MINATION of EVERT SHAL-.
LOP approaching thai wharves, as it |
to be much dreaded that a market will
ke fought for the above article, by
ANY CONVEYANCE that may be
least fufpecied.
We think it a duty we owe to hu
itfanirv — to 'he tender and affectionate
. of jociety, thus to ALARM OUR
\veIOHI3OURS OF THE AP-'
Coaching pestilence ; if
it turns out contrary, we will not feel
ourVlici blame-able, by routing the at
tention of THE PEOPLE to their \
otvn welfare and happiness.
ADAMS & EMYTH. !
Yeftcrday, irrived in this harbour,the ,
brig Isabella and Ann, Wm. Hampton ;
Matter, 16 days from St Kitts and St '
Eultatiuaf by whom we arc informed,
that on the 2d of July last, the British
army under the command ot Gen.Symes ;
made a tierce attack oil tile French {
Republican troops at Point a Petre, ha- <
ring ptevioufly demanded a surrender of
the fort and Batteries;affuring them that
in cafe of refiftancc they (hould not re
ceive any quarter, but that every (uul
Ihoiild be put to the bayonet. The brave
San* Culottes, regardless of Britith
threats, returned for answer, They wilh
ed to meet them—that their motto im
pelled on their hearts and their colors
was, Conquer or Die : that their stan
dard would be relinquilhed but with
their lives, therefore would not accept of
nor give, quat-ter.
Whereupon a cduncil was called,
which determined, that all the volun
teer* from tile different colonies, and
even the officers and seamen from the
fleet {hould be collected, to participate
in the expe&ed glory of the day ; and
that every man (hould unferew the flint
from his rtiufquet, and depend entirely
on the bayonet. In the mean time the
French wera not idle ; they had funk a
mine, that extended under the onty
pallage by which the enemy could ap
proach, and appearing in a large body
under cover of their guns, the Van
guard of the Bririfh, consisting chiefly
of the 6th regt. and all the picked men,
valiantly approached them under a Hea
dy chaige; but the French appearing
panic-rtruck, mltde a feint retreat, by
Which the entirt column of the Britilh
waafo far on the fatal spot, as,
on a signal giveti, to be totally dellroy
edi—being precipitated into the air,
like as many wild geese—legs, arms,
. and beads flyihg in every direction ; not
a foul of 800 men and 28 officers escap
ed , the tecnaindcr wet-e drov« off the
island, to their flipping, and the
French are now in complete poffeflion
of Grand Tcrre. The French women I
were undet arfhs during the atttack,
and stood their giound with firmnefs.
It is further said, that Gen. Symes is
under arn.lt on board the Boyne, for
some alledged mifcondudt—that Sir
John Jervis and Charles Grey are likely
to iofe all the credit which they gained
at Martinique—that bufiuefsis almost at
a stand in the Windward lflands, and it
is that if the Britilh do not
recerv* large reinforcements from Eu
rope, the French will retake all their
polfefiions in the couvfe of the hurri
can* season—that Arnold had arrived at
Poitit-a-Petre, but a (hort time before
the French, and was there captured
with the reft; but, mistaking his per
son, had put Mr. Anthony Sommerfa'lj
of St. Kitts in irons, who, it is fuppof
cd, can never survive the ill tvatment,
if not already dead ; that Arnold fecret
cd himfelf until the day of aft ion, when
he made his escape on a plank acrofsthe
river Sal, to the Britilh, where he is
now a volunteer without any command
—and that, on the 12th/July last, the
Resource, an English frigate, had ar
rived off Euftatius, from Windward,
and confirmed the Duke of York's de
feat—alfo gave an account of a severe
engagement having happened between
the English and French fleets, about
the end of May last.
PHILADELPHIA,
August 4.
Says a Correspondent.
Those who propose an alteration in the
fyltem of taxation for this country, by
changing indireS for direS taxes, do not
appear to canfider the consequences of
- *heir plan. In thpfe dates where im
■Wdiate taxation has been adopted such
has been the remiflhefs of the people,
efpccially in the interior parts of the
country, that nearly one half has been
levitd by executions—the number of
officers employed in the collection is
aW)ft innumerable—the receipts al
ways deficient—and the expences of
collection in one of the eaftein states
has been estimated by a petfon well qua
lified to judge at not much less than 50
per cent. Indirect taxes in this coun
try are principally confined to articles of I
luxury—as such are paid voluntarily— j
direS taxes admit of no option—direct
taxes be collected to a large
amount, unless they are aflefled by the
poor—for it is absurd to luppofe the
rich will voluntarily incur the whole ex
pence of supporting Government.
Direit Taxatiou therefore is nothing
(hort of creating an opposition between
two clafles of citizens who cannot long
exist separate and independent of each
other.
Copy of a Letter from an American Cap
tain to his friend in this city. Dated
Cape Nichvla Mule, 'July gih 17 94.
"I arrived at Fort Dauphin June
28th but found nothing there, but iick
nefs and death, no sales for any thing,
and at this place, things are very little
better} we are going to fee to morrow,
the only place we have any profpeft of
doing any thing at, and for my part I
think prolpefts are bad v Beef at this
place, 5 Dollars, Pork 9 And Flour
7 dollars per barrel.
I remain, tic."
ExtraS of a letter, from Point Petre,
Guadeloupe, d ted the 2d of July, re
ceived at IVilmington.
" The Britilh ar.KVy, commanded by
Geo. Symes, made an attack on the
French; the British force was great,
having volunteers from all the British
islands, with 300 men from
and all the seamen and offices of the
fleet.
" The action was very severe, ocea
fioned by many lerious rencounters some
time before, and the French were well
prepared for the attack ; they made a
feirit, and retreated, by which means
they drew the Britilh on a mine which
they had sprung, and blew the flower
of the Britilh army in the air. The
sixth regiment, to a man, was destroyed.
" What remained of the Britilh ar
my, retreated in great disorder, aban
doning Grandterre, and left it in full
pofTemon of the French.
" The loss of the British U comput
ed at 800 men» and 28 officers."
Extra 3 of a letter from a gentleman in
St. Kitts, dated Jth July, to his cor
respondent in this city.
" It is with great latisfa&ibn we find
that England tviil probably make com
pensation to America fell the property
illegally captured and condentned and
that in consequence, a good underltand
ing is likely to fubfiit between the two
countries."
ExtraS of d letter from it. Euflatius,
dated July 15.
" Vast sums of money mull be loft in
the late flour shipments, as no French
produce can be procured at present, to
make up the loffei on return
biit I hope it will not be long so. The
French have defeated the British at Point
Petre, Guadalotlpe—Boo men» with 24
officers fell in thi firft attack. Grand
terre is entirely abandoned by the Bri
tilh* and I expect they will soon leave
the island totally.
" The Sans Culottes have given the
horrors to all the aristocrats in the Weft-
Indies, even here they are afraid of i
being attacked before the hurricane
months are over, which makes the mer
chants more cautious in their speculati
ons oh flour than heretofore."
EXTRACT.
It has been remarked, that if the al
lies continue the war againlt France, it
is not unnatural to apprehend that (he
may become the scourge of every na
tion : driven to make exertions which
cannot fail to ensure victory—'her sons
born as it were on the held of battle—
trained to arms from their cradles—the
toils of war their chief delight—a na
tion of soldiers—they will easily be led
from a just defence to unjust conquest,
and, like ancient Rome, swallowing up
the nations atound her, become a fecorid
Mitlrefs of the World.
Carter and Wilkinfon of Providence
R. Island, have Publilhed, Price 3f
in Boards, or 4/2 in neat Binding. An
Apolegy for Cliriftianity. In a Series
of Letters, addrefled to Edward Gib
bon, Efq ; Author of the History of
the Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire. Being a necessary and in
ftrudtive Appendix thereto. By R.
Watson, D. D. F. R. S. Lord Bilhop
of .Landafr, and Regius Profeffor of
Divinity in the Univenity of Cam
bridge.
Of this work Mr. Gibbon himfelf
fays,
" When Dr. Watson gave to the pub
lic his Apology for Chriftianitv, in a ierits
of Letters, he addrefled them to the Au
thor of the Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire, with ajuft Confidence, that he
had considered this impc riant Objeift in a
manrer not vm\ro-thy of his Antagonist.
or himfelf. J_)r. W'a,lull's mode of think
ing bears a liberal arid philological Cast •
his thoughts are expreifed with spirit, and
t-'-ir is -.vj tempered by po
liteness and moderation. Such isthe man
whom I fhoujd be happy to call my friend,
and whom I ftiould not blufn to call my
Antagonist. But the fame motives which
tempt me to accept, or even to solicit a
private and amiable conference, dissuaded
ine from entering intoa conrroverfy with a
Writer of so relpedtable a character ; and
I embraced the earlielt opportunity of ex
prefling to Dr Wat fort himfelf, how frn
cerely I agreed with him in thinking, that
" as, the World is how poffoffed of the O
•' pinion of us both on the fubjedt in quef
" tion, it may be, perhaps, as proper for
" us both to leave it in this ilate." *
*' Gibbon's Vindication of some Pas'
figei againlt several Opponents.
Relative to the Hides mentioned in the
Wilmington Paper, the Gentral adver
ttfer of this m ruing fays,
Having learnt that some hides arrived
by that vessel, had been actually landed
here, we made some enquiries into the
state of the facts, and find : that the
captain absolutely denies losing any
hands, ever since his departure from
New Orleans; that two had died it is
true, one upwards of a year since, the
other near two months before he left
Neyv-Orle.ins, We also find that the
hides.l<»nded here, were fold immediate
ly at a good price, which they could
not have commanded if they had been
in the least injured. These, however,
have been ordered to be re-ihipped and
lent back to Wilmington.
From this it appears, that but little
ciufe of alarm exists, the occurrence
however, should serve as a caution.
Either the state of Delaware for her
own fafety, and that of her neighbors
ftiould not admit immediately vessels
from sickly quarters, or precaution
should be used in our intercourse with
Delaware. It is to little purpose, that
j we attend ftridly to the health of our
city, by obliging vessels from places
where contagious difordcrs do or are
supposed to prevail to ride quarantine,
if those vessels can run into Wilmington,
and thence fend us immediately what
otherwise would not have been here ad
mitted.
In the cafe above stated it is but just
to add, that the Lark was not carried
into Wilmington to avoid our quaran
tine, but that the vessel, and chief of
the cargo is owned in the city. New-
Orleans, it is true, was sickly when the
Lark failed.
The Empress of Russia has offered
the Jews, that if they mil colled fur
her 30 millions of pounds, (lie will gua
rantee the holy land to them, where
they might build their temple, agreea
bly to their expectation grounded on
the Bth chapter of Zacharialu
Con. Paper.
By this Day's Mail.
SALEM, July 39.
We have a report in town, that a vessel
has arrived at Wifcaliet from England,
bringing an account of an INSURREC
TION in London, of a valt body of peo
ple, and that the military had been unfuc
cefsful in attempting to l'upprefs it. A
Ihort time will determine whether the ac
count deserves any credit.
PROVIDENCE, July 26.
On Tuesday arrived the sloop De
light, Capt. Homes, from Philadelphia.
She failed from the Capes of Delaware
with the fleet which was lately dispersed
by two British ships of the line, and
some frigates.
CONCORD, (N.H.) July 24.
Melancholy Atcident.
On Saturday last, at Swett's Ferry,
a few miles below Haverhill, in Maffa
chufettr, 8 persons were drowned by
the upsetting of a pleasure boat, occa
sioned by a sudden squall of wind.
There were only 9 or 10 persons in the
boat confiding of men, women and
children.
HANOVER, (N. H.) July 28.
The Public are assured by a gentle
man of credibility, direst from Canada,
that Gov. Simcoe's frightful invasion
was by no means hojlile, but with the
most kind and benevolent views imagi-.
nable ; viz. to build us a Corn-Mi. i!■ ! !
How noble and generous in his Ex
cellency to stoop to so fervite an office ;
merely to oblige U9—becaaf- he has no
use foi tueii an injlrumer.t, at home.
A Wit begs leave to enquire, whe
ther fait!. mill is to go f>y writer only,
or like the Dukt of Yd'rk, by land znd
ivaltr both !
From the Netv-Torh Diary.
Messrs. Printers, ,
1 find an opinion prevailing in this
' city, tiut there i; au A urretiion in-Ca
nada.—This is not true : though you
may reft affuredthat the majority of thi
people in Lower Canada are much dil
/atijfied with the prefer it government,
and if the opinion of a good politics
connoisseur of that country' is to be cre
dited, many of the inhabitants have 'go;
affe&ed with the French Mania, but it
is hoped by some, and though doubtci
by a great many, that the two following
clauses of an act of their legislature,
pa! Ted 3 ift May, 1794, will totally era
dii-ate every symptom of that Anti-Roy
al difoider.
VERAX.
Persons who hold seditious discourses,
utter treasonable words, maliciouflv
spread False News, publish ,or ilftribute
libellous or Seditious papers, written
or printed, or in any manner disturb
the peace and happiness enjoyed under
his Majesty's government in the pro
vince, may be fei2ed and detained by
any Captain of militia, Sheriff, Consta
ble or Peace Officer, and by warrant of
any justice of the peace be committed to
any jail of the diftiidt, there to be de
tained, until b.ailed by the Chief Justice
of the province, or one or more judges
of the Courts of King's Bench, or two
or more justices of Oyer and Terminer,
or by warrant under the hand and seal
of the Governor or Lieut. Governor
directed to any Justice of the Peace.
All persons charged as aforefaid, may
be tried in any of the courts of King's
Bench, or Oyer and Terminer and Jail
delivery, of the diftrift, wherein his or
her offence was committed ; and for the
firft offence he punished by such fine and
:mprifonment, and find such fecurityfor
good behavior, as the court (hall ad
judge ; and for the second offence may
he transported for such period of time,
as the court shall adjudge.
From the EAGLE,
From the (hop of Messrs. Colon and
Spondee.
Mejru Colon ar spondee
Regret that their ignorancc of tire
"Jacobin style forbids them to forward, "
by some citizen vessel, a card to citizen ,
Robespierre, on the fubje£t of his late [
decree and report on the institution of •
national feftivals. Could they write the j
language of Danton and Marat, they ]
would expfefs their surprise, that Ro-'
befpierre ftiOuld so far depart from the
principles and practice ofhb predeces
sors, as to acknowlege that, " Succor
ing the unfortunate, refpedting the <
weakness of men, defending the op- '
pieffed, doing good to all, and injuring
none," were the new duties of French- :
men. After firft begging the pardon
of all France, for such an imfafhionable
mode of thinking, Messrs. Colon and
Spondee are decidedly of opinion that it
was, on the whole, a little unlucky j
that this decree was not " unanimous
ly" passed before the toth of August, ■
and the id of September ; before it was 1
the mode, at Paris, for pikes to be li- j
terally headed, and for men, instead of
lamps, to be dangling from the Lan
ier ne.
If citizen Robespierre had, perad
venture, proposed this decree at an ear
lier period, certain " weak and oppres
sed" individuals, known, among French
men, by the familiar and endearing
names of Louis Capet, Arrtonietta,
and Elizabeth, might possibly have
worn foft inuflin round their necks, ra
ther than the coarse cravats of the guil
lotine. The royal infant 6, if that pro
fane phrase may be permitted and par
doned by the Convention, might have
been at some of the municipality schools
conning over the speeches of Santerre
and Marat, to perfect them in their na
tive language, and t« instil into their
tender minds the firft principles of mer»
cy. They might have walked and play
ed in the Thuilleries, rather than have
wept and groaned at the Temple ; even
Robespierre himfelf rtiigjrt have read
and expounded the constitution of 1789,
to Monfreur the Dauphin 5 modified
monarchy might have been the govern
ment of France, and some two or three
thousand of saucy Swiss, who had the
loyal audacity to fight for their sove
reign, might now guard his palace, in
j stead of staining it with their blood, for
lack tf a decree.
But Messrs. Colon and Spondee, can
not help entertaining themoft flattering
presages of the future clemency of the
; relenting Robespierre. They already
behold the Sans Culottes of the fttburbs
of St. Antoide, the fifhwomen of the
| Seine, t-he fingers of ca ira, the pike
men of Paris, and the deputies to the
Convention, guided by the miid beam:
if this new star in the east, boldly ex
ploring their way through the new and
untried paths of mercy. Fired by the
fight, Messrs. Colon and Spondee feel
J t'ne enthusiastic fit approaching ; they
can no longer smother their sensations,
rand tbey shout aloud huzza!— Counte-
Revolut ion in France ! ! Wing extir
pated, or expatriated all the royal fV-
Tiily ; having wrenclied ribbons from
he knees,and (tars- from the left bread*,
•f nobility ; having crowded the cler
gy out of their pulpits, *nd coined
heir ch.firch bells to pay the funeral
iarges of Christianity ; having fuffo
ued all die patriotism and three-fourths
if the eloquence of the kingdom, with
ae faihe cord*, which bound Briflot,
Vergniaud, and L.a Source ) having
lone all this, and move, the sovereignty
of the people now determines, in the
Tpirit of Shakefpeare'g Richard, that—•
" Grim vifaged War flia.ll fmpoth hi*
wrinkled front,
"And Hern alarums change to merry
meetings." •
For Robespierre has decreed, that
bloody pikes become olive branches,that
the Jacobin Club dfir.dle into a knot of
merry fellows, and the acute guillotine
be transformed to stickling feather.
c.
Copy of Mr. Hafiings**
VERSES '
to John Shore Esq.
Imitated from Horace, lid Book,
Otiurn JJi-voj rogat.
FOR ease the harrafs'd fear a ; prays,
When* eqtlinoiStial temped rajie
The* Cape's furrouniiing waves ;
When hanging o'er the reel he hears
The crackulg ttiift, and fees or fears
Beneath his Eatery grave.
.For ease the ftarv'd J Maratta spoils
And hardier f ik erratic tolls,
And both their eal'e forego :
Fbr ease, which neither gold can buy,
Nor robes, nor gems, which oft belie
The cover'd heart, bellow.
Fbr neither wealth, nor toil 3 join'd,
Can heal the foul or fuffririg mind.
Lo 1 where their owner lies !
Perch'd on his couch diltemper breathes,
And ckre like fmbke, in turbid wreathes,
Round the gay ceiling flies.
He who enjoys (nor covets more)
The lands his iather owu'd before,
Is cfjtruc bliss poflefs'd i
Let bit his mind unfetter'd tread
Far as the path of knowledge lead;
And wife as well as blell;
No fears his peace <K mind JUtfloyj
Left pointed lies his fame destroy,
Which labor'd years have woh:
Nor pack'd committees break his react,
Nor avarice fends him forth iu qUest
Of lands beneatu the fun.
Short is bur span, thett why engage
In schemes for which mail's transient age
Was ne'er by fate delign d 1
Why flight the gifts of nature's hand i
What wand'rerfrom his native land
E'er left hhiifelf behind
1 he restless thought and wayward will,
And dilcohteut, attend Jura still,
■ Nor quit him while he lives.
At sea care follows in the wind j
At land it mounts the pad behind,
Or with the poll-boy drives
He who would happy live to-day,
Should laugh the present ills away,
Nor thinks of woes to come !
For come they will, or soon or late,
Since rhix'd ai best is man's estate,
By Heaven's eternal doom.
To ripen'd age Clive liv'd renown'd,
With lacks enrich'd, with hofior crowa'd,
His valor's well earn'd meed ; —
Too long, alas! he ljv'd to hate
His envied lot, and died too late,
From life's oppression freed.
An earlier death was J Elliot's doom—
I saw his op'ning virtues bloom,
And manly lenfe unfold.
Too soon to fade ! I bade the stone
Record his name 'rnidlf hoards unknown,
Unknowing what is told.
To thee, perhaps the fates may give
(I wilh they may )in wealth to live,
Flocks, herds, and fruitful fields :
Thy vacant hours in mirth to Ihii^:
With thel'e the mule, already thine,
Her present bounties yield.
Fof me, O Shore, I only claim,
To merit not to lick for fame, ,
The good and just to please ;
A state above the fear of want,
Domestic love Heaven's ihoiceil grant,
Health, leisure, peace, and eale.
* It was written at sea, near the Cape
of good Good-Hope, about the aift of
March, 1785. *
j Barbarous tribes of the Eall.
j Brother to the present Sir Gilberj El
liot, Bart.
Died suddenly last evening, Mr.
Elijah Hollingsworth, Printer, of
this city—his funeral will be attended
at 5 o'Clock this afternoon from L.eti
tia Cburt. '
Captain Thompson arrived from
theifland of Barbadoes, informs, that the
Ship Cleopatra of Bolton, Capt. Camp
bell, from the Ille of France, was cap
tured by an English Letter of Marque,
and brought into Barbadoes fbr legal
adjudication.
Money to be Lent,
O i Mo tgage of
REAL ESTATES,
Witlnu the City and Libeft es of PhiJadeU
t>hia. Apply to
Nicholas Diehl, jun.
Attorney at Law.
No. 10, south Fourth Jlreet.
Aua- 4 rnw&ftf