BOSTON, June 4. By an arrival from France, the editor has re ceived French Gazettes, published at Paris, /(s late as April 12. The firft article of importance they contain, is an account of the sudden death of M. (late Count) Mirabeau—whofe talents as a ftatelman and a scholar—whose zeal in the cause of liberty—have made his loss very sensi bly felt throughout all France. He died the 2d of April—an eulogium on him was spoken in iha National Aflembly. The National Aflembly proceed with {leadinefs and harmony in the great work of reorganizing the nation—The great objects of the Conflit uti on have been effected—Some fnbordinate regula tions were before the Aflembly at the dare of our papers ; and they appeared to contemplate with pleasure the speedy arrival of the period which fiiall close their labours, and give to the French nation a legitimate legislature. We fee nothing in the papers of those riots, plots and (Iratagems which have so frequently been detailed in the London papers. Almoftall the Clergy have taken the oath of allegiance, as have the Ainballadors, &c. to foreign courts.— Three of the latter have refufed, and their Na tions have been filled by other persons. The Right Rev. Bifliop Carrol,of the Roman Catholick Church, arrived in town a few days since—and has confirmed the bapiifms of a num ber of Catholicks. This gentleman, justly es teemed for his piety, learning and benevolence, Will preach to-morrow at the Roman Catholick Church. If, as Mr. Burke laments, " the age of chival ry is gone the circumitance of beholding eve ry denomination in the full exercise of their re ligious privileges, proves that we have in ex change, an age of Toleration, Liberty and Light. Yesterday arrived here a Brig from St. Ma loes, in France, under the French National Flag, the firit ever difplaved in this port. She had 55 clays palTige, but brings nothing new—The re port of the opening of the ports, &c. is founded in error. She brought some dispatches for the Consul. Capr. Mercalfe, in his late letters, fays, lie is fitting out a vefl'el, at Canton, upwards of 1100 tons, for New-York ; to be freighted with the moil: valuable commodities of that country. Capt. Prince, of the Mad'achufetts Indiaman, lias arrived in town from Canton. The Mafla cliuferts was fold to the lloyal India Company of Denmark. Extract oj a letter from n gentleman in London, to his friend in this town, March 2. " THE Albion Mill, ac the Surry end of Black friar's Bridge—the pride, the triumph of mecha nical ingenuity—a work in which artificial force had been applied, perhaps, to a greater extent, p.nd with more energy, precision and utility of eft'eft, than in any oth'er ftriiefture of the kind that has been produced in the known world, # rhis morning fell a facrifice, I fear, to private malignity, being totally con I limed by fire, in a bout three hours. This magnificent ftru<fture cofr 75,000 pounds sterling. I am jult come from viewing the tremendous fpeclacle—with what sensations I cannot def'cribe. I have al ready met with people, whose minds are little enough to palliate, and even attempt to juftify, rhis horrid fart ; stigmatizing the Albion Mill as a monopoly :—To fucli, one can only afFord to sport * jocular answer—"that in the utmost fl;i"ena;th of the objection, it was only beiug im ' posed upon, by one set of rogues, instead of a thousand." But I have a much better (and a much better founded) opinion of this great un dertaking ; and of the general equity of that government which has never discountenanced it. * This prodigious machine was put in motion by the force of fleam. LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS, HOUSE Of REPRESENT ATI VES, JUNE I. Ordered, That Mr. Mason, Mr. Saunders, and Mr. Henfbaw be a committee to examine wliat forwardnefs the Accounts of this Commonwealth again ft the United States are in, and report. June 2. The committee appointed to consider the ex pediency of difcontinning the Excil'e Laws, &c. reported,—that it would be expedient to pass a Law repealing all the Excise Laws now exiltino-. NEW-LONDON, June 9. A letter from A. O. to T. Allen, received by the Newport mail tliis evening, fays, " Two Ame rican veliels arrived at Wampoo, near Canton, in October Hfl-, viz. Brig Elenora, capt. Metcalfe and schooner Polly, capt. Douglafs, from the northwefl coast of America. 1 hey have made very fuccefsfnl voyages. A final] schooner fitted out by Metcalfe and commanded by his foil, had likr«ife made a good voyage, but were af terwards cut off at one of the Sandwich Islands, and every foul murdered. The fiiip Genera) \\ afliington, in which 1 am a paflenger, had fliort of four months pafliige from China to St. Euita lia, and it is btit ten days iince we left Statia. S A L E M, June 7. Capt. r.lofeley, who left l'Orient the 2Jth of April, and arrived here yesterday, informs, that perfect order and tranquility appeared to reign in France—that the people were full of ideas of liberty, and happy under their present govern ment.— The account of the death of the celebrat ed M. Mirabeau spread a general gloom over the inhabitants of I'Orienr, who wore mourning on the occasion. Nii'w-Yoßic, June 10, DEATH OF t)R. PRICE. DIED, on Tuesday morning, 18th April, 9 at hishoufe at Newington Green, near ;j London, the Rev. Dr. PRICE, celebrated as a H Divine, a Philosopher, and a Politician. The | friends of civil liberty, and the people of 1 these United Stares in particular, have jufljj cause to deplore the loss of this truly great p and good man, who has so often and so ably £ employed his pen in their cause. Philadelphia, June 1-5. Mr. Hadfield, who lately killed Mr. Sterretr, of Baltimore, in a duel, is arrived at Niagara, and claimed protection from his pursuers, from the Britilli government. The importation of blubber, oil, whale-fins and fpermacEeti, into Gi eat-Brirain, from the United Statei, is prohibited in either Britifli or Ameri can veflels. . '"Tlie Ship Four Friends* Capr. Volans, from adiz, arrived here oil Satuday lafr. [ In this (hip came paflengeis, His Excellency Don Joseph Jaudenes, Commiflioner from liis Catholic Majeity to the United States of Ameri ca,jDen Joseph Santayana, Mr. James Leamy, "Sntl Mr. Joseph Wifenian It appears by the proceedings of the conven- tion of the Protestant Episcopal Church at New ark, New-Jersey, on the 4th inrtant, that a Copy Right in the Book of Common Prayer, as altered by the late general Episcopal Convention, had 'oeen claimed by William Hall, as proprietor under the art of Congvefs. The convention have remonstrated against this claim, and declare it is not well founded—that such afl'umed exclusive privilege is in its operation an imposition 011 the members of that church: and they accordingly prcpofe, that the several llate conventions of the Episcopal Clergy should take rneafures to have the said book printed reasonably, and expediti otilly, that a general ftippJ-y of them may be ob tained. In a hail floral in Montgomery county, Penn sylvania, the 24th ulr. very great injury was fof tained—the crops of grain, and in short every green thing within its reach were destroyed— cattle, sheep, hogs and poultry were killed hy the hail flo nes, some of which were found to weigh three ounces—many persons es>pofed were very much wounded ; and it was ohferved that the hor ses had large fwel lings on their heads and bodies, occasioned by strokes from the hail. A writer in Mr. Dunlap's paper, noticing the' account of the Caterpillars in Elizabeth-Town, Maryland, fays—" That the finellof gunpowder will entirely destroy these infects. Make a rnn of powder near or round the spot, or place at some diltance fniall heaps of powder, wlien the dew lays upon the plant, burn it and the fmoak will kill them. If they should be in cabbage or other vegetables, fire a gun between the rows ; it will have the fame effect. This method is fuc cefsfully pracftifed in Holland, and has always, answered the purpose." By the latest European arrival, the reasons of the Empress of Ruflia for declining the mediato rial offices of the allied powers are received in a memorial sent by the Danish Ambafl'ador to the Courts of London, Berlin, and the Hague. After faying that Denmark had fulfilled its en gagements in attempting to bring about a peace, the memorial states the reasons afligned by the Empress, the substance of which is, " That her Imperial Majetty will neither dispute upon terms nor abltratt ideas, but (he appeals to the hearts of those Sovereigns of whole friendiliip she isde firons, whether there can exilt a more equitable jlatu quo than that which she proposes, of restor ing a number of entire provinces, only to retain one single place, and an uncultivated dirtrict, for the sole purpose of procuring to herfelf a more secure frontier ; and if ever a power, constantly victorious, had given such strong and decided proofs of perfect moderation. She has yet very important considerations to infill on : she wiflies not to be confounded with those ambitious Sove- reigns, whole threatning progress ought to be flopped: she is desirous of retaining but one part, which is only tifeful to her, as tending to her fe cntity, and which is but an imperceptible point, when compared with her Empire or that of the Turks : she does not threaten the Turks with de- Itruftion : she restores to them almost every thing fhe restores to them what they are neither able to defend, nor to preserve." 55 Her Imperial Majesty lastly fays, " That she is persuaded that fhefhall find those Courts whom she considers as her friends, as much disposed to moderation as (he is herfelf. That it is the only rivalfhip to which her heart will open ; it will be inaccessible to that of force and power." By the latest British accounts it appears thar. the profpetfl of war with'Ruffia was almolt at an end. Mr. Pitt and the King of Prussia it is laid are willing to accede to the propositions of the Eniprefs, communicated by the Daniih Anibaf fador. Recent accounts from the French Weft; Indies info rm, that peace and tranquility are return ing, and the profped: of a good crop is very flat tering. By a late London paper we learn, that the Whig Club of England has exprefled its disappro bation of a war with Russia, in the molt pointed terms, as a bodv. Accounts from France, several days subsequent to the death of M. Mirabeau, inform, that the Na" tional Aflenibly were drawing near to a cf&fe of their labours in compleating theconftitution.— The aftonifliing abilities of M. Mirabeau had been exerted to great effed:. The Eriglifh paragraph ifts represent him as the main prop of the revo lution ; but it may justly be queried, whether an extensive confidence was placed in him either by the aflenibly or the nation, when it was well known, and the event has shewn it, that if the existence and establishment of the revolution had depended on his abilities, they would have been risked on the consequences of a debauch. A terrible fever was raging in the county of Wexford, Ireland, the beginning of April last— and from some circumstances attending the rife and progress of the disorder, it was greatly fear ed to be the plague. Four and five persons were laying dead at one time in a house. The next arrival from that kingdom, will probably bring further particulars. By the latest arrivals from Europe, it appears that the foreign markets for wheat and flour are extremely dull, and will very probably continue so. An extra duty is laid on the exportation of foreign flour from Spain to their Weft-India islands—and there is a corn-bill before the British House of Commons, which has an unfavorable afped\ This bill has been carried in committee, by which the average price of wheat for regu lating the importation, is to be 525. per quarter, instead of 48s. as usual—and what is worse, any wheat arriving in any port of Great-Britain when the ports are shut, is not to be landed at all. LIBERALITY At the annual Artillery Election dinner in Bos ton, the 6th inft.—the Blefling was asked by the Rev. Dr. P .rkhr, an Episcopalian, and Thanks returned by the Right Rev. Bilhop Carroll, a Roman Catholick. APPOINTMENTS. William Bradford, jun. Esq. having re signed the commiflion which he held under the authority of the late Supreme Executive Council, the Governor has re-appointed hiin Attorney- General of the Commonwealth. Edward Burd, Esq. has, in like manner, been ie-appointed Prothonotary of the Supreme Court If Pennsylvania. ARRIVALS at the PoRT of PHILADELPHIA. Ship Conception, Stephens, Bilbos, Brig Columbus, Silrnan, Malaga, Mary, Moll, Barbadoes, Minerva, Morgan, Jamaica via Port-au-Prince, Securities as in our lajl, ADVERTISEMENT. $3T SUBSCRIBERS in the city are this day furnifhed with* TITLE PAGE arid INDEX to the Second Volume of this GAZETTE, which began April i 4, i 7po , and ended Aprils, 1791 .—The firflfix month's papers were published in New-York—the lajl in this city. Sub u \ T * commenced in November or December, and have preserved c ina y !""* yolume compleated, by applying to the Editor. Subscribers at a difiance who propose binding their papers, will be fup phed with the Index by the persons of whom they receive the Gazette. THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, (Price Six Shillings> By CAREY, STEWART, ir Co. No. 22, North Front-Street, treatise ON THE IMPORTANCE OF RELIGIOUS opinions: BY M. NECKER. Extra&s from the Monthly Review, vol. 78, 598. L)r /'importance des opinions rcligicufcs. By M. Nec'kf.r. TTHE offering here made at the fhrme of religion, by a man of X business, a man of true political wisdom, and a man of the world, in the city of Paris, is a curious phenomenon. —It is alio a noble one—and gives M. Necker, who has been Jong eftcemcd for his great capacity, literary merit, and eminent virtues, a new and djiingwjhed title to the veneration of the public. It has been this vir tuous man's destiny to arrive at eminence in every line that he ha* purlued, from the counting house to the thmfhold of the cabinet, And it is impoflible, if we lead the woik before us with candour and attention, not to fee that both his head and his heart make a djltrtguijhed and aftfling appearance in the cause of religion. Vol. 80, page 370. We rejoice to fee this excellent work naturalized here—and in ought to be tranflatcd into every European language." (4ij
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