cause of such expeaflve undertakings, at a time Vhen oeconomy is so very necelfary for the French, ofall the powers of Europe. " Although the Gazette bears a pacific appear ance, the fitting out the ships here goes on with great spirit and aiflivity ; nor is there the lealt abatement of buitnefs in any department at this port. The decree of the 19th of June obliged the French Nobility tottripthemfeivesof their titles, and efface their arms, and to return to the rank of citizsns. A Nobleman enveloped the arms 011 the pannels of his carriagein acloud, and wrote underit, Itiuilt only pass over : The Coinmiilaries ®f the diftrk't ofUonne Nouvelle, went with the National Guard to his house, when a painter, •whom they had taken with them effaced the whole, and in the place of the motto, v rote, — Jt has pa[fid over. » il 1 ' JJ Lait week a perron of Exeter drowned in a pail of water several puppies, which were kept at he bottom of the pail for an hour, by a mop be ing placed upon them ; and they were then bu ried 111 a<! Tig-hill. A child about two days af terwards (lug them up; and they all appeared alive, having been revived by the heat of the dunghill. Mr. Tillot a French surgeon, records in his writings, that a peil'ou who had laid un der water fix hours, had been reltored to life by similar means. Spain —As a proof that the mod defpoticand the inoft ignorant countries cannot ltop ilie pro greflivc force of freedom, it is the custom to tic paftjuinades, and other articles of information, to the tails and necks of dogs, who are immedi ately set a running, and thus carry satire into the very Palace. What adds to the joke is, that these dogs cannot be prosecuted. In addition to this folly, which had never hap pened, had the government been a sensible one —the inquKition had the folly to name all the jjrints, pamphlets, and other publications which were forbidden. This of course served as an advertisement, to make people ten times more curious than they were before ; and that spirit, and true uwierjlanding which the Press alone-»an give, are lifing fact over the dreary ruins of def potifin. The following are the particulars of the attempt to tijfajjinatc Count Florida Blanch, the Span ish Minister. The Count in his way to his official apart ments in the Palace, about ten o'clock in the niorninz. was atiackfd by a wietch, wlw> nv>dq a. ltroke at him behind, with a dagger. 'The force of this ftioke was fortunately parried by '.he Count turning suddenly round. This moveniinr, with the refinance the dagger encountered from liis cloaths, contributed tofave him. The villain, however, not fatisfied with one stroke, aimed a J'econd at the Count, though surrounded with centinels and his own servants ; but, before he had effected his lait purpose, one of the Count's servants fejzed the monster by the hair, and brought him to the ground. The Minister's wounds were immediately examined, and found to be flight and without danger. He was after wards let blood, and had some repose, and is now pronounced to be out of danger. Theaffaflin be ing laid flat, and having 101 l the arm with which he committed the daring ait, drew out his other hand fixnn his pocket, and gave hiuifelf two blows, which are not mortal. The account gi ven of the man is, that he had been formerly a j'urgeon at Buenos Ayres from whence return ing poor, he had formed many impracticable schemes, which he had submitted to the Minister, who had uniformly rejected them, as visionary and absurd. These disappointments had affected his intellects. His vengeance was not, it feenis, levelled against the Count in particular, but agaii.lt all the Ministers ; and the Count, hap pening to come firft in his way, became the ob ject of it. The least veltigeof conspiracy has not been traced ; and, from the assassin's known clia ra<ter before, he is pronounced a maniac, ft is not certainly known whether he it '4 Frenchman or a Spaniard. Some fay his name is Paul Perret, others Paul Pt-ez. Study furni/hes us with a thousand ways to (Jifpel that uneasiness which makes us unhappy. A mind that is employed easily forgets many things which would make a stronger impreflwn upon it, if it was idle. The grievances of Ae body are also relieved by study ; for the appli cation of the mind to certain objerts which please it, hinder it from perceiving the necessities of the body. Even old-age, after a life spent iu study, does not ili fcover its infirmities by the llble symptoms which, reduce us, as it were, to childhood. It comes on without being perceived, ■we stoop under it insensibly ; but, though at last we drop into the grave, we do not fall into it all at once. Thus did Boerhaave, and Peaufobre pass their old age, and thus the illuf tt ions Fontenelle. The greatest men among the ancients improved their undvrftanding to the last. Sophocles computed tragedies till he was exceed EXTRACT ing old ; and it Is fa id that he was not less than an hundred when he wrote his Oedipus. His children, finding that the application he gave to his plays made him negledt his family affairs, commenced a fait of lunacy against him ; but Sophocles made no other defence than the recit ing the tragedy of Oedipu«, ,whith he had just finiJhed, before proper judges of the drama ; and, having then aflced them whether they thought the play was the composition of a man that had 101 l his reason, he was acquitted of the charge. BALTIMORE, Sept. 28. A few days ago palled through this town, the Honorable General Gates and Lady, on their way to take pofleilion of their new and elegant feat 011 the banks of rheEait River, in the vici nity of the City of New-York, where, we doubt not, they will experience " the wind's bright Sun- Jh'tns, and the Soul* s rcpofe—The General, pre vious to his leaving Virginia exhibited an exam ple ot benevolence and generosity, which height ens the luflre of his Character—highly diffin guifhed as a brave Patriot foldier,and friend to the rights of Mankind—He summoned his numerous family of Haves about him, and, amid (I their tears of affecftion and gratitude; gave them their free dom—in a manner so judicious, as not only to iecurc them the inestimable blefling of liberty, but to prevent the ill consequences of a too pre cipitate and indiscriminate emancipation. BOSTON, Sept. 28 Yelterday failed from this port, tlic ship Co' lurn'i)a > Capt. Robert Gray, 011 a circum-navirra tory voyage to the North-VVefl coaifc of America. —This is the second voyage the Columbia has made to the coast—Too much piaife cannot be given to the gentlemen, owners of the (hip, for their exertions in extending the commerce of America. The native ot Owhvhee has returned to the place of his nativity NEW-YOIIK, OCTOBER 6 Further accounts from England by the last arrivals inform : 1h 4 tlie Auftrians by a rap-d movement have eroded the Meufc ; the patriots wcie furprircd in the night and fled, leaving their cannon and equipage. The arms of Leopold are every where re placed in the Pays dc Limbuurg. The army of the king of Sar dinia, it is ex petted, will amount to 60000 men. 111 consequence of the convention betwe nihe Auftrians -and Pruflians, the, inter course between the two countries, which had been interdicted, is rem w.-d The deman' 1 ao he court cf France greatly embarraflT es the la't r. France however is arming, and ir is said have twen ty fail of ihe li»»* equipped, and a majoiity.of two 111 th»- miinflry is i* fav«*r **f*du«jing to rhr.family <v»<pna&, The fowi re volution is extending nfelt ia the fubordmate principalities of Germany, A fleet of Barbary Corfrirs, cmfiiling of four gallics and a large Xcbecque were lately defeated bv two Venetian gallies, two funk, 6ue burnt and theothcrs drove off. Accounis of the failing of the Spanifli fleet the 20th July, are pubJifnrd in the Loudon papers : theEnglifti fay they aic out to ixercifctheir men. . apt.Giemaidi arrived at Bofton,funday week, in 39 days from Gibraltar, and informs, that the Spaniaids have no idea of peace ; they are ttill making every pofiiblc preparation for war ; the Spa nish fleet was out on a cruize. The profpeft of pcace between Sp*in and England appears, according' to some more recent accounts, to be overcast ; but for the faiisfadicii gf the lovers of tranquility it may be obfeived, that wars arc generally begun in hjfie : Would mankind but give thcmfelves time to deliberate, and faily mvcfligate facts, they would ftldom coii.c blows; at the present day, Negociatipn, among enlightened nations, generally fupercedes the sword : Whatever clle may be the refull of the prcftnt armamciir*, there is thegreateft reason to suppose that peace will continue between Spain and England, as, notwithstanding the grumbling of John Bull, there really seems to be no point of dispute—the Spaniards claim art " exclusive right to the Fort of Nootka," already in their pofTcffion; the English " claim a right to hold the 1 ftabinh ment they may have lormed, or (hould be deftrous of forming in future, at the Bay of Nootka." A London paper of the 19th of Angnfl receiv ed by the ihip Birmingham, from Bi iftol, fays, that the Britiih fleet, confiding of thirty-one fail of the line, under the command of Lord Howe, had made thefignal for failing ; as the wind was favorable, it was supposed they had cleared the channel at the date of the paper. The Captain of the above ship positively as serts that the fleet had fail :d. A great commotion it is said has bcerfexcited in Rome by the French artifls in that city, who alTnmcd the national cockade ; or ders were issued to force it from the n, a battle ensued and several were killed. A young woman, wife to one of the Frenchmen that fell, with dishevelled hiir and diftrafted looks ran through the city, exclaiming murder ! aflaflirs ! to arms! to arms! This operated like a charm, the people armec, and brought the Pope trom Frefcati to the Capital, where they extorted from him a pro mise to comply with all their demands. The fortifications of Belgrade are to berafed to the ground, that it may not in future, from its amazing strength as a frontier, be the scene of bloodflied. The Congress of the Bclgic dates have publiftied a circular let ter, declarative of their determination to support their independ ence, notwithstanding the King of Prussia has deferred their cause. A treaty having been concluded between Austria and Prussia, the King of Hungary will immediately be ele£ted Emperor, and proceed to Frankfort for that purpose. Articles of pacification have been proposed by the Empress to the Porte, in which llie has lowered her tone and abated much of her former demands. The King qf Prussia appears determined to compcl Catharine to make peace, and for this purpose has de manded (hiptof England and Holland, The Duke of Oi hans and Viscount Mirabeau it is reported, are both arretted, they are impeached before the national assembly for the plot of fuipriiing the King and Queen at Versailles, and bringing them with indirefi views to Paris. The Englilh accounts of affair! on the continent of Europe, ef pccially thofeof France, Wear rather a gloomy afpefl, but experi ence has taught us that full faith and credence cannot be given to them ; it will be well therefore to suspend making up a judg ment. 619 Late accounts fr.om Fraflcc mention, that the court of Sardinia has ordered troops to affemblc at Nice, with a train of artillery, and there are not more than two hundred eflettive men at Aiti bes, the key of Fiance on that fide. A violent influenza is said to rage in Paris, occasioned by the dampness of the atmofpherc at the time ot the grand contcdei a tion. The King's difoider originated in this. Two members of the national aifeinbly (MelTrs. Baruave and Cazales) fought a duel on the nth of Augufi. I"hc latter was wounded in the head but not dangerously. In theyear 1780, aferiesof oblcrvations was wrote, calculated to iipiew that the interest oi Great Britain was inseparably connected with a fair and equal commercial alliance with the United Spates. Thefc papers were publtfhcd \n ii Pa , kcr's General Advert jc r f dn<L Morning Intelligence) One ot the principal arguments dituccd in f ippo: 1 of the general fentimcnt, was, That :n cafe ot a future wai, without« commercial connection with America, Great Britain wou)cl find it extremely difficult, if not wholly impracticable, to man her navy : " The independence of the United States, it was said, making a difierencc againfl Great Britain in her naval strength, ot upwards ot eighty thousand teamen.'' Recent occur rences fully juiiify this opinion. Have tlicy not been obliged to sweep their prisons ? And press trom their own protections ?— Have they not stripped American veflels of American seamen ?—> Andaturthe tumor of a peace had luled into security their own seamen, have not the myrmidons of the fleet been iuddenly let loofc again,and the prels become as hot as ever ? And afterall their conimi /fiuned fleet of 52 fail of the line, turns out to be but 31 only; and tntfe not at sea one month alter the Spanilh fleet 01 32 fail had taken its departure from Cadiz. The average price of Wheat per bushel, the beginning of Au gnft, in London, and near it, was 6f9- Her J. In an advertifemrnt which appeated in one of the London prints, for the sale of some articles at the custom-house of Dover, on the 19th of May last, appear two rnoft .extraordinary pioduc tions of French ingenuity in the looking-glals manufacture, viz. two plates, each 684 one fourth inches, by 384 one half inches, or 19 yards long by ten and two third yards broad, a fizc for An gle enure plates truly prodigious. It is reported that great preparations are making in Kentucky for oflfenfive operations against the Indians. A gentleman from the Weltern country informs,that the account of Major Douchty's b. ing about to ciedl a foit or forts at thtf mouth of the Tenafieeon the Ohio, is without foundation. A spring has lately been difcovci. d on the lake, in thejown of Ondport,State of Vermont; the watci of which on being analyzed produced large quantities of bitter purging ("alts, commonly de nominated Epsom Salts. Many improvements have recently taken plaee in the city of Albany, and its vicinity—new streets laid out—the old ones new paved—and the roads repaired—the inhabitants have all been sup plied with leather buckets : In addition to these a laudable spirit ot enterprise has difcovcred itfelf in the mercantile line; and by the iucccis of a late adventure, the citizen* are encouraged to at tempt carrying on their foreign trade in a more dirctfc way than formerly. Tbc enemies of the federal government look with concern on the rc-elettion oi so many of the old reprcfentatives. This cir cumstance evinces not only that the people are well fatisfivd with the proceedings of the past feifion* ot Congrcls, but that their at tachment to the federal government itfelf encrcafes. Why indeed fliould it not ? A government which is the admiration of the whole world ; which has given a new face to our affairs ; has ef fected the ielurrc6tion of our national credit ; reftoied our finari -1 ces to system, and which has already raised the character of this country into high eftimatron, fliould be expetted to acquire more than the bare approbation of the happy inhabitants who partici o» in b-rrvgQ influrnce. It is with p!c*furc therefor' wj ' learn, that a great proportion of the gentlemen who repiefented the United States in the firft congress under the new constitution, will ast in a flmiJar capacity in the second. Their tried abilities aflord a good prefagc that the measures they adopt will contribute to the honor and profperityof their country. From the Journal of the Keeper of the goal in Philadelphia, it appears that during a period of ten years, viz. from 1780 to 1790* 4061 persons have been confined therein for debt. Ihe reflections that croud on the philanthropic mind, in con templating this account, are painful to the highest degree : Vice, milery and distress, in every form, are the wretched etfeas of this remnant of feudal and aristocratic tyranny. It is astonishing that amidlt the numerous improvements which are daily taking°place in legifljtion, the abolition of this barbarous custom has not been effedted : 41 to prevent the r 'ppofed neceflity of throwing the body of a fellow citizen into goal for debt, let a law be parsed which shall place the risk of credit wholly upon the lender of money, or the feller goods, unless real security be given for the debt, in which cafe nothing shall be demanded, or taken, but the said security : By means of such a law much extravagance would be prevented ; labor would be encreqfcd ; honor and character would be cultivated, and become estimable, for these would be the only means of obtaining credit without real security: It is certainly worth while to try the experiment." How common is the word honor ! How little understood ! How often prostituted ! It occurs no where more frequently than at "a gaming table ; where, at the fame time, everv thought, and every exertion is hostile to its sacred dictates : For what can be more dishonorable than to pollefs the property of another without a compensation. It may be fafely afTeited that it requires great practice to steel the bosom against that conscious injustice, of which every lucky noviciate in the art of gaming is fufceotible ; habit alone can blunt and obliterate the sense of honor which is congenial to our natures ; and this principle is totallyeradicated in time from the m nd of a gamhler. Yesterday was the annual review and inspec tion of the Light Horse, Artillery and Infantry ot the militia of the city and county of New-York, when about 2000 men under arms • the whole under the command of Gen. Malcov! The last purchase of Public Securities made by the Treasurer of the United States, was on Monday last—Final Settlements at 12/6 and In dents at 7/2. Married at Philadelphia, Mr. James Smith, mer chant, of this city, to Miss Hannah Caldwell, daughter ot the, late Rev. James Caldwell, of Elizabeth town New jerfey.t ARRIVALS SINCE OUR LAST. NEW-YORK. Ship Ann and Susan, Cheevers, 811 boa, 40 days Brig Ann, Bell, Madeiia Pearl, Folgei, Cape-Francois Jeanie, Martin, Greenock, 44 Providence, Wheeler, New-Providence, u Ship Birmingham, Gunnel), Bristol, 36 Schooocr Dolphin, Brooks, Philadelphia, c Sloop New-York Packet, Bird, do 2. TRICE CURRENT. PUBLIC SECURITIES. Final Sittlimewti 12/ i a 13/4. Indents 7/1. a 7/2. Stati SICIIJUTIIJ 8/T
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