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."