of the ladies of Honor, that the Royal Person ages went last night and took the Sacrament, preparatory to the fatal moment. June 16. The report of M. Dumourier, on the state of toe War Department, feeins to in dicate a wifli in the R.oyal party to difpole the nation to listen to a conciliating propopofition from the powers in concert, as soon as tlieir ar mies arrive on the Rhine. This is expected about the 4th of July. The King ha", refuted his fanftion, yesterday at the Council, to the decree on the Prielts, and to the eftablifnment of a camp of 20,0d0 men near Paris. WARSAW, June 2. Ycfterd'.iy an express from Prince Joseph Po iiiatowfki arrived with the following account, dated at Vienna the 27th of May:—Lieutenant Oolciowfki of the National Cavalry, occupying ail out-poft with three hundred men, perceived a body of 2300 Ruffians approaching, who firft began the attack, while Golciowfki having re turned the fire, charged the enemy lword in hand with such impetuosity, that their line was compleatly broken ; a general action then be gan, which lasted two hours and an half. Not withstanding so great a superiority of numbers, the field of battie remained to our troops; 33® Ruffians were left on the spot; our lols is 43 killed and 23 wounded This body of the Ruf fians was chosen from the nation called Czarno morce, bordering on the Black Sea, reckoned tjie bravest ; it is they who took Berezina, near Oczakow, and who led tfie van in storming 11- mailow. Elated with former fucCelTes, and trusting to their numbers, they marched down with seeming contempt, and littleexpefted such a warm reception from a handful,of Poles. Our different divisions are marching to Lithu ania and to the Ukraine, with the greatest ex pedition and alacrity. They had not a single dei'erter. In Lithuania we fee the greatelt ardor for defending their liberty and independence. Even their ladies strive to encourage the youth to noble actions ; instead of cries and tears, un worthy of free women, they collected among themselves 1,533 ducats at Wilora, for the ex pences of the war. We hear from the diftrift of Rzeczvca, that the Ruffians have entered on that defenceless fide, and begun to carry off all the peasants and their families into ilaverv, to people their de farts. Such are the proofs of the friendly as surances given in the Empress's declaration. LONDON, June 23. By private letters from Paris, we learn, that that capital is at present in extreme dilorder. The late changes in the adminiflration, and the firmnefs of°the King's reiiftance to certain measures, have placed h\m in a situation ot im minent danger.—The Queen, always the im puted origin of every obnoxious a&, is virulent ly reviled, threatened and insulted. The Jaco bins publicly talk of giving a very signal exam ple to the world. May it lie that of popular afcsndency used with mildness and moderation! A deputation of the citizens of the Sediion of Croix-llouge appeared at the bar of the Airem bly, 011 Sunday, and delivered their lentiments by the mouth of their orator, in the following terms " For the four last years the people have been ailailed with plots, which seem to have been favored, seconded, nay even concerted by those who surround the Executive Power. u What evil genius has been the adviser of Louis XVI. ? Forgetting his perjuries, we have placed him upon the most brilliant throne in the Unive 'fe, and yet he hath forgotten his be nefactors ! You have enacted two most excellent De crees, one against the Priesthood, another for forming a Catnp of Reserve,/ and he hath refu led to fanftion them ! You disbanded a Guard audaciously aristocratic, and he hath recurned thanks to it for its conduct, by means of a Pro clamation ! Most excellent Ministers formed his Council —'ie hath difmilfed them ! " This hath given us the most lively alarm. We wish to carry terror to the hearts of the Conlpirators, and to teach them that the Constitution shall never perish, as long as one of its Defenders remains alive. u Permit the Aflemblies of this Section to be permanent. Armed and devoted to your cause, we shall then be able to fly to your defence in a single moment." [After a short, but spirited debate, a decree pajed, nem. con. Jor the appointment of a Spfcul Com niiilion, to consider and jeport on the dangers that funound France.] The Capt. of a French Packet, which arri ved 011 Wednesday night at Dover, brings in telligence that a general a<stion has taken place between the French and Austrian armies, that it was a hard fought battle, attended with ve ry great flanghter, the Auftrians having 10,00:: killed and wounded, and the French upwards oi 5000, but that the victory was greatly in favor of the French. Menen and some other places are taken by the French, and they were besieging Mons, wh'ch they expelled to carry. The Gorgon of 44 guns, Capt. Parker, from Jackson's Bay, arrived at Portsmouth, failed from Spithead the I Jth March, 1791, and reach ed her destined port tlie 22d of September fol lowing. They found this infant colony in the greatest distress, being in want of every necelfary of life, and by no means in that fertile Hate repre sented, nor is there the Itrongeft probability oi' its ever being rendered so* The Gorgon left the wretched settlers 7 2 spirits, with every fpeyes ofpro vifions fne could possibly spare, Barrington, of famous memory, is appointed by Governor Philips, High Constable of Parra matta, a new fettiement about 14 miles from Sidney Cove, in which he conducts himfelfwith great propriety, and distributes justice in the nioft impartial manner, discovering in his deci sions Angular abilities and humanity. BOSTON, August 27. In addition to the Foreign Intelligence, wc can briefly add—That Pari , continued in great ferment—That the King dared not appear it: public—That vast numbers were daily leaving France—That the change in the French admi nistration, as proceeding folcly from the King, was deemed the 1110 ft important event that could ever have taken place ; the iflue is ex pected to be either a counter-revolution, or the aflaffination of the King—That the King of Hungary was not dead, but was very ill; —and that the British government had equipped for sea a fleet of observation, under Lord Hood. We are forrv to inform the public, that the Raft Ship, which failed from this port, was on Thursday last week quitted at sea, being full of water. The crew took to their boats, and four of them arrived here in a lchooner from Liver pool, yeftcrday. Extrail of a Utter dated Macao, 13M December, 1791, to a gentleman tn-thi* town. li Captain Kendrick had his veifel attacked on the coast, and the natives got pofTeflion of his deck ; however, after killing about forty na tives, they recovered her ; the natives had so far poflcflion, that they handed over into their canoes, iron, copper, guns, &c. without leave or licence. I forgot in my last to mention to you I discovered seven islands in the South Seas, which I am sure from an examination of the dif ferent voyages from the year 1400 to the pre lent date, all my charts, and globes of modern date, were never discovered before ; they are between the Marquefa's and the Sandwich I fie s. My journals being on board, puts it out of my power to transmit you by the present convey ance their particular latitude and longitude. However, the French ship I mentioned to you in my last, arrived here from the >3. W. law of them, and claimed them as a new dif coveryj but on examining my journals," the lfles they had seen were the fame we had seen a month before them." We farther learn, that the natives of the N. Weft got pofftffion of the brig Wamington, Capxt. Kendrick, who killed sixty of them before he could recover his veilel—and that the two leamen of the Columbia, Capt. Gray, who were iwaifacred on that coa{t, did belong toNatucket, by the names of Folgier and Barnes. That our countrymen are not allowed to fell their Furs inChina,is certain—and it is equally certain it's not as has been said, through the British influence—as we find they equally fuffer —In the London price current of the 20th April, the General Coote, Captain Baldwin, from China, entered fifteen cales of Sea-Otter Skins, brought from Canton. Philadelphia, Sept. 5. The Patent Condu&or from Fire, is now of fered to the public by the Inventor, Samuel Green, No. 59, Gold-street, New-York—or by Mr. William Zanies, Philadelphia. Prices from 10 to 14 dollars. These machines are so easily mnde use of, fays the Patentee, that a boy of 12 years old, who never saw one before, can fix them instant ly, and deliver twenty persons, and furniture in proportion, every minute, from the grcateft heighth. Their utility mull therefore be very apparent. 111 our last it was. mentioned that Mr.Napper Tandy was acquitted on his trial for challeng es J°hn Toler, Esq. the King's Solicitor Gene ral, Ireland. The following remarks on the above trial appear in an Etiglifh paper. " That in lupport of the indictment, charg ing Mr. Tandy with endeavoring, by letters and otherwise, to excite and provoke Mr. To ler to fight, it was allowed by Mr. Tandy, that he did write the letters fpecified—and Mr. Smith, Mr. Tandy's friend, declared in evidence, his belief—that Mr. Tandy meant to provoke Mr. Toler to fight—and wijhed to put the necejfity of challenging on Mr. Toler.—Mr. Tandy, never tbelefs, was acquitted of endeavoring to excite Mr. Toler to jght. Mr. Tandy considered Mr. Toler to have gi ven the offence, and accordingly called on him for an explanation ; —yet strange to find—Mr. Tandy expected that Mr. Toler would lend him (the affronted party) the challenge. It is evident Mr. Toier was for fettling mat ters inftantlv—and it is as evident, that Mr. Tandy's backwardness to fight, increaled in pro portion to Mr. Toler's forxvardnefs. Yet this hero of heroes—this redoubtable Napper Tandy, was chaired after his acquittal, and illumina tions made on his account, that his courage, it is presumed, might appear the more conjpicucus. Extract of a letter from a person in a dijlanl State ... jl. L J. i to the Editor. " Nothing can shew more plainly the ill dis positions of certain slanderers of government, than their misrepresentations of the Poll-Office law. They (tick at nothing to blacken the cha racters of our rulers. It seems, on trial of the Poft-Office law, impoflible that even such lrien as the writers of scandalous paragraphs, Ihould be hardy enough to charge the authors of that law with a design to stop the newspapers and to deprive the people of any means of knowing how their affairs are managed. Not to men tion that the provisions of that art carry on their very face a strong desire to diffufe politi cal information, experience has Ihewn already that the law is well calculated for that purpose. For it is well known that your papers formerly came so seldom and so irregularly, that several of your customers were discouraged and have dropt your G; -.ette, notwithstanding their high approbation of it, and their curiosity to under stand public tranfartions. Since the firft of June however, when the Poft-Oifice art came into operation, I have not miffed receiving one of your paper*, and I have no reason to appre hend any difappointnient in future. 0 111 M. Rolland, one of the French Ministry, late ly difmified, wrote the following letter to the King on that occalion : u Sire, " The present state of things cannot conti nue long; it is a violent crisis. The French have made t! emfelves a conftitutior; this con- 1 liitution has made a number of malcontents. The minority relying on culpable hopes, intrigue with a high hand for the lupport of monarchy. Your Majesty enjoyed great prerogatives, and has not been able to bear the idea of losing them. From this the enemies of the constitution have counted upon secret prote&ion. Your Majesty must at present chufe the alternative, either of yielding up these habitudes, or of being fulpeft ed of complicity. Every thing has its term ; that of uncertainty is arrived. Will your Ma jesty choole to defend the constitution, or to range on the fide of the enemies of France?— The declaration of rights is become the Evangil of the people. Country is no longer a vain word. The Revolution cannot but be com pleated, even though it be terminated at the price of blood. The Priests disturb the state ; iandlion the decree which was intended to re press them. Do not oppole the national will. Sanction the decree for the levy of twenty thou sand citizen soldiers." A writer in one ot the Eastern papers, fays— " It is with singular plealure I obftrve the thriv ing state of agriculttne, commerce, and arts in every pat*t of the country I have visited. At no former period of the last twenty-five years, have people so gencrglly enjoyed the bltflings of pcace, plenty and fatisfattion. It is a remark of farmers in the interior country, that people were never be fore so industrious, and never acquired property so tafias at the present time. This industry is, through the northern states, rewarded with the molt plentiful crops ever known. Three years ;:gq industry languished, and multitude s of people were wandering about the country in quest of < mploymcnt. Day laborers were about the flreets of our large towns in herds. But times are chang ed. It is now almost lmpoifible to procure la borers at any price. In the town and country there is more employment than men—the mecha nic's undertaking retarded, and the farmers crops wafting in the field for want of laborers. Even emigration totheweftern lands is checked by this lavorable state of btifinefs, " Let the reader pause a moment and enquire what is the cause of this new and unexpected change of affairs. To what phyfical s moral or political energy shall this flourifliing state of things be alcribed ? There is but one anlwer to tliefe enquiries ; Public credit is rejlorcd and ejla bltjhed. The general government, by uniting, and calling into action, the pecuniary rclources ol the ftaies, has created a new capital stock of seve ral millions of dollars, which, with that before exifli ng ,\is dire&ed into every branch of bufintfs, g'.ving life arid vigor to industry in its infinitely divcVhfied operations. The enemies of the gene ral government, the funding and the National Bank, may bellow tyranny, arijlocracy and specula tors ihiough the Union, and repeat the clamorous din as long as ; but the attual Hate of .gricubure and commerce, the peace, the content merit and fatisfatf'on of the great mass of people, ;;ive the lie to their aflertions, and stamp on them in capitals, Vox et praterea nihil. It is furpr.iftng tliis pouting whining herd of dilappointed wiong hcads will not be Jilent and retire with shame from public notice, when they fee all their viiionary predi6tions falfified, and instead of their eXpeded calamities, thev fee the public mind at ease, and .ill parts of the community congiatulating each other on the full enjoyment of the bleflings of peace, liberty, fafety and general prosperity. One would think that baffled ambition itfelf would retire from aflailingour ears and annoying our bappinefs ; af;er having fcr two years mur mured out its puny whinings m vain. But why should government be exempted from the vexa tions of harbonng toes in its bosom ? There was a Judas among the difciplcs of Jesus, and the joys of paradifc were interrupted by the leftlefs ambi tion of a Satan. How then can the moil perfect ' fyflem of human government fatisfy all the wants and wishes of its fnbje&s ? " And little less than angels, would be more." Those who deny that they are enemies of the j government, and yet labor to undo all that the! government has been three years in doing, af-i fume all ihapes and use even contradictory pre tences to carry their point. They call thern felves firnple republicans, and they of course abhor, as they afFedl to fay, the fine spun theo ries and new fangled visions which Congress lias adopted from the Minister of the Treasury.— The irredeemable quality of the debt, the bank, and almost all the principles drawn from ma thematics, the most certain of the sciences, are called schemes and visions with which the Se cretary has bewitched the country. The fame men do not however allow the merit of these new invented schemes to the Secretary. Jea lous of giving credit for any thing, they fay he treads in the steps of the British financier. Ac cording to these confident wife men, our sys tems are at the fame time fanciful theories and servile imitations of the pra&ice and experience of other nations —they want invention and they have too much of it—they are whims that no perlon in his wits ever thought of before, and they are dull and stupid because other nations have done just so. This is blowing hot and cold with the fame breath. But if the people can be made to abhor the laws of Congress the I end will juflify the means. Thole who recommend good order and who aid those who inculcate it will be right ninety times out of an hundred ; for there will not happen one occasion in a million when the peace of society will not be found to be of more wort! than any thing that the people will gain by dis turbing it ; the agents of mifchief will gain, though the people may fuffer ; for by blowing up the coals of discord, they will be hired to work at the bellows. Many political bullies who wrangle themselves into places become ti;e quieted men till they lose pofleflion—and ther they have only to begin another fcjuabble. COMMUNICATIONS. That the debt of the United States is dimi nished one million eight hundred forty-five thou fan d two hundred seventeen dollars and forty-two cents, is a fa(sl—and that it is a fa<st is the rub—it rubs off one of those raifreprefen tations on which the junto founded their prin cipal pretence to patriotilm. But as this fatffc is so stubborn a testimonial in favor of the ad ministration, it mud be obscured, and, if pofii ble, overwhelmed—by what ?—by the abomi nable crime of funding and providing for a part of the public debt, which was as due as any other part of it—and this is called en- CTcafing the debtl It is the most fortunate thing for the enemies of the government, that Con grcfh have considered the publicJaUk as sacred and as binding as private faith —had a different line of conduct been adopted, our pre'ent de claimers, to have been confident, inuft have been silent. What a clamor rung thro' the continent during the firft > ear ol the new government, because COll - delayed funding the debt—because they did not provide for the defencelefs frontiers—did not protest trade and, manufa&ures—with a score of other complaints. All these things have been at tended to, and the laws fecm to operate as well as was expected. But the peal is now rung against those a6ts. The government would get nothing by turning Quaker, for one cheek is smit ten, these angiy men stand ready to finite the other also. At a Meeting of ftindry Inhabitants of theWeftern Counties of Pennsylvania, held at Pittsburgh, August 22, 1792, The following report of a Committee was unani- inoufly adopted, viz.— Strongly impressed with a sense of the fa tal consequences thac mull attend an Excise, con vinced that a tax upon liquors which are the com mon dtink of a nation operates in proportion to the number and not to the wealth of the people, and of course is unjust in itfelf, and oppreflive up on the poor : taught by the experience of other countries that internal taxes upon consumption* from their very nature, never can effe&ually be carried into operation, without veiling the offi cers appointed to collett them with powers mod dangerous to the civil rights of freemen, and must in the end deflroy the liberties of every country in which they are introduced; feeling that the late Excise Law of Congress, from the present circuwilUnces of our agriculture, our want of mar kets, and the scarcity of a circulating medium, will bring immediate distress and ruin on the Western Country. We think it olir duty to per sist in our remonflrances to Congress, and in every j other legal measure that may obftruft the operati |on of the law, until we are able to obtain its total repeal. Therefore, Resolved, Tliat David Bradford, James Msi fhal, Albert Gallatin, Peter Lisle, and David Philips, he appointed for the purpose of drawing a remonstrance to Congress ilatng our ohj< ftions against the law that imposes a duty up on spirituous liquors distilled within the United States, and praying for a repeal of the lame, and that the Chairman of the meeting be directed to sign the fame in the name of the meeting, and to take proper meafuies to have it prefentcd to Con gress at their next fcflions. RefoJvcd, That in order that our measures mav be carried on with regularity and concert, that Wm, Wallace, [here follow 20 other names] bejc fpesivelyappointed committeesof correspondence for the counties of Washington, Fayette and Al leghany, and that it shall be their duty to corres pond together and with such committee as shall be appointed for the fame purpose in the county of Weftmoreland, or with any committees of a similar nature that may be appointed in other parts of the United States, and also, if found ne cessary, to call together either general meetings of the people in their refpeftive counties, or confer ences of the several committees. And whereas some men may be found amongst us, so far loft to every sense of virtue and feeling for the distresses of this country, as to accept of fices for the collection of the duty. Resolved therefore, That in future we will rtonfider such persons as unworthy of our friend fhip, have no intercourse or dealings with them, withdraw from them every aflittance, and with hold all the comforts of life which depend upon those duties that as men and fellow-citizens wc owe to each other, and upon all occafior.s treat them with that contempt they deserve, and that it be and it is hereby most earnestly recommended to the people at large to follow the fame line of conduct towards thein. On Motion, Resolved, That the Minutes of this meeting be signed by the chaifinan, attested by ihe Cleik,and publiriiediajjie Pittsburgh Gazette. JOHN CANON, Chairman. Attest. Albert Ga l latin, Clerk. The State Bank of South-Carolina was to commence business on the 27th August. We learn that an attempt is now making to render the north branch of the river PotowmaC navigable for boats, from Fort-Cumberland to Old Town. That the work is carried on un der the infpe&ion ofCapt. Thomas Beall, who has sixty hands couftantly employed, and when compleated, boats with produce can pass from Fort-Cumberland to Georgetown. Salt.Da. Rep. SHIP NEWS. ARRIVED at the PORT of PHILADELPHIA. Brig Active, M'Keever, Guadaloupe Mary Ann, Ramage, Havre-dc-Grace Betsey, Merchgay, Port-au-Prince Jenny, Tarris, St. Stbaftians Four Brothers, Robb, Barbadoes Sloop Patron, Gibfon, Nevis Commerce, B. lcher, C. Francois Peggy, WhitalJ, Baltimore Eunice, Griffith, New-Providcnce Pillv. Savannah Schr. Peggy, John, Columbia, Since our Jaft: a ship with four hundred pa-fc fengers has arrived at Wilmington from Ireland. Price of Stocks as in our /<?/?, Skclly, Bray, M'Cormick, Savannah Charlrftou do.
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