter 12 o'clock, when the troops called for a parley ; but it was too late, they were all captured. Thus the Patriots got poUeflibn of all the lower town, andDalton aiked a suspension of arpisior a few hours ; it was gran ted, for reft was neceflkry to the Patriots. At nine o'clock on Saturday morning, to the surprise of every body, Dalton evacnatecTthe town in the inoft precipitate manner, and the troops went out ofthe Portede Namur, rather pell mell, than o tlierwife ; and all this I saw, for I was about the whole time. He had 4500 effe<flive men, and 18 jiiecesof bvafs cannon, besides howitzers. This famous hero was with the advanced guard, his hat flapped, and night-cap over his head, and by that time the rear ofthe army got oat ofthe gate he mutt have been three miles off. lam very Jure there is not in history so difgraceful a retreat • for if Dalton had been poflefled of/kill, or cou ra£e > he might havedemoli/hed the town and Pa triots together, which did not exceed 800 at the commencement; and who supplied the want of good arms and order by desperate courage. The whole country is now in the hands ofthe Patri ots, and the Emperor may bid adieu to the Pays Bas. This Revolution is one of the most extraor dinary in the annals of time, condudied with a regularity and humanity that does the natives grjat honor; not a Royalist has even fuffered the finalleft inconvenience, their houses are guarded with the utmost circumvention, and we are now pejfeotly quiet and tranquil." No lei's than 120 veflbls have already been dif patchcd to America for corn. —Frogi Liverpool 54—Briflol 33.—lhe coasts of Devonlhire and Cornwall 33. — Letters by yesterday's Flanders mails brings us the confirmation of the Anftrians having evacua ted Machlm and Termonde. In the former place the patriot? found a tra;n of artillery, with 60000 itand of small arms, so that they are abundantly provided with warlike stores. On heariirWLthe taking of Bruflels, the Imperialists left Louvain Some, letters mentioned positively that General Dalton is taken prisoner, with the whole body of troops with which he was endeavoring to retreat to Luxeniburgh from Bruflels. On his march, he took many of the nobles out of their country feats and sent them hostages to Luxemburgh. How ever, the patriots have been even with him ; for they have seized Count Cobenziel, Gen. Lelien, and the Prince Starenberg, who were just arri ved from Vienna to mediate a pacification of the piefent troubles, and will keep them as counter holtafres. s Government have in contemplation a colony tor the I'elew iftar.ds. At Constantinople inch dreadful tumults are reported to prevail, as have obliged the Sultan k m to abandon that city. Much blood has been Hied on the occasion, and it is luppofed the infurreclion will end in the dethronement of the Jkmperor. His Majesty's packet-boat the Sandwich, Capt. Dillon which brought over the mail of Friday iron* New-York, has remittances to the merchants to the amount of upwards of 60,0001.— 10001. in specie, and orders for great quantites of goods of The French Minister, it is said, has made a proportion to the Dutch to fell them the debt due them from the American Congress, for their service iaft war, which, it is said, has been accept ed ot. ihe Americans have given their consent to the transfer, by which means a very consider able sum of money will be raised at once for the service ot the French King. Our Court had the offer of purchafingthe debt, but refufed it NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. tu An- 11 i Paris, Dcce?tiber 17. The Aflembly decreed, on the motion of the Military that all French troops, ex -.ept militia and national guards, (hall be levied voluntary enlistment. blvr C r rthUll jl. ap , peared in the Nati <>"al Aflbm oiy s U cceed M. del a Baflide as Deputy of Au verg„ >; It was the fidt, and will, in all proba laft time thac such a monk honor ea a Senate. He mounted the roftruin fence for''t ' ■gT i »»«M- » philofojihy religion, and - i c December to. This day, aftt, a warm j e b ate t lie plan of Fi nance agreed on U M . Necker> th ecom.nittee of ten, and the dire<ft Vs o{^i,e Ca j fl g D'Efcoinpte, was decreed by a g,-„ t ma j oricy . P - r r' December 2T. Ihe new division of : * i • • r Kingdom into depart mem, great forwa, the Colnn;K ,' ce of confti ution having bee, materia]] assisted Jn their labors by the deputy from \ he several provinces. Trauflatton of a letter.fromCe v - al de p^ r tQ f , K . National /j§?7nt s " Mr Preficlent: It is with Sports c f joy more easy to be imagined than w'efled, that I entreat you to make known to th^ flbmbl r winch you preside, the femimentt of ''ft profound refpetf, and most lively ac no J{ ed inent for the decree which you havt pa fled; n favor ofmy country and companions. " In admitting Corlica to the pertec en : oy . ment of all the advantages which result frt« t he happy constitution that you have eftablifhed)„ ou have at length found the most efficacious mfc„ s of securing for ever the attachment and fidefty of its inhabitants : and in granting to my expa*. triated companions the power of returning andi enjoying all the privileges of French fubjedts, while you manifeft your jultice and generosity, you attach to your new Constitution a number of individuals that will defend it to the last drop of their blood ; and the beneficent Monarch, the restorer of the liberty of his people, who has sanc tioned these decrees, will have no fubjedls more devoted to his glory. " Permit me the honor to fay, that I am, with the molt profound respect, yours, &c. London, Dec. it, 1789. FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES. LETTER. No. 111. MR. FENNO, BEFORE we can form a clear idea upon matters, we mujl jirjl ac quaint ourselves with the name, the nature and circumjlnnc.es of the thing. Thus I was comptlled to travel over large philosophical ana his torical grounds, to Jind the place oj the wool hairy negro in the order of nature. Animated beings, therein conjidered, in flrength of body, or in their intellectual flrength, in either the one, or the other cafe, the tveakefl is ruled by the JlrongeJl. As plainly as I conceive, that the ox is born to plough my ground, as blainly aljo the philosopher will fee, that nature has defgnated the wool hairy negro by innate inferiorities, in conse quence of which, he is theJlave of other nations. But when nations have attained a high degree of cultivation, and population, they fee! the im propriety to have Jlaves, and J not compelled by circumjlances, they will Jujfer none; this leads me to conftder Jlaves, on political ground. Where Jlaves are numerous, plots, injur red ions, and war will be the consequence ; for examples of these, the hijlory of the Jlaves in Sparta, m ancient Rome, in Surinam, in the Weft-India islands, fuynifhfujficient proof. Slaves are a contradiction to the taws of a free government, and to those of a well regulated monarchy ; this is exemplijied by the proceed ings oj the English and French ; these were for a while uniform, any ne gro was free the moment he flood on French or Englijh eround ; but the consequences arising from the acqujtion oj this new Jpecie of citizens were soon perceived ; the English to get rid of the evil, try now to co lonize them in Africa, and the French have without ceremony sent them to the sugar islands ; probably they were fold for the Kings account, what I know by experience gives ground foi this opinion \in the year 1786, one of my negroes, a girl oj about eleven years,a pet of my wife's, was in consequence oj that law in Fiance, taken up by the police in port lH)rievt, and sent to the islands to bt fold for the Kings benefit. The reason oj theje proceedings in both nations is, that when prompted by humanity to make out of wool hairy negroes citizens of tHt realm, they did not con- j fider, that they had given up their power to prevent the intermarriage of the black citizens with their white women, &c. &c.—thus to mend what inconsiderately had been done, the English. put themselves to trouble, and e.rpence to colonize them, and the French, notwith/landing their ur banity, did a manifcjl piece of injuflice. In ancient tunes,the Portugueje and Spaniards,were as white as other Europeans, ffut they were conquered by Carthaginians,Mauritanians,and other African, fwarthy,and black people; the intermarriage was enforced byconquefl, hence the dark colour prevails among the two nations ; their mindi have not however been debafedby the intermixture, because, the con- \ queers were highfpiritcd, long haired tawnies and blacks. -367- DE PAOLI." ROSTJCUS. FROM THE VIRGINIA INDEPENDENT CHRONICLE. tor the BIRTH DAY of THE PRESIDENT. By the Rev. Thomas Thorntok HAIL to the fun, whose circling ray, Once more revolves the happy day That gave our HERO birth ; * ' Prepare the feaft, in pairs advance, To raise the song, or lead the dance. To jollity and mirth. Blow the trumpet, found the flute, Tune the viol, llrike the lute, And let ev'ry free-born foul Chaunt his name from Pole to Pole. Ambition fir'd the chiefs of old, To fight for empire, or for gold, How few for liberty; But he was born, by Heav'n defign'd, To scourge th' oppreiTors of mankind, And set th' oppressed free. Ca*far and Philip's frantic son, With arms and chains, the world o'er j;un> To gratify tlieir pride : Benevolence and valor join'd, Display the greatness of his mind, And all his a£lions guide. Nassau forfook his native land. Great Britain's ruin to withstand, And he the nation fav'd : Great Mar lbro' led her conquering force, Where nothing could retard his course, And ev'ry danger brav'd. William's high deeds a crown obtain'a, A Prince's title Ma rl b ro' gain'd ; But greater is h i s claim, Thirteen United People's prayers, Their Soldier's hearts, their Senate's cares, Are offer'd all for him. Propitious victory hasfpread A grove of laurels round his head, And Peace-his conquest crown'd : May no malignant spirit dare, With baneful breath, God grant my prayer. His Fame or Peace to wound. But may kind Angels near him wait, To bear him late, O very late, From hence to realms above ; And may he be permitted there, As with his arm he freed us here, To speed us with his love. Blow the Trumpet, See. &c k RECITATIVE. Had I my favorite Pr ior'j happv vein, I'd sing his triumphs in a noble strain ; Nassau or Marlbro' (hou'd not brighter fhinC) In bolder figures, or a smoother line ; Ensigns and Trophies IhOu'd adorn his bowers, And Vernon's Mount i ife high as Blenheim's towers. CHORUS. Blow the Trumpet, Sec. See. FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES. MR. FENNO, Being in the gallery this dap, the rapidity of certain movements, gave life to thefollowing, urhichpleafc topublifh, and oblige, S. Fib 26. THE TYPE-NOSTRUM THE maxim's held by all mankind, That Quacks incv'ry trade we find ; And yet how few are on their guard— Pretenders fcldom miss reward : E'en Senates—form'd of learned fages—»- Have been bc-quack'd, informer ages. All hail ye labor-hating crew, Who keeping novelty in view, Mankind bewilder and fur prize, * fee with your's—not their own eye\ Th^' ght ° f noftrum > P ill and P«VVG e i&ell of death was never louder. B ut hid in broken JleeL ] J t ° h€nc a \ the common weal- i kcaftoicfeel . , n r ! » no mortal snout, Can (cent th, S y ndrous fcclct |, ut _ And ev n C v to think> „ T hi ' h =W m^\h strokes in ink, As ftiall defy all futu. T' enrich th^lve,!^^^ Hence patents " ready?. and d Confirm the maxim in myS-. e . While B—'s meer chance fl ro \ t Prove wit and genius all a jokbi ' NEW-YORK, FEBRi A CORRESPONDENT. The^S im , Ption Oft u heStStedebtSap P ,:arsto K attended V. ith many difficulties, in the contemplation, but whileu i s V erv well known that ingenious men can very ealily perplex ani embarrass any bus.ness when under difcuflion—and although it i» conceded that the present fubjea is attended with circumstances th»t require consideration ; it :s without doubt a measure that involves the justice, peace and (lability of the government—and it is connived that the great and desirable event of a settlement of accounts be tween the individual dates and the United States, can be brou°k about in no other way. One great advantage gained by the people of the United States in the late revolution, is the almost total abolition of dry taxes ; tor it is notorious that the laws for dire£fc taxation operated most unequally, as the poor were the vittims, while the wealthy could very easily evade paying any thing like their proportion : But in imports, and especially excises, there is not such opportunities to evade ; as the consumers must inevitably pay in proportion to the confumptioji. In this view, every person becoms interested in the punctual execution of the laws, for smuggling anl evasions. cause deficiencies, which take money out of the pockets of the poor. The President of the United States, now resides in Broad-Way, in thehoufe, that was lately improved by the Hon. Charge de Affaires of his Moil Christian Majesty, who has removed to Cherry-btreet. QT " AFRICANUS" m our next. 03 s * Wanted by the Editor of this paper, a Houje that z<: ; /f ac commodate a large family, and the panting bufnefs—from the firfl of May next. ARRIVALS.—NEW-YORK. Friday. Ship Peacock, Pearlon, St. Kitts, 18 days. Ship Alexander, Woodard, St. Übes. Brig Fedcralift, Maffh, St. Thomar. ODE, chorus CHORUS. ■Y27.
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