immediately fro.n bunting to agriculture—
Thi» leeras to ha»e been tlie cafe with tiie
.ancle,it Greelcs and tlie Peruvians. Other*,
in a certain of their progrellion, praftile
fouic-thing that belong to every state ol ini
provejjAenT, without taking a cltara{hr lr-oni
either—This f r>pens generally wl.en the
tranlitiort it f ; from one |.erind ot im
provement 10 another. Tlie progress or nar
nont in.refine.-rnr li by no mea's equal; a
combination of natui al and moral causes may
accele-ate or retard thjir advancement —
.V favorable climate, a genial foil, a healthy
atmnfijlieve, rapid population, iecurity from
invasion, and domeltic peace, flatten their
progrefi i i improvement—while, on the con
trary, circuniftai ces the leverfeof the le have
an oppofi'c effect.
Again, the neighborhood of an improved
and focia! people—frequent and friendly in
tercourse with them—connections by mar
riage, by treaty and alliance—a mutual com
munication of favors and exchange of com
modities—and efpecia-lly all exertions made
directly for this purpofo, fcften the native fe
rocity of tlieir temper—humanize their affec
tions— cxc re the tender movements of the
foul, and render them fulceptible of liberal
fentimcr.ts and delicate fenlations —inspire
them with a taste tor focietv, and greatly ac
celerate the progress of national refine;
ment.
From tail fuojeft we learn, ift. Thar the
civilization of a lavage nation may be greatly
accelerated by the concurrence of foreign
causes—and 2d. That all attempts for this
purpose, (hould !>e conformable to the natural
order and progress of society.
fSOM A LATE IRISH PAPER,
CURIOUS LETTER.
•* fr' 1 ' 1 '
f The following letter was found, two months
ago, in a porter-house, and we give it to
9ur readers as a curiosity.l
My Dtct Mr. Prii
I ME a very plane man, I hav no lattin and
vene litiel English, tho I can tauke Irish
as fade as any man in Munfter, excep my
wif, \fcho tobe sure can tauke me def; and
afterwards tauke onn til! line tired of hear
ing hur. Eur tlio lme not booklarrid, yet fa
ther Tedy O'Rorke, who is a deepe fkollard,
offten tells me, when lme giving him a jorum
of whiJkey punchy that tholme ignorent, yet
1 hav a goode undurftandirig. But if this be
aule blarny, and if I have no undurftanding
at aule,,this needs nat hindor me from riting
abaute poll/ticks, becaife this is a thing that
every bodie undurftands. But it is time for
me to be after t'elling you what it is I mane.
The society of United Irish men are fartinlv
mity fine peeple ; they can't but noe every
thing,for they hav amung urn aule
aturnits, and bruers, and fteymakurs, and
dotfturs, aud grand jontlemen, who ware for
merly j)arlament men, and, if they ware able
to by burroes, wud be the feme agen;.and
they hav likewevs amung um, pieefts, and
profpiterion miniflurs, and etfeeifts, and aule
the othur religions in the kindom. Now t!.is
society t-ls us that the Frenlhe revoluihon is
the mod charmin, vartuous, noble biznKle
that the wnrld ever fawe, anil that weaut to
lmiteteit as fade as we can. But on the
othur hand, ther ere toppin bookmakers who
five re that it is the mod abominable, hellilh
worke that ever was done sense Addem was
criftened, and that if we attemt any fucli
thing, we fliall deflrey aule Irelcmd, and what
is worfer, diilroy ourselves Now by the velf
ment, these grete peeple bodder me so, by
their palauvering on both fides, that I don't
noe what to think of it, at all at all; and
tiierefoar I lend you my own thaiits about
the fubjetf—l thinks then that ten years is
littei enuff for giving the Frenihe revoluthon
a 'are trie]. It we finde in the yeare 1800
that it has broat to the Frenfhmen, riches,
and honor, and happynefs, and all that, then
in the name of the blefiit virgin, let us aule
drawe our fpedes, and flautn, and fhilelier,
and hav a grand bodderation of our aun. But
iff we fee that it has made the Frenfhmen poor
and infimous, andwiket, then lett us remare
snug, and pafible, and content ourselves with
and singing trezon, and drink
ing rebelion, jest to fho that we are breve
Irish boys,but not carry.the joak any farthur.
In the mane time, until that hapy yeer lha]
come, in which we may pofibly have the ple
fure of cuting one anoders troats, let us be in
duftrus, and ern a grete dele of money, and
save more. For tho England, to be fhure, is
no mach for us, vet in cafe of a war wid hur,
we (hud want sum money.—War is like a
lawfhute ; and I know, to my grief, what's
lawlhute is, for I was almost ruind by gain
ing a cauzt agairift a gossip of mine,that rhet
ed me ; but the devel (hall have all mv gof
fups, men, wimen, and childrin, befoar 1 go
to law with one of um agen. War requires
money as bad as a lawlhute: withoute mo
ney our generuls and cornits, and granny
deers wood'nt fire ; without mony our preefts
wood'nt prey us out of purgaturry, when we
weie kilt; nay, our drummors wood no moar
rattel their fliks without mony, tlmn Coun
cilor O'Curran,. or Counfillor O'Drifcol wood
rattel their tungs without their hire. When
we hav got mony, then wil be the time to in
vaide Englond, take Lunnon, bring it hoam
with lis, and bild it in Belfaft. My deer cou
trymen, every one of yon noes parfitlv, that
you are a wize nafhion ; therefoar, my sweet
duels, take a fool's advice, and be quiet.
I am, my deer printur, your farveut, to
cummand til deth.
PATRICK O'FL AHERTY.
itthhoiy, near Tiperairy,
Cf gm the fvj), 1792.
Foreign Intelligence.
F R A N C E.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
March 19.
THE minilters for the home de
part ment laid before the conventi
on feveial papers refpetfting the dis
turbances which broke out lately in
the departments of La Vendee, La
Loire, Inferienre, &c. referred to
the committee of general fafety.
The minilter for foreign affairs
announced, that several
the population of which pnioiinttd
to forty"or forty-five thonfand per
sons, had exprefled a defite to be
united to the French republic.
Julien moved, that all those who
had been guilty of profanation in
churches ihould be profecuied be
fore the tribunals. — Decreed.
The admiuiftrators of tiie dillrift
of Vendee informed tlie convention,
that being threatened by a body of
rebels, they had called forth tlie
national guards of their diflrift, to
the number of from two to three
hundred men.
The municipal officers ofßochelle
announced, that inflead of 240 vo
lunteers which that place ought to
furnifli, 263 had offered them.felvfs
for the defence of their country;
they added, that the patriotic gifts
already received, amounted to for
ty fix millions, in gold, silver, or
aflignats, and that the women were
bringing in their rings, bracelets
and other jewels. The convent jor
ordered, that honorable mention
should be made in their journals of
this patriotic spirit.
Different bodies of. new raised vo
lunteers filed off through the hall
in the couife of this fitting ; and
swore to live free or die, amidst the
acclamations of the convention.
March 20
A letter from ihe commiflioneis
in the department of Mont Blanc,
announced two advantages gained
by the French troops. They had
taken an important port: in the low
er Alps, where the Piedmontefe loft
27 prisoners. The other affair took
place at 1 he bottom of Mount-Cenis >
from which the Piedmoniefe were
dislodged, with the loss of 30 men
killed.
The minister for foreign affairs
requefled the Convention to take
into consideration the state of the
French who are in Spain and who
he said were fubjeded to the molt
croel proscription.—The Conventi
on ordered the diplomatic commit
tee to give in, daring the fitting,
a report on the measures to be pur
fned for affording protetfion to the
French in foreign countries.
Letter from a CommiJJioner in Belgi
um, to Saiangron, a member of the
Convention.
" Bruflels, March 18.
" Good news.my dear Salangron !
Dumourier for two days has been
butchering the Auftrians and their
cavalry. I hope my next letter will
be dated from Liege. A consider
able force is arrived here from the
north to guard the Belgian towns.
(Signed) " GOSSUIN."
ANDERNACH, (Ger.) March 16.
Since morning, we have heard a
heavy cannonade, which appears to
have proceeded from the environs
of Mentz. All ihe boatmen who
arrive here assure us, that a nume
rous body of PruiTian troops crofled
the Rhine on the 9th inft. near St.
Goar, to cut off all communication
on that fide between the French and
the city of Mentz.
H A G (J E, March 22
Lafl night dispatches were receiv
ed by their High Mightinesses fro.n
the Prince of HefTe Caffel, Governor
of Maeitricht, dated March 20th,
from which we learn, that a 1110 ft
bloody & decisive battle was fought
011 Monday the 18th inft. between
the Austrian army, headed by the
Generalimmo Prince of Saxe Co
bourg, and the French forces un
der the command of Gen. Dumou
rier.
*1 he following are the particulars
which have transpired refpedlirio
this important event : ' °
Qothe 17th Jnftai.t the I'rench
394
drove the AuArians from Tirele
mont, after a nioft heroic refinance,
and with very coriliderable loss.
F1 lifted with this success, Gen.
Duniourier made preparations 10
attack the Auftriaus, on ilie ißlh,
between Landen and Dormel, at
the dift.jnce of fix Englifli miles from
St. Tron, where the Imperial Royal
armies had iheir head quarters. —
The attack commenced at seven
o'clock in the morning, and conti
nued, with the molt dreadful daugh
ter, until half after five in the after
noon, when, through the fupetior
manoeuvres of the Aiiftrians,
and the cnnfnmmaie skill and intre
pid gallantry of the Prince of Saxy
Cobourg, Count de Clairfayt, the
the Archduke Ch.irles, the Prince
of Wurtemberg, and other Imperial
Generals, and the unexpe«fied .arri
val of a corps of Austrian Cuirafliers,
Huffitrj, Challeurs and Dragoons,
t he ranks of the French werebtoke
through from all quarters, and the
latter obliged to take flight, and
leave the Auftriaus mailers of the
field.
Clairfayt and the Archduke
Charles performed prodigies of va
lour, and pursued the French fugi
tives, thousands of whom were cut
111 pieces}
The battle of Landen will form
an epoch in ihe annals of history,
, being a decisive pitched en
, tnull be followed by the
immediate evacuation of the Austri
an Netherlands.
The French fdnght like lions,
but their desperate fury, which.
„ pierced twice through the left wing
of the Imperialists, could not avail
again ft the superior of the
Auftrians.
The Imperial arhl'y broke irp in
the morning of the 19th, tro pursue "
t heir glorious career,-and it being
impoilible the French dispersed "
hosts to rally,-the finaH-corps head
ed by Damourier, which made iu
retreat to Louvain, will be cot off,
and the Aufttians nvuft by thisrinfe _
be matters of Bruflels. The Nati
onal<Guards, to the number of
- 70,000 men, are drawing together,
but having neither djfcipline nor
»i»rder auixxog them, they 111 uft JOOll
-fall vitXims tq their irrefiftable con
querors.
Gen. Beaulieu is before Dinaut,
a few leagues from Namnr, and has
rendered himfelf mailer of Laßoche
and Rochefort, where the French
furtained a loss of upwards of 3,000
men.
Letter frem,the Governor of WiU'ttfm
fladrti their High Mightiness.
High and Mighty Lords,
" I have the honor to report to
your High Miglitinefles, that I have
been inverted by the French troops,
since the 23d of February last. On
the 20th, at five o'clock at night,
one Berneron, calling hiinfelf Camp
Marefchal in the pretended Repub
lic of France, sent ine a summons,
to which I an!were# in writing,
Ti far from intending togiveupthe
place which was entrusted to me,
1 should defend it as a mnn of ho
nor." Accordingly on the next
day, about y o'clock in the morning,
the enemy commenced a very lively
bombardment of this fortrefs; at
tacked it, at the fame time, with
red hot balls: bombs, and grenades.
This latted, with the interval of
feme moments, until the 9th of this
month, when, at it o'clock in the
morning, I received a ferond sum
mons. to which I gave again my re
fufal in writing. Upon this refu
fal, the cannonade recommenced in
the nioft violent manner, and it Con
tinued, at intervals, till this mo
ment, 10 o clock in the morning,
when 1 perceived that the enemy
had retired. I sent diretfly a de
tachment, which found the batteries
of the enemy abandoned, with fomc
cannon, two mortars, and a great
quantity of amunition and siege u
tensils. 1 have had the whole trans
ported into the town.
" High arid Mighty Lords,
" I cannot fuffic'iently praise the
condutfi of the brave gari ifon, which
is under my orders, as well as that
of the Burgefles. The town has
fuffered much. There is not one
house, which it not damaged by the
bullets of the enemy, I (hall have
ilie honor to rend yeupkl.k .
nefles a more detailed report '
ring my lei/ lo Uie
w ,he lieutenant 0 f .I' I*"'.1*"'.
®ent of Saxe Goth., Efi»
er ol the above, (bail baie ,t j"'
nor to make to your hi.»K Ck *"
«»«..
Holfte.n, ol the ,egi Hlei „„/) * f
mette, fcrved as volume,! /
the siege of the town and r
ed ihemfelves in a n.ar. ner
does them much honor." ' * C "
LO NOON, March j
(■eneral Buucjielaar, i|, e ' .
commander at WilJiamJUdt
the 68th year of bis age.
Col ut ,e| 1 ailetoa has offered ,
ral,e a re-june,,, „f |; ght Wva | | to
Major Hai,gp, has made a '
sal 10 government, ,a,her J J '
gular nature, to raise a corps nf J,!
1 among the ccnvit'ts He l
received his answer, ,hat at
government can giv c 110 count#
nance to his application
Commerce. 1., the reign of Eli
z f«h )I Rela r geft V e(leli„ th e^;
°. P o ® l ' was olll y 40 tons Li,r
then, and the tonnage of its W |, o ] e
trade no more than |ij, ~. 1
year 1766, the people of Liver,, oul
had 400 velfels, and their aveLe
burthen was IJO tons. The accn
mulation of two centuries via®;,,
the proportion of 269 to t.
Can n be be!ieved-n', ]mr)lln>r
lately pubblhed a canting proc'a
.nation at Brussels, expreflfite ofthe
deeply in.prefled (enfethe National
Convention of France had of t| e
prpphane insults which had been
offered to the Belgic places of wor-
Hup . What a different kind of
language iliis-is ;o that which he
held out when advancing towards
the Dutch territory.
• Th * de jV' en *' ho have poured
into Dunkirk, Calais, &c. from the
French armies, »rc <« w „f e( , (,
foipe to be no other than the Sais
Culottes, which it •_
TTnUaiVaeVr ai--crrulTe Is. "
Qnere, Did not the Sans Culottes
dilband themselves, atid afterwards
the cunning general makes a merit
of doing that which was already
done to his hands, or how came the
deserters in queflion pnffeffed of
arms, and above all artillery ! It
ihould appear, cowards and knaves
as they were, that he difmifl'ed them
with all the honor s of war !
I he French papeis of the ijth
and 16th inft. ai e entirely silent re
fpedling any capture of vellels. We
may therefore conclude ihat the re
port of three of our East Indiamen
having fallen into t heir handsis un
founded ; for they would not have
been flow in announcing luch a:i
event.
The conquest of Holland, in at
tempting which the French have
loft the flower of their army, and
the whole of their fpirir, was pro
iwifed in t heir Convention by Ifnard
exadly in these terms, " Jnflcrdam
eft a la vsilie d'ouvritr fa porta a
Dumuuricr." It was in the fitting
of Monday, the r ith inft. that these
ever memorable words were used.
Two Provincial regiments are to
be railed in America, viz. One in
Nova-Scotia—Colonel — Gov. Went
vrorth—Lt. Col. Boide, and Major
Kearnez. One in New-Bi onfwick
—Col.—Gov. Carlton, Lt. Col. Ro
binfun, an American gentleman —
Major, Murray. They are to be in
service, in the absence of the regu
lar troops, who are ordered to the
Weft-Indies.
The Fox frigate of 36 guns, is loft
on the Gunfleet (and in the Swin.
MARCH 26.
The Englilh fleet goes our with
lingular advantage in point of fi
nals and manoeuvring, the enemy s
(hips being wholly officeied with
captains and mates of merchantmen,
who may no doubt be able naviga
tors, hot certainly totally ignorant
of military tatftics ; besides, want
of proper subordination in their
fleet, is a mill-stone about ilieir
neck, which niuft inevitably destroy
thent.
We have accounts from Jerley,
as iate as Friday, which (late, that
no descent on these islands had then
been attempted.
The force the 1 (fenders have to
oppose to an invading enemy, con