Philadelphia, May 50.
By the Pigou, Capt. Loxley, arrived at this port from Lon
don," English nev/lpaper; are received to the 4th April the
following is an abstraCt of the intelligence they contain
The new King of Hungary has declared that the f.tuation of
things will not permit him to interfere in the aflairs of France.
Leopold died on the very day limited by the National AUenibly
for him to give his final answer refpeft.ng the part
to take in French affairs. The ex-princes Conde &<1 Artois,
find themselves duped by M. Calonne, who had promifcd them
more immediate success. Ihe Einpre so \u '
letter to the Pope, condoles with him on the loss ol Avignon
auid promises to do all in her power to re-inltate hnn in the
estates he has been deprived ot by the National Assembly.
The negociations between Austria and Prulha, interrupted by
the death of the Emperor, have been renewed at Y lenna with
the new King of Hungary. The diet for the coronation of
Francis I. in Hungary, is fixed tor the 23th May. An lnfu
reft',on broke out in Hesse Caffel, occasioned by a re g'^ ents
demanding full pay as in war time, on being ordered to.Marc
to a town on the Rhine. The coniufion and danger
great, that the Landgrave retired to his castle, and from ttienc |
fled to Hanai. near Franckfort. This is the prince who fold
his fubjefts at so much a head during the late war x imesap
pear to be changed—The plague has been so horrible '"Egypt,
that 63,003 have died of it in Grand Cairo alone t.ie last .sum
mer—At a meeting of the Humane Society, London, Doctor
Lettfom stated that 1579 persons have been restored to hie by
the means recommended by the society. -The lofles n .
Domingo, by the infurreftion, are estimated at 5, , - •
sterling.—Letters from Conftantmople mention, thattheG.and
Seignior has caused the famous Baffa of Ackifca to be ftran
pled, and his head to be expoled on the walls of the Seraglio
this Baffa was a principal instigator of the war with Russia—
Orders have been given bv the King of the French to form a
camp in the south of France—Fifteen articles of impeach
ment against M. de Leffart, one of the late French Mimfters,
are publilhed under the Paris head; they relate chiefly to re
miffnefs and inattention-in refpea to the conduit of the Em
peror of Germany and the ex-princes, and neglecting and
betraying his duties—he is to be impeached and tried—A new
office is created by the King of the French, that ot a Director-
General of Foreign Affairs ; to which M. Bonnecarrere, a bo
som friend of Mirabeau, decealed, is appointed—On the 13th
March, the French Court went into mov.rning on account of
the death of the Emperor, but only a few ventured to appear
publiclv therein. The Jacobins had declared publicly, in the
cmfee-houfes and other places, that all those deferyed to be
-nicked down who were pofleffed of so little patnotiim as to
ear in mourning—The death of the Emperor was confi
de.' 's an event so favorable to the revolution, that alhgnats
roj , 'ay 10 per cent, but fell again to their old price.
rrr )UI om Messrs. Fenwick and Co. Bourdetfux, received
at Vi ■ idence, R. I. fav, that exchange was in favor of affig
nat f .h t thev had gained from 15 to 20 per cent, with
every „• -.eai :nce of a further rife.—Further accounts to 26th
March,'ftate, that the political affairs of France had affnmed
a verv pleafmg aspeCt since the Emperor's deatl—and that
there were 300,000 national troops 011 the frontiers ready, to
repel anv invasion.
On the third of April, the fubjeft of the Slave-Trade was
the order of the day in the Britifli House of Commons—when
Mr. 'Wilberforqe, after a lengthy speech, in committee of the
, hole, on the injustice, cruelty and inhumanity of this corn
m -rce, made the following motion :
rhat it i; the opinion of this committee that the flave
•-ide carried on by this country ought to be abolifhet!—and
Tint the chairman move for leave to bring in a bill to
procure its abolition.
After a Jong debate, the motion was amended to read thus :
That it is the opinion of this committee, that, the trade in
(laves between the coast of Africa and the Weft-India islands,
fliould be gradually aboil(hed.
The motion, thus amended, was agreed to —ayes 23c,
noes 8 5-
M''. Pitt, Mr. Fox, Mr. Thornton, and others, v.ete in fa
vor of an immediate abolition—the Speaker, Mr. Dnr.das,
Mr. Jenkinfon, and others, for a gradual peril nf to its exiiicuce.
Benjamin Weft, Esq. is chosen President of the Royal Acade
micians, in the place of Sir Joshua Reynolds, deceased.
Accounts are received from India to the 28th December, at
which time Lord Cornwallis had not taken Seringapitam.
Tippoo was advanced ten miles from his capital, and had
strongly fortified his camp, which it was hourly txpeftcd tl e
allied army would attack.
We some time since mentioned that there had been an er.-
gagem«nt between a French and English frigate in the Irdian
seas—the French frigate was the Resoi.ui, of 32 guns—the
English, the Phenix, Capt. Strachan. The action happened
on the 19th November, occasioned by the Frenchman's oppos
ing the English in their attempt to search some French mer
chantman—after a well fought aCtion, the Kesoive v. as taken; |
she had 25 men killed, and 40 wounded—the Fhenix, fix killed
and 11 wounded. The French frigate was left in IValle Road,
her officers and men refufing to ha\ e any more to do with her.
The English frigate Pandora, is loft 011 a reef of' rocks off
the north end of New Holland.. —The Provideme, Captain
Bligh, failed from tv Cape of Good Hope for the South Seas.
This is the fliip destined to bring the Bread-Fruit-Tree to the
Weft-Inuia islands. —India Stock fell 11 per cent, in conse
quence of the above news brought home by the Thames
Frigate.
Paris accounts, via Hamburgh, inform, that a new appoint
ment of Ministers had taken place. M. Grenice is Keeper of
the Seal—M. Roland de la Platierre, of Lyons, Mirifter of the
Home Department—M. Claviere, Minister of Finance.—The
House of Le Normand, of Cadiz, has failed for ten millions,
and has involved the Houl'e of Lalanne, and several others.—
M. Dumourier, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, constantly
attends the Jacobin Club.
Francis, the new Sovereign of Germany, has adopted the
system of the Emperor Joseph—educated in his school, and
having imbibed his principles, it is expeCted he will carry them
into execution—A frigate has arrived at Cadiz from the Ha
vannah, with a cargo of 1,192,904 piastres for the King, and
128,359 on private account, &c. —A decree of aranefty has
pal Ted the National Affemblv, in behalf of the people of Avig
non, concerned in the excesses and massacres which took place
in that city, as mentioned in a former paper—this is repre
sented in the English papers, in an extract of a letter from
Paris, as having excited universal indignation in that city—
several of the members publiflied protests against it.—The so
" reign accounts vary exceedingly as to the part which Francis
the firft will ultimately take in the affairs of the emigrant
princes—the predominant idea i:, that he will cultivate a pa
cific system.—The articles under the head of CoblentE are full
• • of flattering representations.—The late change in th« Spaaifli
Ministry, they fav, is auspicious to thecaufe of the emigrant 1 :,
as the new Prime Minister, Count D'Aranda, is laid to be much
attached to the House of Bourbon —whereas Count Floi'icia
Blanca was unfriendly to the ianiily compact with i- ranee.
The petitions to Parliament for the abolition of the ilavt
trade, were exceedingly numerous, and were received ti oni
almolt all the principal towns in Kngland and Scotland; and
for the honor of human nature, and this enlightened is
inoft earneflly to he wished that this inhuman traffic in black
men raav no longer blacken the character ot white men.
We can aFure the public, from good authority, that the
Bank of the United States have lately made a Loan to the
Government of Five Hundred and .Twenty-Three 1 houland,
Five Hundred Dollars, at a rate o*'intereft of five per cent,
per annum, free from charges, and redeemable at the
pleasure or the United Sta.tes.
Thus, do ve lee realized (lays a correspondent) much earlier
than was supposed, by a direct loan, in our own countiy, a re-,
du&ion of one per cent, in the rate of government interest ,;
and we fee also a striking illustration ot the utility ot the insti
tution from which the loan proceeded. This money has been
borrowed an anticipation of the extra duties laid during the
last feflion of Congiefs, for the purpose ot carrying into execu
tion the iraafures which are in train for the protection ol our
iifvaded fiontiers. Tie in fiance is the more inteiefting, as
in it we find extended to the remote# parts of the Union, the
benefits of a found state of public credit, and ot the hiealures
by which i: has been established.
By letters from the Weflern Country, of a late date, we
learn thatno recent depredations of tie Indians have taken
place—and that in consequence of Gen. "Wilkinfon's having
established a post at Fort St. Clair, a council of the hostile
tribes has been held; what the result was, is not mentioned.
In tht Pigou, Captain Loxley, came the fol
lowing paflengers :
Mr. liman, Mr. Freyer, Mr. Lea, Mr. Calla
nan, and jo iteerage paflengers.
Mr. Penn, and Mr. Andiew Allen, and their
familiel were expected to etnbaik, on board the
CaitJe Douglas (of Charleston) tor Philadelphia
in a fev days after the Pigou failed.
Satu day last arrived from Cape-Francois the
brig Fair Hebe, Captain Feinour, in which vef
(el ievera) ladies and gentlemen came paflengers,
among whom is the Hon. Mr. de la Koute,one of
the judges of the iiland of Hifpaniola.
Captain Macpherfon, of this city, recommends
the following method to prevent the roots ot
lbingltd Houses taking fire. Let your fhmgles,
when prepared for nailing on the lath, be ioak
ed foil teen days in a trough of llrong pickle.
The saline particles will in that time thoroughly
pervade every pore of the shingles so as to len
der them in a great degree, incombustible ; at
least, if burning coals are put thereon, they will
be extnguifhed without injuring the (hingles.
We near theve is a profpetft of the business
of opening the coal-mines on the river Leheigh,
being i'oon taken upferioufly. A meeting of the
president and managers of the company, efta
blifhec for that purpole, was held in this city on
Thurflay last, when it was determined that a
convocation of the stockholders fliall be held at
the Stite House on Monday, July 2d.
A ireeting of subscribers to " the leveral Ga
zettes and newspapers printed in Philadelphia,
is advertised, in the Virginia Gazette of the 19th
instant, to be held at the Eagle Tavern, in the
city of Richmond, on Monday the 21 It of May,
" to fake into consideration the laiv oj the United
State: a tax on the j~a'td Gazettes and news
papers—A difcuflion of this fubjedt by the said
subscribers, and indeed by the citizens at large,
who are invited also to this meeting, appears to
be more neceflary at this time, from the alarm
ing; consequences which may arifefrom the want
of due information on a number of fubjec r ts, 011-
ly to be obtained by a free circulation of that
important article, a public newspaper.
Exlrafl oj a letter from a house of reputation at
".r-•- ' • ' '
Cape-Frajjcois y to ihcir jrtends in this city.
" This island is more and more approaching
towards its total deftru<ftion, and in a very short
time, if some considerable forces do not arrive
from fraiice, no l<ind of producc will be pro
cured here."
" 1 think it certain (fays Mr. Paine) that if
the fleets of England, France, and Holland were
confederated, together with inch force as the
United States of America could throw in, they
might propose with effect, to Spain, the indepen
dence of South-America, and the opening those
countries of inimenfe extent and wealth to the
general commerce of the world, as North Ame
rica now is. The opening of South America
would produce an immense field of commerce,
and a ready money market for manufactures,
which the Eastern world does not."
" With how much more glory and advantage
(continues he) to itfelf, does a nation a<S, when
it exerts it powers to refcuethe world from bon
dage, and to create itfelf friends, than when it
employs those powers to create ruin, desolation
and inifery. The horrid scene that is now adi
ing by (heßritiih government intheEalt Indies,
is fit only to be told of Goths and Vandals, who.
destitute of principle, robbed and tortured the
world they were incapable of enjoying."
Died, at WoodltocK State of Rhocle-Ifland, the Honorable
Joseph Russell —ag'cy 60.
455
Economy is a virtue —by the exercise of which,
liberty has been preserved, perpetuated and enjoyed, wheie
the sterility of nature afforded lcarcely any thing ell'e.
..Luxury, on the other hand, is the canker ot a tree llate—it
vitiates and destroys the principles of patriotism, by cieating
a falfe tafle, and substituting for the virtues on which the pub
lic freedom and happiness must ultimately oepend for their
fuppart, the principles of unbridled licentioulnels.
In last Wednesday's Gazette, a new publication, entitled,
The Foresters, an American Tale/' was mentioned The
1 towing extract from the work will ihew toe author s
nner:—
ult remains only that I give you some account-ot Mr.
Lewis. The adventures in his family have been very
I formerly told vou tlrit he feed lawyers to plead the cauie ol
the fere Iters.* These subtile pra&itioners loon found that the
fame arguments which they were obliged toufe in favor ot the
forefters, would apply with equal propriety to the cale ot Mi-
Lewis's own family. He had long been a widower, and the
family was governed by a fuccelkon of kept miitreiles, who
minded only their pleasures and the enriching ot their own re
lations and dependants. The tenants were abuled, the iriu.n
fion haufe was dirty and out of repair, and though the rents
were paid into the hands of the steward, yet much opprelhoii
and embezzlement, and little economy, were the constant to
pics of complaint. . ,
iC After the alteration, produced by the afliftance of Lewis s
lawyers ?n the sorest, they began to think it was high time to
do something of the fame kind at hoftie. The only peaceable
remedy which they could imagine, was to persuade Mr. Lewis
to marrv a reputable woman, who would be agreeable to the
family. "After much argument he was at length brought to fee
the neceflity of the cafe; and to prevent a lawsuit, with which
they threatened him, he consented to take the wises which tney
recommended. She is a lady of good sense and polite manners,
and treats him with the greatest deference and propriety. She
has had the mansion thoroughly repaired, the floors and win
dows cleaned, and the walls v/hitewafhed, and is not afiaid to
let hec inmost apartments be visited by the lun and air. lic
building is now commodious, wholesome, and pleasant, and tne
dirty dog kennel,t which llcod near the door, is demolnhed.
" It is fufpefted by foine that Lewis still has a hankering
after his old connexions, but he profeffes love tohis new wile
in the strongest terms imaginable. His caft-otl mistress has
had the audacitv to inult the newly married lady, and tell hei
that (he has no'bufinefs to occupy her apartments; th atall
Mr. Lewis's profefllons are insincere, and that flu lull polleile;
his heart. If these ladies should go to pulling caps, Mr. Lewis
will be in a critical situation, as indeed every man is when
two women are contending for him. It is said that iome o
the neighbouring gentlemen, who prefer concubinage to matri
mony, have taken the part of the late mistress, and iniift on
her restoration to bed and board ; but how this matter will
terminate can be decided only by futurity.
" He has also been very unfortunate in some of his diltant
plantations and factories. His black cattle liave caught the
horn difteinper ; some of his farm houses have been burnt, and
it is thought that several years will intervene before his affairs
will he set to rights.
* Americans, "t "The NotioQ&l Cofijlitution, + Bijlilc.
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