Clares war, should think to carry it on defenlivejy—what if the House of Austria, against whom the war is de clared, and with whom the choice feerns more natmally to refide,fhould determine to carry it 011 in this way too what would be the result ?an armed frontier on either fide without any aggreliion of territory. borne very incendiary publications having made their appeal ance here, going even to the length of applaud ing regicide ; and papei s having been publicly diltvibuted ut the following horrid contents :—" Six months ago I foretold that our generals (all crea tures of the court) would betray the nation, and deliver up the frontiers ; my hope is, that the army will open their eyes, and fee that the firft thing they have to do is to maflacre their generals M. de Benquot entered the National Aflembly with one of tliefe papers in his hand, and in a very animated fpecch execrated the publication of inch papers, and re commended the prolecutioii of the authors and pnbliflieis, which was decreed accordingly. During the course of the debate much wasfaid of the liberty of the press ; but it was determined that every thing libellous and licentious should be retrained and punished. B R U S S E, L S, May 10. The ill success of the fir It invasion on the part of the French is the more fortunate for our government, as the public tranquility is not too well se cured in our provinces. No diltrict, village, or individual, it is true, de clared for them, on the entrance of their troops, though the enterprise was planned by the French miniltry oil that supposition. The partizans, however, of the famous Vander Noot do not seem inclined to remain quiet; they have taken advantage of the mo ment when the cities in the interior parts of the country were furniflied with troops, to raise the people in various places, and urge them, to the commission ofexceffesat Dielt. They have mal treated a number of rel'- petfable citizens, destroyed their pro perty, pillaged and damaged their houles, and committed all the outra ges that the spirit of party could com pel them to. The monks, we are as sured, are at the head of these fana ticks, and have seduced them under the pretence that those whom they insulted were Vonekiefti, or royal ene mies to the constitution of Brabant. At Louvainethere has been aconflidt between the citizens and the students, the martial law was proclaimed, and they fired on those who, in spite of it, continued riotous, by which many persons were killed. Yesterday morn ing a detachment of infantry, ano ther of dragoons, and some artillery, set off, from Brnflels, to restore tran quility in those two cities. LONDON, May 27 The villainous attempt which ap peared last week, to burn down the Hobfes of Parliament, and some other circumstances, join to tell us, that there are turbulent spirits who have set a party to work to make such ir.if chiefhere; but the gteateft part of the people are fatisfied and happy in comparing our (late with that of the neighboring nations ; and it is to be hoped, that the eyes of government are on the watch, and steadily resolv ed, to pnnifh in an examplary man ner, all those who are traiteroufly en deavoring to introduce niifchief and confufion among us. Count Cabanas, who was deprived of his liberty under the administra tion of count Florida Blanca, has ob tained per mi Hi on to jullify himfelf on the canfe of his detention. Ma jor-general Pignatelli, who was sent from Madrid, and several other per rons who had been disgraced, are al so recalled by count d/Aranda. The declaration of war by France has coniiderably lowered the funds at Vienna. They are now two per cent, below par. June 7. Onr profpetlts now are truly de lightful—political foes uniting in the common cause of the Constitution its oppofers linking into contempt and awed into silence—the King ador ed—his Minister beloved—so true it is that— " Nought can England rue, 44 If England to itself do prove but true Catharine the great, Empress of RulTia, lias publilhed a declaration which is a Chef d'Ouvre, and Unique in the diplomatic annals. From mo tives of tranfcendant generosity and disinterestedness, fays this magnani mous Princess, I have ordered my troops to march into Poland, being graciously inclined to restore to the ill lift rious nation of the Poles, a Cou ftitution which they abhor, and un der which they have unanimously a dopied another, which secures their liberty and independence. How confcqnentially this great female ar gues ! ! ! Every day brings to light some dis covery tha: does honor to the genius of our countrymen, and forms a pre sage of the encreafed prof'perity and glory of England : The improve ment in the ileain engine, and its ap plication to new obje<fts : The won derful art of multiplying pictures in oil colours, so as notto bediftinguifh able from the originals but by micio fcopical attention : The discovery of so many different kinds and qualities of arts :—All thefie, and many other circumstances, mark the prefentasan sera of rapid advancement in science and practical knowledge. An inven tion of equal importance to any of tliefe, attracts attention at the pre fenc moment : and it peculiarly be comes the conductor of a Printing Press to mention it :—A gentleman of Kent has found out a chemical pro cess, which renders paper tnade of any rags, as white as that made of the fined kind ; which, it is hoped, will considerably reduce the price of paper, Lord Lauderdale's flngle lignature :o the late protest, gives him a very just claim to the title of Lord Unit Napper Tandy's trial is to come on in the Court of King's Bench, Dub- 1 in, on Monday the inh of June. The Bill of Indidtmenc contains four counts against him. A great personage in France lately said, let them do what they please, they never can detach my heart from the House of Austria. At a confukation held in the House of Commons, upon the inflammable [ Breechts found in an adjoiningcldfet, Sir Joseph Banks took away a flip of the lame, to make experiments there on.—This the public may depend Up on is a fa<st. The Count Siaray who commanded he Auftrians in the engagement with the Fiench, is an Hungarian Noble man of the firft rank, a Knight of Malta, aud of the order of Maria Theresa He is lineally descended from Prince Ragotfi, a Prince of Tran sylvania. He was trained up in the military school of Marshal Laudohn, and made all his campaigns under that General. Staray served in the late war against the Turks, and killed, with his own hand, the Bashaw of Belgrade, and took his hor<e and and sent the Turk's bridle svs a ij>re fent to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Many people affetfled by the cir cumftanceof a noble Lord's (Rodney) body, being kept above ground by the Sheriff's Writ, exclaim against the cruelty of such a law ; but, alas, fay the prisoners in many of t tie gaols of England, let us only be free while we live, and you may arrest our b«v dies, when dead, with all our hearts. The corpse of a Peer may.eertainly be (topped by rhe laws of England for a debt. The body is no longer a Peer.—The son is the Peer as soon as the father is dead, whether he be bu ried or not.—O, the pity of it, im mortal Rodney, O the pity of it. The Duke of York is buying seve ral running horses. He gave Lord Barrymore 2800 guineas guineas for Chanticlear after his last match won. The Age oj Chivalry is nut gone by. His late Majesty ofSweden having, at the close of the war between the Swedes and Ruffians, been pleased to install Sir Sydney Smith in the pre sence of both armies, with the Order if the Sword, of the firft class, which honor gives to him and his heirs the privilege of Peerage in that kingdom ; His Majelly, at the particular request of the late King of Sweden, inverted Sir Sydney the 16th uh. in form with the Co.lla:- of that order. 86 CONCORD, (N. 11.) July i 3. It is fafliionable to rail at every thing (whether just or unjust it mat ters not) which is contrary to public ■whim— or, in other words, which is not Illicitly cultomary. It was a cuf torn, for many years, for people, in different parts of the United States, to receive newlpapers by the mails, free of postage—This was a cujlom— But J USTICK awakes with the new, efficient government, and points out a more equitable mode—The Guardi ans of our Liberties do not fee any iujultice in a man's paying for tranf porting his newlpapers, even if they be transported in the public mail— nor do they fee the justice of an in dividual's employing a fervent of the public in his own private business, without compensating the public therefor—Hence, we suppose, they thought themselves wholly jultifiable in laying poltage on newlpapers car lied in the mail :—lnconsequence of 'this, many have ltrove to traduce the c-haratfter of Congress, and have hal looed in the people's ears, that the liberty of theprefsis infringed—that despotism begins to prevail — that our rulers will enllave us, &c. But no— this is not lioneft dealing—The liber ty of the press remains fecure—Tho* Congress may have infringed tiie right of transporting newlpapers in the public mail, free of ty.pt.nfe to individu als—they have not infringed the' Freedom of the Press ! It is yet Free —nor are our papers J, lamped !—The present eltablifhment renders the ex change of papers, between the re fpec r tive printers 011 the continent, more sure than ever it was before since the birth day of America : — Postmasters are now bound by law to forward all exchange papers to the printers—before they were not —of confeqnence the circulation of News is more certain and extenlive—The printers in New-Hanipfhire may now receive papers from the printers in Georgia, or any other state in the Union, regularly—Therefore, the li berty of the press is not infringed — The tax on subscribers' newspapers is certainly JUST —Nor is the tax ex travagant —though perhaps half the ftim might have answered the pur ! pose. The portage on a weekly pa per, conveyed in the mail from Phi ladelphia to thecentre of New-Hainp (hire, will be but very little more than a private post would charge, for conveying the i'ame paper from the centre of New-Hainpfliire to the ex tremity thereof—a distance, perhaps, of about one fifth. Those whodecry the tax, are those only whole private interells interfere—at: least, their ob jections cannot arise from a republi can fpirit—buc from a quite different : cause : it is because they are obliged to pay for a benefit, which they long enjoyed gratis, but for which they ought always to have paid. Is the government under obligations to fend newspapers to individuals, who chitfe to take them, from New-Hatnpfhire to Georgia, free of portage? An in dividual has as J tilt aright to demand a liorfe to ride a journey of that dis tance, pn private business of his own, and to hive his expenses defrayed by the public—The tax on papers is uo more an infringement on the press, than a private port rider's refufing to distribute papers through the coun try, gratis, would be. If people were once iKcuftotiitd to it they would de mand, as a jurt claim, a fee for receiv ing newspapers gratis—and would (ay, the liberty of the press was in fringed, if the fee were not paid.— The government does not compel people to receive newspapers by the mail—nor does it debar them the pri vilege of using any other mean that they may find more convenient. And till individuals are willing to trans port the mail for the public, gratis, they ought not to expert the free transportation of their newspapers. Where is the Justice of it ? In truth, Justice is out of the play—and a felf ijh difpofttion, dangerous inaßepub licati country, is fubllituted. Because we were once indulged in receiving our papers free of postage, shall wc lay it is nnjuft if we not always gra tified in that way ? We jnight, with equal propriety, ttaintain, that be cause our forefathers wore Jhortcoats, i t is nnjull, tyraniical, and antifede- I'al, for us to wear hng ones ! h ir n s oN, tr t- On TuefUay morning last, Mr.He«. i v Lyou of this city, calmly and de . I.berately,,,, the prefenc. •f* num . ber of people, walked down the fer ry ftaira.iuto Hudson's river, till th« water was. as deep as his breast, «h en ' he immediately fell backwards au<l was drowned. Notwithrta.uling he continued in. the water not more than eight or ten minutes—and every ex . ertion poflible was niade to rest or e him to life—all endeavors were iajjf teOtual. An incident so extraordina ry, natutally roused the attention the people, and led ihent tv -eftquirs into its cau4e. f rom every chutm. ttance it 'is highly probable that Mr» Lyon was deprived of'his reason. For a considerable lime palt he been fubjedt to periodical fits of infaJ nity, which continued but tor a ihort time, and almolt immediately depriv ed him of sense and motion. PROVIDENCE, August 4. Capt. Corey, of the Sloop Nancy, arrived here 011 Thursday last, in u Days from Leogane. He informs, that on the llt of, July two 74 gun fliips and a frigate arrived at Capo- Francois from France, with 200 a troops ; that these fliips brought the decree of the National All'embly in favor of the people of Colour and free Blacks ; that the decree had been publiihed, and tinanimouiiy ac cepted at the Cape, after which the /hips, with the Governor-General ot the Cape, and Mr. Rouuies, a Com miflioner from France, accompanied by ijoo troops,proceeded to St. Mark, at which place the decree was like wise accepted unauimoufiy ; and that from thence they proceeded to Port au-Prince, where the decree was also submitted to.—Capt. Corey, 011 his paflage, fell in with a fliip returning from Cuba to Port-au-Prince, with a large number of emigrants that ha 4 fled from Hifpaniola. The Negroes that had been in arms were returning' to the plantations, and there wasfpuie propped of tranquility being restor ed. BOSTON, August 4, OUR COUNTRY, As it refpedts public affairs has eve ry thing to hope, and nothing ib jtar. If there is not a peace made with the Indians, it wiJ]< not be the fault of the Supreme Executive—as every pro ject which can be supposed to accel-- lerate it, is in train. As to pad tranf adiions, a full developement will un doubtedly take place the next feffiou of Congrefi, and justice will be done. The recruiting lervice goes on with vigour and success—and, it is not un reasonable to conjecture, that after, this, our frontiers will forever repose in peace—and the wilderness blsflom as the rose. Universal tranquility, in respect to the laws of the Union; prevails in all parts of the Nation— t and we trust we IhalHong cootiot happy as to " know our happy fiatc," Frequent mention is made in tb#, t General Orders of the Frtnch Arwrff of our beloved Pr(fid{tit —hi 3 exam ple is recommended to the officers, and the example of his troops to the troops of France. ANTIGUA, June 2J. The commotions which lor some time pqft existed in Martinique, we are informed, have totally subsided. SALEM, August 7 LATE INTELLIGENCE KROM SPAIN. Captain Strong arrived here yes terday from Bilboa, which he left the Bth of June. A Spanilh officer in the land service informed him, that there were orders for railing 18,000 inen in the northern parts ot Spain, to be fentto Madrid, t0 ° awe the people as was supposed, wbo begin to talk and write cod fr M v. ® the measures of government. T * Queen's party is considered 'h' l "®.'®. was the cafe in France) as lnimu* to the intereftsof the people,in com* pliance with whose wishes and .s°" trary 10 hers, the present mini t have been brought into office. CHARLESTON (S. C.) August 2- DrE u—At the Rock Landing, o the j2th ult. Martin Brlm me * Sohier, lieutenant ill the United States regiment, and adjutan of the federal troops in Georgia.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers