give evidence of the fa£ts, it appeared
ai!y&tis!jflwyto the Honfe, that there is
jmt the '.-sui foundation for such a publica
t a ; and in as milch as such publications
k«ea din** tendency 1 to excite dread in
tfec zninds of the citizens, Resolved, that
this bc-ife highly disapprove of the con
of and Pmyth, ir. this pirti
uiiir; an.cS that the i'everai affidavits of
fiuTk be puklifced, in order to counteract
aay un-ioe influence which such an iiljudi
tio-x- *?. might impress 011 the public mind.
Rrfbfaed thai a popy of those proceedings,
as«rcll*asof the affidavits, be immediate
ly trjaScisted by exprels to the JMayor of
flMiipSra for further communication ;
an) 4 that tie Editors of the dilierent newf
jMoere in rtt United States be requeued to
piitbiiitM isk&bi*
Signed by order of the BurgefTes and
Atfiftn nfs.
SAM. BYRNES, T. Clerk.
Six aSiciavirs follow, which ftat* in the
fiiHeft asd most unequivocal terms that the
■wrfiy and crew of the (loop Lark, Cipt.
Gayer ft jo New Orleans, wa, fully in
ip r'd, and found to be perfectly free
from aay inreftion or ficknef;—and the
tides in gcrod order, none- of them being
damaged.
At this dry season for news, the follow
ing- ad*ertifement extra, may afford a
moment's amusement to our readers.
It istahm from the Eagle, a pa
per printed at Hanover N. H. near
Dartmouth College.
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UHLnlifiile dealers in Verfc, Profr, and
Mujlck,
Beg leave to inform the public, and the
teamed in' particular,.- that previous
to the ei»fu!ng commencement,
Thay purpjfe to open a frelh afTortment
OF »
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By this Mail.
NORFOLK, July 2s.
Yesterday arrived the. schooner Lady'
Walhington, Watson, in 15 days from
Nevis. By this \»-fi'el a St. Christo
pher's paper is received to the 10 inft.
from which the following intelligence is
ext rafted
BASSETERRE, jiily 10.
We promised in, our last to give olir
readers the eailielt intelligence received
from Guadalope, but are sorry they
should be of the disagreeable nature of
the following extract ; but sincerely hope
the loss of our men therein mentioned,
is exaggerated :—
Eitraft of a letter From 4 perfori in
Gufcdalotibe, who had befcn with the
army besieging Point Petre, to his
friend in this Eland, dated July 5.
"The French attacked oilr different
pods, but paid clear for their preemp
tion; leaving, in killed and wounded
300 men; the loss on our fide were 20.
Our 5 batteries having been completed,
were playing incessantly on s ,e fort,
when an order was given to march 700
men to ilorm the town. The French
having intelligence 1 of this, (1 suppose
from some rascals, which had joined us
for that ptirpofc) brought one of their
fiigates nearlhore, and landed a number
of men from the ot'. /r vcfTels ; their,
whole force, of ail dekriptions of per*
sons, amounted to 3000 men, which
waited the aflault.—They kept the
greatest (Hence, and did not fire a (hot
until our men /nit in. the town, when
the frigate and companies flationed in
the ltreets and avenues, with wail pieces,
loaded with langrage and grape {hot,
commenced a moll tremendous fire,
which itwasmorally impossible to with
ftar.U, We were obliged to retreat,
leaving-12 offtce.s and near 400 soldiers
and sailors killed and wounded ; the in
human enemy (tabbing those who had
been (hot, that they foud life in.
"We drew oft «or gUns frpm the bat
tery that I was in, and joined our troops
in the town below. The French ate
hem'd in on all fides."
We are sorry the writer of thfi above
was not particular in his dates and names
of Place*.
We are informed that General Grey
and Sir John Jervis had declared, they
"would reduce Point Petre to a heap of
ruins with red hot balls, which was to
have taken place on Sunday last. The
women are getting away as fait as they
can.
NE'W-YORK, Aug. 4.
POSTSCRIPT.
A Barbadoes paper of the nth July,
was received in town on Saturday. A
gentleman who has perused said paper,
verbally relales the-following, as nearly
as we can relate it:
"That the Britilh June packet had
arrived there in a short pafTage from
England, with official accounts of the
engagement between the Englilh and
French fleets, which, after an ob II in ale
battle, terminated in favor of the Eng
lish, they being of superior force, ha
ving taken nine sale of French (hips of
war, and were in pursuit of the others,
when the dispatches were sent off.
«• That a junction between the Duke
of York & Gen. Clairfayt had been ef
fcfted ; and that another engagement
had been fought on, or abont the ift.
of June, between them and Mr. Pi
chegru, the Frensh general, which
proved molt favourable to the allies."
From the above source a variety of
reports have taken wing, and are in
fwift circulation ; but in all probability,
there is but little truth in them. The
arrival of the packet, however, may be
hourly expected, which wi.il enable us
to lay before our readers fueh ext rafts
and official communications as will put
them in pofieffion of these interesting <
particulars. ,
From the w-Tori Diary \
of; Saturday Evening. 1
Resort of thi Day.
Captain Cochran is jull returned to
the Hook—aud during his cruize he
spoke a wefiel bound from Barbadoes to '
St. Euftdtia, fiom the captain of whom
he got a Barbadoes paper, giving an '
account, that.the Britifi; packet had ar- 1
rived at that island the day before he 1
failed, and brought the Gazette ac- 1
count of the engagement between the '
Briiifh and French fleets, and that
Lord How had aßually taken Nine fail
of the line ' ! !
It is alio rumoured, that fix more
of the French line of battle flaps were
totally ciippled, and could not flowed
away. That the junition be; een
Clairfait and the' Duke of York, had
taken place : and a severe a£tiOn had
taken place fifteendays after the Duke's
check, in which M. left
I men dead on the field, and got
off himfelf with great difficulty.
BOSTON, July jo.
Veflfels from the Welt-Indies, are
flopped at the CalUe, by order of the
Governor, until a physician has examin
ed whtther the crew are free from the
Weft-India fever. A wife and nccefia
ry caution.
We learn, that Capt. James Seaver,
of this State, is appointed to the com
mand of one of the Amc'tican frigates,
ordered to be built by.C'ortgrefs, in the
room of Capt. Barney, declined.
Mr. Heart, we are told, will be build
er of the frigate in this town. " Prepa
rations. for a rapid profegiltion of the
business are making.
MAX I M k
Thi heft reply to Malevolence and
Falfhoods is Silence and Contempt.
The public are not so eafi' • gulled as
foiffc demagogues imagine!
Faifhoods profit 110 cause vvlriteVei'.
What is true to day will be ti ue to-mor
row, for truth is eternal, and " speaks
ft'iih moll miraculous organs,"
" Give men p'ower and you make
tyrants of them," keep -men from pow
er, and you make Jacobins of them—
The hankering after the loavts and
tidies is generally evinced by thunder
ing!) like those of Sempronius.
I'll rnonthe at HamilU.it,.
Until.l (bake the fyftein,
And then
Aftei what the tVorld has generally
thought of Robetfpierre, one might
be templed tb cry: out on reading his
celebrated Moral Reports, as an eminent
chriflian writer once did of Socrates,
"Oh ! San3a RoberJ'hterre, ora pro no
bis."*
" * Oh ! holy Roberfpierre pray
for list"
« DOG EAT DOG.''
Halifax, N. S. yu!y 10.
Saturday evening arrived the brig
Mermaid, Capt. Collins, from Liver
pool—-The Mermaid left Grenada the
17th of May, and on h.r passage home
fell in with the piivateer Harlequin,
Capt. Hutchins, belonging to Bermu
da. The privateer was undei French
colours, and afTumed the name of the
National Razor, which induced Capt.
Collifls to hoifl American colours*. Af
ter some considerable parley with them,
a Lietitenafrt and a boat's ciw from
the privateer came on board, rumaged
every thing in the cabin, and, under
the Dretence of her having twd sets of
papers, put a prize matter on board,
and ordered her for Bermuda. Butby the
activity and adroitness ofiCapt. Collins,
and pWt of his crew, which were left on
board, the brig was retaken, and arrived
at Liverpool the 29th uk. The fatne
privateer a few days before, captured
another brig, called the George and
Tracy, owned by Benijah Collins, Esq.
of Liverpool, and under the fame pre
tence sent her into Bermuda—Capt.
Collins touched at GuadalOupe the 20th
of May, at which time 3 British ships
of the line were lying there.
From Philadelphia, July 21.
"You may be assured that very agree
able intelligence has been received from
our old Ambaflador at the Court of
London ; on the subject of fpoliaiion. 1
am not in the cabinet, and c-.nnot there
fore (end you particulars ; but I learn,
that the Mrniftry, on the repvefentation
of Mr. Pinkney have given a durances
that if, in the prosecution of the War,
they have been necessitated to infringe
on the laws of nations, suit-able (ktis
faCtiofi will be given. This is said to be
the language. You may easily conceive,
that 1 cannot fend the cowaccount,
as it it r.ot likely our Chief Maglfirate
would, during 3 negotiation, publish j
corlelpondrncies which might give the
anti-party an opportunity of gratifying
their vvi flicb, and mtiroly defeating the 1
negotiation."
t
From tlie Minerva. i
In the long interval of at least ten Jays,
since we fciive had any bluntly news from (
Europe, what a dteary place is a Cos- '
ke-Ho.ife ! and what a pitiful figure do <
our Hewfpapeis make ! if the papers j i
Cannot announce blood and carnage,
men butchering tlic'ir feilow-men by ihe .
thousand and len thousand, why there
is no news—-no news! what is the rea- '
son, we have 116 arrivals ! how impati- '
cut, how reftVfa does every body appear
at the Coffee-Houfes ! one takes up a j
paper, and finding a feni irnenta] effav, ,
a law report, or some extract, throws
down the p perwitha fifhatuf no news!
the papers aVe not worth reading!
' Alas ! what (hall poor printers do,
when there is a wide ocean between us
and the butchering work of Europe ?
A ten days interruption of bloody news
sets half the town a yawning. True,
a little riot arid half a dozen democrats
knocked over, for refilling a law of the
country, will help out a little, and set
folks a (taring; And Simcoe, the In
dians and Canada infun eft ions will fur
nifh a good round paragraph every two
or three day 9. But all does not do, like
half a million of Europeans fighting and
killing each other—ten thousand (lain
in a day—2co pieces of cannon taken
town? bufnt or pillaged, forts taken—
vessels difmafled or blown up—this is
:iews—it speaks. Lord, for tlifcfe ten
days past not a word of news 1
PETERSBURG, Vir. July 29.
We are iriforrtted that the vefTel
which was fitted out at Smithfield, and
which was supposed to be intended for
a privateer, was taken poffeflton of by
the volunteer cpmpanicß front Richmond
and Prince George, immediately On
their arrival there. The Prince George
inPantrv have charge of the vefl'el, and
!he is now orf her tfay up to City-
Point.
PHILADELPHIA;
AUTHENTIC.
Official information is received at ttft
War Office confirmative of the defeat
of the savages on the lfl July. They
attacked the escort commanded bv Ma- '
' J
:or M'Mahan close under the walls of '
Fort Recovery on the morning of the
30th of June. Their numbers estima
ted frotn one thousand to fifteen hun
dred. The attack of the escort was
followed immediately by a general as
sault upon the Fort, in which they were
repulsed with considerable (laughter.
They however continue.' a diflant fire
the remainder of the day and by inter
vals during the night and until twelve
o'clock the next day, July the firft,
when they retreated. They were fol
lowed some di(lance by part of thegar
rifon, commanded by Captain Gibfoh,
but t! eir numbers and ambuscades com
pelled him to observe great caution. We
jofl twenty-one officers and soldiers kill
ed and twenty-nine wounded, among
the former was the excellent partisan
Major M'Mahan, whose lofa is greatly
regretted, Captain Hart (home, Lieu
tenant Craig and Cornet Torrey, all Of
whom fell during the highcfl exertions
of bravery. Among the wounded are
! Capt. Taylor of the Dragoons and
> Lieutenant Drake of the Infantry——
one soldier miffing.
The dragoons fuffered the mod } out
of fifty if] the action, twenty-one were
either killed or wounded ; one hundred
horses temained after the afifcion, but al
most all of them wounded ; twenty-se
ven horses were killed in the rep Sated
charges made by that gallant Captain.
; Two hundred of the Contractor's horses
I . j.
were killed and miffingi
There is but little doubt from the
previous iifformation that the attack •tfras
j made by the mass of the Indian force^
j and that they fuffered feverelv, of which
there were leveral unequivocal evidences.
Their superior uumbers and the horses
which they gained during the action,
! ! enabled them to carrv off the greatest
l •
part of their dead, bat they left ten bo
dies on the ground before the fort,
which they could not carry away.'
"The firft division of the mounted mili
tia of Kentucky were expected at Fort
Wafliington about the iotli of July, and
the second about the ijd. After the arrival
of this auxiliary-force at the head of the
line, which may have been the latter part
ofjnly, General Wayne will be enabled
to move forward for the purpose of accom
plishing the objects of the campaign, which
it is expe<sed_ will not be very difficult
by comparing the quality and iiuhlbers of
our troops with those of the enemy.
Fort Recovery is situated, 97 1-1 miles
fsom Fort/Walhingtoit, on the Ohio in
the field where the action of thfc fourth of
November 179 x wis soughs. It it 24 miles
advanced of Greenville, General Wayne's
head quarters iri July.
-■ • ■ •
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
ARRIVED,
Ship Twins, Buaults, Auxcayetf
Brig Gratitude, Clark, Jatnaica
Seven Brothers, Thompson, Bar
bados®
Sch r Delight* Weft, Newbern, N." C.
Delaware, Davis, Jamaica,
Sloop Endeavor, Paine, Boltorl
Pendleton, Virginia
Betsey, Breefton. St. Martins
CLEARED.
Ship Hannibal; Glover, Amfierdam
Brig Hannah, Kinney, St. Thomas
Industry, Hatnmill, St. Stbaftian
Polly, LitteSier, Do.
Fortune, Mandeville, Bolton
Capt. Breefton in 19 days from St.
Martin's, informs us that about thi
Jth Jtl'.yi at Point Petre, the French
itnd English had an engagement, which
terminated in favor of the former, and
that the latter were defeated, with the
loss of 600 men killed, and a number
wounded arid taken priloners. The latest
accounts at St. Martins fay, that the
Bntilh had evacuated Guadaloupe.
Captt Hampton of the brig Ifabslla
Sitid Ann, which arrived at Wilmington
a few days ago, in 18 days from St.
Kitts, came to town lad night, he in
forms that the brig Yorick, Capt.
M'Allifter of Philadelphia, failed from
St. Kitts on the ilthjuly bound for
Hifpaniola.
ißy the schooner Delaware front
Kingston, we are informed, that a few
days before lhe failed, the Rose frigate
| was loft on Rocky Point—several ot&er
vefTels from Port-au-Prince were' also
S loft with their cargoes coming down.
Last flight arrived at the Fort, the
brig Georgia Packet, from Charl'efton,
the schooner Da'ity Maid from St. Vin
cent's, and a lloop name unknown.
On Thtirfday last, off the Delaware
Capes, a Britilh 74, a- 64, and five
frigates, Were spoke with by a Pilot,
they were then (landing off and on.
The schooner Lady Washington of
Norfolk, failed from St. Kitts the ijth
in (I, homeward bound. Capt H. left
at St. Kitts the following vefftls, viz.
Biig Ann, Corry, of Philadelphia,
schooner Difpateh, Cain, and the lloop
Jackson.
Capt. Mahon informs, that on Satur
day evening lafft off Chincoteague he
lpoke the Goodridge's 3 Masted schoo
ner, which had captured a Philadelphia
schooner.
The brig Mary and Elizabeth, Capt.
Latimer, is arrived at the Fort. He
informs that hejfpoke the above schooner
a few days before he made land, and
that (he was from P6rt de Paix with a
cargo of coffee for this port.
(t> " A Correspondent" and othef
favors are unavoidably postponed till
to-morrow.
j'uji Received\
By flu >p Endeavor, Jon. Paine after
from Softop,
New-kngland Rum 7
In Hi'ds. tor Salt by
Nalbro Iff John Fraszier,
No. Bt, Walnut street,
Who have aifo on hand, and for fait,
SHERRY WINE,
In pipes and quarter casks, fit for
Immediate use.
St. Lucar Wine in pipes f
and q (farter casks.
- ROTA WINE in quarter casks
j I CRT WIN E i.ido.
80-fton BE£K,
, Hyt'on and Souchong TEAS,
j INDIGO.
Ravens DUCK,
THKLKNBURG,
OZSJABRIGS,
DOWLAS, .nd
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