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SUMMARY of EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE
by arrivals which Ujt LONDON t:u lajl oj JULY. '
ACongrefs is fitting in S;leGa, the result of whose deliberations
is to dccide on the continuance of the continental war, or
the future peace of Germany. Prussia, Auflria, Ruflia, Poland,
&c. are represented in this Congress.
The affairs of the rerolutionifts are said to be in a very unpro
mising way: BrufTel. is shut up, and no one fuffered to g<> in or
out, without a patfport ; the port of Oflend is also said to be shut.
TJn the 14th July, the day of the grand federative meeting of
France, 600 per Tons met at the Crown and Anchor tavern in Ton
don, to celebrate this glorious anniversary of French freedom.
At this meeting it was proposed to Lord Stanhope, that he
should follow the example of several of the French Nobility, by
iurrendering his title, and the rights and privileges ot the peerage.
This his Lordihip declined to do.
War now rages in the East-Indies. Lord Cornwallis, in con
fluence of Tippo Saib's treachery, has determined to attack that
Prince.
A battle has been fought between the Turks and Ruflhns in
Cuban, in which the latter were beaten : A number of prisoners,
several heads, and a large sack of ears were brought to ConiUnii
nople.
The Ruffian fleet has been defeated in such manner as renders
the Turks afcfolutc Mafic-. <>f the Mcditeiranean : The Ruffians
have however gained a recent advantage over the Turks, near the
Khine, a body of them being defeated by 0 n. Clairfelt.
Leopold appears determined to bring the Brabanters to terms
by force : He declaims every idea of treating with fubjcQs in re
bellion. The Protestants of Hungary have made a claim to equal
privileges with their fellow fubjefts : This demand it is feared
will not be complied with without opposition by the Catholics.
The celebration of the grand anniversary of French Freedom
was followed bv a fcrics of rejoicings in Paris, to the fufpenliun,
in a great measure, of all kinds of bufiuefs. '
The abolition of Titles of Nobility in Francc, has not been fol
lowed with the extinttion of Clerical Titles and Diftinftions :
Perhaps the National Assembly had the uufucccfsful innovations
on the Church made by the late Emperor of Germany in mind.
Thcfe titlesarc however moreabfurd and dangerous than any other
—scripture and common sense are certarnly against them.
In the Grand Federative ProceiTion of France, there was a body
of 150 Englifhmm ; they wore a ribbon with this inlcription,
Übi ibi Put) in.
The elcttor of Bavaria has refufed to give his vote in favor of
Leopold, King of Hungary, at the ensuing elc&ion of Emperor,
at Frankfort.
In ronfequenceofa leport that a battle had been fought between
the British troops and some ot the Nabobs of India, India Siock
fell?, per cent, the 24 July.
The Parisians, according to the Englifti papers, arc touch dis
pleased that the King did not advance to the AltAr, and take the
Civic Oath.
In a violent florin at the Cape of Good Hope on the 12 April
last, the frigate C.uaidian, Lieut. Riou's ship, w;»s beat to pieces,
and many other vessels were destroyed
The Englifti they fay have now 52 fail of the line in commiflion.
Great tumults prevail in the city of Lyons, in France :
tifm and aristocracy are no more ; but licentiousness prevails in
their room : The National Assembly are sedulously employed in
adopting measures for the restoration of good order.
The rendezvous of the diffe-. Nt corps of the National Confede
ration was at the Boulevards du Temple, from thence they weat
to join the National Assembly at the place of Louis XV : This
proceflion was a striking fight, but nothing was more effecting than
when the Deputies of Bearne arrived at the spot where Henry the
Great fell by the hand of a fanatic. They all flopped for a mo
ment in fil' nee and then paid to the memory of this Prince,
ji ' people—military honors while the loudeii
plaudits (hewed how every citizcn intercfted himfcif in the mov
ing scene.
One of the most striking ensigns exhibited in the Grand Feder
ative Proceflion of France, was inferibed in letters of "old
THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. It was the firft in order
in the proceflion—and plainly evinced, that the people'of France
have perfectly ascertained to what they are indebted for the free
dom they now enjoy.
Commerce in Fiance, will now r~ar its long deprefled head ;
the academy of Paris offer a valuable prire for the beft'eompofi
tion, eitherfn prose or verse—on the origin, progress and dignity
of commerce. Thus this great and important fubjeft, so long
held in contempt by the French nobility and noblcfu - , will (hort
ly excite the emulation ot the fii ft characters in that count 1 y, and
add ftrcngth and energy to freedom.
The Hotel de Villr at Paris diftiibuted copper medals to
the Deputies of the Provinces, commemorative of the Grand Con
tederation.
A solemn funeral Oration, to the memory of Dr. Franklin, was
delivered in the Church of Kotre Dame, in Paris, at which the
National Aflembly were present.
The King of Pruflia has inteidiftcd all communication between
Silesia and the Auiliian Territories.
Very few Pat ifian families of the higher order were in the citv
at the time of celebrating the Confederation ; having previously
removed into the country on account of the vast coucourfe of peo
ple aflembled from all parts of the kingdom.
It is fuppolcd not left than five hundred thousand persons were
afTemblcd in the Champ de Mars ; and ahho the weather was un
pleasant and rainy, fatisfa&ion and mirth were pointed on every
countenance.
The Irish it ferms have got the {tort of the Englifli in common
sense, being the firft to determine that Truth is no Libr l»
Lord raised the firft Regiment of Light Dragoons
—this was in the year 1750 :He had the command to the day of
his death: This was the only Regiment in Britain which never
changed its Colonel.
A Ipirited Addrefstc the people of Ireland« from the citizens of
Dublin, on the fubje&s ot reprcfcntation,taxation, Handing armies,
&c. See. was publifhcd the firft of June last, and is now circulating
in that kingdom.
Nearly 200,000 people were employed in preparing the Champ
de Mars for the grand scene 011 the 14th July : Persons of all des
criptions afiifted. The King himfelt to encourage and animate
the people, wheeled away three barrows of gravel
There were in the grand Proceflion 100 infants, carried in their
mothers' arms, decorated with the national cockade.
In the Kmg's Amphitheatre the Queen had a chair her,
in which she was seated with the Dauphin on her knee : She was
mo H beautifully diefled : Her capdecorated with pearls—a pearl
necklace and earnings—No diamonds ! Her appearance was en
chanting.
The Kinj; was seated in a chair of State : He was superbly dres
sed : The Crown had been removed from the top of the chair—
and the Cap of Liberty substituted : The President of the Nation
al Aflembly fat in a chair, placed in a line w;:h the King's.
At five minutes after four, the King rose, and waiting ti J every
tiling was Client, read very audibly, and with great majesty of ex
pieflion the oath alligned him—as follow*, viz,
I the King of French men, swear to the nation to make use of
all the power that is delegated to me by the constitutional laws of
the Rate, in maintaining the couftitution, and causing the laws to
be put into execution.
As scon as he had read it, he, as the reft had done, extended his
arm, looked flcdfaftly at the altar and pronounced Je Icjure —
and immediately the fhoutl of nearly half a million of people—
the clattering of fifty thoulajid fworcit, the waving of one hundred
>nd forty three banners and cnfljns-and the difcl.ar.re of jn i m .
Drefslnd C °f Vi"?' f xcitcd f « lin S'which words cannot rx
prels, and of which the human mind unaided by a view of the
grand and glorious scene, can form no adequate conception
~„f e ladl,:s ("'to tl,«m it is remarked) mftead of wsarin*
those enormous ha.., caps, a „d f ca , h e rs , which intercept the vievJ
of those who are placed behind them, on this oc.-afion appeared
vv itti a neat gauze or cambi ic handerchief rolled ro.md thiar hair •
10 that nobody was incommoded by their headdrcls.
u" a r Ural !-' Vtly cl,araftcrofthe Fren ch, had excited some
apprehensions ot tumult on this occasion—but the prurient prccau
'n" S of Mag.ftrates, or, perhaps, the fatigue and wetting, the
aftorsand fpeaators had undergone during the day rendered eve
ry thing to very peaceable, that almofl everybody retired to rell
even betore their usual hour.
Many persons had tak-a their Hand on the ground by 10 o'clock
tne preceding evening.
On the day previous to the Gallic Fete Chamhetre a mod bloodv
asd wide "tended slaughter took place in every corner of France:
and at one mltant commenced the moll inhuman, cruel and gene
ral massacre of- -pigs, geese, turkus, (heep, and oxen—that ever
stained the pages of History !!
FROM THE NEW-YORK DAILY ADVERTISER.
The following EPIGRAM ivas written on the recent marriage of a cele
brated BROKER.
NOW Love's final iettlemint surely takes place,
And iNTERtjT is given in beauty and grace :
May their joys be well iiinoed at full six per cent,
And paid at the tieasuhv of peace and content.
Seftmbtr 2 \
BOSTON, September 18
By a veflel arrived at Marblehead, from Spain,
letters have been received by gentlemen in this
town, from their correspondents at Cadiz, dated
as late as July 20, 1790.—The following are ex
tracfted therefrom, viz.
" Cadiz, July &th.
" We Ihall be relieved from the state of sus
pense, in which we are, in the course of a few
as the armament is finifhed, and every
thjng appears to announce a Ipeedy declaration
of war with England.
" July 20, p. m.
" Our fleet is now under way.—The Almigh
ty prote&, and give it success."
efterday Edward I ail and "John Bailey % a black man,
who have been leverally convifcfced of burglary, were brought to
the bar; when his honor Chief-Juftice Sargent, after 4 few preli
minary obfeivations, which did great honor to his head and heart,
pronounced sentence of Death on both of them.
The court-houfc, on this occasion, was crowdcd with citizens
—attia&ed by the uncommon fight, of a fellow citizen, as Brown
once was, the head of a family, who until of late years, supported
an unblemished character for probity and industry, and who once
b*d fair to be a man of affluence—arraigned at the bar of public
justice, to receive sentence of death for anattrocious crime. While
commiseration call a gloom on every countenance, a solemn silence
indicated the im predion which each one received from the scene.
Brown appeared in much distress, and whilst the sentence was
delivering, funk down on the floor.
In noticing the manufaflures of our country, we must not omit
the Bcdticking manufa&ory, at Nantucket - which has produced
Ticking, that haj commanded approb and a quick sale, both
in France and England.
We hear from Hardwick, that on Saturday the 28th ult. a child,
about five or fix years of age, was bitten by a rattlesnake, and ex
pired the next morning.
MIDDLETOWN, September 18.
Yeftcrday fe'nmght a boy aged 10 years, living near the river
in this city, leap'd troin a garirt-window and fell 26 feet Ki the
ground, with very little injury to himfelf, only spraining hi« wrist
ar.d otherwise tiilly brufing himfelf.—The circumflances ol the
above were as follows, viz. The lad had the preceding day made
tail fomc logs to a wharf, and being abed in the garret and asleep,
about 10 o'clock in 1- j evening, drcamrO that the logs had gone
adrift, and that he dove from the wharf to prevent their going oil';
instead of which it appears he dove out at the window. The fa
mily being al fmed by his groaning immediately discovered him
on the ground—he appeared as if jufl awaking from a lound deep,
and could give no account of what had pal Ted except his dreaml
which he perfectly recollected.
NEW-YORK, SEPTEMBER 2 j.
Extra (I of a letter /rem London, dated in July.
" Whatever report may fay on the fubjefl of tne naval arma
ment of Britain, you may rely 011 it, that uie fleet equipping con
fids of but sixteen fail ol the line, and which to this moment are
by no means manned, notwithftandingeveryfexertion by impress;
even the much talked of popularity of a war with Spain, has not
prevented their f weeping the prisons, and yet the fleet mull remain
unmanned till thearrival of their Weft-India (hips.
" You will hear much of ten fail of Dutch liueof battle ships,
haying joined the Englilh ; but in this report there is no truth j
neither is it pofCble for Holland to arm ten ships at present, weie
they so inclined; five fail of the line they can and will man. Lord
Auklapd is at the Hague, urging a compliance with the treaty :
Amftcrdam, however, gives every opposition to his measures, and
despises the Prince of Orange, as the tool and creatureof Britain.
" You will be told of counter-revolutions in France, but to such
reports, pay not the least attention, as every idea of the fort is in
tirely abandoned. The King of Spain demanded of the Count
Florida Blanca, to name an officer to command a body of
troops to re-instate his brother of France. The Count asked per
miflion to refer his Majeft) to Count D'Aranda, who from his
personal and accurate knowledge of the situation of France, was
well qualified to head an army for this purpose. With wha- body
of troop^,demanded the Monarch,can you penetrate into the heart
of France ? I believe, Sire, replied the Count, at the head of fifty
thousand men the thing is pratticable ; but I beg leave to add. as
my opinion, that not a man of them would return, because the Na
tional Assembly have thirteen hundred thousand troops devoted
to them : The difficulty was deemed insurmountable, and every
idea on the fubjett has been since rejected.
" As to Spain, it : well known they havebeen arming, without
intermiflion, since the commotions in Hol!and, in J 787 ; an>)
were powerful enough, before Britain wasalarnvd, to have crip
pled the naval nerve of England, by intercepting the E-(l and
Weft-India fleets j but they want enterprize, and in cafe of war
will have caufeto lament omiting this blow.
" America is rising very rapidly in consequence ; and since the
prominent national features that (he displays by her new consti
tution, the powers of Europe heretofore unwilling to do her jus
tice, discover symptoms of more than refpeft. This Court, I
aver, will concede many points that they have heretofore obsti
nately contended for ; and Spam is already foliating your fricud
fhip, by having ordered the Governor of New Orleans not to in
terrupt you in a free navigation of the Miififlipi."
607
K T otwitbftandl»g the reports of an amicable fettlcinent of t!i
differences between England and Spain, the ship George, Caot.
Hunter, which arrived here on Tuelday last, from St. Ahdcro, m
Spain, atid which place he left the Bth of Aug. account of
a liot preTs for mui, and of the inolt atlive preparations for war at
that place.
Notwithstanding the accdtints from Spain of
the failing of their fleet on the 2o;ii July—it ap
pears by Capti Watson's report that the EngliUi
fleet was laying at Torbay the i7ih August ; and
intelligence by him allocates that Mr. Pitt had
informed the Lr>rd Mayor of London that all
differences between the two powers Were com
promifecl.
The Legislature of Maflachufetts met in Eoflon
the ijth inft. and in conference of the afl'timp
tion of the state debts by the United States, re
pealed their excise law—which is to expire the
fitft of next month : on the 18th thtj' adjourned
to the last Wednesday in January next. Previ
ous to the adjournment the House voted an ad
dress to the National Assembly 6f France, on
the glorious revolution in that Kingdom.
Alexander White, and Richard B. Lee, Kfqitirr., are
re-elctled Members of the House of Representatives of the United
States, for the S:ate of Virginia. It is laid Mr. Pace and Mr.
Parker are also re-ele&ed.
The President of the United States and his Lady, arrived at
Baltimore on Wednesday the Bth inft.—at which p!ace they were
received with such demonstrations of pleasure, as manifested th
rneft unfeigned affe&ion and veneration of the citizens for the
ILLUSTRIOUS TRAVELLERS
They lclt Baltimore the 10th, and arrived i.l Georgetown on Sa
turday the nth inft. The Members of the Patowmac company
rtf Alexandria and of Georgetown, met their illufl ious President
at Mr. John Suter's, and notwithstanding the fatigue of a lon<j
journey, the Prifidcnt proceeded to business iefpe£iiug the naviga
tion of the Potowmac; after which he fat for Mount Ver
non, and arrived there the lame day.
The fcho • ler Experiment,Capt. Smith, is arrived at Charlrf
ton, from St. Mary's river, having fafely landed there General Mc
Gillivray, and the other Chiefs of the Creek nation.
The late grand federative aflociatioii of t!ie
French Nation at Paris, was one of the moll in
teresting, solemn and dignified tranfatftions, ever
exhibited 011 the Theatre of this lower creation.
If evei the celestials bend with delight to view
the triumphs of reason, humanity and freedom,
it mu(t be 011 such an occasion.
To fee theßeprefentatives of a mighty Empire,
with thefovereign at their head, emerging from
the depths of slavery and darkness, to light, liber
tyand happiness, itnprelles feelings 011 every phi
lanthropic mind, too great for utterance.
Some modern innovations in government do
not merit the name of improvements— they are
only the old ltory over again, which was told a
thousand years a~o—and have not advanced man
kind one fltep higher in the scale of happiness—
the truth is—knowledge is the only foundation
ol liberty : The United States enjoy the great
ell advantages tor the acquisition of science of
any people 011 the globe—and therefore they en
joy superior degrees of freedom—for as Mr.
Adams observes, in his Defence of the American
Constitutions, " In a tree government, kno\Vlege
mull be general, and ought to be univerlal."
The antient republics are often referred to a s
models for modem imitation—but what fort of
Republicans were the Romans, who often dragged
men at their chariot wheels, and made miserable
slaves of innumerable multitudes of as good, if
not better men than themselves .'—And the oft
en celebrated Athenian Republicans, bad so lit.
tie idea of the true principles of liberty, that ten
thousand citizens of Athens only, owned four
hundred thousand Haves.
There •» a strange idea that prevails in the world, that wari ard
necefTary at the return of «fferent periods in the age of a nation s
and on this principle there are those whojuftify a pleafine antici
pation of this most capital of all misfortune# : It will however be
generally found on examination, that this insensibility to the mi
tcry ol our fprties, anfes from an unprincipled love of rain—for
what are wirnn general, but robber)- and murder on an extenCve
plan ( ■■ The two principal inducements to all the wars which
world in blood, have been avarice and ambition.
The hrft has given rife to predatory excursions, and emending the
limits of particular States and Kingdoms s The latter has led to
that species of var, which, while it diverted the attention of the
people flora contemplating their domestic misery, enabled the ty
rants of the eaith to rivet the chains of (Wry—and extend the
limits of their dcfpetifm : Hence war., however fuccefaful, and
however advantage :>us to individuals, are always a losing buGnefs
ARRIVALS SINCE OUR LAST. NEW.YORK.
Ship George, Hunter, St- Andero, 42 days.
New-York, Watson, London.
—— Diligence, Howland, Lisbon 36
Brig Friendlhip, Townfend, Briflol, c 6
— -lively, Clark» do.
Packct Le Suffrein, M. Lg Grand, l'Orient 56
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it Li\ Amenca - iu l residents in different Statej ■ avi
w I Jit,r " ' or tv "fT tack othtr •' m " hr Ar 'M'
' " uncertain—iut the ' remarks ' signed N. W
wllbe continued from a Conned,cut paper as usual, unlets then inutility
'sjroved-or mote important/peculations fhoutd be offered as afuhjli._
PRICE CURRENT. PUBLIC SECURITIES.
Jinal Settlements n/i a 12/4,
Indents j/i. « 7 y,.
/ State Securities Bf.
JtZZ in/or ?'f fy' '*? ' a J l P u ">"'J< of Final Settlements made h
*« Treajurer ojtkeUmted State,, was at-,i »/6 on the found. "
November, THE HOUSE
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bufinJf t lngf, " g f ormerl J> occupied in tbtt