wife have been entitled, fliall accrue to the United States. And be it further ena&ed, That this ast (Hall commence, and take effect, from and af ter the last day of May next, and henceforth, the ast, intituled, •> An ast for registering and clearing' v tile Is, regulating the trailing trade, and for other purposes," (hall be re pealed, aud tealc to operate, except as to tae validity oi the legilftn, iccords, enrol, meiits ami litcnics, with I lie certificates and uotuinents, which (liall have been done or {•ranted, in pursuance of thole acls, prior to the firft day of Ju ;e next, wUi'ch (hall con tinue to be of the like fcrce and elleft, as if the laid ails were not repealed - y and except a'lb, as to the prolecution, recovery and dif fibution of and for fines, penalties and for feitures, which may have been incurred, pri or to tlie firft day of June next, for which purpole like wile, the laid ast 5 fnall continue in force. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this ait, (hall be construed to extend to any boat or lignter, not being malted, or if malt ed, and not decked, employed in the harbor of any town or city. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker oj the Houjeoj Reprejentatives. JOHN ADAM. 1 ), Vice-President of the United States, and Prejident of the Senate. APPROVED, FEBRUARY t lB, 1793. GEO. WASHING I ON, Prejident of the Vuited States. Foreign Intelligence. LONDON, Feb. i 3. THE Pegr], belonging to Ply mouth, taken by the French, and valued at 46,000!. is found to be worth j,oool. She was princi pally laden with' the baggage of ioine weft country gentleman, which was coming to Londoli. A French privateer attempted to board the Thane, Smith, for Liver pool, in the Downs. t The Conqueft,Cummins, for Ches ter, was attacked by a row boat off Dover. Two cutters at Rye have carried into that port a large French cutter. A French ariiied row-boat was taken dn Tuesday night, and bro't to Broad Stairs. No formidable blow has yet been (truck ou the part of England or France. Tire Hind sloop has taken a French schooner, privateer from Dieppe, mounting four carriage guns and two swivels, and carrying jo men. The Hind has sent its prize to London. Two lug' fail French privateers have cajiiuied between the north Foreland and Margate, a fuiall fliip and two brigs. The Badger Excise cutter has tak en a Calais filhing boat and carried her into- Dover. Fib. ij. Stocks have this day ris en more than one per cent. The Imperial declaration of war, in the name of the Germanic em pire, has just made its appearance. The King of Pruflia and his ftaff, have all gone into mourning for his late Moil Christian Majesty. It is said that a treaty of marriage is on the tapis between Richard Brinfley Sheridan, Esq. and Mi/s Pamela, a near relation of Philippe Egaliie, and the companion of Ma dernoifelle d'OHeans. In every proceeding from the me morable 14th of July to the present moment, the new ulurpers of autho rity in France have uniformly adopt ed the system of depredation. It was not the general welfare of the public that {breed them up ; it was an eye which ceitain individuals had on the property of others, and having a favorable opportunity to carry thut plan into execution by the murmurs of the people at the enormities of the court party, they seized a lucky moment, dethroned the sovereign, made thentf'elves mas ters of the wealth of the nation, o bliged those who had riches to fly, seized upon'their inheritances, and then parted sentence of death upon them if they ihould return. Hav ing thus far carried the point, they endeavored to seduce the rabble of other countries to commit similar infurretftions : for it is the maxim nf robbers to cry down hone(ty,and level all mankind to one common flandard. An effe£ltial cure for the bite of a mad frenchman. Mix a grain of common sense in the milk of human nature, with two grains of honor and half a drachm of loyalty : and let the patient take this, night and tporning.and lie will be in hisfeiifcs all day. . It looks as if the French, in esta blishing republicanifin, wilhed also* to bring back paganism. The cbui ch of St. Genevieve is now call ed the Pantheon ; and the fii It god placed there was the god a god that had he lived a few months linger would uioll probably have been hanged. Since lhe Frei.<h firft swore to es tablish a constitution, there have been ;ibout two hundred different Mi nijiets. I hey are now making ano ther Conjiitutian ! With what body of men, or what Minister could any power in Europe negociate ? Since the days when Roman de bauchery, and the abolition of pub lic and private worlhip unnerved the aims of that miglny empire which gave laws to the univerfe,we have not had so great and fofudden a Itibverlion of honor, honelty and virtue in any nation of the world, as thar which has tumbled France into its present abyss of barbaril'm. Tranquility and order are efta bliflied in every part of Savoy, and the people happy in their change of government. The inhabitants of Constantino ple have again began toexprefs their diflatisfaction with the administra tion ot the Grand Vizier, by letting fire to the city in the night. Such are the dreadful effetfis of popular difconrent, where the people have no conlVituiional mode of repre senting rlieir grievances The French are paying every pos sible attention ,to the coultrucftion of the works of Cherbourg, which had been for a time discontinued, and ro the repair of tliofe of Dun kirk. Thele two ports will be the principal flat ions of their ptiva teets ; the one opposite to Portl nrouth, the other to the mouth of the Thames. Cherbourg will at this time admit of a {hip of 74 guns. The Dauphin is lodged in the Mayor's house until the Convention determine his fate ; he is prevented feeing the Oueen— and the mod fa vorable opinion of his punilhinent is perpetual imprifomnent. The last requests of the unfortu nate Louis breathe the foul of mag nanimity, an<l a mind enlightened with the fined ideas of human vir tue. He appears not to be the man which his enemies reported. His heart was found—his head was clear —and he woqld have reigned with glory, had he but poflelled those faults which his aflaflins laid to his charge. His inind poflefted the ftig geltions of wisdom ; and even in his last moments, when the fpiric of life was winged for another world, his lips gave utterance to them, and he fpuke With firmnefs and with re signation. Thus has ended the life of Louis XVI. after a period of four year's detention, during which he experi enced from his fubjeifts every spe cies of ignominy and cruelty which a people could infli& 0:1 the moll fangninary tyrant. Louis XVI. who was proclaimed at t\ie commence ment of his reign, the Friend ofthe People, and by the Condiment As sembly, the Restorer of their Liber ties— Louis, who but a few years since was the mod powerful" Mo narch in Europe, has at lafl perilhed on the fcaffoid. Neither his own natural gootfpefs of heart, his de sire t-o procure the happiness of his fubjeifts, nor that ancient love which the French enterr;iined for their Monarch, has been fufficient to save him from the fatal judgment. Confidential letters from France give ns reason to believe, that the National Convention will propose to put up to (ale one fourth of the lands of the Republic, to defray the expences of the war. But who will become the purchasers ? The es tates of the Emigrants do not find a marker, for there are no bidders. On Friday Mr. Flint, the messen ger, arrived in town with dispatches from Lord Auckland at the Hague. Very serious apprehensions are en tertained of the fuccels of Dumou rier in Holland, where the fatSious party rather increases than dimi niflies ; but, as jet, there is no news of his irruption into the Dutch ter ritories. 36 2 - Orders have been sent from the Admiralty to Aifanira) Crofby, coin niandtr in chief of his, Majesty's (hips at Plymouth, to burn, fini and dcftroy si) vrflels belonging to. the French naiion ; -an account having been received, that a large French frigate had been ft:en oft 'the God win. The Parliament of Ireland having determined to grant relief' to the Catholics, they are now turning their thoughts to the Proteftanc clergy. It is in contemplation to equalise all the livings, and to re duce the number of hilhops ; every reel or Is to be allowed jool. per ann. and every curate 2001. per ann. His Majesty's most gracious answer to the address of the House of Lords, prefenced yelterday at St. James's. " MyLords, " I return you my liearty thanks for tbis very dutiful and afFeiftioii ate address. " I receive, with the greatest fa tisfadlion, the aQurances of thefirui and effectual fuppoit in the prose cution of the just and neceflary war in which I am engaged, in confe rence of the unprovoked aggrefli on of France ; aivd I trnft that, by the blefling of Providence, my ef forts will be rendered fticcefsful, for maintaining the rights of my people, preventing the extension of anarchy, and contributing to the ferurity of Europe." r The vessel of the late lamented ilr. llunifey, to fail against wind and tide has lately been tried, and was found to fail four knots an hour. The following is the principle upon which it moves :— A pump of two feet diameter, wrought by a (leant engine, forces a quantity of water up through the keel. The valve isthen flint by the return of the (Iroke, which at the fame time forces the water through a channel or pipe of about fix inch es square, lying above and parallel to the kelson, out at the stern, un der the rudder, which has a left dip than usual to permit the exit of wa ter. The impetus of the water, forced through the square channel, against the exterior water, atfts as an impelling power upon the tefl'el. The rumours of yesterday were such as may beexpe&ed at the present crisis. It was circu lated, on the one hand, that General Cuftine and his army had been cut to pieces. It was fu'ggefted on the other, that General Dumourier had been surrounded and destroyed by the army of General Clairfait ! An intelligence more fatisfactory and more confirmed was received by the Dutch mails of yesterday. It was then declared, in the strongest terms, that the division between the Patriots and the Stadtholder was at an end ; and that the sense of their common danger had united the people of Amsterdam in one common bond of union. The rumours of engagemeuts in the channel, we cannot fay, from authority, are without foundation. Several French frigates, and a number of Englifti traders, have been captured by that monitor—Report! An Ambaflador is to be formally announced, in a few days, from Monsieur, as regent, to the Court of Great-Britain. The person named, is the Due d'Harcourt. His reception in the com bined view of etiquette and political .will fiirpifh matter of curious observation. Yesterday M de Curst, Depute des ides du Vent de I'Amcrique, attended by M. Chev. du Buc, and Le Baron de Chaefsontaire, lately ar rived from the French Weft-India settlements, who have petitioned the administration of this country to take their persons and property un der their prote&ion, were presented to the Kmc at St. James's, by Lord Grenville. FRANCE. NATIONAL CONVENTION. January 17. The three defenders of Louis Capet were ad muted to the bar. One of them, Defize, said, " Citizens, Representatives, the law and the deciees havecntrufted to 11s the facrrd funflion of the aefence of Louis. We come, wifb regret to present to you the lafl ast of our fuudion! Louis has given to us his express charge to read to you a letter signed with his own hand, of which the following is a copy : " I owe to my own honor, I owe to my fa. mily, not to fubferibe to a sentence which de clares me guilty of a crime of which I cannot acciilemyfelf. In consequence I appeal to the nation, from the sentence of its teprefentatives ; and I commit, by these presents, to the fidelity ot my defenders, to make known to the Nationnl Convention this appeal, by all the means in their power, and to demand that mention of it be made m the minutes of their fittings. " Given at Paris, the »6th Jan. '1793. • n r l. ( Si « n<:d ) LOUIS." Defeze then relumed the discourse. He re minded the Assembly that the Decree of Deaih had only been pronounced by a majority ot five voices, while the other part of the Assembly were of opinion that the fafety of the count™ required another decision. He warmly con- J n, r< i J 1 " '° cxam,ne ancw tl, e queftjon of ap ih, ft ? i?""''? humanity, to the interest of rtoufly to' cUim ml ® ht * 0t fwm im P- Tronchet, mother of the defender, „f i Capet, protested the D cirr \ the Aflembly hi should be paired like it, othrr j ' fe, ." cu « aofolute majority. He d", r|l d ! C ' Ct '' b > - -he Decree, observing, th " 't* * had frtved at , h e bafll g of th < P ™< Code who I,ad pronounced the pumlwT ? ft •he Aflemblv ought, conC,^. not to pronounce the puu.lhmcni excelt ' thirds of the voices. P l hytwx>. Larnaignon Malefoerbes, the . , , 'b W* «he Convention t 0 aHowZ °n to-morrow u> p.efen, f„„, c ohfe,,,"'"" kind °l majority, which to him ktjj " " fary. before sentence fhouW have be nounced. He resetted tUt he crmia extempore with f u ffi cicnl facilltv to explain his ideas. ' e hun The President inlonned the .l Convention would takethci, , „ i ' 1,1,1 the Uvited vem^S m,iebyß#b " f P i -.^Coo. I. That the appeal intetpofed by I,Hi„C,Dd is null, being contrary to the ri.hi, of Vh- P pte. and to the powe'r u s naStfc tion ; and that all citizens ate P " port this appeal, under Dam nit acn|of"p ---» disturbers of public tranquility™* pao ' fl>i:d 11. That there are no grounds f«. ... j to the remonftrancei of the Counsel o! lS?™* regard to the nature of the majority whirh rIVI sentence upon him. J * hich faffed The discussion of the qucftion, whether it would be proper to lufpend the execqnon of ,he sentence palled agamft Louis Capet? was »rf journed to next day. The Convention s at eleven at night, after a fitting which continued thirty-fix hours. HAGUE, February 5. This afternoon intelligence wag received here, that Ruremond has been raken by the Pruilians, and that the French lofl a great number of men. AMSTERDAM, Feb. 7, On the 2d inft. his royal hijrhneCi Prince Frederick ofßrunfwick efta hliflied his head quarters in the city ofGueldres. The French retireon all fides at the approach of the Pruf (ians, who have already formed a jonrtion with the advanced polls of the Aufhian general Count de Clair, fait. The army of the latterisftid to consist of 45,000 efFeifiive men. The present state of the Ruffian fleet in the black sea, underthecom mand of Rear Admiral Ribas, who has received orders to fail on a fe crct expedition, is as follows : Six teen ships of the line, one of which carries 80guns ; fourlargefrigates; two smaller ones ; fr»e ai meA bn«t•„ a bomb vefiel, and several firefhips anfl armed transports. At Nicolai and Chei son, several Ruffian fliipt of the line and frigates are con ftruc r ting. Domestic Articles. BALTIMORE, April 9 . Yesterday arrived here,fromMar feilles, in France, the ship Harmo ny, Capt. Wilfiam Robinson, which place he lefr on the rjth of Febru ary— Capt. Robinson put into Gib raltar, which place he left on the 26th of February—He informs, that oil the 71 It of February,the harbor mailer of Marseilles received orders to unfliip the rudders of the En glilh anil Durcli vellels in that port, and accordingly did fo—Thar as fofliitas the news of war readied Marseilles, they imniediarely began fitting out privateers—That two privateers failed in company with the Harmony from Marseilles—That in three'days after Capt. Robinson failed, there would be ready fir sea upwards of 18 fail out of that port, from 4 to 24 guns each—That on the 20th of Feb. a French piiva ccer of r 4 guns, fell in with fix fall of English and Dutch off Cape Palos; took five, and one brig made heref cape to Gibraltar. From a Corrcfpondetit. Notwithstanding ihe fa (filiating power of the words Liberty and Equality human nature recoils with horror at the late maflacre of Louis the XVlth ; and the hiftoiy of the present day mud (lamp a complexi on so fangiiioary on the French na tion, that time (hall not, for cento ries,be capable of effacing ir. Whilst Amcr'tca views with delegation and anxiety, the bloody scenes now act ing on the theatre of Europe, let it be her care to avert ihofe evils, by declining all interference in the contention ; Jet her circling arms of peace embrace the whole world, and her doors of hofpitaliry fly open to diftrefled flrangers, of all nati ons, whatever be the motives wjiich
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