Meetings have been held in the lowns of Lynn, Ncv*bury port. Pot-e ----land, Plymouth, Ma> blehead, Salem aiul Springfield, Mall'achufetts, and in Hertford and New-Haven, Con (let'ticut, to talis into conlideration i lie !»; nation of the United States, in relation to the war ; in all of which, the sentiment was fully ex prefl'ed, that it is our interest and duty to prefervea Itritft neutrality ; thac the President's proclamation, enjoining a neutral conduct, was patriotic, fealunable, and calculated to benefit this country ; and that they will do every thiiig in their power to prevent a violation of its principles. T|ie accounts of depredations on French property found on board American vcflels—of interruptions, detentions, charges, loflcs, insults, &c. follained by our navigation at the hands of the New-Providence privateers, are innumerable—and call loudly for the interposition of government. Some accounts of out rages recently committed on Ame rican vessels by Ki ench cruifershave also been publilhed. Tuerday last the firft vintage ever held in America, was to begin at Mr. Legaux's vine-yard near spring mill—and in a few weeks that gen tleman will be able to produce fpe cimens of American wine. ExtraSs from a Madr't l paper of tie 14th of June 1793. " His has teceived by an ex press, dispatches from Don Ventura Ca ro, general of the army of Nava.ra ; they mention that on the 6th inft. at 9 o'clock in the morning, he ordered an attack up on the enemy, who were polled up in 3 mountains almolt inacccflible. Alter a very bloody engagement of 4 hours, our troops dislodged the enemy, and placed therafelves in their positions taking from them Fort Pinon, and purfutd them as far as the village of Otiznn, which was occupied by the rear of their army whete our Gen. ordered his troops to reft & eat something.as they were yet falting,which they did inthefame camp and in the fame tents the Fiench had occupied a little while before. " At the time tlr? expiefs set off, oilr Gen. was not able to ascertain the num ber of killed and -wounded on either fide but Gen. Qciirier who commanded the tear of the French army, arid was taken prisoner, declared that the {laughter had been very great in his army. " GiOi Caro adds that our troops made the attack with the greatest intrepidity and valour ; for 4500 men dislodged 4000 from positions almost impregnable, that even for 20,000 men it would have been thought a glorious action. Don Antonio Ricardas, general of the army of Roufillon, by a letter dated the 4th inft informs, that the day before he had aH'auhed for two hours the for tification of the Bauos ; after which, he ordered his Adjutant to summon the garrison to surrender within two hours, otherwise no capitulation would be granted. The enemy agreed to it, and sent their conditions, which our general refufed—the rtt stipulated that the gar tifon ihould be free. Finally the enemy fuftendered the fortification, and evacu ated it with the honors of war ; but the garrison, to the number of from 350 to 400, remained prisoners of War. " Our general intends to tranfnit all the particulars in his next letter." fRE\'CH NATIONAL COA'PEKf 10N. Fridsy, May 24, 1795. On the proportion of the com mittee 0!" public fafety. The con vention decreed, That the veflels of the United -States are not com prehended in the decree of the 9th of this month. Philadelphia, Aug. 16, I 793 jC7* The committee of merchants being organized, have fixed iheir Hated meetings on Mondays and Thursdays in each week, at 12 o'clock at noon, at No. 119, south front-ftreet, the office of the insur ance company of North-Am erica ; where they will be ready to receive any information from the mer chants, captains of veflels, and others who may have any thing to communicate relative to the objects of their appointment Robert Rai.stok, Sec'rj MOM I'll £ FEDERAL GAZETTE Tfo. Editor cj the Federal (•azeltc has rectnti the Inflowing letter a relpeftrfhle correhioiiVl ent vow in t/, ncity ; I, a , e^ ue j t „ may he puMjhed. Sir, YOU are anthovized to inform the public, that the armies ot Spaiii, in Catalonia, on the i6tti nl Apiil enietcd France by the province of Rouliilon. From tbat time till the 34th of May, they had beat the French aimies in several engagements, in which the forces were equal, and c-ven inferior" to the latter: that the had taken from the French by force of arm';, the towns of Geret and Argeles, together with the fort of Maiden, with several pieces of artillery, am munition, arms, two flags, and killed from 3 to 410, 230 wounded, 280 drowned iu fritf" river near Caret, and they took above 200 prifonei s. That the town of St.Lorencc , Cii(Ja, and 21 villages of the French 'fcerdii ria have furrehdered themfelvei ipon-tstßeoiif ly to the Catholic armies, with the ringing of bells, found,ot music, and loud of long live the kii.g of Spain. That the May, the other aimy in Na vane enreied France by the province of Gaf conia, dislodged the French armv off the eminence 011 which they were and en camped themselves thereon; they beat the French and put them to a piecipitate flight, and poirefled themselves of the town of Sua. They were equally beat back in the pro vince of A'agon, when the French attempt ed to enter in to Spain—and until that date, the only advantage the French obtained, was the taking of the very inconsiderable places of Sarraganundy and U'dax. The admiral of the Spanifli fleet, doll Fran cisco de Borl'a, whom his Catholic maj'ffy lertt to re inflate his Sardinian m.-.jefly (uncfe to the king of Sp:iin) informs, under date of the 26th May, tliat the islands of $teiA.fltonlp and St. Peters, which had been formerly :aken t by the French were then in polfeifion of his Sardinian majeftv, and rendered to him by capitulation ; that t!ie above admiral had captured the French frigate Eiena of $6 guns, on the coast of St. Peter, and the French fri gate Richmond, formerly belonging to the E'>£l»fh, was burnt in the harbour. That laid admiral had taken 011 board his fleer 37 officers and iooo men prisoners of war, 25 guns, mortals, and a great quantity of proyrfions. Mr. Brown is likewise authorised *0 contra di& the falfe report of the defeat of the Spa nish army which appeared foibe time ago, in f the American papers. ' ROM TK| GENERAL ADVERTISER. •Reliance may he p> a d ' Ul "rcat place ing intelligence. Bxtrafl of a letter from a gentlemanofdeep obser vation and Jlricl veracity, in Hamburgh spAts jr\cnd in this city " HAMHURCH, JUNK ' u The Germin rtc'wfpjipert| I fend yon,are intended for one of your new/paper printers in making uPe of them, I roust remark, it will be necessary to observe that they are for ced almost ali to be partial against the French ; and that their boasted vi&ories are neither so decisive, nor so g»eat, as is related. The war wastes terribly in lives and money, and the Emperor and Prussia are almost exhausted in point of finances. Unhapp ly those mis chievous New-Jacobins do all to promote and second the measures of the German and other conspired princes. Marat, lloberfpierie and Danton, are really the g«eateft enemies of France. But their party begins to fall; and is entirely dv ftroyed at Mai feille*, Bour diaux, &c. only Paris and Lyons support it." This is in a great degree a confirmation of the extract of a letter from Bordeaux, given in our last. It appears from these two [hat a change must have taken place in the general politics of France, since the date of our last detailed accounts. We are tempted to im agine, from what we have been able col lect, that probably, the violent minority oi' the Convention, whose influence is predomi nant in Paris, may have imprudently ufeel force against their opponents, and that the departments well asserted to the cause of ra tional republicmifm, finding thedignity of the National Conveneion in fu I ted, and the rights of the majority impaired by violence, may have used strong measures to restrain t(ie fac tious in the capital ; but our belief cannot carry us to fear, for one moment, that the causa of limited monarchy could poflibly find any number yf advocates in France. The iloop A'odia, which had gone,down the Ohio to New Orleans, and there rook a Spa nish regiiler, was taken on her pafl'age to Phi ladelphia by the Petit Democrat, and sent ko as a prize to this port, together with the sloop Hope of Antigua, taken by the Genet. Both of these prizes were seized by virtue oi' an order from the Executive of the United States, directed to governor Mifflin, and a guard of Militia took pofleffinn of them ; and on Saturday evening the Alodia was reltored to the uivner, who is a citizen of the United States- It is expected that the Hope will likewise be relfored to her owners, as by tiie late decilion of the Prefideilt, no prizes can be legal, that fliall be taken by any of the five French privatrers mentioned in the Circular Letter to the Collectors. In conlequence of orders given to the mi litia at Fort Mifflin, tliey have seized the brig Oavofa which had been sent op there a prize to the Democrat. The Cologne Gazette Hates in a le»«r da ted Paris, May 29th, that e*ooo- Royalists had made an attempt.to attack Cherbourg by land, while a veflel of eighteen gun? was to attack ir bv lea ;-but that 2,000 patriot*, with 40 piece* of cannon, having marcfjed against them, they were forced to ictire. 5 11 A correspondent \n Mr. Dunlap's paper cf Monday lays, that as the bone of contrition ig taken atvay, five of the French privateers being proscribed, it is to be hoped, tiiar any tii r rh«r clamours against the French nation wilTceale; indeed we must allow, that the • Convention in their Decree which excepts American bottoms from being examined by their ihips and cruizers, have a&eda wife and friendly part ; and the accommodating difpojition of Mr, Genet, since his arrival in America,, has deserved the approbation of all men, who are not cafe hardened against the cause of liberty. His eondoft in regard to the restoration of the (hip Grange, and in several other instan ces/ has proved the truth of the aflertio<n. In the fame paper, the fame paragraphia, injmojher column, speaking of the repealing the Decree of the National Convention of the 9th" May (which is a palpable violation of the treaty) by a fubfeqnent Decree of the 23d May, fays that this proceeding is 4,4 gencrdus on the part of France and adds—Such con fid'erations as thei'* must have some effe<Tt in flopping the torrent of abuse, now pouring forth against every Frenchman, and against every patriot of the world, by the enemies of liberty, who have iecured to themlelves a in the United States. What is intended by u clamours against the French," it is not difficult to determine, —Had the government of the United States permitted certain persons to proceed in their iwiparellelled insults, and violations of neu- bad the people refrained from ex prefling their approbation of the measures adopted by government,topreferve the peace, Jibe rty and independence of the United States, we should not have heard of " clamours a - garnft the French."—Clamours against the people and government of this country have disgraced several of the public prints of the United States, for several months past—-but we have heard no remarks (iinilar to the above from this zealous paragraphift. We hav< heard of a Decrec of the. National Convention of France, of the g(h May, evident ly violating an eflential article of the treaty be tween France and the United Siates. That such a Decree was palled, there can be no doubt, as the conlcqnenccs have been experienced by the commercial inten fts of this country. But it is now said (from what authority does not appear, as neither the Executive of the Union, or'the Mipifter of France, have announced the fadfc) that a Decree of the 23d May has annulled the Decree of the .9th, so Jar as it contravenes the treaty with the United Slates. However, on the bare supposition that this may be the cafe, a pa ragraphift in Mr. Dunlap's paper of Monday, puffs off the trar.failion as an in (lance of the ** generofit)" of Franc?, and as.facriftcing the. in tcreft of tl>at republic for their American bre thren—These arc mere flourifhes—for if to be jujl in the fulfilment of treaties, is to be generous, what becomes of i be.faith of nations, and that fupericrrity of republican h.oni&f, over that of monarchical ?—The truth is, that those who have made the greatefl clamour about the facrednefs of the obligations Amcrjca is under to fulfil its treaties with France, are the fnft to annihilate those obligations, Dy extolling an ad of juflic,c, if it has really taken place, as an ast ol genervfity. By this we may fee what ideas fume perfous entertain of the faith of nations. in the- ii> lov.jf The explanation given to the treaty with France by our Executive, ought ro do away all 'contention on the import of ct rtain articles of it, <hat have been the cause of unbecoming warmth nmcing us. The people have spoken by their executive reprefintative—it becomes every good citizen got to weaken that voice, but abide bv the decision. If every one on questions of this natuie attempted to judge lor himfelf, wheie would be the use, or energy of govern ment. Gen. Adv. < The National Gazette of Wednesday last fays, " I expett your addressers to the Pro clamation are composed chiefly of rigid Epif c&paltans, Quakers,and European merchants, or in other words, Tories, with a few Office hunters, and dependants on Office, &rc.-— A correspondent asks, are not the farmers, mechanics, laborers, &c. also concerned in the preservation of the peace of this country ? A writer in ihe Newark Gazette /peaking oj certain recent publications—Jays— " Much of this abuse springs from that old root of bitterrfefs, the spirit of Antijederahfrn \ some of it from that restless ambition which wishes to rife, although it be on the ruins of our peace ; and the reft may be traced to fo reign interference. No arts to mi fie ad and poifon'the public mind, and even to pervert the administration of juiHce, have been spar ed, and to fnch a height has the wickedness of some men been carried, that, by means of an infamous print, the populace have been founded to fee if they were ripe for the last ast of violence. This attempt bas filled eve ry honest breast w~ith indignation, and could have arisen with those only who have been ac cuitemed to mafTatres—to heads carried on polps and to fcaffoids fmoaking with blood. "j'befe violent attacks upon the peace and government ol our country have excited the Maenribri tif many of the principal Ciries and Tnvrtis-in America. They Ifave thought it grower by Addresses or Refoivcs, to express their full approbation of the Pre(idfcnt'» Pro clamation, of tbeir disposition to preserve the ftrifteft neutrality and to support.the Consti tution and Laws of the United States. The inve&ives of anonymous fcriblers, not one of whois has dared to avow himfelf, have thus beenxijienly answered by the must pointed contradiction and the I"cntiment>.expreiled on these fubj,-fts in the town-meetings at Bo (lon, Salem, Beverly and New-York, and by the Merchnrt"> of Philadelphia, Alexandria and other place*, breathe the lime spirit. Yet tliefe explicit declarations have not Clrrced Says a Correspondent, FROM A CORRESPONDENT, these writers. They affect to console them* feiv-es because the At ri cultural interejt has no c joined in these aridrefles or relorves. TH* Editor of the National Gazette even appeal* l to the Farmers of America to countenance his abuse of the Preddent's Proclamation.— Yes ! .my Countrymen, they falfely triumph in ourJt!enc< and mistake our contempt for our approbation. It is time therefore for us also to speak out and to teach these men how lit* tlettyey know of the land-holders of New- Jersey, To whom are the bleifings of Peace more valuable than to us ? To whom are the . patriotism, the wisdom and difinterelted vir tues of General WASHINGTON better known than to us, among whom l>e has Jlo of ten been ? And where is the State that has shewn a warmer attachment to the Federal . Cootfitution, to order and good guvei nuienc than otirs, which is wnulty composed of Fann e.'s ? Why then ftoulcf we futfer ourlelves to ? be represented as the Revilers of Gove-.n ment and ready so rejoice \rith the triends of anarchy and diforder/' By the late arrival at New-York from Bourdcaux, a paper was received containing the proceedings of the National Convention of the second of June— by which it appears that the Convention had been surrounded for four days by a great multitude of the citi zens of Paris—-armed with muskets and ar tillery—that after a tumultuous and clamor ous debate—Couthon, one of the members, said that all the members of the aflembly fhouM poflsfs a confidence that they are free ; you have found on all fides, and at every Itep a people who are good, but irritated and desi rous of j lift ice. I do not at this t'me vote in favor of the Icoee of accusation agaiuft the denounced lumbers, b«t feeing that the opinion it ftrong iy laaniieited agaiuft then), i dema»d that they be put in arrest in their own houses} 1 comprehend in my motion the fommifljon of twelve, and the fniniflerj Le B> uti and Cla viere ; this proportion was adopted.. The member* arretted are,Vtrgniaux Bar<- baroux Salles, Genfonne,Gua<!ct, He lot, Chambon, Buzot, Biruteau, Lidon, ia* source, Gorfas, Lanjuinais, Grangoneiive Le hardy dn Mprbihan, Le'age, Lou vat, Valaee, the members of the conuniflipn ol twefve, excepting those who did not figri certain of ders of arrest, and the ministers Clavier* and Le Brun are 4lfo arrested. The fitting adjourned at ten o'clock. £j'.trail of a letterJrom New-Ytrk, Aug. 19. " There is a dilagreement on board r 1 e : French fleet; various itoriesare WW refpe i • it. It'is however s fact, tint admiral Gimbis is under an arrest by the rai of the officers it is said have refigncd.— The men accnfe Gambit of being the causa of 'the troubles at the Cape ; a'nd fey Genet is parti il to him, being his brother in law." The above extract contains a very enfg-, Ihatical story—Time wifl dcyeioje, the truth. ••-The apparent motioris' of ara : often retrogade to th« point they aim at. 1 ' Fr:dcrick-Toivn (Maryland) Aug. 8. Just t his paper was going to press, a gen tleman arrived in towri from theWeftward, who informs that Genera) Wayne had left Fort-Jefferfon, and that General Scott tyifl joined him with 2000 militia from and intended to march dire<stly into tie In dian towns. EXTRACT. No achievement, since the discovery of the western world, has, in point of moral uti lity, as yet, rivalled the magnitude of.*lie po litical discovery recently atchieved on that theatre of grandeur. That the new world, in which the majestic energy of nature has sported iii wild luxuriance, and which is so diftingui/hed by the bold d'fplay of physical magnificence, should so potently arrest the moral eye, and be also thus eminently diftin* gui/hed by the display of human magnanimity, is a confederation, which, if pursued in a cer tain direction, might be expected to lead into a rich field of interesting ideas. SHIP NEWS. ARRIVED/tf M<PORToj PHILADELPHIA, Btig Dolphin, Rogers, Kennebec M'Lean, Mont ego Bay Gilbert, New-York Puce, do. New-Providence New-York Cape-Francois Boston New- York do. Polly, Betfcy, Schr. Amelia, Mary, Sloop Maria, Jenny, fJew Forgf, Eliza, Betsey, Caflin, Bctonn, W(t.b, Lincoln, Lewis, Hobart, PRICE OF STOCKS. 6 per Cer.ts, 3 per C-nts, Deferred, Full lhares Bank 17. S. 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