pi? officer of St. Otncr's to clear the
callege of that place of all the Eng
liffi 'indiscriminately, and fend them in
waggons, to be provided for that pur
pole', up to Paris. The order was to
v be executed in twenty-four hours, and
iai that ffiort notice, children of all de-
T fiptions were to be got ready as.well
a* ntriß of thirty or forty years of refi
ci ice, who had made up their habits to
tiic humble retirement of life, and the
<hit:es of thtfir religion. About fix
o'clock in the morning this motly group
appearedr—the children, for the moll
part, int'entible of the fate that might
await them, tome of them, however
more thoughtful and deprefTed ; whillt j
the nuns, with-their little bundles under
the r arms, terrified at leaving the place
of their quiet and happmefs, and not
knowing whither ! they were going, pre
f.;n'.ed a spectacle truly commiserating.
The young gentleman who gives the
fubilance or the above account, escaped
'in the crowd, with another boy of about
his own age* on the morning of the
cavalcade's setting out fiom St.Omer's.
luckily got fafe to Oftend, and
by the favor of a correspondent of one of
their fathers, who refutes there, they
arrived in London a few days ago.
\ r— ———i
UNITED STATES.
BALTIMORE, July 4.
YeUerday arrived here the fch <0 • 1
Polly Capt. Dixfon, of .this p-m in I*7'
days from Port-Dauphin, with 1 t.e capt.
a capt. and lome of the >i.en sick;
the two former, \ye linderiland. is very
ill. The confined power of the Health
Officers of this port, to the Windward
Iflauds, pt events any thing effectual be
iug done by them, add to that the back
ward difpolititm of making
the necelfary arrangements, by placing
a guard at the Fort, or a request to the
Pilots of the port not to bring in any
veflel, from any port of the Weft-In
dies within the Fort. The prevailing
fever of those Wands will inevitably be
introduced into this town. Should fiich
an event take place, be it again remarked
that it mult not be attributed to a want
of exertion on the part of the Health
Officers; but as otfeived before, to a
backward difpoiition of the town.
The above vessel brings an account
of the death of Capt. Motfet ofthisplacc
at Fo.t Dauphin.
PHILADELPHIA,
JULY 10.
We hear that the Chickafaw chiefs,
lately arrived, will be present at the en
tertainments at the Theatre, to-mor
[o vr evening.
ExtraCl of a letter from an intelligent ma
nufacturer of cotton in the town of Pa
terfon in Neiu-Jerfcy, to a gentleman in
this city, dated June 11, 17JJ4-
" I now take the liberty of informing
you, that I have a machine for for the pur
pole of cleaning cotton of its feed, ready
for your inspection—it is far from a com
plete piece of mechanism, but every day's
working will lurniih ideas for improve
ment. It is calculated to work by water
or faovfe, the expence very moderate. I
make a double allowance when I fay the
exp-jnee of obtaining the feed will not o
*er-run 2d currency per lh. (I mean the
clean'ci pound) 'tis a machine that every
man may be taught to work in half an
hour, and will turn off upwards of three
hundred weight of clean cotton per day,
that is, it will "gin about one thousand
pounds during twelve hours offeed cotton.
1 am happy to inform you, that the staple
of the Carolinas and Georgia cotton, far
surpasses all expectation in its application
on our water machines ; nor ought I to o
mit naming a Mr Pinckney, I believe of
Virginia,* who some time lince forward
ed two samples, the growth of his planta
tion, of a quality at leait equal to the 2d
Bourbon. They have an unfortunate cus
tom to the southward, of mixing the dif
ferent growths and different gatherings of
different plantations together, by which
means the well and ill harvelted, the black
and green feed, the healthy and the un
healthy, the rotten and the found get all
jumbled together; and the following diffi
culties arise in Wdrking or manufacturing
of it into any goods of a quality superior
to the fuftians or thiefcfetts.
" If ill harvelted, that is, if the ripe
and unripe pods are plucked at the fame
time, the unripe pods heat, discolour and
weaken the staple ; such cotton is much
Ciorter than a full grown pod, and i« moll
of it loft or useless in the manufacture. —
The black akd green feeds produce a cot
ton cfl'entially different in their qualities to
the manufacture—the latter being gene
rally much superior, of a fine but Ihort
staple, and if welf harvelted, very strong,
clear and kindly applicable for muilins,
some of Mr.Pinckney's which I have re
ceived, I will venture to affirm, will spin
as tine as No. 150 hanks to the pound,
each hank being 840 yards long. The
Mack is in general Ihort, ciirley, coarfe,but
applicable to the lower numbers—l have
nut fetn any of the growth of this country
which will spin above No. 30, or 40 ; now
Si>'» 'tis evident that two such contrarieties
in point of quality, as is in the black and >
green feeds, ought not to be mixed ; to
lpin each to advantage, a different process
is necessary—they are each good in their
kind, but if unfortunately they get mixed,
they each materially injure the other, and
render thi compound verydiflicult to man
ufacture; aVid I am well convinced from
my own observations, that to this unthink
ing admixture, and conlequently it» inap
plicability to the modern cotton machines,
arises the indifference concerning Ine Ame
rican cotton among manufacturers. The
Itores in Virginia J underltand take it from
the Planters in fina'.l parcels, by way o;
barter ; the store keeper has one common
receptacle for all it receives, so that every
thing is unluckily done with it, touch
ought to have been ftndiouily avoided:
there is an aftonilhing difference in the ex
cellence of the qualities oi these i*jlpe 'ive
feeds, but the Planter s ignorance oi
circumstance unfortunately fills the market
with a bad article, when at the fame colt
and labor a good one m'glit be produced.
Healthy andunhealthv,! have as yet grow:,
but little cotton, and my knowledge 011
this head arises more from information
than any other means —It seems a plan'
which has manv casual faculties atta:hed
to it, (at leait in this part of the
for I believe it has no hereditary.infifrni
ties —planting from damaged feeds an
unfavorable season—extreme poor land —
a grub which injures the root, &c. all tend
to produce unhealthy cotton —weak and
fickly —the staple or which separates freely,
has no elasticity or inclination to adhere to
the other fibres, and when firlt taken out
of the package, has a very faint disagreea
ble smell ; this soon turns to a rot, when
it becomes totally useless to the manufactu
rer. I oaght to apologize to you Sir, for
intruding so much 011 your time, for I have'
i involuntarily run into a lengthy letter,
which I had not contemplated bei'ort I be
gan.
" I Ihall bring with me to Philadelph.a
some mule and water fp,inning of Paterfon
cotton yarn, as well as some (hawls, and
fancy nankeens of our American Manufac
ture.'"
* Probably a miltake for 5. Carolina.
By this Day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, July 6.
Pleyftng Intelligence.
Yesterday arrived,in town from Nia
gara, a Mr. Pierce, a gentleman whose
veracity may be depended upon, who
informs that the British forces intended
to aft in opposition to General Wayne,
have been recalled from their station ; ■'
and that part of them had arrived at ;
Niagara, previous to Mr. Pierce's leav- 5
ing that place, which was 4 weeks ago. j
Mr. Pierce also informs, that a large j
number of Indians were, before this, ;
colle&ed, who intended to join the Bri- j
ti(h ; but that they had all.dispersed.
The above orders were supposed to
have been issued by Lord Dorchcfter.
IMPORTANT.
From Correspomdknts.
By the ship Hopd, Captain Wife,
from Halifax, arrived here on Monday
laftj from the British Channel, we are
informed that about the 16th or 17th
of May, an action had been fought in
Weft Flanders, between the French ar
my commanded by General Pichegru,
confiding of 90,000 men", and a part
of the allied army under the Duke of
York which, after exhibiting prodigies
of valour, had been forced to retire,
with the loss of 700 killed, wounded
and miffing ; on the other hand, Gene
ral Clairfait had attacked the French
and defeated that part of their army
with which he was engaged, killing
2000 and taking 22 pieces of cannon.
The main body of the army, under the
Emperor, we underltand was not in the
adtion. The Duke of York narrowly
escaped being taken. [For the parti
culars of these events we entreat the pati
ence oj our readers, until they come to our
hands from official publications. I' i s
addtd that the Prince ,of Cobourg's
army had inverted the strong town of
Maubeuge, 16 le&guea from Cambray,
and 53 from Paris. Considerable rtin
forcements of troops had arrived from
Oftend to reinforce the Britiffi, and or
ders been issued from the War office in
London, to embark all the cavalry and
infantry which could be spared for that
purpose. It was hourly expected that
a general attack of the French, in which
the several parts of the allied troops in
FlanderS were to be engaged, would be
commenced, and which in all probabili
ty, must prove bloody and decisive.
Lord Moira's army was to fail before
the clofc of May, from Southampton
and the Isle of Wight, to attempt a
landing and establishment on the French
coast. A part of the Britiffi fleet for
Newfoundland had been taken by the
French. The commander of one of
Admiral M'Bride's fleet of frigates,
fell iri with a French frigate, which he
engaged, and took into Cork harbour,
together with a ship which proved to
be one of the Newfoundlanders.
Consequent to his Britannic Majes
ty's message to the House of Commons,
of the 12th of May, refpeding the pa
pers of several polittcal focieti'es in Eng- 1
land, the two houses of Parliament have
consented to a suspension of the Habeas ;
Corpus ail in the three kingdoms.
The fleet of Admiral Murray, con
fiding of the guns.
Refolntion, Capt. Cnmmings, of 74
Africa, Home, 74
Arsronaut, Aylmer, 64
L'Oifeau, R. Murray, 36
Thetis, Cochrane, 38
Cleopatra, Ball, 36
Tin fbe, Dickenfon, 28
Alert, Smith, 16
Bound for Halifax, flood into Ply- ,
mouth; fur it compliment of marines ;
when Captain Wife quitted him, and
ft .(! on his voyage for Halifax and
New York. Admiral Sir James W4l
bce is said to be appointed for the New
found! nd station, this Summer. The
Marquis of Lanfdowne had moved the
House of Peers, in terms hardly t'xpect-
Vd from his Lordship, on the fubjeft of
American affairs. [Concerning 'which,
we Jhall be more communicative when
precisely informed.]
The above account of the preceding
operation in Flanders, were brought to
Halifax.by a veflel from Briflol, that
failed some time after the 24th of May.
Extract from the London Gazette Ex
traordinary, of the 113 d of May—
Containing a letter from the Duke of
Tork, to Mr Dundas, of the 19th.
The army moved in 5 columns to at
tack the French ; the column his Roy
al Highness commanded, was compo
sed of 7 English, 5 Austrian, and 2-
Hefiian battalions, with 6 squadrons of
light dragoons and hussars, were fuc
celsful in the two attacks they made on
the.French; and after driving them
from two entrenched posts, his Royal
Highness was preparing to take a po
sition for the night near Lanov, and J
for that purpose advanced under Lt.
General Abercromby, a brigade of
guards as the advanced corps. He
I soon after received orders from the Em.
peror to move on and to attack the ene
my ; in this he again was fuccefsful.—
In this pohtion his Royal .Highness was i
compelled to fritter away his command., j
firft leaving the two tleflian battalions
at Lanoy, 2dly, four do. of British ;
1 guards at Mouvay, under General A- *
j bercromby, 3aly, two Austrian do. de- »
tached to communicate with Col. Da- (
I vier of Gen. Otto's column, and lastly, j
a brigade under General Fox, to secure
; his Royal Highnefs's right flank ; in
; consequence of these detachments, the
| Duke of York had only three British
j regiments with him, and the dragoons.
The French gaining intelligence of this
pnfhed a corps between his Royal
Highness and General Otto, who gain
ed the rear of the Duke, and a body
of troops soon after ifiuing from Lisle,
began the attaekon his Royal Highness.
The confiift was of no duration, they
were attacked in frbnt and rear by as
many thousands of the French as they
had hundreds, were soon broke, and
his Royal Highness with difficulty gain
ed General Otto's column. The de
tachments under Generals Abercromby,
Fox, &c. made good their retreat and
joined their columns on their right and
left.
The loss in killed, wounded and mif
fing is near 700, of that, three regi
ments, (the 14th, 37th, and 53d,) ftif
tained near 450, so that the others fuf
fercd very little, the most were made
prisoners. Major Wright of the artil
lery is the only officer of rank killed.
General Clairfayt has revenged this
check, and completely defeated a large
body of the French, taking 24 pieces
of cannon, and killed 2000 on the spot.
The Prince Saxe Cobourg inverted
Maubeuge. This is a hafly (ketch of
a perusal of the gazette, the number
killed, &c. is accurate, having taken
them down from the return.
]
Yesterday, the ship Hope, Captain
Wife, arrived here in [it is said] 43
days from Bristol and Halifax, with
Papers and letters dated London May
24, said to contain intelligence to the
following purport—That the Duke of
Tork had been DEFEATED, with
the loss of 700 men ; that an Austrian
General was killed by his fide f that
he [the Duke J saved himfelf by swim
ming a river on horseback; and, to
balance this account, that General Clair
fayt had rallied his army, given battle,
and beat the French, killing 2000 men,
and taking 22 pieces of artillery.-
We suppose the Duke's whole (ommand
( 15,000 men) were cut of ! !
Whether such papers and such letters
have been received or not, is not fully
ascertained by the editor. If it be a
fatt that such papers, and important
news are received, the public will judge,
whether they are not grossly insulted by
their being withheld from them. Had
the intelligence purported the total ex
termination of the French Republic,
tue:famemen| apparent pains o
to fmoothcr this neßC ouW , iave been p
as indefatigable m circihs- it un ; ver .
sally and inllantly. vt
New-York t ]
London papers, just come to Ihsj
fay, seven members of the British ParJ si
liament are in the Tower, and great tin- s
eafmefs prevails throughout the nation.
A letter we have just received from
Martinique, dated June 20th, states,
that the report of the arrival of an En
glish fleet at Barbadoes, as a reinforce- '
ment to Admiral Jrrvis, is totally with- 1
out foundation. '
The French landed at Point-Petre on '
the sth June ; the naval force is one 74 '
gun ship; one 64, four frigates, four
trSnfpor'ts and two brigs. The English 1
fleet at Guadaloupe is ot superior force.
The number of troops is not known,
but the English suppose them formida- 1
ble, as evidently appears from their con
duit. '
Two hundred Patriots have joined
the French at Point-Petre.
Mr. Higginfon had just arrived from
Barbadoes, and it is understood that he
has not found a single American con
demned veflel, worthy of condemnation.
ExtraS of a letters rrom Halifax, via
St. yobns, dated June 26, 1794-
' By a ship from Liverpool in 26 days
there is certain accounts received that
the Duke of Yoik is totally defeated,
with the lo!s of 700 men killed, and as
many wounded and taken priloners, and
has also loft 16 pieces of cannon ; and
that has obtained a complete
vittoiy over the French. The fleet for
this place, under admiral Murray, con
lifting of 3 (hips of the line and 6 fri
gates, are now in light. . It was cur
rently reported when the above (hip left
England, that the 'French fleet were
again in port, and Howe,with the Eng
li(h fleet, was still out.
From the Ncw-Tork Daily
Advertiser.
A London Paper, the Star, of 24th
M :l y, was received,by a gentleman of
this citV from Halifax yellerday—We
! are informed it contains much important
j information. The Auftrians and Bri
| tifh had attacked the French on the 17,
.or 18th, and were repulsed with con-
I fiderable loss ; that of the British alone
in killed and miffing a bout 800. The
Duke of York was ,in considerable
danger of being cut off with the column
hecommanded, by a party of the French,
who came out of Lisle ; and it is said he
had to hvim a river in getting back to
the mKin army. It is also said a flei;t
of merchantmen, under convoy of the
Castor frigate, bound for Newfound
land, had fallen in vvith a Freech fleet,
who captured nearly the whole of themi
It is also said that General Clairfait had
obtained considerable advantages over
part of the French army, with which
he was engaged.
It is further faidj that the Habeas
Corpus has been suspend.d :—That
fevcral pei foils have been committed to
the Tower, for treason :—And that the
Marquis of Landfdowne, had made a
motion to fuinmons the attendance of
the Lords, to take up a proportion he
meant to offer, refpefting the recent
Condudt of the United States.
It also appears, that Madame Eliza
beth, filter of the late King ot France is
dead.
NORFOLK, July 3.
On Sunday the 30th ult. arrived here
the snow Diligence, Capt. Homer, in
70 days from Liverpool—He failed in
company with a large French ship (late
ly captured by the English) loaded with
fait, bound to Baltimore :—left several
vessels thare for Baltimore and the con
tinent (names unknown) to fail imme
diately after him.
On the 12th of May at 6 A. M.
spoke a ship from Bremen,with a great
number of paflengers—men, women and
children, bound to Baltimore.
Arrivals at New-Tork.
Ship Young Eagle, Lord, Liverpool
Ship Mary, —, Cape of Good Hope
Hope, Wife, London and Hal
lifax
Diana, Emery, Bourdeaux
Snow Mary, Tro«nberly, Boston
Brig Polly, Mason, Curracoa
Schr. Union, Bowles, Kingston
Sloop Francis, Affprig, Halifax
(with the British May mail)
Argus, Allen, St. Croix
Captain Emery fiom Bourdeaux, in
forms, that there is above one hundred
American vessels lying there ; and, that
the Captains and crews thereof, are in
the molt diftrefiing situation.
He was boarded on the 16th May
by the French fleet from Brest, which
was intended to meet the one from Che
fapeak, who supplied him with provifi
ons—was treated by tliem extremely
polite. j
May 5:3 d, saw a long boat a drift,
with " George Hancock," painted on
the inside of her Hern.
Spoke the fliip Rainbow, Holiday,
from Charleston, bound to Liverpool—
fifteen days—all welt.
Philadelphia.
A paper, " the Star" of
the 24th received by a gentle
man in this citynjei pott this day, and
contains an OfficiV Account of the
events detailed under the New-York
head in this day's GazmK^
We learn that the events are much
more unfavorable tp the Combined
Forces than the New-York account
states—particulars of which willbegiven
to-morrow—not being able to obtain
pofleffion of the paper in ftafon for this
day.
Last night an attempt was made by
some villains to tob the house of Dr.
Joseph Redman, situated about 2 1-2
miles out of this city. The servants be
ing alarmed, rushed out of the house
and pursued the thieves to a thicket at
a (hort diltance, and attempted to take
them, when one of the gang, plunged
a bayonet into the breast of the Doctor's
coachman, (a black man) and killed
him inllantly—the thieves got off.
Money to be Lent, on
Mortgage of itenl Estates, within theXity
and Liberties of Philadelphia. Appl) to
NICHOLAS DIEHL, Jun. Attorrfty at
Law, No. Ig, South, Fourth-Street.
Ju y 10th. enptf.
NEW THEATRE.
Mr. Franklin's, Ntght,
On FRIDAY EVENING,
July xi.
Will be, Presented,
Milton s Mosque of Com us.
Comus, Mr. Fennell
1 ft Spirit, Mr. Green
Elder Brother, Mir Moreton
Younger Brother, Mr. Cleveland
. T> • ,r. 1 1 7 Mr. Marihall
Principal Bacchanals £ & M r. Darley
Meflrs. Warrell, J. Darley,
Bacchanals > Robins, Munto, Lee, Ba
j son, &c.
The Lady, Mrs. Whitlock
Sabrina, (with the Song of ' Sweet
1 Echo,' accompanied by Mr. Shaw on
( the Hautboy) MiL. Broadhurft
Pastoral Nymph, Mrs. Marshall
Euphrofyne, Mrs. Oldmixon
' First Bacchante, Mrs. Warrell
Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs,
* i ( Finch, Mrs. Bates, Mrs.
acc an es, , Rowfon, Miss Willems,
) Miss Rowfon, See.
> s
i In A£i id. a Chara<Steraftic DANCE,
1 [compol'ed by Mr. Francis,] by Mr.
r Francis, Monf. Bellona, Mrs. De Marque,
Madame Cardie, &c.
1
The celebrated Comic Song of " Four and
Twenty Fidlers all in a Row,"
3 By Mr. BATES.
After which, a New Comedy, never per
formed here, called
Ways and Means ;
f Or, ATRIPto DOV ER.
e Sir David Dunder, Mr. Harwood
t Random, Mr. Moreton
Scruple, Mr. Cleveland
_ Old Random, Mr. Whitlock
s Carney, Mr. Bliffet
Tiptoe, Mr. Bates
Paul Peery. Mr. Francis,
Boundfee, Mr. Finch
Bailiff, Mr. Warrel
e Lady Dunder, Mrs. Shaw
1 Harriot, Mrs Francis
Kitty, by a young Lady, (being her
1 second appearance )
Mrs. Peery, Mrs. Rowfon
! After which a new Dance, composed by
Mr. Francis, called
; The Irijh LILT;
Or, The MERRY REAPERS.
. By Meflrs. Francis, Belona, Bliflet. Darley,
t jun. T. Warrell, Madame Gardie, Mr#.
\ Cleveland, Miss Rowfon, Mrs. Bates,
Miss Willem6, and Mrs. De Marque.
To which quill be added, a Comic Opera,
in two Acts, called
! The Prize;
Or, 2, 5*
The Music by Signor Storace.
x Do<s>or Lenitive, Mr. Harwood
n Mr. Heart well, Mr. Moreton
Mr. Caddy, Mr. Finch
Label, Mr. Wignell
" Boy, Mast. T. Warrell
x Juba, Miss Broadhurit
) Mrs. Caddy, Mrs. Rowlon
x Caroline, (with additional songs) Mrs.
Oldmixon
1-
j With the original Overture and Acconipa
niaments.
it
n * it * Tickets to be had of Mr. Frank
lin, at the Box-Office of the Theatre, and
at Carr, & Co's Musical RepofitiJry, Mar-
J ket-Street.
On Monday the TEMPEST, with z
: New PANTOMIME; fir the <it
Mr. Milbourn.