LONDON, September *3— 28. THE Trelawncy Planter, Cape. Mac Donald failed on the 26th of July from Jamaica, and in the Gulph of Florida* while in company with the Louisa, Steele, fell in with a fleet of Spanifli ships, of which three were regifler ships, under convoy of two line of battle ships, and three fri gates. A gun was fired for Cape. Mac Donald to hoiitout his boat, and come 011 board theSpanifh Commodore, which he did not comply with, da ting that his »hip was indifferently manned, and his boats were leaky : but itjbeing late in the even ing, he informed the Commodore chat he would remain in company all night. The Coqimodore on this sent his own b«at, and Capt. Mac Donald was carried on baard the Spanish man of war. As soon a* he came 011 board, he was ordered into a m oft cruel lpeciesof confinement, praftifed on board Spanish ships, and«called the Bilboes. He was stretched along on his back, between two planks of wood, and a third piece of wood stretch ed across the chest—his face expi/fed to a vertical fun, andiii this posture he lay for lixteen hours, and must have fallen a victim to the torture and the heat, but for the humanity of some of the crew, who occaiionally eased his torture, and gave him room to turn. During this time, an officer and fifteen men boarded the Trelawney Planter, and rummaged the cargo, and overhauled every part ofthefhip. After they had made their report, he was dimif fed without any explanation of, or apology for, this outrage. He found, that tho' every thing had been put in disorder, nothing had been carried away. He made regular minutes of this grols and scandalous infuTt, committed 011 the flag of England, which, on his arrival in town on Monday last, he transmitted to the Secretary of State, for the information of his Ma jelly's Ministers. 1 lie Caprain was yesterday examined by Mr. 'let and a committee of the Privy Council; when iie confirmed the narrative he had previously transmitted to the Secretary of State, in every particular—He was questioned very minutely as to the course in which he was fleering—the la titude, and his precise words in answer tothefirft summons he received to go on board the Spanish Commodore. He was ordered to attend the Privy Council again this morning, and to bring along with hiin a gentleman, who was hispaflenger, and his firft mate. Captain Mac Donald is a gentleman of onimpeached veracity—a Lieutenant in the Roy al Navy, and who is known and highly refpe&ed l>y several Admirals in the service. The public indignation at this insult offered to the British flag is very great, and may poflibly caufea very speedy termination to be put to the iiegociations concerning Nootka Sound. " Are English seamen, engaged in ths fair commerce of their country, to be abused in their pcrfons and property, and the Britifhflag to be insulted with impunity ?" Is the general exclamation. Ma ny Naval Gentlemen, however, take a different view of the affair, and aflert, that the Captain's refufal to go onboard a Spanish fliip of war, when required so to do, warranted the treatment which he experienced, as the request was, in every re fpe<sl, agreeable to the eftabliflied practice. Nothing further has transpired respecting the contents of the dispatches brought by the last meflenger from Madrid ; but we can assert from very good authority, that they do not by any means decide the dispute between the two courts, indeed, the lilence of the Gazette is futficient, without any comment on our part. Government have chartered two large Itore fhips, which are fitting out at Deptford, and are to carry guns the fame as in war time ; they are to carry over the next, convids to Botany Bay, and to fail before Chriitjnas. Four Dutch men of War, belongingto Vice Ad miral Kingfbergen's squadron, which had lately conic to anchor in theTexel, failed again onThurf day last ; but their destination is a profound secret. Accounts are received at the iiland of Jersey, by boats from St. Maloes, Granville, and Cher bourg, that 700 sailors were sent last week from the latter to Breft,tobe put on board French men of war : 200 men are to be sent from St. Maloes, this week, and a number from Granville. Tliefe accounts further fay, seamen are pouring daily from all quarters to Brelt, where the greatest ex pedition is making to fit out the (hips ordered by the nation. The Cortes, to which the King of Spain propo fesfubmitting the present critical situation of af fairs, is a meeting of the Grandees, and high of ficers of the State. The term Cortes fignifies Courts. However improbable it may appear to fonie, that the Spaniards should treat Capt. M'Donald as has been represented, the cafe is not new. In I 739, they cut off the ears of a Capt. Jenkins, and afterwards repented of it in a long and ruin ous war with this country. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF FRANCE. THE afflicfting recital of the dreadful affair at Nancy, gave rife to many warm eiogiimis 011 the rondud of M. de Boullie ; and atlaft the follow ing decree, suggested by M. Mirabeau, was pal fed * _ " The National Alterably decrees, That the directory of the department de la Meurthe, and the Municipalities ofNanci and Luneville, ihall be thanked for their zeal. " That tlie National Guards, who accompani ed M. de Bouiile to Nanci, be thanked to. the patriotism and civic bravery which they dii playedin the i e-eitablilhnient of order at Nanct. «• That M. de Silly /hall be thanked for the heroic manner which he expoled himfelf. " That the Nation fhalJ provide for the wi dows and children ot thole who have nobly ialien in the execution of the decrees of the National Aflembly. " That the General, and the Regular troops which he commanded, shall be applauded for having nobly done their duty ; and that thecom mifiaries appointedfiiall goimn.ediately to Nancj to take the neceflary steps to maintain peace in that town, and to obtain exatfi information of those facts which may insure puni/hment to tin guilty, of whatever rank." Sept. 4 The President read aletter of resigna tion from M. Wecker to the National Affembly,in wliich he pleads the want of health, and the un easiness of a wife equally virtuous and dear to him, as the motives wliich have determined him to withdraw wholly to the afyluni which he had quitted to devotn himfelf to the service of the (tare. The National Aflembly has demanded an account of" the receipt and expenditure of the public treasure, from the i ft May, I 789, Co the ift of May, 1790. " I have," he fays, " brought it up to the 2lit of July." And he believes it may be already known if there exists in it any article of expence by which he maybe liable to blame. If there fliould, he offers and leaves in guarantee his haufe ill Paris, his house in the country, and his property in the Royal Treasury, which has long amounted to 2,400,00 c livres ; and he re queils only to draw out 400,000 livres, which the state of his affairs on leaving Paris renders neces sary. The remainder he commits to the custody of the Nation. He concludes his letter in these words : " The envy and injuflice which I have experi enced, suggested to me the idea of the guarantee which 1 now offer; bat when I compare these with myconducfi in the adminiiVration of the finances, I cannot help adding it to the Angularities which have distinguished my life. " I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) "Necker." While this letter was reading, a profound fi lencc prevailed in the Aflembly, and the resigna tion of M. Neckar was received as a matter per fectly indifferent. Sept. 17. M. NourlfTart presented a report of the committe of Finances, relative to a dreadful fire which has consumed a great part of the city of Limoges to aftics. By this unfortunate event, 800 families have loft their all, and are consequent ly reduced to the lowest ebb of distress. The Minister of Finances was directed to fend 60,000 livres forthe relief of the fufFerers. September 18. A petition was read from the Mu nicipality of Versailles, stating, that, the town of Versailles was threatened with an armed banditti of above 2000 men, who hovered in the park of VersailleS under pretence of hunting, but in f'adt subsisted by plunder. The Aflembly ordered the matter to be taken into immediate confederation by the Committee on Feudal rights and Domains. A report was made of a very extraordinary na ture. An order had been given by the executive power for fitting out at the port of Bred, with all expedition, the ship Le Ferme. She was ac cordingly prepared, and on the point of failing when fiie was, to the surprize of the whole fieet' flopped the Municipality of Brest, without their afligning the least reason for this extraordi nary conduct. How they will excuse this piece ofQuixotifm it is not easy to conceive. The Aflembly parted a decree, importing that it is a fundamental part of the French Constituti on, that no Municipal or Administrative body fliall take upon them to oppose the departure of a ship of war ; and that the King be addrefled to cause this decree to be publilhed at all the sea ports of the kingdom. A report was brought up from the Committee of finances and Domaines, relative to the com motions in the park of Versailles, and a decree was palled in substance, That the Municipality oi Versailles, the Mayor of Paris and the com mandant of the National Guards of Paris, fliould use their utmost endeavours to difperl'e this band of 1 obbers ; and that twelve Members should wait on his Majefly, to entreat him to take measures for the attainment of the fame end. Extratf from the address of the people of Rouen to the National Ajfcmbly, again]} the afprnats, or notes, Sept. 3. " True it is, indeed, that notes of 24 livres will circulate _ without difficulty from the richert man in the kingdom, down to the humble arsi fans, labourers and manufacturers ; but when oncc they have got among this latterclafs of peo 658 pie, who are the numerous, and at the fame time the inolt ufetul in the community, they will ialtantly produce discontents, inurmuisand per haps inliirreiftions : and who can tell to wh<it length the artist ?r laborer will go, when he finds he cannot procure with his note, without absolutely facrificing it, the smallest share of the commonest neceflaries of life ?—Upon this plan the nation is to be given up to be ruined by hold ers of capital, and to be diftrefled by a few men of wealth—Persons of this description, will have it in their power to discharge the heavieit debts with the molt trifling confederations —and the people alone, for a fucoeffion of years will have to bear a loss, inseparable from the exchange ot the finall notes. " The lower class are not deeply /killed in ac counts ; and every day, every moment of their lives, they will be at the mercy of these stock jobbing patriots, who being no longer in a situa tion to plunder the public treasury, are now pre paring to diretft their engines against the fiuiple aud honest ploughman, and the poor and indust rious artisan, who from inexperience, will inevi tably fall a prey to their treachery and perfidi ous ways of dealing. " This can admit of no dispute, that the more the notes are reduced, and subdivided into finall er denominations, the more they, will circulate among a numerous class of ufeful citizens, who are the main support ofagriculture and commerce j and of (fonfequence, in proportion to the number of them that you render discontented, so many more enemies do you make to the revolution from among these very people, who with good usage would be its principal fuccourand support. " The service of the army, the marine, the charitable lioufes ; none of these can be support ed without money. Hitherto the subsidy, the twentieths, and the poll-tax have been submitted to, because these taxes were received in quarter parts, antl the quotas of few people amounted to more than 300 livres, and consequently in this cafe might be paid off with notes. But, the mo ment you have decreed the circulation of affig nats (or notes) of 100, jo, and 24 livres it is evi dent that seven-eighths of the above taxes will be paid offin paper, and what possible resource will there, in that cafe, be left for government ! " There is but one method to discharge the public demands, and which will answer every beneficial purpose of the aflignats, without their inconveniences.—This is to pay off immediately the whole fuin wanted, in notes from the finan cier's office, or national acknowledgments, which shall bear an interefl of five per cent, and to be received equally with gold and silver in paying the national dues. " By such a measure, we shall put into the hands of the public creditors, property that can be transferred, and at least equal ill value to what may be termed the domain or patrimony of the nation." AUGUSTA, O&ober 30. A report prevails here that brigadier general M'Gillivray has been fcnt to some of the Spanish mines. Iris said that Mr. Se cretary Howard waited on the general 8n his arrival in the Si. Ma ry, with compliments from the governor of East-Florida, and in timating his earnest desire of feeing the new brigadier, and hence it is concluded that this visit terminated in introducing the gene ral to the supposed place of his pTefent refidcncc. Various are the conje&ures occafxoncd by this report ; some maintain that a war with Spain is inevitable, and that the dignity ot the United States, and the magnanimity of the Secretary at war can never brook, the insult—whilst others infill that it is a meritorious ast of the Spaniards, in punishing the American general as a deserted Spanish colonel. J CHARLESTON, November 9. Yesterday the followiug gentlemen were publicly proclaimed representatives to Congress for the state of South-Carolina. William Smith for Chailefton diftrift ; lioa lsf t 3 -;a Je well, for the united diftri&s of Beaufort and Orangeburgh ; Daniel Huger, for the united dlHrifts of Georgetown and Cheraws ; Thomas Sumptih, for the diftrift of Camden : and Thomas Tudor Tucker, for the diftritt of Ninety Six. A gentleman fiom the interior part of this state, allures us, that the crops are generally more abundant than usual, which circum stance affords the pleasing profpeft of giving rhe honefl farmer relief in present difficulties, and adding to his future views of hap piness. Died st Georgetown, on the fit ft instant, Dr. Bedford Wi l lla ms, late a surgeon in the continental army—a gentleman whose merit and abilities in the line of his profeffion, placed him high :n the efleem of a very numerous acquaintance—he was an affee tionate husband, a tender parent, and a generous friend. On the day following Alexander Keith, Efq ; of the fame place. A HINT TO FARMERS. •WHEAT. WHEN this valuable grain has attained its full plumpness, and begins to (hew its ripening color, it should be reaped and laid a few days with the ears a little elevatad, to harden be fore it is bound up, and afterwards stand at least a week or tea days in shock, which will be the means of its proving sweeter, weighing heavier, and yielding a much greater proportion of flour, and lels of bran, ihun when it is fuffercd to (land on the ground till the ears becomc inverted, and the corn parched and Qirivcl ied ; but this is far from being the whole of the evil, for straw, when cut in a dry and brittle state, is not so valuable for thatch, fodder, or litter, as it is when cut in a greener state; and when a brisk wind happens, there is frequently a loss sustained ot one third of the crop. ANECDOTE ot Dr. JOHNSON. THE fettled avcrfion Dr. Johnson felt towards an infidel, he exprcired to all ranks, and at all times, without the smallest rcferve. tor tho on common occafion® he paid great deference to birth or title, yet his regard for truth and virtue never gave way to meaner confidcrations. We talk'd of a dead wit one evening, and some body pi aifed him :— '* Let us never," said he, lt praise talents so ill employed, Sir. We ioul our mouths by commending such in- l (ldcls Allow h?m the lumirres at lcaft, intreated one of the com- j pany :— « I v do allow him, Sir," replied Johnson, "tuft enough / o light him to Hell." J J /
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