winch the Frenrli had ftiftaiued a coufulcrable loss. The .Duke o.f York was engaged in'-it, but parti culars are dm (Twed«?- ■ & "The whole capture of the Spanish Galleon, or Remitter Ship, was on Saturday last adjudged to the cap tors, and (he Spanish nmbafiador lias aflented to it, after a minute in veftig.uion of the fubjeci. Lord Hood will be entitled to a fbare, as commander in chief of the fleet which made the capture ; and it is laid that his proportion alone will ainouut to 60,0001. sterling. Lord Hood, as commander in chief of the Mediterranean fleet, conies in for a l6ih of this prize, whatever it may turn out to be, and all other captures made by ships un der his orders, which mult neit his lurdfliip a very capital fortune. In consequence of the cargo of the rich re captured Spanish ship being allowed by the government as an entire prize, a troop of light horse was dispatched from London on Monday lad to Portfinouih, to escort this immense wealth diredtly to town. The French Convention have vot ed to their minister at war the enor mous fuin of $2,800,000 livres ; a bout 2,300,0001. to provide subsist ence for the armies. Bntffcls Gazette Extraordinary. ■" May 2d. " The French came to attack us Vefterday in force. They were at firft repulsed from St.Sauve. There is reason to believe that their inten tion was to turn tile left wing of our army. " It was determined to make the second line march by Sebourq, Con chies, and Prefien. Conchies has been burnt ; the enemy were heat en and pursued as far as Famars." << Four divisions of Braco drove them from Saten, and took from them 6 cannon, with their horses. " About 1 P. M. the firing ceas ed, but it began again in the right wing of the army about 3, and was still continued at seven. " The corps under Gen. Clair fayt are flill in pursuit of the ene my. Our loss is ellimated at almost 200 men. Our ihafleurs ('tigered greatly and would have been dis persed, had it not been for the sup port of the cavalry. The French have loft a number of men. Befidcs 13 ammunition waggons, we have taken from them 8 pieces of cannon, of which 4 are four pounders, 2 eight pounders, and onea 12 pounder, together with a 14 pound howitzer. " We wait for more circnmftan tial details of this affair." A very important action took place on the ift inft. between a part of the combined armies anil the French.—On the morning of the ift, the French advanced a considerable body of troops against the corps of Pruflians under General Knoblef dorf, occupying the pelt of Maulde, and likewise against the body of Aoftrians occupying the important port before Conde. The relief of that place was evidently the objetft of the French. They meant by ad vancing against the Proffian Gene ral, and the advanced corps of the Prince of Saxe Cobourg's army, to keep them in check, while tliey made their chief attack upon the Auftrians, under cover of a large wood of which the French were in pofTellion. They commenced their attack at five in the morning, and between that and the evening made four different attacks, the last of which, the rnofr vigorous,commenc ed at three, and was not over till between fix and seven in the even ing. The Auftrians (tood all the different attacks with the otmoft bravery and firmnefs. The great ell part of them were engaged with vnufquerry in the wood. General Knoblefdorf detached several corps from ' his poll to their affiftanre, which he could do with greater fafe ty, as lie was supported by two bat talions of British from Tournay. The French were at length com pletely repolfed, and several pieces of cannon were taken. The lof's was confideralile on both fides. The French were greatly fo perior in numbers. They recreated in corfufii.n tc F?.mars. Itvrasfup pofed that :lie conlequenee of this victory on the pan df the allies umft be attended with the fall of Conde. '1 he Paris letrers received yester day are dated the 301b u!V> They IVaie that the city was perfectly tranquil, and that nothing new had occurred. The triumph of the Ja cobins on the acquittal of Marat was unbounded. In Briflot's jour nal this acquittal is mentioned as the ruin of France. The French are said, from very good authority to have ten fail of the line at sea. Accounts have been received frpm Jersey, of the date of the 29th ult. It appears that on the 23d, a French fleet, under three frigates of considerable force, flood very close in with theifland, which occa sioned the alarm guns to be fired, and thebeacons to be lighted. The French, however, towards the even ing flood away, without attempting any descent. One or two of the French ships flood so dole in, as to fire on some of the batteries 011 shore. Arrived at Plymouth the Niger frigate, of 32 guns, commanded by Capt. Kenrz.— It isfaid (he had been cruizing off Brest, and brings intel ligence that there are in Brest wa ter 2; fail of men of war, befldes frigates and sloops. Conde still holds out, but the gar rison is reported to be in such tress for provisions, that itmuftfoon fall. All the heavy artillery end ammunition will be before Mentz by the jth of May. From that city, the inhabitants, to the amount of 15,000, have been expelled by the French, to prevent a famine. The garrison has still some supply of corn left, and a little horse flefh, but no eggs nor vegetables. It is provided with wine, which is drank abun dantly by the French, who pull to pieces the old houses for fire-wood. There is no longer any hope of the capitulation ofMentz. An attempt has been made to inundate the French mines near the city. It is reported, that the Commis saries from the National Conventi on have ordered all the English; merchants residing at Dunkirk, to' quit that town in less that 24 hours from the lft instant. Private letters received at Brus sels from Nantz, inform that that city has surrendered to the victori ous arms of the counter-revolution ists The fame letters announce, that Philip Egalite was carried back to Paris ; thole who were carrying him to Marseilles, being afraid of meeting the Marfeillefe upon the road. The Empress of" Russia has taken pofteffion of a considerable part of Poland. She has attempted a juf tification of her conduct, which has much the fame truth and justice to recommend it as the King ofPruf fia's reasons for seizing on Danjzic. The King of Poland was given to understand by the Ruffian Minister, that unless he attended the confe deration at Grodno, Prince Louis of Wirtemberg, would be appointed by the Imperial court to succeed kini on the throne. Russia, after having divided Po land, we now fee dictating to Swe den. What may she not be expe<t ed to do, as soon as the affairs of France are fettled to the fatisfatti on of the combined powers ? Intelligence is in town from Paris of so late a date as the 27th ultimo, when all remained in sullen tran quility.—The report refpedting the state of the granaries was, that they contained a fufficient supply of corn for a fortnight. The royal family were fafe and in health. Recruiting for the armies conti nued in the capital ; but in the pro vinces it every where inet with 07" position. Some fituatioru ofconfequence on the frontiers, towards Spain, are said to have fallen into the hands of that p«wer. The combined armies, we do not understand, have made any progress since the last accounts received— neither have we heard any thing more of the meditated attack upon Dunkirk. It appears to be the deterniinati 450 on of France in the ensuing cam paign to act trruiielj on i)'C defcn (i»e ; thus firmly occupied, it is ge nerally considered, that wiil be enabled to exhaust the patience of all tlieir enemies. By a gentleman arrived in the Eliza, Blynn, ar Penzance, from Nantes, from which place lhe failed on the joth inlt. we have the fol lowing important particulars :— The Iloyalilts were in great force, which was augmenting every day. They were in polleHion of the whole south bank of the Loire, and part of {he north ; different actions had taken place with various success ; •but the Royalifls wete in pofleflion of Machecoul and the Me of Hoedic, near Bellifle, and were so daring as to approach the very gates of Nantes in final! parties of 20 or 30. They were headed by Galton, a bold, de termined, entetprizing man. The present commercial distress certainly does not proceed from any diminution of the acftual capital of the country, but merely from the circuinftances of the sudden check given to the circulation of Paper. This is an evil which will find a cer tain remedy in time,and mean while the Minister with true patriotifin, does every thing he can to alleviate it. At the present moment of alarm and distress amongst the mercantile and manufacturing communities, the Minister, with that vigilant at tention to the trading interlls of the country which has uniformly mark ed his administration, has expressed a wish to adopt lome plan that may (lop the evil now existing, and give frefh energy to public credit. We daily hear of new stoppages among persons, many of whom have ever been considered as men of large real property ; on a very minute and fair enquiry into the truth of t his fuppofiiion, we have the belt reason to believe the faifi is so j and that a very large proportion of mer cantile houses, which have been lately obliged to suspend their pay ments, is ltill solvent, and well able to pay every demand in the course of time. At Manchelter, Liverpool, and other large trading towns, par ticularly at the former, this is well authenticated ; but the failures at the country batiks have flopped the circulation of money so Sudden ly, that present engagements have not been able to be fulfilled. FRANCE. NATIONAL CONVENTION. Atril IJ. The Convention were about to proceed to a difculfion on the peti tion of the 48 fedtions of Paris, a gainst 22 members of the Conventi on, when one of the Secretaries read a letter from the commissioners on the Northern frontiers, ftating,tliat the French troops had been obliged to fall back »n the glacis of Valen ciennes. They ascribed this check to the treachery of the xoth regi ment of foot chasseurs, ported in the advanced guard, who deserted on the commencement of the a<fiion. Letter from General Dampierre. " Valenciennes, April 13. " The enemy attacked our ad vanced polls at this place in differ, em: points ; they were, however,re pulfed with considerable Joss. In the advanced guard which I com manded we had much the advan tage. 1 have refunied the camp of Faniars. I cannot bestow too high praises on the courage and ardor of the soldiers. 1 can affureyou, that in a little time the army will reco ver that superiority which it loft only by the treachery of thole who commanded it. (Signed) DAMPIERRE." Banere read a inanifeffo drawn up by Condorcet, refpedting the in sult offered to the national repre sentation in the persons of the four commiiHoners arretted by Dumou rier. Mauce and Garran de Coulon com municated fonie letters written to them by the commissioners Camus and Bancal ; which Hated that they were well ; that they had heen al lowed pens, ink, and paper, and that they were conduced to Maef tricht by ealy journeys. Ar ril 17, United States. N E W- Y O R K, June 95. C«,*v tf« I'll'" freni * gentleman in Wi/nt-rgien, .Vcrlt-Caro/ha, tn the printer of the Daily Ai- rtrlifcr, June 16. " On Thursday last was brought into this port, an E'iglifli sloop called the Providence, from Montego-Bay, James Robertfnn, maftei, a pr ze to the French privateer Le Vainrjueur de la Baftile, Francois Henri Hervieux, com mander—since when thep»iva«£r hcriclf has arrived. « 11 appears that the Vainquer de la Baf tile, late the Hector of Philadelphia, wa« pur chased in CharleJton by C»pt. Hervieux, at, officer in the French navy, who having, through the medium of the Corj/ul-of the French Republc rending in Charie/ton, pro cured-a commission for his vefTel,' armed her, and having caused the American papers be longing to the Hector to be depnfitcd at the Custom Houf; in Charleston, failed on a cruize. ii That between Cape Fear and Cape Hu man, at the distance of 4 <-2 leagues from land, he fclhin with the Providence, which he captured after having chaled h«r some time. n Since Captain Hervieux's arrival, it basing been rumoured that a certain Gideon Olmftead, forme; lv the owner of the Hector, had acted as an officer on board the French privateer, at the time of the capture oi the sloop, although sn American citizen, two magifcrates of the county, in pursuance (as they supposed) of the proclamation of the Pre sident of the United States, thought proper to i.Tue their warrant for apprehending of fa d Olmftead —and, npon examination, conceiv ed the evidence to beof a nature, and his ca>a and fituatiop, such as defirrved to be Pubmit ted to the cognizanc' ofthe Federal Judiciary. They accordingly canfed Mr. Olaoftead to e»- ter into a recognizance in the ium ot 2oa|. for his appearance at the next diftrtft court, to be holden fur the diftrift of North-Carolina, on the firft Monday in July next. " Captain Hervieux is acknowledged to have treated his prisoners with unusual gene rosity, nor have they since their arrival in the harbor, been at all restrained of their liberty. " The Captain of the Briti/h sloop tailing advantage of this indulgence, availed him felf of the countenance and fopport he has re ceived in this town, and by advice'of ton Tel, has instituted an adtipn of trespass 3Tair.fl the commander of the privateer »nd Mr. Olin ftead, in the sum of 2000 L opon pretence that the capture was illegal. " Vexatious as is this suit, it v 11 cci'tainr ly be produdtive ot the most fe >ous n con venience to Captain Hervieux. who is iliii in the custody of the (heriff, and .will probably discourage that liberality in others which has prompted his conduct in this circumstance— since, far from releaiing their prisoners in speedy humanitv, caution will tecic 1 the French cruisers in future, the necelfit 7 of confining, at leafl:, their English captives till they reach the territories of the French re public, or until the chance of war (hall bring them'relief and liberty." FOR THE GAZETTE. Mr. Fenno, AS attempts are making very dangerous to the peace, and it is to be feared not very friendly to the conftitutton of the Uni ted States—it becomes the duty of those who wifn well to both to endeavor to prevent their success. The obje&'.Qns, which have been raised against the proclamation of neutrality late y issued by the Preiident, ha*e been urged in a spirit of acrimony and inve&ive, which de monstrates that more was in view than mere ly a free difcuflion of an importantvjpublic measure ; that the difculfion covers a design of weakening the confidence of the people in the author of the ineaiure, in order to remove or let Ten a powerful obstacle to the fu£Cefs of an opposition to the government, ,v bich how ever it may change its form, according to circumstances, seems still to be adhered to and pursued with persevering indnftry. This reflexion adds to the motives con netted with the'roeafure itfelf to recommend endeavors, by proper explanations, to place it in a just light. Such explanations at lealt cannot hut be fatisfa&ory to those who may not have leisure or opportunity tor pnrfuing themselves an invelliggtton of the fubjeft, and who may wifli to perceive, that the poli cy of the government is not inconsistent with its obligations or its honor. The objections in question fall under four heads : i. That the proclamation was without authority. 2. That it was contrary to our treaties with France. 3 That it was contrary to the gratitude, which is due from this to that country, l° r the succours rendered us in our own revolu tion. 4- That it was out of time and unnecc.- fary. In order to judge of the solidity of the fii ft of these objections, it is neceffhry to examine, what is the nature and design of a proclcma tion of neutrality. The true nature and design of such an act is—to make known to the powers at war and to the citizens of the country, whole govern ment does the ast, that such country is in the condition of a nation at peace with the belli gerent parties, and under no obligations of treaty, to become an ajfociate in the war with either of them that this being its situation, its intention is to observe a conduct conform able with it, and to perform towards each the duties of neutrality ; and. as a consequence
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