Foreign Intelligence. PARIS, February ! i AS the opening of the campaign appi ouches, our attention is tui tied Ir»»ni our internal, aiiiiiiij.i fits to the external enemy. Ihe molt vigorous cfiorts to reciuit ihc army aie making both by the mini!- tet J anxl by individuals. The committee of legislation pro poled this morning, that thole per sons in cuttody for being engaged in infurrec'tions on account of ilie dear liels of provisions, Ihould he rele,if ed. After fotne debate, the Conven tion dec;eed a general atnnelly tot all olfences of this dfcfcription previ ous to the execution ot the laic King, murder and burning houses onl^Texcepted. Merlin obtained an exysnfion of the amnesty to all of fences committed in oppoluioti to claims of feudal tights. The Corvention is now debating the plan of the Military Comi)wt,ec for recruttiug and nationalizing the army—that is, putting an end to all distinction between troops of the line and volunteers. Both Pache and Rolautl are talkrd ot for the Mayoralty. The former is Said to have obtained a majority ot the votes in feveial Sections The citizens of Marseilles have made a contribution in Specie of a million of iivres for the Support of the war. We are flattered with hopes that none of Latouche's Squadron foun dered in the Mediterranean ; that mod of the Ships and tranfpons have joined Truguet ; and that the ob ject of the expedition, the conqtieft of Sardinia, will soon be atcliieved. We have a report that Dubucand C lairfontaine, agents from Martini co ami Guadaloupe, have concluded an agreement with the Britiih mi nistry, for putting those illands un der the protection of Great-Britain, in trull for Louis XVII. and that Bouille is to be furnifhed with trans ports, atid a convoy to carry 8000 emigrants to Sr. Domingo, where he is to allume the title of Governor General of the Fretich Weft India Colonies. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 3 By a royal editft of the 7th of No vember, 1792, the trade with the Danish feu lenients upon the coast of Guinea, is declared to be fiee to all nations whaifoever, without ex ception, trading in foreign built ftiips, and without any restraint re fpe«fting the articles of importation or exportation, including negroes. : it being understood, however, that these (hall not be exported till the end of the year 1802, conformable to the decree of the 16th of March, 1792 : Audit is ordered, that, for the maintenance of the forts, there ihall in the mean time, be paid for every male or female negro, ex ported from the f.iid fettletnems, and d-eftined for the Danifli and o ther colonies, the fuui of ten crowns currency of Derimatk. The half of this duty Ihallj however, be re mitted on each female negro im ported into the Danish Well India islands, upon the produiftion of the certificate of such female negro having been exported from the Da nish settlement 011 the coafl of Gui nea, and of -the duty on exportation having been duly paid. AMSTERDAM, Keb. 13, It is easy for an occafio»>al refi tlent to discover the prevailing anx iety of all ranks of people in this . capital. An enemy is at the gates of the Republic, who, without -any provocation from the government or from individuals, Without any ' ground of jealoufyor apprehension, and contrary to what that enemy has declared, and preached, and sworn, is now-menacing its very vi tals ; and, under the pretext of peace and good-will to tn?n, bring ing thousands of unprincipled va gabonds to fpresd desolation among en honed, indullrious people, and attfewpt the overthrow of that Con ftitotlon fi»r which whole generati- ons w ere born,and lived,and fought, and died hi war, ay>d which they wow enjiSy every poflible i'ecu rity and comfort. Those who were generally called Patriots in the Se veil Provinces, are not delirous ot ■ feeing an enemy that knows ot no The views of thole Patriots, *re to narrow the bottom of Arilloct acy, and of Magistracy, by confining places and pu»er to their own families. The influence of the Prince of Orange Ipreads those places, and that power among a greater number : the Ft eiich make it wider Hill,and leave ilie Pa triot* no more of either thanVoiild be granted to thole who are now employed in the Rasp hotrfe. itie frontier towns ate but inadequately garrisoned. Maeltricht is the molt cxpofed, and it is the bell defended. 1 am told liue Hague gariilim, is lo march to morrow foi Breda, and that the army begins to incieafc by the success of the recruiting service. Letters are just received here to inform a number ot the principal houses, that the Duke Frederick of Brunfwick is arrived at Venloo,and has taken poUeffion oftliat garrif'on with 6000 PrtilfianS. 1 his newp gives great farisfadtion, as Venloo was dtfencelefs, and is only a few miles from Maeltricht, commanding the lame river. The lame intelli gence adds, that M. de Clairfait is informed of this advance of the Prultians, and will immediately let ,tle with the Prince Frederick furnie early plan of attack. The natural defence of Holland is at the fame time applied to. Great tratfis of the lands of thegeneralty are under water ; and it is said that precautions are taken on the rivers and the different Itrairs in Zealand. On the other hand, it is well known, that the Dutch, who have been expatriated since the year 1757, are afletnbled at Antwerp, where they are formed into a legion, call ed the Dutch Legion, composed, however, of whatever they can get into it, as well as of the native dif concents. Tliefe men who biought their country to the edge of ruin, and beyond the edge of difgrace,by their dilputes, and mode of lett Ting those disputes with the Emperor Jo seph in 1784; these men are now panting to introduce a mqft otis and unfatiable enemy into t,he heart of their mother country ; these are all acftir.g under the nod of Dumourier, and forget that he has thousands of armed Frenchmen, to whom he can alio diciate, and who will not be fatisfied with the mere fight of the riches of Holland. LONDON, Feb. 18 The militia in Ireland are to be 16,000, viz. a regiment of joo for each county. The Majors, as well as adjutants, ate to be couftatuly in pay. . , . Six 38 gun frigates, to be built in the river, were contra<fted for on Thursday last by the Cotnniiflioners of the Navy, The military eftablifliment for I 793 will be the greatest ever raised, in Ireland by a vqi.e of Parliament,, since the landing of Henry M. up wards of 20,000 regulars, and a mi litia which will amount to 16,000 ; making in all an army of 36,000 men. The port-office packets pass, as usual, from Dover to Calais ; and other paflage boats will soon. The Prussian army are fuffering dreadfully by the want of forage.— The country, foi fifty miles, ou this fide of Coblentz, is nearly covered with their dead horses. The late unfortunate Louis XVI. was the firfl King that humanely in terposed, and released his fubjetfts from abjeiS slavery. In the year 1788, he totally aboliflied the pu nilhment of torture, which was in practice there from the earliest ages. He also allotted Council to all cri minals, being the firft indulgence, ever granted them ; anclordaitied, that 110 sentence of death be pafled on any person, except found guiliy by two thirds of his judges, altbo' a majority of one judge was to ac quit. Besides these acfts of clemen cy, to (hew his difintereftediiefs, and to destroy all temptation of perverting justice, he decreed that no forfeiture, in cafe the accused was found guilty, lhould take place, but from the day of sentence, and not from the day on which the crime 370 was committed. 11l fated Monarch . whose firlt and principal care was the relloring the freedom, encreaf ing the wealth, and easing the bur thens of his fubjtifts, and who in re turn, in the course of four years,, was not only reviled,- periecuted, and imprisoned, but at lalt brought to an untimely death —A lamenta ble instance of the instability of all human gieatnefs! and an example to teach us with what contempt and disregard we (hould behold all the pomps aud vanities of ibis uncertain life. Frb. 21. Monf. Pelitier, in his late picture of Paris, fays, England is the only power that has effectually attacked France. Armies will have little force, unless they are preced ed by measures capable of weaken ing ilie monster which is to be van quished, and England alone has de- Icribed the true place in which it was vulnerable. War mull be de clared against the alfignats : those aflignats with which the patriots have hitherto bought corn, iron, gold, and the secrets of their ene mies, & with which they would buy their enemies themselves ; it from one extremity of Europe to the o ther, they were totally proscribed, if all communication was intercept ed from Archangel to Malta, the Republic would have neither a sack of corn, nor a horse, nor an ox, nor a cannon ball, and certainly before the expiration of fix months, the three millions of armed Republi cans, bnried in an ocean ot paper and murmurs, would fall at the teet of the coalesced powers, and give up their arms for a morsel of bread. LIVERPOOL, Feb. 16 A curious effigy of Paine the li beller, was prepared at Wigan, on Monday 1 alt, and lodged in the pri son under a gU:ird of two armed men. On Tuesday morning he was brought out in a cart, attended by a mock clerical/and taken to Scholes, where the belt post he meritted was ready to receive him. He was tucked up for about two hours, afterwhich he was taken down and thrown in to a fire, prepared for the purpose. The procession was attended by Capt. Stanley, and his new raised coil)pany of volunteers—who joined the populace in shewing their con tempt for a cliaraiSerfo highly wor thy the detestation the people of this kingdom have so generally (lie wll hiin. The above circumstance will be a severe shock to the tender feelings of a brother editor in another coun try, whose powers offenfibility have been so frequently wounded on fi milaroccafions. We mean the man, who ridicules the idea of f'orrow for the death of the French king—yet almost breaks his heart with grief and indignation at the mere report of his dear Paine being hung in ef figy- For some time it has been the fa fhion with our Liverpool ladies, to wear poppy coloured or dark red ribbands. But let them consider that the female savages of France, at this time wear the fame colour, and call it the blood of Louis. Then in abhorrence of French barbarity, let our Englilh ladies throw off with contempt thofo colours which are worn to distinguish the enemies of royalty and the levers of human blood. In the Exeter flying poll of Thurs day last, an umbrella maker, of the name of Driver, concludes his ad vertisement by faying, " It will be ulelefs for any person to apply to hi in for umbrellas, oil-cases, cloaks, &c. but such as are friends to our excellent king and glorious consti tution j as he is determined not to be the means of flickering thole from the inclemency of the weather, wbofe pernicious principles would expose the happiest nation in the woild to the hideous (lonnsof anar chy, confufion, insurrection, devaf lation, ruin, and murder." Paine's speech on the question of the French king's being put to death, is said to he the molt humane of any in the convention ; which (hews that the molt mischievous,. treacherous, and bad man in En gland, appears to be the .bed man in France. Domestic Articles. ALEXANDRIA, (Vjr.) April 10 . We have good authority to in. for." tl.e public, that boats are dai y palling on Hotowmac from Cum be. land,and the intermediate space Kails and the mouth of alt s> dranch, with flour and other produce; there have already been 4000 bartfeh landed at the t ails, and 300 c bui rels at lenft Ui>d ed at Watt's branch, this lealon , that William's port, h is become the place o 1 depolit for gicat part of the Andietera and Connegochcaoue' settlements.even into Pennsylvania and that it is calculated from 15 20,®00 barrels of flour, belides iron tobacco, Wheat, See. will be brought down the Potowmac, through its improved navigation, in the courle of the pref'em year. The locks at the little falls will be finilhed i n all September. There is a fair prof petft that the vigor with which the Potowmac company are pursuing the objet't of their incorporation wilt reduce the land carriage from George's Creek to tide-water, to 500 yards, before the fit It of January. Four hundred men are engaged in the work, and it is expected they will b§. increased to 600. Cumberland is riling with more rapidity perhaps than any inland town in America, and the calh price of wheat there, from 4s. to 4s. 3d. (dollars at 7s. 6d.) is filling its weil ern neighbourhood with induilrious inhabitants. The public works carrying on,in the city of Walhington, n»\v em ploy 2JO men ; and preparations for private buildings in the city,and eretSing mills and other improve ments in its vicinity, employ as gteat a 11 umber. FREDERICKSBURGH, April ft. A correspondent informs us, that a Patent will fhurtly pass the Presi dent's seal to secure to several con gressional dill liits in this state, the benefits arising from a iateandmofl important discovery they have made, that talents are not effintral in L-gVfl'a tion : But as an extension of this privilege to the usual term might create jealousies in other diftriifts, it is expected the exclusive right will not be guaranteed to the in ventois for a longer time than two years ; during which period we (hall doubrlefs have an oppor tunity ofjudging of this wonderful invention. NORFOLK, (Vir ) April 10. On Saturday la(t arrived lierethe sloop Farmers, Capt. Drinkwater, in 12 days from St. Martin's, by whom we have received the following in telligence, That a velTel had arrived express rom France in 22 days, at Guada loupe, on the 20th of March, and on the next morning war was pro claimed by beat of drum against the King and Parliament of England, and the United States of Holland ; all the English and Dutch veflels were ordered to quit the port with in 24 hours after the declaration— that the principal Dutch merchami at St. Euftatius were removing to Sr. Thomas's—that as soon as the intelligence was known at St. Mar tin's, the Dutch veflels were taken from the French port, and carried round to the Old Bay—that no in telligence had been received of the arrival of Lord Hood in any part of the Weft Indies, nor was there any greater British force than usual —that it was reported that Dumou rier had made a fuccefsful incursion into Holland, and the day was fixed upon to determine the fate of the Queen. BALTIMORE, April 12. From a CorrcJ'pondtnt. We learn that the citizens of the state of Delaware, are to be invited to an union with those of Pennsyl vania and Maryland, for the pu l- - pose of removing the obltrutSions in the Sufquehanna, and rendering that river navigable through its se veral branches to the tide-water ot the bay of ChePapeake, and ofcom muni'catiug theChefapeake by means ■
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