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, <tnd Sir John Jer- '
vis, aid all the officers aud troop's un- 1
der their command, for their services in
the Weft-Indies. The other wa4 a com- '
mittee of nine of their lordships, to ex- '
amine into the report of the conimittee j
of fecrccy of the House of Commons. ,
Eat! Stanhope objected to any mea-, '
sure that tended to overthrow the con- '
ftituticn of this by suspending 1
tlie H>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 <we are so busied in celebra
j_ ting our profitable victories in Flanders> 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