Foreign Intelligence. Rccci-oed by the Jhip William, in 53 days from Liverpool. SWITZERLAND, BASLE, May 8. The news is at present extremely frn- > poitant. The French are in Piedmont on tbe one fide, and, on the cther> ttiey | tnvc e?rly, lad week* palled the Petit j Mont Sr. Bernard and have taken the ' town of Aoit, which commands the \ of tile Lone name, & is the capital! of tin' principality of Ao(t ; from thence S to Turin, then" is but fifteen or sixteen I leagues diltamc, along the liver Dona 1 Baltea, which joins the Po near Civaf- j co, about fix leagues from Turin.—; The forts Bard, Terea, and Civafco,' arc the only obllacles on the road, of less conference than the port they hnve stormed. We have the intelli gence from the brother of a Swiss of ficer in the king of Sardinia's service, who was unfortunately killed in this af fair. Theft were two attacks by the French in the morning : after an action of two hours, they made a falfe re treat. At night, the polls were at tacked with inch fury, that the Pied irioritefe gave way. The Swiss defend ed the pass for a long time, till over powered by numbers, they were obli ged to retreat with a conl'derable loss. Morges and Sola Were carried from this \ place, onty diltant three leagues from 5 Aoft. The French marched forward, ! and entered pell-mell, according to re port, with the Sardinian troops* __ NATIONAL CONVENTION. 20th Floreal.—(9 May.) Tire Convention granted 100 livres , monthly, during the term of their im- j prifonment, to those who have been ; acquitted by the revolutionary tribunal. [ A pension of 100 livres yearly was ! granted to each of the female Citizens , who, in the year 1 789, repaired to Ver- J failles, to conduct from thence Louis XVI. and his family to Paris, as pri- j foners. The Section of La Montaigne an- j nounced, that the forced loan had pro duced f,700, 000 livres in that fedtion. j The saltpetre works had already yield- ; ed 7,600 pounds weight of that arti cle. NAPLES, April 1 j l . Their Majetlies and the royal family , are all the time at Darfefar—they hnvc • lately received deputations from the j principal nobility, the magiftiates, the merchants and others, who have renew ed their prpfeffions of attachment and fidelity,, and their offers of support in the present circumstances of danger. It is not said that their majesties are perfectly fatisfied—for iny part I should not advise them to return' to their capi tal, till they receive deputations from the Sans Culottes of their kingdom. LONDON, May 20. Saturday morning, at ten o'clock, their Majelties, the Princesses, and soon after their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Clarence and Gloucelter, arid Princess Sophia, carte to St. James's palace, —where they viewed the colours that lately came home from the Welt Indies after which they adjourned to Lady Finch's apartments, from whence they saw the ceremony of receiving the colours by a party of the guards, under command of General Stevens, and which, after coming out of the court-yard, being joined by two parties of life-guards in the van and rear, they bore to St. Paul's cathedral, where they were hung up as trophies of victory, with the ufnal ce remonies : The musical band, at their removal from the palace, and also at their depositing, playing Te Dcum and Cod J,iive the King. Yelterday afternoon, Mr. Needham, one of his Majesty's meffcngers in or dinary, took into eultody in the city, one Edwards, charged with making and having in his custody, a ftaff of fix feet high of wood, mounted with a long ffiarp piece of iron, about a foot long, made in imitation of a Parisian pike. On his examination, he had made oth ers for one Hilfivard, and a foreigner of the name of Ronffel!, bfith members of the different societies in White-chap el Hilliyard and Rouffell were both taken yesterday afternoon, and pikes of this description found in theirxufto dy. The French had advanced to Binch, within a few miles of Moris, and which they threatened with an immediate at tack. Prince Kaunitz here attacked them and checked their progress. He is -laid to have gained a considerable victory, and to have driven 'hem across e the Sambre, with the luis of a great > : numher of men. Toe mofl material paVt, however, of } the intelligence brought by the tneffen- 1 ger yefte.day, is a confirmation tnat t the Prussians had arrived at Liege, in • < their way to join the Austrian army. ■ 1 No nevv engagement had taken pUee ; 1 but the Duke was preparing to nyirch ; 1 immediately to attack the French at t ! Courtray, having affected a communca- ( j tion with General Clairfait. Arrac- ! j tion of very great magnitude was ex- ' pefted to take place on the 17th. The ] ! allied forces deilin--d to make this at : tack, amount to 7 c},ooo men. ' Letier# from ti.ulia, dated Ai> | zath, irur.-lr,t, thru ttie fu't/ of that ; place is carried on by Lord Hood wuh i gfjt vigwr. It is with regret we larn ; that Lieut. Tapper, of the navy, an t ! officer of diltinguiflicd gallantry aril me- , j ru, had been killed by a cannonfhot ] (taking him in the breall. \ j Admiral Vandeput is appointed to , command at Newfoundland, in tie room 1 of Sir Richard King. i 1 May 19. j 1 The mails whictl Were due this morn- • , ing l ave not arrived; but we *ellerday , received letters from I'landere by a p«i- 1 vate conveyance. There has been 110 1 engagement of any confeqUeiice since j that on the 11th i.iftant, in which Gen. , Clairfait's loss was greater than tbe al lies have yet sustained in any aftiotii Eighteen thousand Prussians llsve reached the environs of Liege, and J 22,000 more are marching as quietly is ; possible towards the Netherlands. May 21. In tonfeqilence of the (late p.rifoners . on, Monday sent to jljs tlcular orders arc- given relative to the | military guards, and the gates are to be j shut an hciur earlier than ul'ual every f evening. Accounts from Paris, by way of j Brtiffels, report the murder of the ami ; able Pritlfcefs Elizabeth, at thehandsof j the Revolutionary Tribunal. For the ■ honor of human nature, wc wish to dil ' believe this for the present, as we never 1 heard of a single insinuation brought a * gainlt her. • The Americans, as our readers will lee by the resolution ofCongrefs infert | ed in this paper, have laid an embargo ■ on all ships in their ports. Letters from (thence state, that notwithlianding this ' measure, the general wish is, that they [ may maintain their neutrality, but that ■ a flep of this kind was necessary as a mealure of retaliation, to haflen the ' settlement of the indemnity that may be due to them for injuries their com merce has fulfained hy the capture and detention of their veflels by the Engliih cruizcrs. In consequence of information re ceived by the magistrates and fheriff of Edinburgh, several persons were appre hended there on Thursday and Friday night, and after being examined, were I committed to prison. In two of their houses some weapons, between forty and fifty, were found j several of them are made after the form of a battle ax, 2Z inches long, and having what rcfembl- s a fmajl scythe, much curved, fixed across. Others of these instruments are in the shape of daggers, bayonets, pikes, &c. They are all made so as they can be I fixed on poles, or used without them. , One of the persons apprehended is a I blackfmiih, who has of late been busily j employed in manufacturing them. He !. retufes to answer who employed him, 1 but fays, that hearing that an invaliou 1 . was intended by the French, he thought | the citizens would need such instruments I as weapons of defence, and as he ex . pedted a good sale, thought it belt to p have some ready made. 1 On Tuesday, the 15th inft. a most i desperate affray happened at the fair of i Kilnelack, near Cavan, the circumftan . ces of which are thus stated in a letter - from that quarter ; t A number of persons, calling them -1 selves Defenders having come to the fair, declared they would destroy every , Scotchman or Presbyterian they should . find.—They met at Mr. Bigger's, who , had upon all occasions been forward in 1 suppressing such lawless depredators, t and having cut and abused him in a r shocking manner, some humane people , got him from the ctowd and concealed . him from their fury. Word was imme . J diately sent to the Ballyjamefduff and r | the neighborhood, when a Mh Blakeley -1 j aflembled about forty of his neighbors . I —(T'loteltants and lilffenlers) and.pro -1 j ceded 011 their way to Kilnelack. They i I were met by the banditti within one . mile of the town, who made a fliew of opposition. Mr. Blakeley, accompani ed with some others, went to them, and 1 slated that they did not come with any . hostile intent, but hearing of the treat -1 ment Mr. Biggets had received, they ; were determined to bring him home ; dead or alive, upon which one, the lead- Jris wheit- ? ujfltt* ; fell jw was instantly (hot dead; b< the Agents immediately called to so cach Mer to surround Mr. B's party, lu whivfi hey attempted to do, but re- A ceiv'td o smart a reception, that aftei tr a fhorCngagcment they fled, leaving n. thirty Kvo of their companions ,d*a® 1 0:1 tW'jHrt. BRTISH PARLIAMENT. h ycuSE OF LORDS. | 8 ' " T , _j; Mand&y, May 19.' y t^w.pu^r'jßMrtSjStty io &-nire and' ■dfttiiHuLii pcfims as he (hall jufpedt, v 9t£'.hT,rJs&, the report of the commit- c tee of the House of Commons on the papers of th? Society for Constitutional J Information, and the Cdrref- ' ponding Society, &c. . . Lord Grenyille fa'd, he had two mo- „ tioiis to make on a fnture day: the cite 1 was fpt a vote of thanks of> that House 1 to Sir Charles Grey, beas Corpus aft, because it was ! the strongest pillar of that conftitutlbn. ' l!ie Earl of Lauderdale approved higMjc of jlje !•:.ended motion for the ' but intimated that-he Jj r. ineiTure to pass the bill brought from to suspend the Habeas Corpus *dt, that being the moll alarm ing merfure under the present circlim fiances, that ever was taken by the go vernmert of this country. The Marquis of Lanfdowne approved of the notion of thanks mentioned by the nobl Secretary of State. He was glad minftera had thought fit to delay the procteding on the dreadful and a larmirlg neafure of suspending the belt act that fver pafled to secure the Hghts of the peoale of this country 5 the Habe as Corpus act. He hoped they would make gool use of the interval: He was \ glad to fee in them some signs of repent ance for tie alarm they had already cre ated. The lords proceeded to ballot for a secret committee of nine, and the fol lowing noble peers were chosen : The Lopd Chancelfor, Earl of Carlisle Duke of Leeds, Earl of Chatham, j Duke of Portland, Earl of Mansjkld Earl Hardwicke. POLISH REVOLUTION. Fx t raft of a letter from Warsaw. The Polish infnrredtion is an event which otuft attract the attention of Eu rope, it is of consequence therefore, to afford the public • every possible light upon the fubjedt. The general fear is, that this infurredtion, though Under taken to deliver the country from a for eign yoke, may degenerate into an im mitation of those ci uel tiesof which France has become the theatre. Nothing, how ever, can be more ill grounded than this fuppofrtion. All that has been said in the public paipers of the executions, and l'anguinary fetitencesthat have taken place, is entirely falfe. The National Tribunal eltablifhed in order to decide upon crimes ngainlt the natron, has not' ytt tried one person. The Cardinal law of Poland Neminem captivabimus nisi jure viflum, is refpedted and ftridtly ad hered to. It is true, that there have been discovered, from the papers of the Ruffian general and ministers which have fallpn into the hands of the patriots, proofs of the mo ft scandalous treason on the part of several individuals 5 but the proceedings, against all persons taken up in consequence of these discoveries, have been conducted according to the eftablilhed practice of the Court at Warsaw, are there to be decided by the great National Tribunal; a mode di redtly oppoiite to that of the French Revolutionary Tribunal. Here the pro- ] ceedings are not conducted by the Tri bunal which condemns, and condemna tion cannot be pronouced till after a le gal conviction. There the fame judges conduct the proceedings, pronounce condemn, not according to evidence, but in consequence oT the perforation which they have formed of the guilt or ■ innocence of the accused, from a mode of procedure so summary. A Nov Invention in Typography. Upon good authority we can inform such of our readers as it may concern, that, by the suggestion of Profeflor Wilson, there has lately been introdu ced at the Glasgow Letter Foundery, a a very simple but important improve- be ment of the Fusil Type, by means of w, which the Lettc-prefs may In future re be Lcured against a certain vexatious so source of errors to which it has been w liable evei since the invention of the av Art of Printing. Mr. Wilson, to Whom bj the thought occurred some years ago, a had chiefly in view the perfect correct- dt uttSs of Agronomical and Nautical 1a- or bles, which has now become of so much h: moment, from their fubfervieney to the fu lunar method of finding the longitude te at sea. f . si .. ! V It is well known that, after infinite , la care and labour have been bellowediup- .y< pgn renda-ing lhe jropj 35fe|U2£*S||L correct, yet, during tlie 1 | whole time the work is at preis, it is exposed to subsequent errors, by the ci types being pulled out by the bails, and b improperly placed in the hurry of Print- tc ing. Errors thus generated without know- I ledge, and. at different times, renders it impossible to pronounce us to the cor- reftnefs of any one copy of the fame edition, without actually collating it with some ftaiidard one. As a remedy, however, for this evil, the types are now call so as to lock in- 2 to one another throughout the whole t page, and in such a manner that the } bails cannot pull out oiie type without dislocating the whole—-a circumstance 5 which can never happen. This lock- 1 Ing is effected by a fm'all femi-cylindri- } cal protuberance formed by the mould j upon the body of each type, corres ponding to a hollow or nick exactly ] opposite; and it has been found that 1 such types, with- jfeirLj&sefc c - < can" be cait and Siefied with all-the ac- t curacy of common types. For printing Clafficks or other works ; intended to be very correct, and where the page is not interfefted with black lines so common in Mathematical Ta bles, there has also been introduced at the Glasgow Letter Foundery, types . more simple in their conltruftion. I These are cast with two small semi ' circular nicks exactly opposite to one - [ another. By this coriitruftion, when : ; the pages are composed, and have un > 1 devgone their final correction, lmall -! brass wires, of a proper fizt; and length, 1J can be lodged in the hollow cylindri -3 \ eal canals between every two lines, -1 which will effeftual'y lock the types, so -: that none can noffibly arise by the ad hesion to the balls. i The application of these types will - necefiari.'y demand of the compositor a [ management somewhat dirt<-n-TTt—froni eT wttat-w- common, and anCT may not per be quite to coninwdious. But t ; as they are intended for special and im j j portant purpoles, any such extra trou ble, attending their uie, cannot be con sidered in the light of an objection a gair.lt the improvement. DUBLIN, May 13. * Monti Ay, Miles Dignum, of Crart/lon " Ji est, iuAj found gici'ty at the court of 0 quarterffjiens, before the recorder, ofhav t ing insulted Capt. Witherington, of the ytb I, korft, in order to provoke h m tofight a duel", ■_ ixihen the courtfintenccd him to be impri/on ed in Newgate for 6 months, to pay a fine of 50/. and to gi-ve security for his good be hat'ior for jei en years. This is the third e time Mr. Dig 'turn has been convicted and v punijhed for insulting officers. n May 17. d ExtraH of a letter from London May 12. >, " This morning a shoe-maker in Pic n cadi/'y was taken up on a charge of treason, il and all hisp ip.'rs seized. Bis name is Har e dy; he was fcretary to the c irrefponding t . Jacobin Society. Among his papers are some . letters from Ireland, which rr.ay fotolTre ?f serious concern to the authors. —Mr. Stone 6 is fully committed so' trial— In the course of I- his examination, it appeared thatH. Rowan, e was an accomplice. /I proclamation ap e ptared next day in the London Gazette by e his majefly in council, offering a reward of 1000/1 for apprehending Rowan." ij n The trial of the proprietors of the e Northern Stnr, comes on next Monday in \ ihe court of king's bench—The publication 1 II of an ad-vert 'ifment for the promo ion of Catholic emanci at ion, is said to be the al e ledged libel. it The three lafl Gazettes contain 35 bank e ruptcies—but that we have no time to think of commercial ruin and domeflic diflrejs ! The KING u COX. May 12' —The Traverfer was tried at the bar on an indictment for J educing arti -- ficers to go to Bofion in North America, and *s after a trial of three hours, ac/quitted with :e I out S°'"S lnto defence. . He was tried upon afecond indiHment for n ajimilar offence ; but the lawyers for the prof cution lave declined any further pro 'r ceedings, he was of course acquitted. ' e When Mr. Cox was acquitted of the second indiftmcnt, lord chief justice Clomnel, addressing himlelf to Mr. Cox said, " whatever latisfaftion I have in m feeing an individual fairly and honora n, bly acquitted, of an offence in its nature ar highly mischievous to the uation, 1 can u- j not but fet!-fv.mc pain in i cflefting that a man to whose talents the public ?«. borne such an ample teflimonv a j i which they have so fully encourage •''! rewarded, should even gl-e a pit for such a prosecution. The evils \ lc j. would arise, if the practice of fph , h ,,j . away artificers was not strongly rei.it.-j by law, would be infinite, and would. , a short time, leave this country poorm. deed ! 1 shall however, fay no more : . on the fnbjeft; but I trust the little [ have said will make you Mr. Cox.caic. 1 fill in future, how you give even a pre. ! tence to any description of men to clijfgj . you again with this offence againfl in - laws of a country which has folkcrei I your talents. ! WATERFORD, May | On Thursday, the freedom of (},; t city was.presented, in a handsome lilvc-r box, to Mr. Cox, the ingenious projec tor of our bridge. The Bridge flock fold last wcekfroia 110 to 115]. per cent. From a paper received ly the Maru, Capt. Green from Brejl. PARIS, May 27. There has bee n another action on the 21 ft of May, near Tournay, between the republican army, commanded by Pichegru and the combined armies. These last were forced to cross the Scheldt, after a bloody atlion which lasted 24 hours. The French 1011 two pieces of artillery, took seven and made 500 prisoners. On the 20th May the right of the French was at Birrch and was to ad vance on Monsof Charleroi ; their head . - quarters fUll at Court rai, the left ex-'— tending near Oftend. The fame correspondent informs that an attempt had been made to assassinate Robespierre, by a yong woman, 17 years of age. An attempt was alto , made on the life of apother member of the committee of fafety, both without > success. The latter attempt was made by a . man armed with a double barvel'd gun, . who trifling his firft (hot, fled and con , s cealed himfelf in ahoufe, where he was followed by the member and an officer ] that chanced to pafsjuft after the shot was fired. They difrovered the villain in his hiding place, and received notice ftom him, the firft pcrfon who en v , deavored to arretl him fliould receive'the contents of his loaded barrel. The member attempted to advance, hut was ,j prevented by the officer who declared a he had not a right -to hazard his life be. ~ Waiife he belonged to the people. The •_ j officer fie pt forwards then, and rcceir. t jeda ball in his shoulder, with one however, he secured the assassin. [_ The Convt ntion decreed, that a btil let in of the officer's health fliouW be publiflied daily until his complete reco very. UNITED STATES. n >f STOGKBRIDGE, July 8. b INDEPENDENCE. '' On Friday last, the 4th July, a large ' and refpCtable number of gentlemen from various parts of the county aflem ■d bled at Great Barrington, to celebrate d the memorable ctent which gave rank to America among the nations of the earth. < At one o'clock they moved in procession from the House of Captain "" W. Pynchon, to the Meeting Houte, ' where the Rev. Mr. Judfon, of Shet ' field, addrefTed the Throne of Grace, in \ e a suitable and well adapted Prayc-— ■■f After vvKic'W •-)n fvrilwas de ie livered by John Whiting, Elq". co _ nl "| of memorative of those great events which led to the eftablifliment of American Independence.—The company then re turned to Captain Pynchon's ; and, at about 4 o'clock, they fat down to an elegant entertainment, provided on the j n occasion, under a beautiful Bower, <"• fn an adjoining green. After dinner the of following Toasts were drank, accom-j 'I- panied with the discharge of cannon. 1. The DAY. (Three Cheers) k ~ 2. The PRESIDENT, the Man of the PEOPTE. (Three Chars) i J, 3- Our Country, and the National Legitfatuve—May its Councils alwa)* be pure and enlightened. at 4. The Commonwealth of Maia f»- chufetts. _ (■ "d Liberty, May itbethefi'll objec 0 Government to secure it againil the e P forts of faction, lieeotioulnefs and ty or be ranny. 6. The memory of the great m who fought and fell in the caule of he merica. j cc 7. The Vice.President, and the ot <1 ox Patriots by whose wifduUi, under •' in smiles of Providence, AnierM w,<< " : a- dueled through perils, to peace, lilertjfj ire and fafety. , m. 8. May this land of Freedom, Iff iat tilized hy the blood of heroes, never