entitled, The Friend of the People, and
The Friend of the King. Although, ap
parently in opposition to each other,
they had the fame obje& in view (fays
Gazette de France) to conduA the 11a
tiou to anarchy, and from anarchy to
defpotifui. The aflembly has iflued
a decree of prosecution against Marat
and Royou, the editors and authors,
who are both arittocrates.
" Mr. Bolton of Birmingham, has
applied the It earn engine to coining.;
By his machinery, f6ur boys of ten
years old can (Irike off 30,000 guineas
in an hour. The machine keeps an
ling account of the pieces ft ruck.""
" The Queen of Portugal is better
(M»y 31) tbough mending very flow-
Jy. Her age, which is near three
{'core'; hel - habits, (edentary and dull ;
her temper, sadly fuperltiiious ; all
are again ft her."
" A letter from Coblentr, da-ed
May 5, fays, the two brothers of the
King of France are more active than
ever. The Prince of Conde is now
at the head of 20,000 of his country-
men."
Despotism and foperdition will,
from all appearances, contribute at
lcaft half their property, to work the
downfal ofthe reformation in France.
ROME, April 24
In the vicinity of Frefcaii, have
been lately discovered the remains ot
the ancient city or Gabii, which was
overwhelmed many ages ago by tbe
eruptions of Vesuvius. In the firft
digging many fragments of marble
pillars have been discovered, the ru
ins of temples, and mutilated statues.
This fortunate discovery promises
fair to enrich our cabinets with pre
cious antiquities, the invaluable re
mains of the genius and arts of an
cient Italy.
STRASBOURG, May 8
The declaration of war, by the Aflem
bly, has produced here the mod live
ly emotions of joy.—Our troops are
in high fpivits, and eager to engage
the mercenaries of Austria.. This,
in a great measure, is due to the fkil
ful arrangements, zeal, anil patriot
ifen of Marechal Luckner. This of
ficer poflefles in the highelt degree
the confidence of the army, and if
conduced by him, will do every thing
that men can do. He is one of those'
few men who can derive advantages
even from misfortune. The late dil
aftrous events at M<ms and Tournay,
have determined him to enforce the
niolt rigid discipline, to prevent such
disasters in future,,and ensure success.
The following is the addrefshe made
to his army 011 this fubjevfi, on the
jth instant.
" Marechal Luckner informs the
army and the citizens that have taken
up arms for the maintenance of liber
ty, that the whole amount of the
killed in the repulse from Mons and
Tournay, is about one hundred and
fifty men. The Marechal is fully sen
sible that this failure of success can
not but re-animate the courage of all
true Frenchmen. He well knows
they are worthy to be a free nation,
and as such capable of ftruggiing a
gainst the blasts of adveil'e fortune.
By a steadiness and resolution, cha
rafteriftic of brave men, who are
fighting for their lights, they will
soon learn how tocirryofF the vic
tory from hostile mercenaries.— As to
hinifelf (the General said) his duty
as a good citizen, was to use his au
thority and experience, tp inftrutft
those unde: his command in jhofe ri
gid duties of discipline, by which
alone victory could be purchased to
guide them, to habituate them to the
arduous toils of war, and to teach
them all. that it is only by submitting
the energy that animates them to the
direction of their chiefs, that they
can acquire or preserve the afcendnn
cy that Ihould characterize the sol
diers of liberty.
SALE M, J uly 10.
A superb plan of a CrtPiTOL has
been forwarded to the Coniniiifioners
of the Federal Buildings in the city
of Washington, by an eminent ai rift
in this town ; and which, it is fan
guinely expected by those who have
seen it, will command the premium
of a city loc and joo dollars.
We hear that the ingenious Mr.
ew bury port, has been
laclelphia, to execute
the United States.
or to
The, fir ft military efforts of the
French Revolutionists appear to have 1
fallen infinitely below their civic de
clamations. Their infubordin3tibn,
and hacking their officers to pieces,
will.mot do, will not do, will not
do—whatever they may chant to the
contrary in their famous revolution
song
BOSTON, July 11.
The Manufactures of our country
daily anil rapidly incieafe—our na
tive canvass catches the swelling
breeze in every part of the globe,
wafting the exuberance of the pro
duce of our foil and induflry, to \ari»
ous pons. Agriculture, in all its
branches,improves and flour iflies year
after year—and ics product commands
a good price, arid ready c;i(h. Mo
nev is plenty as the demand for it is
great. The National Debt is decreaf
ing—and our credit in foreign coun
tries, is equal to any, and foperior to
many of the old nations of Europe—
yet certain fourhern ded a liners are
continually earning—" we c.r: going
to dsjlruflion with a sowing fh et"—and
are now on the verge (J ruin !—But this
is only the cant of our modem " fun
Jhim patriots J"
A Monarchic Club is formed in Pa
ris— divided into 68 Committees—lt
has auradled the notice, and will be
vigilantly watched by the National
Aflembly.
The " Crumbier," in lall Thurf
day's Chronicle, who could not eat
his bread in peace on the A lint* Bina
ry of Independence, is inforined,tliat
the Executive Officers of the United
States, to whose department it be
longs, have been inceflant in their
endeavors to negotiate with the hos
tile tribes of Indians—A lid that there
is now a rational profpedt of a (peedy
fetllenient of the dilpuies between
• these Indians and the United Stares.
Bin it is expected thar thel'e carpers
wiil ltill be 011 tbe watch tofindfonie
thing else to grumble about.
N E W-Y O R K, July 14.
Yesterday, the Committee appoint
ed by the friends to Liberty, porfu
jant to public notice, allembled at Bar
din's tavern/and from thence pro
ceeded to the house of the Hon. John
Jay, attended by a numberof reipec't
able ci;izens, v;hen the following ad
dress was prelented : —
To the Hon. JOHN JAY, Esq. Chief
Jufticc of the United States.
SI R,
PERMIT us, in behalf of ourselves
and the very refpe&able body of our
fellow citizens which wc have thi ho
nor to represent, to congratulate you
upon your fate return to thi* city from
the eallerii circuit.
The Friends of Liberty have ever
entertained a lively sense of the im
portant services which you have ren
dered to y«>ur county, in every iitu
ation in which you have been placed.
Whether they examine your conduct
as a member of the general Congress,
at the most trying periods of the late
war, and of the Convention which
framed the constitution ofthis state
or consider your agency in negociat
ing the treaty which secured to Ame
rica the blefiings of peace, liberty,
and fafety, they find a continual dif
play of abilities and virtue which
will hand your name down to remote
poflerity, as Que of the iUujirious de
fenders of the rights of men.
It was this lenfe, Sir, of your pub
lie Cervices, which induced the inde
pendent freeholders of the (fate to
nominate and support you at the last
election as a candidate for the office
of their chief i«agiltrate, and procur
ed you a decided majority of votes.
Thus called to enjoy one of the high
est honors in the power of a grates ul
people to bestow, it was not to be ex
pected that you would have been de
prived of it by the machinations of a
few interefled and defigriing m*n.
In contempt, however of the sa
cred voice of the people—in defiance
of the conflitution—and in violation
of uniform practice and the fettled
principles of law , we have seen a ma
jority of the canvafling committee re
ject the votes of whole counties, for
the purpose of excluding you and
nuking way for a Governor of their
own choice. This wanton an.l daring
artack upon the invaluable right of
suss.age, has excited a serious alarm
amonglt the electors of the state, and
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united them in meafares to obtaii;
redrefs—ln the pursuit of an object
so interesting, we (ball, like Freemen,
a<fl with moderation and order, but
at the fame time with zeal and per
feverance.—Wliilft we refpe<ft the
laws, we relpetft ourselves and our
rights, and feel the strongest obliga
tion to support and maintain them.
The cause in which we are engaged
being the cause of the people, we
fiul! that it cannot fail of success ;
but in every event, we entreat you to
believe, that you will retain a dillin
guilhed place in our afFe<fti»«s, and
that v.e fliall embrace every opportu
nity to manifeft the unbounded con
fidence which we repose in your ta
lents and patriotism.
By order of the Committet,
NICHOLAS CRUGER,Chairman.
New York, July 13, x 792.
Tf which Mr, Jay made the following
■reply :
Gentlemen,
IT is far more pleasing to receive
proofs of ihe confidence and attach
ment of my native city, than it is ea
sy to express the sense which that con
fidence and that attachment inspire.
When I reflect on the facrifices and
efforts in the cause of liberty, which
diflinguiftied this state during the
late war, my feelings are very sensi
bly affected by the favorable light in
which yon regard my conduct during
that interesting period. That cause
was patronized by him who gave
to men the rights we claimed : He
crowned it with success, and made it
intlrumental to our enjoying a de
gree of national prosperity, unknown
to any ot her people : — May it be per
petual ! Such is our constitution, and
fucli are the means of procuring or
derand good government, with which
we are blefled, that while ourcitizens
remain virtuous, free, and enlighten
ed, few political evils can occur, for
which remedies perfectly effectual,
and yet perfectly confident with ge
nera] tranquility cannot be found and
applied.
I derive great fatisfacftion from .the
hope and expectation that the event
which at present excites fn much a
larm and anxiety, wijl give occafton
only to such measures as patrjotifin
may direift and jultify ; and that the
vigilance and wisdom of the people
will always afford to their rights that
protection, for which other countries,
less informed, have often too preci
pitately recurred to violence and com
motion.
In qneftions touching our constitu
tional privileges, all ihe citizens are
•qually interelled ; and the I'ocial
duties call upon U3 all to unite in dif
cufling these queltions ' with candor
and temper, in deciding them with
circumspection and impartiality, and
in maintaining the equal lights of all
with conllancy and fortitude.
They who do what they haven
right to do, give no jolt cavif'e of of
fence ; and therefore every consider.
ation of propriety forbids that dif
ferences in opinion refpeifting candi
dates, {honld suspend or interrupt thai
mutual humor and benevolence
which harmonizesfociety,and foftens
the asperities incident to human life
and human affairs.
By those free and independent e
lecftors who have given me their fuf
frages, I efteein my ("elf honored ; —
for the virtuous who withheld that
mark of preference, I retain, and
ought to retain, my former refpecfi
and good will —to all 1 wish proiprri
ty, public and private. Permit me,
gentlemen, to aflure you, and'your
constituents, that as 1 value their es
teem, and rt-joice in their approbati
on, (o it will always be my delirc, as
well as my doty, tojuftify as far as
poilible, ihe fcntiments which they
entertain ot me : and which you, Sir,
have exprefled in terms, and in a
manner, which demand, and which
eceive, my warm ell acknowied:*-
JOHN JAY.
meats
NEW BERN, (N.C.) June 30.
Saturday last was brought to town,
from Washington, part of the crew
('even failorsj of the French Brig
Le Bail/i dc Sujfrtin. Caju. Clairet.
These men are charged with the
murder of the Captain and mate of;
that veflel. On Thiufday last they
were examined before the Hon. Judge
Sitgreaves, at the court-house in this
.% -
town. It appears [list ihe l, r • ,
from Savannah the ioth inji
to Bourdeaux, with three hi,,
hofheads of tobacco and fom/",'j c "'
Nothing extraordinary happ cljl ,« t m V
til Sunday evening the ißih, tXCC
that the crew once or twice complain
ed of want of proviiions. About ten
o'clock at night, the mate's watch be
jing °n deck—one of the crew called
I him, telling him that there was j
Dolphin a head ; the mate went for',
ward, and ai he stooped to look, one
of the crew Hi nek him with an'axi.
and knocked him down, another <nve
him two or three (li okes with a knife
and threw him into the sea. Jhev
then called the captain and told him
that the mate had fallen overboard :
He came up, and as he fat his foot oil
deck, \»as knocked down and thrown
over as the mate.
The crew went down and awoke
an old French sailor, the cook, and a
young woman whom the captain had
brought with him from Savannah ;
informed tliein of what had happen
ed, and threatened to kill them if
they would not promile lecrecy on
the aflurance they gave of not reveal
ing the horrid deed.they were sworn,
and ihe murderers went in the cabin
and fat down the reft of the night,
eating and drinking. The next day
they divided the captain's and mate's
clothes and motley, and brought up
on deck a watch and iilver buckles
which were fold at vendue On
Thnrfday the 2:d they discovered the
land, got into the boacs, and endea
vored to scuttle the veil'el, this they
could not effetft for want of tools s
they made the woman drink a mix
ture of rum, sugar and turpentine,
which intoxicated her so that (he fell
a (leep , in the mean while, feeing a.
(ehooner coming towards them, they
rowed a shore, leaving the veflel with
all her fails hoi (led, and towards
night arrived at I'ortfmonth.-—On
the next day they left the boar, and
made their way to VVafliington. The
old French Tailor and the cook, re
fufed to go with them, and afrer they
were gone gave information againd
them. They werepurfued and bro't
to Wafhingron, where they were ex
amined by John G. Blount and Wil
liam Farris, Efq'rs, who committed
them, and the next day sent them to
this town under a flrong guard.
BALTIMORE, July 14.
A correfpoiirfent observes (on the
paragraph copied from the National
Gazettt, in our paper of Thursday lalt)
that it is generally, if not always, a
proof of partiality or design, when a
pubii/her or conductor of a :':ewfpa
per is uniform inexpofingto liisread
ers but one ltde of a queftion—Kor
example, it is not fair to stigmatize
the law of Cottgrefs refp'fting nrjjffa
\pers with having for its object the pre
vention of dominating the proceedings
of Cortgreft, and to hold up a majority
of the members of Congress as ene
mies to the liberties of the People. In
the firft place, the law ailuded to
obliges the poft-office to convey all
exchange papers, to and from print
ers, within the United States, jres of
pofiage—thereby enabling the print
ers in the several States to give due
anil regular information to the peo
ple of the proceedings of Ctngreji —
So far therefore from Hopping infor
mation at the feat of government, it
iias rendered its transmission to the
several States more certain than here
tofore —Secondly, the law does not
prevent, but anthorifei the printer!
in the several States to fend their pa
pers to their cullomers in any man
ner they might find most convenient.
!t dees not compel them to employ
the mail stages ; and allows them to
nfe any other. In tins refpeift, there
fore, it cannot be (aid to abridge, in
the smallest degree, the diffpminat.oit
of newfpa-pers or cangre^ttH"!proceeu
in*i.—Thirdly, if the iWt be ss ti.e
paragraph, froui. thfe Nafioiia. 1
(tares, viz. That the riteSif f P°" a S e
will lell'en the sale in the several States
of papeis printed at . ; .. j del;>•'' a , 1
follows thence, tint a- the P a P er _
printed in each Srate will come i
\er to the people thereof than 1 ,iuf a P
papers, the former will be r = ne
•to the latter. And as thetec.u e -
doubt but that the State pTin , -' s W l
insert in their paj e:s ail «•• "
proceedings, the peo; '' ;• ,ei .'' »
their State papers, W. ■ , 5