From the Anuruun Minerva. •
The account of th< " Fc»ft.ifi honor
of the Deity at Paripublilied in
the Minerva of Mo::£ly, is a new proo'
of that wild en&irii.'fm and cwvntrici
ty of character, wh.cii diflinguifli the
French tJuriiji the present revolution.
The account is Offered to the public a •
. an evidence of the national piety of the
French. Doubt lets the French have a.
much -piety H9 other nations, hut thii
mode of celebrating the hohor of the
Deity, is so Angular and so grecian,
that one can hardly rellrain his rifiUe»
at rending the account. They honor
the Supreme Being very much as the
Greeks did Bacchus or Mars ; with the
difference' ! o\vever of a difchargc of
cannon-, which is a modern invention.
It lecliis this exhibition of national;
pietv, conlilfed of a general parade ol
men, wtnneit and children, in the ltreetf|
and public squares ; of drums rolling,:
colours crowned with feftoons and gar.
lands," drawing a c«ir loaded witfi inllru-J
ments of agriculture and the arts—ami
the people uniting in songs and oaths,
cxnrelTive of their attachment to the
Republic.
All this is well—it is excellent—i;
has a noble effect on the nation, in ce
menting the principles of the revolution,'
and in firing them with enthufiafticcou-'i
rage to peri'evcrC and encounter the dif
ficulties that oppOse the eftaWifhment of
peace. But really it ieems difficult for
tn to dbrteeive what all this parade has
to do with piety or religion. It has'
much to Jo with patriotism, but veiy '
little connection with the worship of a■■
Supreme Intelligence.
The truth seems to be that whethet
the convention are Atheists or believer#,
it makes no difference in the opinions
or chamber of the nation. The people
are the fame, whether Danton announ
ces that Death is an everlafting'fleep,
or Rohefpierre celebrates a fealt in ho
nor of the Deity.
■- It is not indeed furpriiing that when ,
tin? minds of people are wholly occupied
w it.'i the fate of their country, the Re- j
p.:blic should mingle itfelf with all their ]
thoughts and actions. To render his re-1
Ijgion popular. Jeftu Christ is sometimes 1
called a Saru Culotte and a good repub- 1
lican; wheti Ro'uefpierre makes a ,report '
011 National Morality, he irtingles with
his moral principles, warm invectives a
gainst the Girondist party ; and when
tiiey pretend to honor the Deity, they
run into a drain of praising the Repub
lic.
UNITED STATES.
FREDERICKSBURG, Aug. 7. \
It is with infinite regret we record
the unhappy death of Mr. Robert Gal-;
loway., merchant, of this town, who
was shot, on 'Friday mbniing last, by Mr.
Benjamin Grymes, of Eagie's-Neft, K.
GeOrge Cbitnty, who by fpme is sup
posed to be insane.
The circumstances of this tragical <
affair are as follow : 'Mr. Galloway was
On his way to Boyd's Hole, and feeing
Mr. Gryrries at h>3 window asked after
his and the family's health, and was per
suaded by him to alight j as he was '
leading his horse towards the house,
Grymes snapped a pistol at him ; he im
rttdiatelr demounted, but at the faint
inilaiit received two musket balls in hi
left fide, which put apetiod to his ex
trtence.—Grymes fuffered the body t>
lie in the fltuatioil he fell for 4 or 5 1
hours, in order, as he has since confefT-'
ed, to decoy others, and afterwards
ordered it to be thrown into a ditch l
near his houfe.—Grymes was not taken l
till fometimc in the evening, as no one!
dare approach him ; at length his near- 1
eit neighbour made the attempt and 1
succeeded in getting him from his house,'
when he was secured, and is now in 1
custody. The coroner's inquest fat on 1
the body, and returned a verdiit tuil- (
ful murder. 1
Thus fell, in the prime of life, a man 1
whose benevolence of heart and re£ti- v
tude of conduit, had endeared him to a 1
very considerable acquaintance, who 2
will long lament his unhappy erid.-—His l
remains were on Saturday evening bro't'
tr> town, and on Sunday interred with 1
masonic and military honors. *
A day or two previous to the above 1
cat-aftrophe, Grymes made a similar at
tempt upon Mr. Wm. Hooe, of the
fame county, and wounded him severe
ly in both arms, so that it is thought he
wir! lose one if not both of them, and
perhaps his life.
There are several other instances of v
litlpaialleled inhumanity of which hec
has been lately guilty, that favor flrong-c
ly of insanity or of the moll favagedif-1
position, but as the particulars are not
. well known vvc opiit at prefcnt to mci.
tfOll ttKHT.
5 PHILADELPHIA,
AUGUST 13.
I* _
Ritrr.B of a tetter from F.ificn, Aug. 4
" I liavefent youtbepapers, sua lite one
that will give you the jnoft. accurate ac
' countof the molt horrid fire in this Town;
5 you have no idea of its rapiiiity ; we were
: w?ke<J with the alarm, and perceived a
, '.hick Imoke —and before we could get our
i .;loaths on, thefiames came over iiHorrents,
r ar.d had not the wind fortunately changed
to the north-weft, nothing'tould.havefaved
us. To behold the de'.ailation that ij made
L . would distress you —Many, many people
■ who went to bed pofleaing handlome pro
perty awak-ed in indigence, (tripped of
ij their all—No adverse event that has yet
| taken place here, ever caft'fueh an universal
Jdamponpeople'sfpirits; thedettruffion and
•loft occalioned by the great fire at the
jfouth part of the town are nothing in com
|parifon with this —The season of the year
' was then more unfavorable, but the damage
! is now vastly greater —and the fufferers
, are niore deprefled. For every thing, la
bor, provitions and Welt India produce of
every kind are lb much higher, than they
hive ever been inthis town, that there is little
' chance of the -I'ufterers ever regaining a
" competency, much less the property they
>.have loft—and many \vjl! be hardly able to
-'exist as rents are extravagant —but Heaven
. we hope will raise them up benefactors."
From the General Adverlifer.
s In Savoy, th« French have hadaftoniih
; ing successes. They have penetrated as far,
as Ceva, about 30 miles fotith of Turin, &
are at not more than 60 miles from that ci
!ty we/lw&rd.
In Kouiilion the)' have driven the Spa
niards into their own country* aud hold in
, deed Tome pofis in their territory. By
5 our foil accounts, however, which came
j by the way of Bourdeaux it appears, that
Bellegarde, tho' like loon to furrendei',was
yet in poffefiion of the Spaniards.
Tranjlated for the General jldverlifer.
. Our last accounts ftom the feat of war
I in Kouiilion left the Spaniards yet in pof
leffion of Port Vendre, Collioure and Bel
' legarde in the French territory ; the fol
r lowing, translated from a handbill publifli
• ed at Bourdeaux on the 31ft of May, by
< order of the reprefentativc of the people
. there, is the latest intelligence frbm that
quarter.. The handbill was received by
the Vulture arrived on Monday fromßour
deaux.
' Copy of the letter written by Gagnon, di
rector oiF the pcrft office with the army
of the Eastern Pyrennees to Artaud, di
re fl or of the post office, Toulouse.
Head Quarters, Boulw, May 26.
Jul! as the post is about starting we learn
tfist we have taken Fort St. Elme, Colli
oure and Port V.endre. The enemy has
retired to Puix-Auriols, a mountain where
! w'e eftablhhed last year some redoubts and
. batteries. It ftauds before St. Elme, ant!
it is impoffibie they can hold Out thert
any time ; they will be totally Turroundet
'if they are not already, and then they
' niuft turj-ender at discretion. Beliegardi
• still remains to be retaken. Its communi
cation with Spain is cut off, we therefore
expedl it will soon be in our power.
Another letter, dated Head Quarters
Boulon, May 27.
We were yellerday mistaken as to the
particulars of the victory our brave Re
publicans had obtained over the {laves
'f Spain. This is the truth. We have
aken fort St. Elme and Pan Vendre
■nly, so that the troops had retired lin
er the citadel of Coullioure and to
Airt l'Etoile, and Mirandon ; the
ni(h General demanded to capitulate,
but he was not heard. To day, howe
ver, we granted a capitulation, as is
now ascertained; but one important ar
ticle of the capitulation is that the garri
son are to be prisoners of war, and it
,is thought to conlift of about 4000
men. We are now then truly in pofief
fion of'Coullioure, St. Elme and Port
Vendre, Bellegarde remains to betaken.
In the mean time our troops are matters j
.of the foundry of Saint Laurent de la.
Muga, which the enemy, attempted to'
retake ; but after a warm engagement j
we repulsed them, taking near 400 pri- j
foners. Our camp between Jonquiere (
and Figuera remains, and i hope the (
vi&ories of yellerday arid to-day will |
(till encreafe the courage of our bre
thren, in arms, who, however, do not
want it, their conduct is above all
praise.
FURTHER DETAILS. 1
t
HEAir -quarters, May 27.
Capitulation of Coullioure.
The garrison composed of 5000 men, 1
will go out 50 Iteps from the glacis, 1
drums beating : there, they will lay c
down _all their arms and retire unmo- a
lefted to their country.
The fix general officers who com 1
1 ,
lei mar.Jed them renu'n as hcftages unti.
' "(he arrival of 5006 i'reuct* prisoners in
qXc,hange.
The Spaniards prisoners of war ate
not to serve agan in I lit ianie army, and
the 5000 French are not to serve againit
Spain. 1
LATE AND IMPORTANT
one European Intelligence.
Ac- ' llc*'
vn i From, London papers to the iltb junc,
via Si. Cr«ix,
our . LONDON, May 24.
)Uy, Yesterday arrived here the mail from ,
= Flanders it brings no particular intelli-i
ade £ cluX * later than was received
on Sunday by the messenger. Genera! |
iro-Clairfaytrtniaini at-ThieH ; the prince t
of of Cobourg's htad quarters continue at (
yetjalin; Cambray is inviftcd by Genera] 1
r^;u Latour-; 'Maubenge is dbferVcd by the t
of Orange ; and the emperor,
the duke of Yorkj the arch duke Charles a
ear and Gen. Mack, are {till at Tourrvay. (
lge May 28. ]
ers The Hamburgh Gazette makes men
' a- tion of M. L'Aigle having been' recog- (
nized at,.Warsaw, as Minister from the?
Jv. French Republic. t
; a May jr.
iey Letters from Manheim, of May 20, t
: toby the. Flanders mail, mention, that v
jen Oggerfheim, Frankenthal, ■ and the r
neighbouring country, were again at
tacked by the French on the 18th, in
(the morning. The enemy plundered a
ft "all the houses and churches, and parti- 1
took away with -tnem all kind 5
' jwm-work, and .other metals, to be I
Unind. T)»ey h'kewife stripped the trees f
pj. of the unrip? fruit, which they carried \
in- off. The, en«my has again (hewn itfclf, t
By in very great force, in the environs oi a
mc the Rhine. v
nat Letters from Vienna, dated May 14,
' mention, that advice- is, received there
that the spirit of. inlurre&ion & anarchy
• r has shewn itftifin the province of Cro
atia, and -that the ttudents at Agram,
01 -_ lately erected ,a tree of- Liberty at that
el- P lace - ■ .'■'■■■ /],
ol- Letters from Constantinople menti- v
ft- on, that disturbances are extremely ge
by neral in that capital; and that the peo-
P' e ple seem determined upon a war with
f Russia. '
by - t ." t
ur- • J we ~ . £
Letter* from Stockholm mention,
that all ranks of people in Sweden are
di- united in the refolutiorrof fending such
rty a force to sea, as will protefl the honor (
di- of the Swediih flag. The Danish fleet 1
is nearly ready for sea. i
»• jfine 3. a
irn Ihe French ft ill continue in force v
Hi- it Mehin arid Cpurtray. Asamealtirec
las i)f precaution, very strong entrench-1
crt merits arc firming on all the heights a
about Tournay the fortifications of r
ert v ' l ' c ' l P' acc arc likewise made more
lec ; ro '.'g-. The Auftrians are likewise 1
ley fortifying Oudenarde, in cafcthe French f
•di loiilu attack it. General Moller.dorft r
ni- ,ias obtained some very important ad
3rc untages over the French towards the J
Rhine. ' c
By letters from Leghorn, dated May i
en 9th, we learn, that the Sardinians, jea-1
I lous of the Vicer<sy, ar<d all the mini-'*
. ' :lers of that who are to a man (
c Piedmontefe, after having in vain foli-i
,es cited that the public employments should c
! ve be beflowed. on Sardinians alone, fei/.ed {
"the Viceroy, Bifliop, and all the P>t 1-
montefe and Genoese mi.iifters. The 1
0 former of these was defended by the -
military ; but the pea'snts armed them- l
x ' selves, and after defeating the troops, <
took poflefiion of the palate, and (but i
up their prisoners, in a convent, putting t
,'tliem afterwards oW board a fhiplound!
r !" to Turin. I r
do ar dinian peasants have sent a;c
to the king of Sardinia, in-1:
)rt treating that his son may be appointed ti
' Viceroy, and none but -Sardinians em
ployed on the island. Every thing at t
j a Cagliari is quiet; the nobles, clergy, t
and people being on the belt terms. ti
nt ettera rom Pofnania and the Pot
r . Jifh frontiers, down to the 22d ult. d
, rc state that' the king of Pruflia reached 1
/that city on the 16th ult. wheie it is n
'ill )0 t^lat a Congress will be held w
re . bet ween the Mimfters of the different ti
Qt courts interefled in the fate of Poland.
The Pruflian (jieneral Favrat attack-a
ed the Polish camp at Skola on the a
19th ult. early in the morning; this n
camp had been left there by Kofciufko 5
to cover Cracow; but the Poles, in'ftead t>
of fuffering the Pruflians to come up p
with them, fled with the utmost. preci- !
pjtation towards Cracow; leaving be it
n, hind them two magazines and a great w
is, number of Pikes, Scythes, &c. A pa, tl
ay of their camp was on fire, but by what c<
o accident it is not known.
Another Polish corps, stationed be- .v
n hind Skola, as far as Ivantfwitz, sol
il lowed the example of Ihe fyj-mer, wh.
[jconfifted of between 4 and 5000 men.
The Pruflians only loft osp l«jr(fl, apL
ethe Poles had one man taken,. and r ."i'
i other killed. The Pruflian Hufrarj,
I who pursued them, closely, took a Po
lifli General by the name ofWirlliow
flii, who was on his flight to Cracow-,
under the escort of some National Ca
valry.—The Hufihrs took him and his,
whole equipage. He offered a corpo
ral of the Prussian regiment of Trenck',
, the sum of 1000 ducats, if he would ,
fuffer him to escape, and proinifed him ;
jthat the money should be paid by the (
jPaltor of the next village; but the f
1 Pruflian soldier carried him to j
■General Favrat. '■ . t
1 The King of Sardinia has publifhc ,
! two edicts : one of them jrrohibitinf; {
emigraton, and the other, enjoining r
the inhabitants, without diftimftion, to I
be ready to take up arms when, called t
pn for that purpole. t
Letters from Turin, dated May 14, ;
announce, that the Sardinian Genera 1
Colli-;fell back with his army to the v
Burgh' of St Dalftii/.zo, where heoccti ;
pies an advaniageous 'position to cover t
CouiV General Argehteau having left t
a (Irong.booy of meu at Ceva, and in (
the eritrtn.chid camp before that place., {
marched with the remainder of his arm) r
towards Chiufa., to join General Colli, <
who hadj been reinforced by four rcgi a
ments of cavalry. r
June 9. . ... _
By the recent fucceifts of the Pruffi- ;
ans and Auftiians on the Rhine, the»
Allies were as much advanced on thi 1
28th tilt, as they were in the moßtfi of a
November la it year. The want of a
fufficient force to supply the lines, of i
Weiffembourg, have obliged the French l
to break them up without hazarding an t
action. It is expefttd that Sarre |ssntfs c
will be speedily btflieged. 1 , • 1
Juncio.- ,J * t
Yesterday the privy council met at a
one o'clock. The only persons exatnin
rd were, Mr. Sharpe, t.he engraver, c
and Mr. John Williams, wine njerchant,'
of Leicester fields, who underwent a f
long examination : the latter was after 1
Wards discharged. Mr. Sharpe was re ;
manded'back into cultody. , '■
Mr. Picrfon,' of the temple, , "^as'
admitted to bail ; liimfelf in the fun, '
of 10001, and two fnreties in 500!'
each.
J<4»e ,11.
Yeflerday arrived a mail at the Post- {
Office from "Halifax, brought so Fal ,
mouth by the Portland Packet, Capt. E
Rogers, in 30 days.' This' packet has a
alio brought the rnail from New-York, 5
which was sent to Halifax in an Ameri- v
can ship. '• Mr. Jay is fait] to be coming t
to England on a-commiffion of import- 1
ance from the United States of Aim-
rica.
The Polish confederacy has become,
so formidable, that there is rtfafon to,
suppose the Empress of Russia will for-|i
mally declare war against Poland. I
Advices from Florence ttate, that!
Lord Hood has published a proclarnati-j
on, invitirtg the Coiticans to form an!
independent republic, under the protec-l'
tion of Great Britain : and has also in-l
vited General Paoli to the;
states, without delay, at Curte ; declar
ing at the fame time, that hb has re
ceived full powers front his court to rie-'
goeiate with the new republic.
The French evacuated Marche, the'
heights ot Hfgne and Ichippe, oil .the'
.30th nit.—when they successively brol e '
up their otheTencampments and ptoceed
ed towards Dinant and Givet, after hav
ing plundered! and the country
abandoned in the Liege territory.
I Onthe tothulr. the Tnrkifh Rebels 1
[marched towards Bellegrade, depending!
;on the favorable dif]ofition of the inha
bitants, among whom the'plague" had
made grf at ravages.
Private advices frtim Turin, dated'
the 21 ft ult. positively contradict the ar- '<
tide inf. rted in our paper from one of 1
the foreigni Gazettes, ftatirig the cap- i
ture of Pigncrol by the French and the C
departure of the Royal family from Tn- (
1 in. The Duke D'Aofte was at Pigne- e
rol on the 21ft, at which time there
was no idea of the Royal family quit
ting Turin.
j Two new edicts have been publifhec'lr
at Turin ; the fir ft of them establishing i;
, a poll tax, divided into eight classes, h
|tiamely, of 300 livres, of 200, 100, t
s°, 25, 15, 10, and the lad of 5d
baolis ; the heads of families to pay this c
proportional tas within eight days after 0
the publication. The fecund edidt en- t
joins the tribunals to apprehend and try, -
with- the utmost rigor of the law, all e
those who shall be found to entertain Ja ti
cobinical principles, and to convict them vs
on the defpolition of two competent ei
.vitneffes. (]
Inciters from Milan of the 13th ult. h
K. state, that a conf^ttjj
n. tnan horse and-foot hS A»,f
iii Alii t*> Ce»a, TO refit- n ' aretlt d fron
:• General Arge'nteauP " dlv 'Co B
! VA^N CI£NNis )Ma 'v lsi
" " Early thi« momi a „ ' '
'' U6 > that the AuftrlacJj* B .^
? l ani »k
18 *|»lf f primt
Imperial gtneials, y <b ) r c
<' my night Li, ween the "i,a £ , '' 0r "
n inilant, to ttb ck rf thc »«J 24th
l ons between .-lons and th/<L^! U
c from Rouveroy r 0 pr , " a nibrc,
0 refinance he 1 hc
w.erc the Reput !i .
? pefiili'oic valour o' tl.e
ed 111 the mod coifipL< f 'tl s: . .
.oerienced by the enemy, • Th™ v *"
• *** *4 •^V2£
Cw ' th baggage amm„„;t; o n, pr tv f,f
- fee. and even the greatest part of
r mufkeli 5 • three battalions laid 0 »n
t their arm*; arid their loft, i n kjflj
"wounded, and prifoneri is immure' '
■. Several th°ufands, molt of them cav7
S ry, ha#e been diewntd in the Sambn '
>if 2 pieces of cannon and 2000 prif 0 , lri j
■ arrived, yetterday at Mens. The t ) Hll
remains of their army are scattered up
and down the opposite banki of the
Sambre, and hot the fr. allcft corps
t mains on this fide of that river. The
<■ beneficial confequenecs of this
,f m{. cvent are beyond all calculation,
y "At the fame t idje that we itate th -
f iofs of tjbe.enemy,, \tx. ranjw* r«w
li ours haibeffn-likewrleconfuWrsble. r fhc
11 battle of tto? 24th, and the.' pfedin-r
3 (Jay, though' ft hps cowed, our troops
■ with glory, has been fatal to many of
them. Gtjr.toi* fairly
t at tvi'6 men. _ , ,
~ " Imperial liad jJreri
t aufly been removed fro to Btifleis to
Antwerp ; and General Katmift. had
a received ortfersim ctiFe the uriethy ftiouli
, profs, too. great
cirity*"iii I'rttimbtr, to fall back; upon
Moris, a/id thcnce-'iiport thogfaad jr.
s my.; A general confterhatiao spread
0 from Mons ta Br.ufTeis; ahdevin the
,j least alarmed begati to doubt. '''AH our
fears are not-only relieved, butwemaj
alio hope for- brilliant tucceffes in that
v-eiy quarter, whence we were threaten
■ed with deftrtietion. General
' replaced by a corps of. Prtiifians» lately
■ arrived in I.uxcmbqmg, has marched
s against Philippeville ; and the enterprv
;»zing genius of this gallant General,
" who, in an uncommon degree, pi)ffefTtj
1 the talent of fighting the Carmagnol:;,
■ entitles us to expeS, that his enterpriie
'■ will be crowned with fuecefs.
" In our neighborhood, every thing
e remains in its former polition; and no
" military cvent has happened worthy to
'"|be recorded in your paper."
•; CONSTANTINOPLE, April r,
' | "A member of the National Conven
tion of France arrived here yefttroay.
Hia eiitrV '.:,s magnificent, r.nu hcjj
!peared' with' the; bonnet rouge oh his
:head. The ohjefl of his m;ii on is not
yet known ; ■ but it iafajd, that it w for
[ the puipofe of pointing out to.thc roTtt
the policy and necessity of
it)g the Poiifh patriots
' and Prussia, and of promiling, "that if
"his system of polity is adopted, the
French will pi oteft vritb their fleets th®
trade of Turkey.
May 10.
The Sietir Teinrilie, the nev'y ap
is pointsd French Agent to the I)ivan,
g having demanded a confettnee with the
f. Reis Efiendi, it vvas refuftd, ano the
( ] Minister's Interpreter sent to know the
• will of the Agent. The latter offcica
J engineers, gunners, {hip-builders, land
■_ and tea officers, subsidies, and in 1 " r V
f whatever cotild be ufeful to the Turks r
.if they fliould think proper to >
r diversion in favour of his nation. Tik!(
. propofitious were but indifferent!} K"
. eeived.
. YPRES, May 27.
" A Republican corps of about 7(
1 men, commanded by genera.-lJd?nt
r is ft ill encamped at Vitfchate, hetvee
, here and Mcffines, which fends it» P 3
, 'rols as far as St. Eloy, about a league
i distant from us. Our town, therefore,
i- continues in a state of sieges one | ate
' only is open j no one is allow ed to a>
■ ter or leave it without fufficient pas
, —and a part of our garnlon
I every night in our out-worki. • -
tranquility is however nndtflwbe
we do not entertain the leallfea. 0
enemy, having every reason to r£ V ,
the strength of our
has been much inereifed bf*" I " u '