EE p'oportion to the rights *i:id privileges [ On the fuhjecl of grievances—a fin of the people, will be the laws toiecure | gle qucftian dceides the fate of the new a..d<3"'.i«3 those rights and ,p 1 government*—not a fe, -ier, 'merchant, and the e.vpence ot adminiffering anfl I mccitonrc or laborer, in America, i»n e-.ecu. ing tiioie laws—Tim. multiplicity | all; himfdf whether he Ims enjoyed more of !?. vs ha j been co.fjiljilned at—>-thc « protection and prosperity lince its ope laws ot one of the despotic govern- > ration than before ? But what mutt, ments in the north of Etfl-ope i| oor»-a out and all, declare, with a loud \6icC tained in a volume of about live hu,l« J in the jjliirmatiye, iiotwithliandiiig all drt-d p.ij'es odtavo. « the additional taxes. Whence then all A rotation in office, a large repre- < t'ii.«. diiturbance ? Do you expert to en fentation, and numerous officers—are I joy protection for nothing ?If to, your eontidered efiential to a free govern-J mcannets, is equal to your infamy.— ment—- and doubtless are so—but a de-« But to be fe: ions—your gentry ot the spot doe", or may govern alone—Tie i little pitiful village of Pittlburgh, of all ma / allocate few or many in the admi- * men ;n America, one would luppoie, n ; ration-—jullice is cheap—no jurors ! fiionld have been the lafi: to rife in oppo t"o pay, no advocates to plead—'lew or | fition to a revenue, of which you pay a appeals—judgment is promptly [ mere mite—a considerable portion of f i■.•en Marcus inlinuates that clubs [ which has been expended for fcveral v,-rt .klious to iome persons Lecaufe the years palt, diredily for your individual clubs are opposed to taxes—This iB hot protection ; and the greatest part 01 it true—and an inftnnce in point cannot Centres immediately with you; 3efidcs, bt produced to juftify the remark— 1 tan affirm, that in paying the exclfe The reverie contains the real Hit e of] upon whiskey, you do not bear any pro-, facta-—Thefe focietjes arc friendly to a i portion to the burthens of your feliow ccwnhtee gOvernnient-+-anci the reason ' citizens on the sea board, and in the is obvjjua —the loaves and fifhes wotild j middle diftritts. You manufacture all: thereby become infinitely diffufed—lt j your own Ivlgar, a great part of your (Mult be indelibly imprefied on the mind ialt, require less of luxuries, make tnore , of every man, that to change our present • cloathingj artd it you substitute T»alt ii free government on account of the ex- j quors .-dead of whiflcev, you will be pence attending its administration, were ■ aimolt exempt flom paying any part to double that expence—for the preei- j of the revenue—-and can it be poifible, ous privileges of a committee govern- ' that you can wiffi, perhaps one greater ment (and a more popular plan,'. can 1 part of the revenue applied to your pro be carried into execution, no other way) J tettion and expended among you, and would be incurring a burthen which j jet bear no (hare of the burthen your tieither we nor our poftefity could bear. ■ selves ?—Bhifll B —, for vourfetf LUCIUS. ! and the wife, the libeial, the just men ,_ ! of the patriotic, the mighty town of n l * All n>n I Pittlburgh. From the Albany Repjler, . If you do npt like the Ux> why do , you — I pay it ? Jt is not an arbitrary .tax, every To H. H. 3** ** > Esq. man is his own afleflbr it is altogether a dittckiti)n T-t voluntary matter—you are not obi;,; dto rl 1 loiiu »v(_rn. k et p ft;il s —drop voiir whiskey, and drink SIR, malt liquors and the Cornell ends. But TKr. intemperance of your wiM [ 1 ydu, let me address a word to your puvffiits for fcveral /ears has %>iliariz- philanthropy, if a parade of that gencr , ' , k , . ' otis glow Of a pood heart can reach one io ed 1 r name to the public.' Jfot that 4n(i 0 „ nfifchiefas yours. your virtues or pat lotic deeds have Abftrail -d from every other idea, even«d ever entitled yii»u to thrtt refpett, but mitting the ex:ife to operate partially np yOUjl' Te'lil'-fp spirit and unwarrantable on your adherents, who have rose to crufli r.-.cr.fmc; hive drawn on you an indeli- it, aud that every other part of the union Lie fenw of "infamy and comernpt— ; wMexAapt. from k—l again aflert t ouadly j ' -ii r • i j ; that interclt and love or mankind a;, J yrttir name wiil pass quiet y down . We acquiefcel!c ,. t ■ p.: ferny, hand m hand with that of • that at t |,; s m „. Arnold, as two of the greatelt causes ; thc {rcd o[ - the convulted na iiir.enca bas.ever nounftied in her bo- (>f are all turninß thcir : Pl ft j on " avc ! a - 5 wi'hful eves to this land of freedom, £ boured m thc lty:e (if a madman, to in- tliejr fi , w and oilljr a f y l unl of reft? voivc us ;n p. war w«h Spa,,,, in »«- ; Thoufm , tk wjU be „ d tlieir course - to „ ur ,X T r * l °, e T tt ' borders, with millions of wealth, if we ti- iffliniibp ,v, en me, t ,oug ww collt [ nue to enjoy the reputation of pol ' l "' u uru 1U! Uil, o» to c c ' f-iiiinr a Well govern ment 9 an»! t'je' tr.ir.e object;n a peaceable manner. inU ,« a , c _t a nd pray, will not the Fiom that penod to t.ie comfflence- : ; nter ; or () f Pennfyivama be more bene mc;nt of trie We, your ,11- ated name f fiUcd ~ a )(arvett one year than reil'ed in obfotnty—-and now behold you rf , he wa „ a-e at the fbmrmt of •your detelted ambi- j ? Q|i the o(her h;;nd( j- fc it t on. Not a man in America who ; for vou tu h;)]d up yo:n . Rlliity loves his country and is not led away , Cd kflg, in otopofition to the power bhr.dtolo by men of your call, but !q{ Ullion _ The oppre{ r fd people in views you with horror and detestation— j „- on from IJf ««d whatever fond l opes ybu may che- > d;f ft and despair of finding a nlh of being supported tn your villa.- ; a( . e £ f Qn thg j obc- nous meafurcs by the union at large, bllrtlteni ,| the Union with an ex . reft allured in these northern States, of ;m - (Q b „ . to ~ but one voice animates us all—and how- f enfes _ a ,. f you iVO[ aWare that Congrcfs ever we may jar ,n fomc pomts of our jt ; n the{r vert 0 effca tll ; 8 ob . political creed, in suppressing your . int , rdfi j } all intercot.rfe with wrcciied combination, to disturb the • olJt of tbe l ntcrn:;! peace of our country, and q{ withaiU tlie cv miure it 9 reputation abroad, we are! , ~ , ' J , r , ' ...! pence or a dollar r firmly cemented to a man—and you will NORTHERN MAN. find, fir, by fatal experience, this truth confirmed if we fkould be called fbtth to raise our aims again ft you. Perhaps roil may be led to suppose that' 1 ipenk feelingly, from being per sonally interested in the success of the revenue fyltom—in this I avow folemn !y, that 1 du not possess, directly or in directly one shilling depending on that foiirce—To apprize you in time of the midifgiiifed sentiments of the people at j large in this quarter, and by a wish to | discharge a debt 1 owe my country, 1 s am induced to (tep forth. I I will this fhoit address, by i Hating a few questions ; if you are not j loft to every sense of shame, I beg you >• will, answer them with the fame candor they are stated. i What is your object ? Is it really for thc lake of the pitiful excise of a few j pence per gallon on your deteltable ; v.-liifky, that you make all this noise r ■ Or, are you (as some shrewdly lufpeft) . employed as Indian incendiaries, aided j by Engiith Gold, to raise a barrier to S prevent supplies going to our Western | iVmy, and by such means to cause its » deitruCtion ? If so, may the ven- j: geance of America pursue yoil and your . in&mi»ijs adherents without remorle or i compalTion. If we can so far pity your E meanness and ignorance, as to suppose that you are really actuated by a belief tlir.t you are opprelfed, and are seeking for i\ !iat you may call redress—in this view of the fubjedt y i are entitled from every republican at lead, to a few que ries addreti'ed to your reason—is any remains. <Mk, . \ . * remains. For tht Gu%ctit of the United States. Mr. FF.N NO, I SEND you the literal translation of a curious letter from the National Agent of the diitiiflt of Cahors, written to the Convention, and published in the Paris Journal, duodi l2d Floreal, that is, on Sunday the iith May, 1794. " Citizen Representatives, oif yes terday, Piiilofopheu and Republicans enjoyed a delightful exhibition in the commune of Cahors—Yefterday, the I Supreme Being was honoured, and fer- ' vice rendered to the Republic t Would 1 you imagine by whom ? Even by | Piiefls. The popular Society of Ca hors perceiving some pious simpletons ■ still obltinately bigotted to certain days \ called formerly feflivals and Sundays, I at one of its fittings invited all the ' Priests of the Diftrift to repair on the ' Bth of this month (formerly a Sunday) 5 to the ramparts of this commune, in | orcUr to work on the great road, and f thereby exhibit an example equally il f luftriouß and itfeful.—Truth conttrains ime to inform you, Citizen Reprefenta tivei, that the invitation was received j with transport, and that 200 Priests, now become Citizens, worked all day yellerday with an alacrity, which Fa triotifm only could inspire—l hebeld in the gang, and embraced Ecclelialtics 80 years of age, drawing cart-loads of earth with all the vigour of youth, and carneftly exhorting their fellow-citizens to forget their ancient and fottilh fu p<r®t!oh. The viaory over fanaticifm wis complete. Citizens, Bigot 9, even former Church-Wardens lent a liancl to the work, and I allure you> that t-iey will not rhiiik of ielt again but upon the days of the decape. They will all receive with respect and gratitude the decree which ir> to avertge 'he Supreme licir.g in (lilted by the impiety of Hebert, and liis abominable accomplices. — 1 bus you lee, that the diltri£t of Cahors is entirely weaned from religious prejudi ces. There are no more Prieits; but there is a God to punish the crimcs of Capet and his adherents —A God, to receive into his bosom Marat, and all the Miirtyi J of Liberty '' Mr. Feniici, what will American CJjri/lians fay to all this? What will be the reflexions of rigid John Calvin's disciples ? This tllUftiduS reformer alio loved Liberty; but I thuft question whether in this, ancf mariy other points of refortjiation, lie would <igree with Robcfpierre, that his countrymcri are two tiioufand years in advance o: all the human race*—Tiiufe, who bellow on the Fiencli nation unqualified ad miration and applause, would do well ti> reflect that two powerful a glare of faHe light may dull the mental as well as the physical eye, and may prove as fatal to both as the obfeurity of error. As for fmcere believers in Revelation, let them remember that mankind is ever prone to imitate what they admire, and th:;t the follies of nations are generally fsnuggled into other countries under the fpendid cloak of their victories and suc cess. When pronouncing upon the cha ; racters either of nations 01 individuals. | Wiidon) will always difcriminatfe be | tween their excellencies and defects ; and the waimeft votary for Liberty, if at tached to his religion will execrate the dart that is /levelled at her vitals, tho' it still be reaking with the blood of "bme despot. America to.be free and happy mult think entirely for herfelf, and have national maxims, opinions, and fafhions of Iter own. An An\eyjcan Chriftiaji. * See Robcipierre's report. | Foreign Intelligence. July 18. -v , An epidemic fever, we are'toWV < swept off numbers of peopljf S*. Jamaica ' THE NAV'y. .*■ t S|. Domingo, wuhfn'"tHrfe eight Lord Howe, fatis.tk'«l with complete^ w^f ks. - ,*■ . y,. beating the French Fleet, and an-'' A gentleman in whd cingtho event, has left it to others '. h™ e«c')iive sources the particulars. -There are Writing to hit comfpari#rt hStr«, :i r rtimftaticf 3 now aicertained, which, , tlons > that la ft summer a fever, in a julKce'to his Lordfhlp and the fleet refpfft similar to that of mder his command ought to be made carried off upwards of fifty thoufanc viiown to the public. V P«'P le the Spanilh province of Ytt The a&ion of the 29th May, on *~catofni. ,catofni > , ' which huT Lordihip but jult touches in ■ From from Guapa his letter, was long and well contested. oU P e > under the Janwica head, then The damage fuftaincd by the enemy on i appears every probability of a good ac that day, accelerated their defeat on the ! count being soon given of thfFrencl lit itifti Four of their ships were so : «>ip» and troop* in-that quarter, completely beaten, that the French ad- ■ rr.iral sent them away the nerff day v. Inch a rcinforctm . it of four frelh (hip enabled him to do without lefiening hi anginal number. The fa£t, tlierefore is, that Lord Howe, with twenty-fn (hips of the line, beat thirty-one of ,th< enemy. jjfe The eight ships oWne line seen b) Capt. Parker 011 the morning of the 29th, were the Concale squadron, com ing up to join the I'reft: fleet, which they were prevented' from doing by the accidental cifrumlUnct of Lord. Howe's being between them and that fleet. Had this fquadion, and the four ships that joined on the 30th, effected their junc tion oh the 28, the French fleet would have consisted of thirty-nine ships of the line, and been too .much superior in point of numbers to Lord Howe's fleet even if Admiral Montagu had beei with him, to be engaged with prudenc LONDON"; June tj. The ship that fought Captain Parker, and the four disabled ships sent away on the 30th, got into Bred.—Eight were seen by Admiral Montagu getting in on the Bth June, and eighteen on the 9th, making,with the two funk, and fix tak en, the whole number that had been out. It is known that there were fix line of battle in Brest water before. The French have, therefore, thirty seven ships of the line at Brest; of which fourteen viz. the fix last mentioned, and the Concale fquad run, have not been in a<ftion, and may be conftdered as immediately fit for sea. If the exertions of our Admiralty are not greaterthantheyhaveyet .;een,wefhall soon have the mortification of knowing that the beaten fleet of the enemy is scouring the ocean, while our viAorious fleet is in port. It is indeed matter of aftoniftiment, that with more than one hundred ftiips of the line in commission, two of the maritime powers in common cause with us, the dis organized and crippled navy of France alone to contend ngainft—that our Grand Fleet (hould be sent to sea so much inferior in point of number to that of the enemy, as to render the event of a battle doubtful, if not imminently hazardous. Fortuoftte circuijiftances prevented the enemy from availing therrfelves of thsir whole force ; the superior skill and valor of our officers and men triumph over all .he reft; the evil genius of our Ministers again interposes, and blasts the fruits of our viiflory ! Of naval vi&ories the consequence used to be, that our cruizers ranged the coasts of the enemy to intercept their trade, and give fecurily to our o»u. Of this victory the immediate coniequnce is, tint from the Straits of Gibraitar Vo the Stails'of Do vets we have not a finglt ihip of the line at sea; and a convoy of incalculable value to the enemy, which will fuppiy'them with' provilions, naval ltores, and feainen to an immenle amount; arrives uiimolefted* STOCKHOLM, June 27. The difpatclies received by Count RofA»ir<ow from PeterJburgh are said to be of a very important nature. NASSAU, (N. P.) July 11. During the thr» ' la(t weeks, the wea ther has been uncommonly dry for the season. July iJ. During the lalt fortnight, frequent reports have been received here, of some t)f Hie Chxleiton privateers being seen amorg these illands, and of their having made prize of several droghing and wrecking vessels. Yefrfcrday we had information from Crooked Iflaiid of a {loop and a fehooner, the foririer called the St. Joseph, the other the St. Maria, both well armed and manned, and bearing French oo lqurs, having had the audacity on Thutf day the iolli inttaitt, to attempt taking the fehooner Cleveland from Moss's Landing. Two guns belonging to the Cleveland being placed on (hore, were fired at the enemy, and kept them at bav, until the cargo was landed. The ammunition being expended, the enemy got possession of the fehooner hnd were carrying her off, when the tnilitia of the island having aflembled, a three poundet was got to a commanding situation, and fired with such effedt, as to oblige the pickeroons to relinquish their prize, and push off. The Cleveland was afterwards brough back and yefteidsy arrived here. On Saturday morning, the privateer fehooner Flying Fill), Capt. M'lvinney, arrived here fiom a cruize. CHARLESTON July 26. , On Wednesday lall Mr. Maurice Spil liard arrived here, in the schooner Ad venture, a prize to the French priva teers Norbonnaife. He has made the following depolition before a notary public of this city 1 That on the sth of July, he failed as passenger from Charleston, on board the schooner Polly, Capt. Wright be longing to Mr. Robert M'Grath, of New-York, merchant, and bound to New Providence, laden with a cargo of merchandize.—That, on the fame day, about four o'clock in the after noon, being then about 4 le agues from Charletton light, they wei'e chafed by the French privateer Narbonnaife, com manded by Capt. Hervieux, who fired two (hots at the Polly, and brought her to. Lieut. Rivers, vviih five men, immediately took pofleflion of the Pol ly, and Mr. M'Grath and Mr. Shofield, (pafTengers) with the Capt. and two hands belonging to her, with her trunks and baggage, were ordered on board the privateer: but the deponent be ing very sick, was left on board the Polly. That Lieut. Rivers then went on board the privateer, leaving Don Manuel, a Spaniard, as prize-master, with the other four hands on board the Polly, and ordering her to Port-au- Paix. That about three days after wards Don Manuel was taken on board the schooner privateer, wnere he re mained until the day of July, when the schooner Adventure, Capt. Elliot, of New Providence, wai captured by the Narbonnaife, near Crooked Island, one of the Bahamas, when the depo nent was put on boai d of her ; and the said Don Manuel, as prize matter, with four other hands, ordered to take her and carry her to Port-au-Paix— That the fcliooner Adventure's boat having been allowed Mr. Dclancey (one of ner paflengers) to carry him to Crooked I (land, the deponent was offered the liberty of going on (here there ; but finding hi rfclf very sick and weak, he applied to Captain Hervieux to remain on bo; rd tiie Ad been ordered to Poit-au-Paix, which Capt. 11. consented to, and ordered the deponent to be well used. That during the time of the deponent's being on board the schooner Polly. Captain Wright, he saw another schooner taken by the Narbonnaife, called the Polly, Capt. Prince, from Cape Nithoh Mole,' bound to Charleston, laden with coffee and sugar, belonging to Mefirs. Pen man & Co. Pray, Grant and John Price, merchants, of this city. That the prize-mailer of Don Manuel laid he muit steer for Charleston, as he should not be able to get into Port-au-Paix, on account of the Biitifti cruizers, and ac cordingly ai rived is this port on the z2d of July inft. in the evening. That on the passage, Don Manuel, the prize matter, dripped the deponent of his cloths and wearing apparel, knocked him down, and ordered him upon the forecaftle amongst the negroes, and otherwise ill-treated him. GUADALOUPE. (Tranjlated for the General Abver- TiSER.) The following Proclamation was !{lued at Point a Petre, after the EngliJh had abandoned their attempt on Grand Terre. Liberty, Equality. PROCLAMATION. The commissioner delegated by the national convention to the windward islands, considering that Point a Pitre, after having been delivered by traitors to the English as well as Guadaloupe and the French poflcfiions in the An tilles, and after having been reconquered by the arms of the republic is the firft ; port where the delegates from the Na tional Convention brought the decree of liberty pafled the 16th Pluviofe, to con secrate the memory of that event and of the victory obtained by the republi cans over their enemies and the traitors combined, on the glorious day of the 14th i'nlt. [July 2] declares, that the commune of Point a Pitre fha!l in fu ture be called Commune of the Port Of Liberty, and the fort heretofore" called Morne of the Government, Vic tory Fort. He directs the municipality to eme gifterj cause to be read and publilhed the foregoing, wherever required. Given at the Port of Liberty, lfland of Guadaloupe, hitherto Point a Pitre, 28th Meffidor, second, year of the French republic, one and indivisible, [July 16, 1794.] (Signed ) Victor. Huguej. Visl, Sec'ry. UNITED STATES. NEWPORT, August 25. Mr. JOHN BAPTIST® BER NARD, Prize Master of the British Brig Perseverance, whom we mention ed in our la't, to have been imprisoned here on suspicion of Murder has been honourably acquitted. PHILADELPHIA, SEPTEMBER 4. ExtraS of a teller si om a Gentleman at Canandarqua, in the Genefee country to his friend in tbis city, dated August 12, 1794. " The present appearance is fucli that it gives me full confidence to a (I'm to you, in contradiction to some writers from your quarter, that the Six Nations do a&ually remain at home, and have not joined in the war with the fioltile Indians against the United States, which may be attributed in a great measure to the people withdrawing from Prefque Isle. At the treaty, which is soon to be commenced, I hope and believe all difficulties will be removed and morefe curity rendered to our frontiers." By this Day's Mail. BALTIMORE, September ® On the 15th June, in the National Coftv vention of France, Vamer denounced a counter Revolutionary Alterably in Rue Contrefcarpe, feftion de l'Obfervaioire, No. 2078. up three pair of flairs. An old maid, called Mademoiselle Theros, bad collected around her a number of phylici ans, lawyers, and rich icle men who tiad r.ever done any thing for their counry.— This new mother Catharine promised im mortality to her scholars : to obtain it, it was absolute necelTary to embrace her lives times ; twice on the forehead, twice on the templis*, twice on the cheeks, ir.d the
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