7'be following beautiful ODE was sung at the celebration of the Feflival of St. "John, the 24th ult. by the Masonic fraternity, at Newport. GIVE to Heroes all their due, Twine their brows with laurels too ; But (hall wc no laurels find, For our love to human kind ? Let the social virtues shine, Doing good is fuie divine. A MASQiNIC ODE. Tune — God save Great Washington THOU felf-exiftent Lord, Thou all-cresiivt word, Spirit of pow'r; Accept our notes of praise, O thoa ancient of days, Accept our feftive lays, In this <jlad hour. 11. Let all exalt their voice* Let all at once rejoicc, To found thv Fame Thou Great! Great A»chiie&, Thy children all connett, With love and joint refpeft, To bless thy Name. 111. From all beneath the ikiei, Jehovah's praiie arise, His Name confefs'd ; And may his sovereign grace Shine upon cv'ry face, And render Adam's race, Happy and blefs'd. tKOU great firft cause, whose w'fdom plan'd, Whose pow'r atchuv'd the boundless fchcme, The maicblefs fabric of thy hand, Proclaims the Architect Supreme. Ye Angels that surround his throne, Who form'd at firft his joyful fain, When lay the ftHAndation As then ye fhoutVd—-fhout again. With us let ev'ry heart be love, Let ev'ry tongue be grateful praise ; Let cv'ry thought be realms above, Let cv'ry voice be choral lays. Extrafl from a publication in a Baltimore paler, 41 T TCTHILST thousands and tens of thou- VV fends of our fellow creatures are exterminating one another from the face of the earth, we repose in the lap of peace and . liberty, war, the scourge of mankind, being at a great di ft a nee from us.—We all rejoice in ttut ftt icfc neutrality, which has been wifely determined upon, and all unite in hope, that it inay not ba interrupted. There are how ever some amongst Als, who do not scruple to assert, that the admiflion.of French privateers with their prizes, and liberty <*f laie, in our ports, will ultimately involve tb»s country in a dispute with England. I know not whe ther fueh remarks flow from a spirit irritated at feeing English prizes only carried in ; or from a diabolical wish of once more feeing tbe banners, of. de r potrfra waning our happy mores ; or, perhaps, flowing from a heart fearful Of our peace and harmony being in danger of interruption—God, who kuotvs the heart, only knows from what motives such fentimenti are propagated !—Sure I am that they are impolitic and indecent.—The right of admitting privateers and their prizes into the ports of neutral nations, has never been queftionecl ! Neutral ports are a fan&uary {or all the powers at war ; the produce and manufactures of other nations are vended therein and by reason of their neutrality, they soon become rich and prosperous ! Previous to the late war, Oftend was an inconsiderable port, and the most filthy in Europe ; having the benefit of neutrality, it soon rose into consequence——privateers with the prizes flocked to it—sales were freely permitted— merchandise, to a vast amount, were carried thither from all nations—the riches of the E*aft and Weft flowed into Oftend, and at length the emperor Joleph, sensible of the vast advantages it enjoyed from its state of neu trality, enlarged and beautified the harbor, removed many of the natural obftru&ions that rendered the entrance dangerous, andjt now Alines as one of the firft commercial ci ties in Europe. Lisbon was open for the re ception of the velfels and prizes of -the pow ers at war (Americans I think only excepted, whose independence Portugal had not ac knowledger!) and I believe in no cafe was sale? prevented. "We all know the advanta ges Euftatia ei joyed, by reason of the neu trality of Holland, and would have continued to enjoy, if the court of Great-Britain had not reason 10 think a feciet treaty was en tered into between Holland and this country, and in consequence declared war ! And was not the good effects of their neutral condi tion felt by all theDanifh Weft-India lfl&nds? —Why therefore bellow against the govern ment of this country, and express fear and appiehenfions of war being the consequence of actions which are the practice of neutral independent nations (existing treaties altoge ther out of the qneftion).—Such gentlemen would do wellto refrain from such observa tions, which can do no good, but much hartn, til! they fee the conduct of government to Brit;fb ci uizers, with French prizes, if arty ihouid arrive among us. M SHIP NEWS. ARRIVED at tU PORT oj PHILADELPHIA. Brig Nancy, Sha«lcy, Poitlmouth, N- H. Maty, Chipman, Lofton Sloop Merrirrac. Mitchri, do. t RICE QF STOCKS.. 6 P" Cell!, 18/2 3 P" C'-ou, !C)l Dclcrted, ji/s lull (bjics Hank U. 3. 5 per tent. adv. Philadelphia, Jafy 20. Yesterday arrived here the ship John, Capt. Whiteweil, in 56 days from Amsterdam—a Dutch paper of the i6th May brought by this vessel contains an acconnt said to have been received at the Hague byexprefs from Prince Saxe Cobourg's army—of a battle fought on the nth May, between the French and the combined army—-in which the French were defeated with the loss of nine thoufaud men killed, wounded and taken, and eighty-four pieces of cannon ; the account adds, that the commander in chief of the French was killed. —This is probably a repetition oj the ajjair of the %th with additions. The account 1 ? in general received by this veflel are as vague and indefinite as those through other mediums. Extra£l of a letter from a rcfpeflable Merchant in Baltimore, to hi ffriend in this city % dated the 16th in /lant. " A veflel from Cork in 32 days, brings an account of the defeat of the combined armies at Conde, and of an immense (laughter among them. " The French armies have been so fuc cefsful, that the people throughout England and Ireland, are feekingfor peace, and it was the prevailing opinion it would soon take place, highly in favor and much to the honor of tbe French nation." Further accounts by the late European arri vals inform, th-t the attack pr fturrning of Meuiz or Mayence, was to be tfiretted by Gen. Tuipin, and that the bombardment of that city was be gun. Gen. Ctiftine's army, confiding of 40000 men, was strongly intrenched within \he lines of WeiflTemburg behind the Lamer— t)iis army is said to be coiripofed ot men either too young or too old, the confcquence of forced recruiting. The Auftrians f«v that a great many cUfertcrs come over to them from Outline, and from Maytnce—in the iatlrr they ast reduced to the nereflity of killing the artillery horses. and fair ing them—though the fame accounts lay t •ry have meat fufficicnt for fix months. A letter fmm Gen. Cufline, dated April ?8. fays, that in a sortie and in some attacks on Meniz on the nth and 14th, the Heffiansand Saxons loft 2000 men. In confluence of Dumouriei's treache ry, the National Convention have pubhfhed an address " /<? all people and all governments —this refpefts principally the breach ot the law of na tions in fci?ing Bournonville and the Commis sioners. A motion was made in the Conven tion on the 30th April by M. Guadet, that as the Convention was no longer refpe&ed, as the galleries hilTcd every member they difl.ked, no protection, that the fittings should in future be and the authorities ot Paris offered the members held at Vt rfailles—no decision on this motion appears, Catnbon rendered an account of tht armies; that of the North he ftatea to consist of 96000 eff-£live men ; that of the Ardennes ae 37000 ; that of the Mofclle and of the Rhine com pleat ; that of the Pyrenncs had been sud denly augmentod by a great number of men— 50000 directed their march towards The Spanifn invasion, Cambon said, had turned out to be nothing of consequence, their forces consisted only of a few vagabonds who came for the fake of plunder—and that they were beaten back. [An account published in this city has Jlatedthe Spanijh forces dejlined to invade France at 120,000.] A letter from Gen. Biron, at Nice, of 22ci April, gives an account of some advantages gained by the French uflder his com mand over the Sardinians; 100 of the latter were killed, and 20 wounded ; of the French only 5 killed and 10 wounded.—The militia of Ireland arc embodying by order of the British and I rifh governments; to this measure some oppofilion has been made in some place?. The lift of bankrupts in England had cncreafed ; the calamity had reached Ireland, the government ot which was taking meafurt* for the lupport of the public credit. The Court ot Lisbon has ordered a cruize in the Streights of Gibraltar against the French, confifttng of a ship of the line, lout frigates,and several vcfTels of less size. The late action neai Conde was, by all ac counts, very bloody. The French fought lor the purpose only of covering some relief which they wiflied to throw into Conde, and in this tis said they partly luccceded. The Dutch are fitting out a fl-et of 10 ships of the line and 10 frigates, and 3,500,000 florins have already betn issued out foi that purpose. An English frigate had taken a French East- Indiaman from Pondicherry to France, valued at 130,0001. but at this rich prize was fleering for England, she was re-la ken by the Robert privateer of Nantes. A plague rages at Algiers, which carries off a great many peifons daily. The city ot Gottenburg, in Sweden, has great ly fuffered by fire ; 73 fine houses have been burned, and upwa«ds of 141 families, be fides the garrison, have loft the whole of their pro perty. A letter from General Cuftine dated May 7, appears in the English papers in which he requests the Convention to fend him a fuc ceffor—heing positively determined to reiign, in consequence as he fays of being brought to a trial before three comiliiflioners on the 27th April. At Richmond, Peterfburgh, Alexandria and several other places in Virginia, fub(cription<? have been opened with success,. for tlie relief of the unfortunate fugitives from Cape Fran cois. A paflenger of refpelability in the ftiip Sally, arrived at Baltimore, in seven weeks from Limerick, informs, that juil before they failed, if was currently reported theie, that the combined armies had retired from before Conde, and that 6dd of the Britifli guards had fell in an action with the French, who had also made prisoners of two officers ot diftin&ion in the Austrian army, and that the brave pa triot and valiant general Dampierre, had killed in an engagement with the enemy near Co ode- 475 r l fjfin{• of appear-? so catch t»*om irywn to town, and ciry to city, 1:1 the United as f.tr as the means will go to effe 1 it, we doubt not the diftrelfes of every iuifsrer from the Cape will-be allevi ated. 1 uefday l'ift a company of Militia, from the regiment of Artillery, marched from this city, under the command of Capt. Seitel, to perform duty at Fort Mifflin. We are informed that 30 fail of the French ftips now lying in Hampton road are expert ed to come round to this city in a few days. The brig Little Democrat came to anchor at N&wcaftJe on Tuesday night, and got un der way on Wednesday morning, having 123 men Km board. On the 7Mi of May, in the Parliament of IJreat-Brirain,--after a Jong debate, in which Mie'H»>iife exceedingly clamorous, on ttie propofiti<>o of JVIr. Grey, for a committee ot'euqairy intd the parliamentary represent ation, a divilion tookyMace at 4 o'clock in the morning, when there appeared Againll the nvotuu 282 For the motion 41 241 Majority THcf is a report in town, fays a Balvimore paper, that Col. Pajor marchcd froui Foit-Diu phin with h>s own regiment and a few volun teers, agdinft the mulattoes and negroes, at Cape Francois l —that the Colonel had entirely defeated them, and got poffclhon of the tow n. Daring the engagement Sonthonax loft his head. Amrtg tfie numerous. HJls of Toajls given on the wet-to-be-commemorated j'onrih of July—the jol fmuitig are Jele&ed as breathing the genuine Jen timevti of patriotism, philanthropy, peace and freedom. They were drank at Richmond, Vir ginia—and mujl vibrate in vnifon uith the Jeel i"gs oj every real friend to the United States, and the hsppinejs »f man. I- THE, people of the United Spates-—May ttay ever have reason to celebrate che re turn of this auspicious day. 2. The Prefident s os the United States— May tiie love and confidence of his feliow citiz?ns increase with his exertions for the public good, and may his late iignal atten tion to the ti ue imerefts of the United States in conserving to them the bleflings of peace, receive the applause and gratitude of the pre fen t age, and of future generations. 3. The people of France—May their ef forts to obtain political happiness be crown ed with the permanent eftabliihmsnt of a free and equal government. 4. May the empire of reason extend over the globe, and government be confide red bv all nations but as the instrument of human happiness. 5. May a difference in political sentiment produce no other ctfeft in America, than a full and dispassionate investigation of political principles. 6. May harmony and confidence in our na tional cpu-tils, cnofpii* to give efficacy and success to our national meajuves ; and may all public men lose the spirit of faction in the love of their country. 7. May the commerce of America be free as her government. 8. May our negociations with the Indian tribes terminate the necessity and calamities of war ; or, may the valour of opr army pro cure for their country that peace which her justice and leuity shall be unab'e to obtain. 9. The Marquis De ]a Fayette—May the people of America forever pay to him the jnft tribute of gratitude, and may they con tinue to esteem him in his adversities, as they justly loved and admired him in the splendor of his fortunes. Ip. May our valour in war be equalled on ly by our wisdom in peace. is. May the constitution of the United States be forever kept inviolate by those who shall be intrusted with its adminiitration. 12. May the industry of our people, and the wi'Vlom and miklnefs of our laws, render ,thff United States the emporium of the world, and an asylum to the human race. The memory of those brave citizens who feJHn the cftablifhment of American liberty. 14. The fair daughters of America. 15. Peace and happiness to all the nations bf the earth. The following toajls wete given at Wilkcjbuirc t Luzerne L aunty, at the celebration oj indepen dence the 4th infant. *. The day. 2. The United States of America—May their conftitutipn and laws be the models from which all the nations of the earth ftiall be taught the true combinations of perleft freedom. 3. The President of the United States 4. The Vice-Prcfident of the United States, J. The Congress of the United States — May the bafj? of their proceedings be the hap piness of the people. 6. The French Nation. —May they be fuc celsful and finally eftabliih their freedom. f. Citizen Gentt. 8. The Governor and State of Pennsylva nia—May ii forever flounfn in her agricul ture, commerce and manufactures. 9. Our filter States.—Ma) our union be forever. 13. The memory of thafc Tieroes who no bly fought and bled in tbs caufe.of Liberty in America. ii. SuccePs to the arras of our Weftero irmy. 12. The rights of man. 13. The armies of France May the swords be beat to plough /hares when liberty prevails among the nations of the earth ly. The comity of Luuroe.—May virtue and qni?n ensure the pi ofperity of its inha t»it»ots. IJ Tie Fair of America. r»<>lilic?ns dr~w .? I'fir df! li.»u net en t!ie cita;>ii'rt> «i U) people, ihc peopi- ihetftfVives, take therro-L measure 10 ro.iier 3 republican !vli » • odi'. t j s _ 3 , u j evince thjt ihe puffut or,tir thm*s which thev have no l.*ucl n* di'c-c;as o) is ihcit only grievance. Our ncwfpapers abntfnd vnth accounts oF abuses and depredations commuted on our-trade and Cooimtree by the Bitfith pHVfsen s,; Isu:, fays a correfpoftdeiit, we do not hear ol *.i.v memorials* reprcfentations or r (Om»H:r;ir;< es. being made or prcfenird 10 the executive oi in- United States, by perlon or p i fins on the fubjVft. The preservation of the government, peace and neutrality of the Un ted Stares, is oi im portance to every citizen who polfeftes, or experts to po/Tels any property-*—and their fubverftorj Caa only be an ol j (ft of pur fait to those who expe& to gain by anarchy and con iufion. This is n fiiort account of the buli* ness—'jut it is a true one. Sunday Jafl being the anrilverfary of the deftroftion of the BaltiJe by the citizens of Paris, its approach was announced the pre ceding evening, at Baltimore* by the firing ol cannon by the French veffeh in that port, who at sunrise, hoisted their colours and fired a fa.'ute, which was repeated every hour thiough the day. The Governor of Maflachufetti having been fetved with a summons by John Brooks, Esq. ni»r(hal of the Federal Court of the United States, "Williani ValTill complaiuant, in equity, versus tin Commonwealth of MafTachufetts defendant has ifTucd his proclamation for convening the two houTea of the Legislature, on the 18 li Sep. tembe:—-" it being a matter, fays the proclama tion, in which th. inhabitants of this free Commonwealth are deeply intended—»and which will inquire the confide! ation of the Ge neral Court at an earlier time than that 10 which they were adjourned." Madame Doutti, wile of M. DoiiTTf, an inhabitant da quartier dr Vallieret, loft her htif band in the disasters of the Cape on the aotfi June lad. She is ignorant of his fate—She re quests that those who may have it in their power to give her anv information refpi£liog her huf. band, would fend it to the houfc ol Mis. Huo. son, High-street, Baltimore, where flie refidcs, or to M.idame gtIANTE, 111 the lame ftr«t t>— A ri-piHication e/ the above by the fevcral printers is icjucjlfd. Letter from the Minifler of the frenek Republic, to the Sea clary oj the United States of America. Philadelphia, Feb. 6, 1793. Second year of the Republic. " In Conformity to the orders I have jest received, I am eager to notify to the Govern ment of the United State*, in the name of the Provifionary Executive Council charged with the Administration of our Government that the French Nation has conflituted her felf a Republic. " T'his uotirication would have been ac companied with fteffi Credential-;, if the bafit which ought to be established on this head had been finally regulated, and if the Kxecutive Council had not chosen rather to manifeft- as soon as pofi'i'e, the resolutions taken bv the whole nation, of declaring tUe abolition of Royalty, and the creation of a Republic in France. Independent of the inte'eft which this great ds terininatian of a nation, that has given her concurrence to the defence cf h. berty, and establishment of independence, ought to inspire here, it will doubtless also be considered by the United States, ar. a new pledge of the close friendfliip which subsists between the two nations. In this persuasion, the Executive Coonfel of the French R.epub lic hp.s charged me to alfuie vour Govern ment of her dispositions, which are likewise those of my. nation, to rivet the ties of our friendfhip with you, and to multiply between the two nations commercial connexions of reciprocal utility. " I congratulate myfelf upon being #b!« ro tranfnjit to van the exprefiion of fentiijients in which I participate to the utmost extent, and of which my conduit (hall never ce&fe to b:ar an invariable teftiinony. (Signed) THE ANSWER. Philadelphia, Feb. 23, 1793. Sir, I HAVE laid before the President of the United States your notification of the 17th inllant, in the name of the Proviforv Execu tive Council, charged with the adniiniftration of your Government, that the French nation has conftitutcd itfelf into a Republic. The Prelident receives with great fatijfa&ion this attention of the Executive Council, and the desire they have-manifefted of making known to us the resolution entered into by the Na tional Convention, even before a definitive regulation of their new eftablilbment couid take place Be allured. Sir, that the Govern ment and the Citizens of the United State! view v.'ith the mod fiecere pleasure, every advance of your Nation towards its happ-nefs, an o'jjefte(Teiitial|y ronnefted with its liberty, and they consider the union of principles and pursuits between our two countries as a link which binds still closer their interests and af fections. We earneftlv wilh on our part, that these out mutual dil'politions may be improved to mutual good, by establishing our commeicial inrerconrfe on principles as friendly to natu ral right and freedom as are tliofe of our go vernments. I am, with sincere efte -m and refpeft. Sir, L-c. TH. JEFFEKSON. Married, lift Tbiirfdjy evening, Mr. Wit liam Ckamomd, merchant of this city, to Mifi — Nixoh, daughter of John Nixcn, Esq. " TIRNAHT."
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