we ll to compare tlie following extract of a letter, dated Pondichery, July the 27th. The letter was received by La Nyviphe, a French frigate ot war, that left the IHe of France the 24th of last Sept. and arrived at L'Orientthe 12th January. " The army of Geiteral Meadows having be gun its march the 10th or 12th of this month, as if to proceed to CoinikoutoH*, for the purpose ot attacking that of Tippo Sultan, commanded by the Prince hiinfelf, the Madras Gazette of the 9th of fuly, informed us, that on the 14th, a conlidera- Lle firing was heard at a few leagues diltant Ca rour, and that there was no doubt but that there mud have been a brisk engagement between the vanguards of the two armies. It was not before the 27th that we were fully informed of the par ticulars of this attack. Occnlar witnelles report them to be as follow : The southern English ar my having attempted to take a road, which led to a defile, through which they intended to pass in order to cross the mountains, without being obliged to meet TipporSultan at Coimboutour, and to pour in their forces into the extensive plains of Seringapatnam, the capital of Mi fore— the Nabob met them with his feletft forces, chose liis situation as an experienced general, and de ceived the English by opposing them, to appear ance, with a battery of 2 or 3 pieces of cannon only : But in one night augmented it to IJ, and raised two more of equal force, as wings to sup port the firft ; but concealed them behind bushes. lie also placed in ambuscade in the plain of Jou ary, at the bottom of the defile, a considerable body of cavalry, and of Caytoquiers. The British on the 14th July, advanced to force themselves a paflage ; but were surprised to find the refinance j»reat, and were obliged to fall back. General Meadows then drew up his army in three columns, and again advanced up to the batteries, which he attempted to take by a (fault. The rolumn which was directed to make up to the firft bat tery, obliged to pass by the plains of Jouary, to reach it : Two or three thousand hand-gre- j nades here, cause much confufion in the column arid the cavalry of Tippo at this instant came out from their ambuscade, fell upon the column, at tacked it vigorously, and prevented its rallying. The two other columns were in the fame manner driven back. Tippo-Sultan was posted behind these batteries, with 12,ooochofen men, infantry, and cavalry, and his army wjsd. awn up in order of battle, at about a league from the place of action. His son and Sayb-Saheb's commanded the centre battery ; the other two were commanded by Lally, andanother general of reputation. The action, tho brisk, lasted 3or 4 hours. General Meadows was obliged to fall back three leagues, to encamp in a fafe place : He has loft in this at tack his bravest troops. Provisions are fcaree in liis army, and the price of then enormous. The light cavalry of Tippo intercepts every thing that attempts to pass between Trichenapala and Carour. It is added, that Madras, which the news of this action reached on tlie22d, is in great consternation ; and that the loan of J lacs of pa godas, which t lie English company is in great want of, it is possible, may not succeed. This, loan was opened at Madras, upon an interest of 10 per cent, the principal to be redeemed in two years: Under the express condition, that if the company is unable to pay at the expiration of that rime, measures will be taken, fucVi as will best fuir the convenience and advantage of the cre >» It is well known that the National Aflembly had very sanguine expectations of relief to the Finances from the patriotic gift and the volun tary contribution of the fourth ofevery citizen's income: Indeed, it was publicly alferted that the contribution of Paris alone would amount to 30,000,000 of livres, about 1,250,000!. llerling. How were these expectations answered ? It ap pears by the last accouut Mr. Neckar presented to the National Aflembly, 31ft July, 1790, that the receipts of the patriotic gift amounted to 110 more than 361,000 livres, and of the voluntary contribution 9,721,000 livres : so that the patri otifin of all France, urged by all its ofators, to fubfci ibe in support of its new born liberty, produced about 420,000!. Englilh money, a sum considerably less than our annual malt tax: My rabies meet it is, I set down — " Pauiois wish more to plunder than to pay " At lealt, I'm sure it may be so in France." Last week, during several days, the thermome ter of popular fermentation at Paris, was at the highefi. Several causes Angularly concur; ed to p oduce this efFeA.viz. the departure of Mefdanies — the abolition of the Droits d'Entree, the high gtax lately imposed on industry—the dettrucflion of the gaming houses, the turning a drift thou fandsoffliarpers, and seizing their gambli'ng ta bles and ca(h—the intrigues of various clubs, but particularly that oPthe Jacobins, whose tyranny is become intolerable. M. <Ie la Fayette expetfted every moment an explosion which would have laid the capital in ruins. To his vigilance, coolness, and intrepi dity, the inhabitants of Paris are, a second time, indebted for their fafetv. The flames of a religious war, once lighted, are not easily flopped in their progress. Only fix Bifliops liaveyet taken the civic oath. Those who have not, have been fuperceded in their functions. THE FRENCH NAVY, At present consists of Ships of the line, 74 Ditto on the flocks, 1° Frigates, " 2 Ditto on the flocks, 6 Ships of the line in commission, 21 Frigates ditto, 28 Corvettes, 8 Brigs, Flutes, Total number of seamen, CONSISTENCY OF MR. BURKE " The greater number of the Deputies sent to the Congress were lawyers—this study renders men acute, inquifitive,dextrous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources." See Mr. Burke's speech on his conciliatory motion in 177J, page 31. " J LK 'S e my surprise, when I found that a great proportion of the Aflembly vras composed of Practitioners in the Law. From the moment 1 read the lift, I saw diftincftly, and very nearly as it happened, all that was to follow." Re flections on the Revolution in France, p. 31. How happens it, that a profeffion, which in the year 1 775, qualified an-American for legiflaiion, lliould,in theyear 1 790, difqualify a Frenchman ! The partizans of Leopold have just published an appeal to the Belgic Nation at large, against the unjust proscription which the States of cer tain Provinces were desirous of pronouncing against the ancient servants of the Prince. In this piece, they invoke the justice of the nation, and demand that the moll respectable citizens of each municipality declare their sentiments be fore the Magistrates, whether the services of these persecuted friends of government were or were not agreeable to them. This public appeal to the people is a pointed instance jf how much the tone of the haughty House of Austria is chan ged with regard to its fubjecfts. A loom has been invented in Ireland to weave cott<m and linen, by which two webs can be woven at the fame time by one weaver, with more ease and expedition, and, (as it is report ed) with more perfe<ftion, than one web can be woven in a common loom. A committee of the Irifii House of Commons have made a report highly in iis favour. The corps commanded by General Suwarow, has been in winter quarters since the 12th of that month, and the Ruffian fleet in the Black Sea, cnder the command of Vice Admiral Ufcha knw, returned to the port of Sebaftople, on the 26th of December. Yelterday Mr. Attorney General came into Court at the old Bailey, and prayed the judgment of the Court ujion a man who was con vitled on Sa turday lafl of a misdemeanor 111 printing and pub lishing certain obscene and icandalous prints and libels, and he was.accordingly fentencedfor the fame, to pay a fine of 6s. Bd. be imprisoned twelve months in Newgate, and afterwards to fiud secu rity for his good behaviour for three years. The Pandora (loop, now inlearchof the pirate Christian, has, probably, by this time, secured this traiior to his King and country : the last ac counts of iiim were, that he had entrenched hiinfelf in one of rlie Friendly islands mounted the Bounty's guns, consisting of eight four poun ders, on two redoubts, and having plenty of powder and ball, appeared confident, that no force sent into those seas, would be able to dis lodge him. ' A correspondent who happened to be in West minster Hall when the high tide broke in on our aftoniflied Lawyers—describes the court of King's Bench in a chai acfteriftic manner • The Judges looked alarmed when Mr. Bear croft alledged, that judgment could not take place on lawyers by water, as they were to un dergo a fiery ordeal. Mr. Law said a Collect nearly through ; not having wholly forgotten his father's instructions. Mr. Erflcine began a speech from Shakefpeai c but recollecting the necessity of something reli gious, he had recourse to the Scottilli mode of extemporary prayer. It is wonderful, words (hould be wanting to a man who has so many of them on all occasions. Mingay opened his mouth, and out burst an oath, " that the Devil mutt have his due." The firfl. boat that appeared for their relief was an old inan ; and a general cry of' Charon' frightened the whole court, least they should be ferried over to the other world. The " Reflections" of Burke on the French Revolution, have drawn forth a swarm of pow erful disputants. The names of Priestly, Tow ers, Rous, Sheridan, Price, Capel LofFt, Dr. Geddes, Major Scott, one German, and half the members of the Nationl Meinbly, are already mentioned. Mrs. M -.caui.iv Graham and Mrs. Uarbauj.d, have also entered the lifts against him, and drawn their grsy goose quills in defence of the violated rights of men ! 830 11 S 25,129 PARIS, February 17, The two extremities of France, Britanny and"' Alsace, are in a 1110 ft convulsed liate, and boiU for the fame reason—in the former province,' well known for the bravery of its inhabitants and their little knowledge of the French dialeift, the peo ple consider religion as injured, as annihilated by the laws enacted on the civil constitution of the clergy ; they think that their children wilt not be baptised, and that the patient, ftruggli n >r against the afiault of death, will be deprived of the spiritual comfort he would at a former period have foliciied and obtained from ihe Minister of the Altar. "We will, fay they, keep onr good Bifliop among us, and he (hall continue in his pa lace at Vannes ; we will have our Redtors and our Chapter, onr Clergy (hall be honorably us e d . we will pay them their tythes ; we regre: the suppression of the monasteries, and we deem wor thy of public indignation all such as buy what is misnamed national property." Thus was the matter laid before the AU'embly on the 14th, and it gavp rife tothe following decree : " The King is prayed immediately to fend into that province troops, to quell the disturbances that diflradt it and commifiioners to calm the people's fury;" and the Aflembly enacfts, " that the Bilhops of Morbihaun, of Leon, and of Vannes, do attend the House." It is imagined here, by both par ties, that the Bishops will not be allowed to come up to Paris, and that the foldierswill ineet with a warm reception from the hot-headed Bretons. 11l Alsace, the people consider the religion of their fathers as and feeni inclined to risk their all tooppofe those whom they consider as the tyrants of their conlcience. On the 9th the Archives of the Cathedral were taken awav, and the foletnn inflallation of the Chapter of Stratfburgh took place the day following, in the presence of the Cardinal de Rohan, at a town called Off'einboury, four leagues from Stratfburg, but in the Imperial territory : His Eminence of Rohan gave a splendid repafton the occaiion. In the fitting of Monday evening, the AfTem bly annulled one of the most bare-faced contracts that soothing intrigue ever extorted from the weakness of a diflolute Court, and against which the public voice criedout aloud, though theßaf tile reared its gloomy head, and the police I'pies were on the watch to seize every found—the ali enation of the domain of Fenetanges in favor of the celebrated M. and Madame de Polignac, on payment of one million and two hundred thous and livres, which funi was never paid into the public treasury. The domain, with all its ap purtenances, reverts to the nation, and will be fold accordingly ; and at the fame time an indem nification granted to M. de Polignac of 800,oo* livres, was decreed void—the proper law officer was enjoined to sue M. de Polignac, and the in strument of the depredation, M. de Calonne for the principal andintereft of that funi. Du ring the debate M. C. Lameth imagining himfelf aimed at by an insinuation of M. de Caftine, said, " my name is in the red book, my mother re ceived sixty thousand livres; I think my mother, the wife of a soldier, a soldier's daughter, and the sister of soldiers who merited well of their country, and fuffered much during the admini stration of Abbe Terray, deserved the indem nification ; but as the spirit of party upbraids inefo'-it, 1 here declare myfelf ready to refund that funi, though as a soldier, my fortune is but fm all." MILAN, January 26. M. d'Artois, afrer having received a positive an swer from the Emperor—Tha: he could not per mit him to come to Vienna, but that he might chufe for his residence any other town in his do minions—set out for Venice ; in his way thither he was escorted by the imperial guard as far a» Bergamo, where the Republic's foldicrs took that task upon them, and saw him fafe to the capital. There he intends to spend the Carnival, and vi sit in the Spring the Southern parts ef Italy- The Emperor is likewise expeifted at that time at Flo rence, and his intention is, after having visited his Italian dominions, to pass through those of the Netherlands before he returns to his Impe rial residence." PITTSBURGH, March 26. . . . Extract of a letter from Enfigo Jacob Melcher, of the Ift Unite States Regiment, to the Printer, dated Mouth of Wabafn. " J have been informed by a boat going down the rlve T> l at a malicious and falfe report has bem spread of my conduct on tie morning ot the 23d ult. when attacked by a large party o n dians, in the river Wabafh, and in company with Mr. Vigo s oat. I will now reverse the matter, and do affureyou, that in ' ca , t my behaving contrary to what a military man ought to 0, we fought as hard as it was poflible for about 12 or 15 minu e Before I cleared the point of the I (land, which was verY narr< \ and (hallow, my boat was on fliore, and I was °blig e a |° P her off under a heavy fire, the distance not more than w yards. Mr. Vigo's boat was then about 30 yards above niC ' as soon as the firing began, they to a man laid down in t icir and did not fire but two or three (hot,on which I ordere my men, ffom those that were fighting, to man the oar *' , c •keep the boat from (Iriking the ground ; in this manner and rowed until I got from out the island, when I taw t floating down towards the point of the island, and about t y forty Indians go on board her, on which I ordeie my . take to their oars, and made the best of my way < own ' and at du(k I arrived at the mouth, having had one man Kiiic two wounded,
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