,vci r itnbourg, and of the place|
, K ar wKic'i we are now encamped. WejG
ite trol , v to invelt Landau ;in the re-li
dudlion of which place we (hall not, as o
in the last campaign employ cabals and o
intrigues; but gun-powder, bomb« and;'\
balls" Within a month's time it muftjf
be either our's or in a heap of ruins. ;:
lV ly ne xt letter will be dated from the e
trenches bcloic Landau.
General Favrat has advanced againfti I
Cracois, -.-.ti the head quarters ot Wil-c
liam Frederick have been removed to ti
Pilica, His Majelly will speedily join a,
the corps of General Favrat. 1
The following are some further par-'S
ticulars refpeAing the late naval action ; o
and they may be depended 011 as au-t
theeitie. il
Early on the morning of the 28thv
ult. the French fleet was difeovered by'i-
Lord Howe's fleet in lat. 47 1-2 about a
130 leagues to the wettward of U(hant. n
They counted 32 fail altogether, but :!
the numb'cr of line of battle ihips could I
not be exactly ascertained. The French
bore down at firft, but formed a line ot ti
battle, and about half past one, when 1c
their line was formed, made fail.
No figiial for the line was made by'rr
Lord Howe but that fora general chace.ir;
Six (hips were up before the Audacious, I 3
but none of them fetched so uearasg
that (hip. At eight !he engaged a
French drip, and the aeJtion continued
till ten. During the aeflion the French
(hip twice fell on board the Audacious,
but without any intention of bom ding
her.
About the middle of the adlion, the ,
mt/.en topsail of the French (hip caught !
fire from her arm chest in the top blow
nig up, and almost immediately "after,
her mizen malt went •verboard, cloft
below the deck. After tl e action had
continued about an hour and a half,
her main .yard, fore yard, and main top
sail yard likewise went overboard. The c
Audacious had all her running and j
standing rigging cut: only two fore
(hrouds left ; one (hot in her fore mast,
t<!vo in her fore top mast and two in the
heart of her bowsprit.
During the night (he repaired her da-
mage, and in the morning difeovered
nine fail to windward (landing towards ,
her. At this time the Audacious had
her fails unbent. She soon made fail,
however, standing before the wind, and
presently difeovered three more coming
down upon her (larboard bow. Thefc n
were a large frigate and 3 corvettes.
The marts of the Audacious were in
such a (late, that they could not alter c
their courle. These three French vef
fwetag«rc-"Others in ciiace, hove to
along fide the Audacious about 7 in the
morning, and began to fire upon her,
and they kept up a harraffing fire till
twelve o'clock, without however doing
much damage.
It was while the Audacious was mak- C
ing away from the nine fail, that (he (
saw the (hip (he had engaged the night
before, lying a mere wreck upon the
water, only ten feet of her foremali (
standing, about fix feet of her main
mast, and her mizenmrift gone by the ?
board.
The officers of the Audacious learnt 1
from a Frenchman on board, the mailer
of a corvette which they had taken,
that (he was called the Revolutionaire, {
formerly the Bretagne, of 112 guns, j
Jutie 9. 1;
We have advices from Tournay as
late as last Friday; and from Oltend,e
of last Saturday; besides a number ofll:
letters from different parts of the conti
nent. a
By letters from Bruflels of the 6th 1
inflant, we underfland that the French [|
have abandoned the siege of Charleroi; e
and have been forced to repafs the Sam- a
bre with very great loss ; and have ta-b
ken poll at Montigni le Tilleul. Char- c
leroi was besieged during four days by
the French ; who battered down almost
all the houses in the town—but the
brave reliltance of the Garrison, and w
the approach of the Confederate armies j
saved it from being taken as it was re- c
ported to be. t j
The Emperor has eftabliffied a conn
cil of war, with full powers to under- j
take whatever may be expedient for the
advantage of the campain. It consists
of Prince Cobourg, the Duke of York, u
the Prince of Orange, Count Clairfayt, 0
Baron Beaulieu, Prince Waldeck, and
M. M. d'Alvinzy and de la Tour. rc
June 10. te
. Each feflion of the city of Warfaw nt
is obliged to furnifh a regiment of mili
tia of tOOO men. Gen. Kofciulko has ct
joined another confiderablecorps at Lub- ' n
lin, to watch a Ruffian army near that b'
place. d(
( The warlike force of the Polilii con
'"-eracy is said to consist of 67,870
n rn ' wn ° are ftationcd in five divifi
•n»-
1 m
_ The corps of Gen. Kofciuflco cor
i.ufts ot 22,970 men ; : .a: of Gener<
-jKochowiki 18,900; that ot j.'.ffinfk'
sos 6000 ftatiotiei! :it G 0(1:10 ; a CO..
iof 12,000 at Wili.u, and another a
ijWarfaw consists of 8000. The pea
tfantry are not included in this calculate
.'on. The confederates are well provid
e ed with every neceffiuy.
The report is p;rfe£lly true of tli
tj Sing's lyiving a body-guard of fourtcei
-citizens set over him, of whom two an
>tobe in constant attendance, and are te
1 accompany him every where. On the
:18th count Unruh, thPoll Dircftor
• Rartorious, and some others were arrefl
;ed.
•i The provifionary conrcil of Polan:
.".as ordered that all persons who receiv
l ed any gratification or petition in cor.
' i-fquence of taking part with the Ruffi
tans at the Grodno confederacy, (hall re
. imbiirfe the fame immediately. Prince
t.Sapieka, the son of the chancr'lofr o'
i Lithuania, has made a prcfent to tm
1 Republic of 6000 ducats, and forty ar
: iillery The report of tiie re
1 leaf* of M. Van Bucholts is premature.
I We learn that 40,000 Ruffians an
' marching towards Poland from the Uk
.jrai ie, and 16,000 from Livonia. The
, Poles have prohibited the exportation ol
s grain and provisions of all forts.
' Tune ix.
Yesterday evening about eight o'clocl
' .Sir Roger Curtis, firft Captain of Lore
' Howe's fleet, arrived at the admiralty
' .vith difpaches of the greatest import
ince. They Hate, that on the firft ol
fune, Lord Howe fell in with the
1 French fleet, when an engagtmen'
" ce)mmenced ; and after afevere conflif
' of many hours, with as severe fighting a
ever was known, vitlory was declared ii
' favor of the Euglifli, by the capture c
' fix fail of the line, and two funk.
Both fleets have fuffered considerably
j Sir Robert Curtis reports, that the
French fought with great bravery
Mast of the enemy's ships were maulec
' in their hulls, and tried to escape with
out waiting for each other.
We are fori")' to Hate the death ol
j Cap'ain James Montague, who war
killed early in the action. Admira
j Pafley has loft a leg, and so has Ad
miral Bowyer.
j The (laughter was immense on boari
the French fleet; and we are sorry alfe
: to add, we haw loft a great many sea
' men, to the number, in frtme (hips, oi
' sixty or feveinty men killed and wounded
1 Sir Roger Curtis landed at Falmoutl
r on the 7th, and on his way to town wa.
" unfortunately ovei turned in a chaifc
' and bruised his arm A good deal; (c
e much that he has it in a (ling.
,j We hope that admiral Montague':
squadron, which failed on the arrival ol
3 the Audacious, Captain Parker, the
other day from Plymouth, will fall ii
with and pick up some of the enemy':
j straggling (liipi.
By a lieutenant of the Aniromachi
frigate, who arrived at the admiralty
' yelterday, we learn, that in the after
L noon of the 31ft ult. the Andromache
on her way to Newfoundland with ;
1 convoy, fell in with two (hips, one ol
1 which (a (hip of the line) was in tow o:
' the other.—She had loft her topmasts
' tops, &c. This was in lat. 48, 7, N
long. 11, 51, W. Several parts o:
large (hips were fecn soon after,
s On the next day (the ift of June
, eight fail of enemy's ships (some of the
fline) were descried.
On the 3d of June, about 5 in the
afternoon, in lat. 46. 58. N. and long
115. 49. W. a large fleet wa3 seen, con
1 lifting of upwards of 100 fail of (hips
; escorted by men of war of the enemy,
- and judged from every circumstance, tc
-be the long expe£tcd valuable French
-convoy from America.
r
t VALENCIENNES, May 31.
* " The late infurreflion at Liege,
which by the well timed severity of the:
5 Duke of Wurtemberg, was fortunately
"crushed in its birth, had more ramifica
tions, 1 fear, than as yet have been dif
"covered. At Hui a small town between
" Liege and Namur, the flag of rebellion
; >vas likewise hoisted, a few days fines
'by a gang ot villains, whose number fc
'rapidly encreafed, that a detachment
of 150 men sent thither from Liege,
were not able to reduce them. On their
return, Count Blangy, formerly a Lieu
tenant General in the French service,
at the regueftof the Duke of Wurtem
berg, put himfelf at the head of a
corps, of 400 French emigrants, and
marched against the Hui Sans Culottes;
but the result ( of Blangy's expedition I
do not yet know."
WARSAW, May 14.
The Poles have made thfcmfelves
mailers of Lublin, in Mazoviaj and put!
vlthe whole Ruffian garrison to theji
'.] ttora,
BRUSSELS, June 6.
1: "CL'.iteroi was inveftcd 011 the 27th 1
I it. The entuny had aflembled numc-i
' :011s forccs to besiege it, besides a ftroivr ;
irmy of oblervation. The tire of tin 1
enemy continued without interruption i
c till the 2d. Ou the 3d inft. our army '
II '.vps herrd by their firing to approach to'
c ihe relief of Cliarleroi, when the garri-'
" ion made a vigorous sortie ; and the'
c enemy begin to retire in great canfu
» iion. 1
" On the 4th, the Prince of Orange '
Slacked the French 4^;Pup at day break'
11 .ill points. Our army was divided'
nto five columns. The di r pofitions were;'
nade with so much (kill and bravery, 1
hat the enemy's army, confiding of ( (
]0,000 men, besides a numerous artil-j
ery„ was completely routed, with con-' !
liderable lots, and Charieroi relieved." '
PKTHEIM, (IVeJt Flanders) June 6.
Our position remains llill the fame,]
is well as that of the confederate troops}]
in the environs of Tournay, continues
t is inactive as it has been ever since the '
J 2 2dult. One, perhaps the chief, caule !
>f our inadtion, is now removed by the
retirement of Major Genaral Mack,'
vhofe sudden exaltation above so many '
< high born Generals of the Imperial ar !
d my had spread through ali the higher j
f regions ot our military system a gloom
- tnd discontent, that has but too much
t influenced our late operations. His re
e treat however, is by no'means a dif- 1
l irpce ; and, I hop.-, his diflingaithed
talents will be allowed to afiift those mi
s 1 tarycouncils, which they ca.i nolcngir
n direct. r
t
OSTEND, Juire 7.
" Ypres is now completely invefloi 1
e and surrounded by the Carmagnols, 1
; and they continue to bombard that 1
town. — t
GENOA, May 17. c
f A column of 7000 French has pene-
p trated to and taken pofleilion of
j Herolles : another coluirin, of the
lumber, is at Mendori j a third, con-j n
lilting of 15,000 men has attacked and
.:airivd Cc The city of Turin ha:,
: Seen declared in a slate of liege ; nrarlv '*
. the whole garrison is compoied of An
f ftrian troops. Thu king of Sardinia
! ias let out for Alexandria, and it is
H believed lie wiil from thence repair to
, Milan.
j DUBLIN, June 4.
In consequence of an embargo being 0
s laid for a time on British as well as o- v
f ther vessels, by the Americans, the Ma j 1
e ria, an American ved'el, belonging to t
n Hudson, a place in that country, whic
s came in here from Bourdeaux, laden 1
with wine and vinegar, has had her car-'
go detained and secured in stores, until c
e something further is known relative to
j; the American embargo,
a By this Day's Mail.
f ALBANY, August 4.
' From a Correfppnnent at Cati/idl.
'r A son of Mr. Daniel Kaytou, of thi?
place, a lad of about 7 years of age, a few
weeks since, was attacked by fix Owls, a
) imall distance from his father's house, in (
e tlie woods ; and although tht lad was
i'mart and aiftiv? for his age, these voraci- 1
e ous birdsfoon got the better of him, ant! 1
. had already torn his face very badly, when f
' a negro girl came to his relief, and with no t
" inconliderable trouble beat off the Owls j
> and preserved his life.
> The above circumstance appears so very
3 extraordinary, that I have taken the liber- t
1 ty of fending it to your press.
LYNCHBURG, fvirg.) July 26. a
WITH peculiar fatisfaftion we an- v
nounce, the nomination of his Excellency j :
, Patrick Henry Esq. for the Senate of the [
; United States of America. The Executive
, of Virginia, cills him t6 the service of his '
country, in place of the patriotic Monroe; J
r.ow Ambafiador to France. No measure of <'
" Government could have been more popu-
'lar, than the appointment of this Veteran I
1 Defender, of the rights and liberties of ]
r the people. Notwithstanding the Office j
j is one to which he must add Dignity, ytt
t we flatter ourselves, he will be induced to a
accept it at this critical period, and efpeci- 3
' ally as the Federal Co'ijlitution has afllimed t
a more conciliatory air since the several t
amendments that have been administered f
to it. —
NEW-YORK, August it. | (
Bv an arrival on Saturday evening in 13 y
days from Hifpaniola, we learn that thcjjj
people of colour, having been
to enter Fort Dauphin, had ravaged the
place, and put 700 French Royaiifts to the
sword.
The spirit and firmnefs of the Ext tf
icutive, displayed in his proclamation t;
ofor ftijxprefsiiig the riots hear Pittsburgh,
must give fenfibie pleafurc to eveVS
pea.eable republican. We trull the
great body of the people in this coun
fi try will cheerfully lccond tiie inclines
-of the President to quell difturbancer.
r and a rebellious spirit, which, if permit
t ted to ipread, will render life and pro
, perty insecure, and destroy our faireft
. hopes of peace and liberty, if the laws
j cannot protedl us from hot headed
. anarehifts, our government is not worth
defending.
A letter from an American gentle- 1
man at Hamburgh, dated April 26th,
that greater exertions wiil bo
t made in Europe this Hummer to second'
1 the pi'ogrefs of freedom than u :re ever
s befoie known. lie informs that
Julko's party in Poland is rapidly in-,
j'cteafing ; he gives it as his opinion that:
J Koliuiko is countenanced by Sweden'
.'and Denmark ; and that the Turks!
vvdl favor h.s caule by making wat on
Russia.
Should these opinions be well found
ed, we may be certain of what indeed!
'jwe never entertained any great doubts,
that the combination agairift Fiance
s willioon be broken and crumble to pie
e ces. Such a proipedt strengthens our
hopes of peace, and jultifies' the policv
"of the President and his fupporteis, in
' retraining all hollile atls on the part
' ot the United States, as the ifiue of the,
war in Europe mcft probably will bej
1 favourable to peace in America, with-!
' out any offenfive opeiations 011 this' fide
' the Atlantic.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in
GuaeLiliupe, to his friend in this city,
dated liiijfetcrre, "July 15.
r " I have been in this island about two
months, and would have taken the li
berty of addressing you sooner, but the
embargo 011 your navigation prevented
; un-iapp-ly all lom;i;U|iiiNy.ion. Before
this reaches you, you will have heard,
tltat part ot it has again changed mas
ters, and in poHcffion of the French, in
conlequence of which 1 fifffcred confi
detably, though in the end I (lull conic
oft better than the greater part of those,
"who were fettled at Point-Petre, as an
[additional fleet with troops 011 board is
jjnow arrived, and the French are cooped
up without provifmn or water, dying in
'great numbers of epidemical diseases;
the town mult be our's in a few days,
when we shall be able to fit down, and
renew our old occupations.'*
PHILADELPHIA.
The alarm which has been founded
of the Yellow Fever being at Baltimore,
. we are happy to learn is falfe—neither
letters or-papers by this day's mail con
1 tain any intelligence of that nature.
Gentlemen are in town who left Eal
, timore on Saturday, who had heard
. nothing n which the rumor here
] could he founded.
From the EAGLE.
The FARRAGO, No. 21.
" THERE is "0 talent so ufeful to
wards rising in the world, or which
puts men rnnre out of the reach of fot
tune, than that quality, generally pof
fsjfed by the dultejl fort of men, and,
in common speech, Called discre riON."
DEAN SWIFT. ;
' A CLOUDY atmosphere and a fit
of the fplecn having confederated, and,
" mod gaoler-like, lockei up my inven
tion and memory, I sallied out of my
1 garret, and fought a key to libei ate
>them, that they might furnifh a Farra
b go. I was proceeding, thrice gentle
reader, to tell thee a story of " a King
of Bohemia and seven Castles," in the,
Shandean ftvle, which rejects Aristotle's
moods, and Dr. Watts's figures, and
all figures, but figures rhetorical. When,
- whom should I meet, in my flowery
' path, but one of their " Worships and
Reverences," who, austerely bending",
; his brows, cried out, with a true critic's
, yell, •' Whither now, wanderer 1 You
are metaphor mad ; the devil's in you ; j
You are on the very vetge of abiurdity. :
'None of your flights, in the name of\
■ Locke and Leibnitz ; but talk a little,
; like a man of this world. Why, whai .
a curvetting palfry, more restive than
.any in romance, is that fame imagina-!
1 rion, on whose neck you have thrown
i the reins ! Do difmcunt, my frantic '
■ friend, and stride some sober beast from
ur liable ; or, if obtlinately attached
to your hobby, you must ride 011, ar
least procure a martingale, and then
your vicious jade will pace all geotly,
ilike a blind horse at a funeral, as the
'curate of Cove.itry fays," (
This alderman advice so damped my -
volatile spirit s, that were hurrying me.
as u final, " to Thebes, to Athens, or
the Lord knows where," that, afti 1
taking two or three pcnf.ve turn# acrof:
, the room, I fat down, and, WrH ch
tized feelings, wrote the following \. -
i;ty on
II'on!!y PruJrtice.
WHEN A'e meditate the hiftoryof
man and nations, we tind individuals
opulent, and communities relpe&able,
when the cold maxims of ligid pru
dence are punftilioufly observed. On
the other hand, when one or rr.any, im
patient of the boundaries, which his
'uroiv virtue marked out, presume to
at the beckon of pafiion, or
fancy, poverty, dillrefs, and contempt,
from the woild, fonn only a small part
of the catalogue of inevitable conse
quences.' Diydcn, Otway, Savage,
Shenlk .iie,Goldfir.ith,the younger Lyt
tieton, and Rouifeau, were men of fub
jhmated feelings, children of imptilfe,
.contemners of authority. They def
'pifed the perfect law of prudence, jnd,
iGe/iti/es of Genius, were a law unto
than/elves. Rejecting the steady light,
which the planets of prudence (hed on,
their way, they chufe rather to follow
fancy's meteor, of mod dangerous di
rection, though of aspect brilliant. What
have beep the consequences of this ill
fated eledtton ? Strike out of the census
of railers, a few, of genius and feeling,
like themselves, and a balance of Bul
lions is againli them ? Did not the
jwant of piudense compel Dryden to
wretchedly tragedize in rhyme, to be
jcome a scrivener in a book-feller's (hop,
land to leave classical translation incom
plete, that obfeenity, exchanged for an
oiolui, might be ready at the period of
stipulation? Was not Otway choakcd
hy a biscuit greedily (wallowed, becatife
Ire rhofe poetically to paint an otphatf:
distress, rather than, by Cheaplide in-'
duftry, to relieve his own ? Did not
titled Tyrconncl turn Savage out, of
doors, for not retiring to bed at mid
night, and, amid the fervors of poetry
and wine, for " madly chaunting his
joy" at unseasonable hours. Was not"
Lord Lvtlteton, the gallant and the gav,
(hunned by every woman in Wcrcefte
fhire, as if, 'tis his own expression, he
had been Tarquin himfelf, because h#
was an iinprudent lover? Yes,he, who was
" all charm," who could thunder with
energy against a venal house, & " witch
the world" by th*: brilliancy of effu
iions. mod careless and confidential, has
been bespattered from obloquy's foulelt
kennel, a theme for orthodox prelates,
and for bridling prudes, because he choCe
for his motto—
" Indulge, and to thy genius freely give r
" For not to live at cafe, is not to live."
Did not imprudence exile. Gcldfinith to
Flanders and to France, to propose tame
theses, at Leyden, and to fiddle to the
peafunts of Provence ? Lastly, to conclude
tli is melancholy description of the " follies
of the wife," RoufTeau who of all the
moderns, Shakespeare excepted, has
displayed most genius ; having taught man,
in Emilius, governed him in the i'oeial eora
pa<ft and inchanted h-\n in Ekiife, has been
p~rfecuted, mii'reprefented and traduced,
f r eccentricity rff conducSl, and paradox
ot xprcflion. His perfonhas beenbanilh»
ed from his natal canton, his book burued
by the bigotry of a biftiop, the fanitv of
intellects doubted by a puny and positive
precptor, and the genius of Geneva has
been damned at Tunbridge, bv the Rev.
icefl" mus Knox. Let us turn aside, ye
areiefs ones, from such a " stone of ftuni
bling" and " rock of offence," as inuil
c. etion, and strive to attain the Dutch vir
tues ; no longer expatiate in French, or
'tralian fields, but hasten to the dykes
of Holland. Plunge into the Scheldt or
tl.e Maeze, and like the fouls of the fab
l ng ancients, recent from Lethes lake, ye
wili rife, and leave not cnly memory, but
genius, invention, and what to impru
d lice pertains, behipd. Like Hollanders
be prudent, and like Hollanders you w'l.
be rich. Remember, that at Japan, where
the paganil'm of the natives demands the
abjuration of urope's religion as pre
liminary to trade, that a Dutchman tram
ples on the cross, and renounces christiani
ty for cinnamon and cloves. Remember
that when the Netherlands, impatient of
the Spanish yoke, implored Elizabeth to
rescue them from the tyranny of the Prince
of Pa: ma, the p i.d-nt Mynheers fold gun
powder, at an ad-anced price, for the use
•—of the Spanish A, tillerj 1 Remember,
like them, whether at Aboyna, or Amer
ica, to cut the throat of a friend, if, by such
a gallant deed, you can keep the purse
string whole. This js prudence this the
\vro<w virtue, whom, as she trudges along,
each wondering wordling bids the poets
idmire. What though to ypur keen eyes
Hie appears like an ancient market women,
ounting the copiers fee has received for
her egg}, itiil this is she, by whose biel
,'ing the Hollanders prefervr, in the Bank
of Airtefterdam, halfthe coins of Europe,
.f therefore like them, you would be rich,
' Go and do thou likewise."
SHIP NEWS.
Arrived at the Fort the brig Betsey,
Capt. GrifTel from Jamaica, iu 27 dayt
and the brip Jefferfon, Monifon, in ij
lays from St. Croix.
On board of this vefjel are tli -
iovernor of St. Croix, and his lady :
Ifothe schooner Eiizabeth, Capt Phil
ips.