~w i I'ctit, Serjeant Major
uiaKun of Roues, efFers i
ft of the batttalion of |
The Company of theVo-j
.■ntt'cis of the 6th battalion of £.a I
Manche. ami the company of gunners, !
0 -"-r one day's ration of meat in each !
(jpcai'e, for the fnpport of the unfor
t-jate an<l Sfi.in Citizens of the Com
.-rjnr r P.-rtpelletier, ei-devaut Valery.
q Beaufort has sent two days of
|ij, p av » undone day's pay of the bat
t :•„f Gronvilliers ; two day's pav
„' ! lie 4-'.th regiment of infantry, and
of the battalions of Compiegen, Beau-
Mis, Chaumant, and Montague du
Boa-Air, The soldiers of thcie reg:-
mrnis, and battalions aito, offer their
r>iiJ i)*' meat, ror tv»o m eae i
■'i-j- sde, for the poor of the different
■ to which they (the fuldiers)
• e luit |T . Such are the defenders of the
Republic ! La-Ay, felfilh, and sensual
men, know, that public opinion has
laicieJ a jail opinion of you !'*
Legiilature of Pennsylvania.
House of Representatives,
Sept* Io
The r'-ti-.n made yesterday by Mr.
Kainnrcicr relative to Securing the right
of fuifrage to the militia who will be in
a&ua! -.lit approaching expediti
on, waif.SKM'np. and modified so as to
leive it t* a committee to conifder the pro
priety offuch a provision ami report a bill;
if they thhtk fit. The Committee was ap
pointed.
A Committee was appointed to bring in
a bill authorizing the register and Comp
troller general to allow in the settlement
of accounts of Nathaniel Falconer, the
amount, of head money forgiven by him
t . emigrants trom Hifpaniola, and, the sum
paid to a deputy during the late epidcmic.
The Land-Office bill was amended in
Committee of the whole.
The bill to provide for supplying any
vacancy tbat raay occur in the office of the
stale Treafura- during the recess of the
Legiflatun:, after some consideration, was
recommended to the attention of the next
Legiflaturu.
? Sept. 17.
A Petit|on was presented from several
inhabitants of the county of Bucks, com
pla'ming of the weight of taxes for the
maintain ance of the public roads, et'pecially
the stage jroad and praying that a tax be
laid on itapes to defray the expence of the
maintaiuance of that road—ordered to
lie.
The Committee appointed on thePrefqn'
isle business, reported in favor of fufpend
irifr the a<Hs for laying out a town there. —
Order id to lie.
The Ccmmittee appointed on the fub
jefl of the fortifications of St t - Island, re
rrt-iavrr of their utility .38 JL de
fence i id as afftfrdirtg protection to (hip
ping iii the inclement season, recommend
ing th;t the state do advance 6000 dollars
towards completing them, and that the
fubjetft of ceding the fort to the United
States be referred to the confederation of
the ntixt Legislature. Ordered to lie,
T: «. Secretary of Rate delivered the fol
low irlj.' mefTage from the Governor.
Sets Thursday's Ga-zette-
T'le Land-Office bill was further amend
ed and patted to a third reading.
Tit bill to suppress the weftArn infur
re&'pii came down with amendments.
Tie Huntington ele<Sli£>n bill pafied to a
thivfl reading.
Sept. 18.
The Northumberland ele&ion bill, and
tlie bill for a bridge over a branch of the
Junijita came down with amendments
frora the Senate.
A bill agreeably to the petition of Mr.
Falconer was read.
The Committee of ways and means re
ported.
The amendments of the Senate to the bill
providing for quelling the western inlur
reition were agreed to.
The Huntington bill palled.
The Land office bill palled.
The bill to enable the militia on the ap
proaching expedition to vote was taken up
in Committee of 'the whole. After some
confidcration t'nr Committee rose and the
bill was referred to a special Committee.
The Health-office bill was taken up in
Committee of the whole, Mr. Montgome
ry in the chair, and reported with amend
ments.
PHILADELPHIA,
SEPTEMBER 19.
Notwithstanding the sickness in New-
Haven, and reports to the contrary —the
Anniverl'ary commencement was held at
Vale Coilge on the 10th instant when the
degree of BacheloroiArts was conferred on
twenty One gentlemen, and that of master
of Arts on si degrees were
conferred on several persons.
Governor Howell arrived yeflerday at
Kewtown. The two troops of Horse
which arrived at Trenton after the army
had marched, will proceed to join them
immediately.
On Thnrfday evening a plan for form
ing a vohjnfiur company of riflemen was
agreed to, to be oommanded by Captain
Taylor, and yesterday 60 young men had
already engaged. Their uniform is near-
ly the fame as that of blues,
blue cloth pantaloon and round jacket fa
ced with scarlet, white buttons.
The mail from Pittfbiug sniv'ed ?.t
6o'clock lad evening. The following
extract of a letter dated the 12th inilant
will shew the state of afiaira in the weft
tern country.
" Yellerday being the day appointed
by the commiilioners for taking the
opinion of the people refpeciing peace
or war, upwards of j6o in the dillrift
of Pittiburg, fubferibed their declaration
for fubmiliion to add support to the laws:
But it has not been so general in the
other diftrifts that we have heard from
—In Reeds diftrift onv 20 have signed
and in the Forks of Yough not one.
Accounts from other places art not yet
come in but you are a li:!licient judge of
what is to be expected from other
diftri&s."
The Pittsburgh Gazette at the I- th inft.
does n \ contain tl)e result of the meet
ing of the citizens ther:* oil the nth"
but it does contain the following incen
diary publication.
To JOHN GASTON,
SIR.,
You will please have this printed in the
Pittsburgh paper this week, or you may
abide by the consequence.
POOII TOM takes this opportunity to
inform his friends throughout a'l the coun
try, that he is obliged to take' up his com
miflion once more, tho' difagreeab'.e to his
inclination. I thought when I laid down
my comraiffion before that wt had got the
country so well {imted that there would
have been no more need for me in that
line, but my friends fee more need for me
now than ever —they chcfe a set of men
whom they thought they could confide in,
but find themselves much mistaken, for
I the majority of them has proved traitors,
| four or five big men from below has Scear-
S ed a great many, but lew is killed yet,but
I I iiope none oS these are any that ever pre
; tended to be a friend to poor Tom, so I
> would have all my friends keep up their
spirits and Stand to their integrity for their
rights and liberty, and you will find poo-
Tom to be your friend —This is fair warn
in, traitors take care for my hammer is up
and my ladel is hot, I cannot travel the
country for nothing.
From your old friend,
Tom the Tinier.
Adjourned,
Married on Tuesday evening lift, by the
Rev. John B. Smith, Mr. Peter Denham,
Printer, to Mils Susan Leadbetter, both
of this City.
By this Day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, September 18.
We learn hy accouursjuft arrived from
Canada'that in Gen. Wayne's late en
gagement the Indians loft between three
and four hundred, he having completely
surrounded them.—We learn alio that
Gen. Wayne had gone back to fort Re
cpvery for a further supply of pro
viiions.
By accurate accounts, the attacks •
of the 2d and 3d upon the polls <-f the
Prufiian field marshal Mollcndorf, were j
very obstinate ; the enemy, who were
thought to be only in small force about
Pirmafens, marched on the 2d in three
one against Deux-Ponts, ano
ther against Meiflenheim, and the third
against Ttipftadt, the last of which con
fined of from 12,000 to 15,000 men ;
the Prufiian advanced polls were'obliged
to give way to such numbers, and fell
back to Tripftadt, where the enemy
were so opposed that they could get no
farther on that day; they renewed the
attack early the next morning, but as
we had received succours in the night,
they were driven off" with loss; they
soon, however, recommenced the attack
but were again repulsed, and at last to
tally routed and pursued, to Pirmafens.
They had many killed and taken, and
left 10 or 12 pieces of cannon on the
field, with fevcral ammunition waggons.
On the 4th the corps under Generals
Ruchel and Romberg, with that under
General Kalkreuth, which had fallen
back to Kaizerflautern, advanced again,
and we hope soon to drive the enemy
from Deux Ponts and Carlfberg.
t Adjourned.
By authentic accounts the French
Rhine army has received considerable
reinforcements from the Alps and the
Mozelle.
BERGEN-OP-ZOOM, July 10.
Ycilerday several vefTels arrrired here
from Holland with new cannon and
ammunition for the defence of this place.
The trees around the place are also cut
ting down, and orders are daily expect
ed to pulldown the neighboring build
ings. Our garrison is not yet aug
mented.
On the 13th ult. at ten o'clock at
night, all Naples was sensible of the
MANHEIM, July 7.
NAPLES, June 17.
- "f
fheck of an earthquake, with an hori
zontal motion, which lasted aoout 30
seconds. On Sunday last the 15111, about
the fame hour, the earthquake was re
peated, which was followed by a vio
lent eruption of Mount Vefuvins. The
mountain opened in two places, towards
the center of its line, when columns of
black smoke, mixed with liquid inflamed
matter, ifTued from each mouth; soon
after other mouths were opened, and in
a line towards the sea. The explosion
from all these mouths, louder than thun
der, mixed with sharp reports, as from
the heaviest pieces of artillery, accom
panied by a hollow fubtenaueous ru
mour, like that of the sea in a storm,
cauled all the houses to {hake their very
foundation. The lavas guibing from
these mouths, after having run four
miles in a few hours, deftfoyed the
greatest part of the town of Torre del
Greco, about a mile from Portici, and
made, a confiderabie progress into the
sea, where it formed a promontory
about ten feet above its furfaee, and
near a quarter of a mile broad, having
heated the water to such a degree that
a lfand could not be borne in it at the
distance of 100 yards from the Lava.
It cannot yet be ascertained how ma
ny lives have been loft 111 that city. Ma
ny families arc miffing, but whether they
have escaped, or are buried Under the
ruins of their houfiw, is not known.
Naples is covered with ashes, and every
object is obfeured as in a thick fog ;
but Vesuvius, though not visible, conti
nues very turbulent, and more mifchief
may be expected, although the lavas are
all ltopped at this moment. The head
of St. Januarius was carried in ptocef
fion yeltcrday, and uppoled tothe moun
tain by the Cardinal'••AfrfihbilTiop of
Naples, attended by many thousands of
the inhabitants of this City.
LONDON, July IJ.
From Breda we learn, that prepara
tion is the word ; that the garrisons
have been a little reinforced, which is
more difficult than the mere supply of
powder and (lores. Part of the Hano
verian and Austrian hospitals have ar-
rived there from Tournay and St. Ghil
lian.
Captain De Petron, of the Mary, ar
rived at Guernsey from the Weft-Indies
—in his passage he fell in with a French
74 gun {hip, deserted by the crew, and
water-logged.
July 16.
A declaration on the part of his Ma
jefly, pronouncing the objedj he has in
view in prolecuting the present war,
will very shortly be sent forth into cir
culation. We have no doubt but it will
have the inrtit beneficial efFeft.
The Duke of York is coming home.
July 19.
The Duke of Devonshire is to be the
new Viceroy of Ireland.
Advice is received, confirming the
report of Mr. Walter Smith, the hand
some brother of Mi s. Fitzherbert, hav
ing been guillotined at Natici. The of
fence with which he was charged, was
giving foceour to some French emigrants
in Switzerland. His head was carried
through the city on a pole, the bearer
of it exclaiming " Quelle belle tete I"
By letters from Warfawof the 18th
ult, and other advices from South Prus
sia of the jth inft. it appears, that Po
land approaches the crilis of its fate.
The combined Prussian and Ruffian ar
mies are approaching Warsaw in all di
rections ; and Kofciufko, with immense
loss on the part of the insurgents, cut
his way through the Ruffians and Pruf
finns, who would otherwise have totally
cut him off.
The prisoners which the French took
in the late affair at Aloft, detailed in
the Gazette of Tuesday, are said to have
fallen victims to the sanguinary decree
of the Convention, which denies any
quarter to the Britilh or Hanoverian
soldiers.
The Captain of an armed brig, that
left Brest on the 14th inft. reports that,
" The French are very busy in re-fitting
their ships ; the officers of every de
scription, from the Admiral downwa! ds,
being constantly employed in that Ser
vice.
" Not a barge is to be seen—the Ad
miials go to and from their ships in small
boats, with only two or three rowers, j
in order that the attention of their
crews in reletting of their respective ves
sels might not be interrupted.
" Since the departure from thence of
the wives and families ot the officers who
were ordered away by the Commifiion
er St. Just, because it was considered
they interrupted the public business eve
ry thing goes on with spirit, and the
fleet was expe&ed to be compleatly rea
dy for sea in about a fortnight.
" Some stout trigates had already
, failed from thence, for the purpose of
cruising at the chops of the Englifc
channel.
The following regulations have been A survey was yesterday aftrmoca
adopted at Paris by the Municipality, taken- by the wardens and other officers
W' th , re /, arti t0 lh "V' nurEv '-' r y P; m P er of the Hamlet. whose report was, that
enabled from wot Kin?, receives Oaily i< c , _ »• r /• •
r "e r 1 ' r i- 1 j botot 1200 houses, of which the Ham
fous if single, 25 ions il irarr-fd, ana <; . rfL , 9 . r . _ *
fousaday for every child under u years let consisted, no morethan five huwirrd
of age. _and seventy were preserved from the
The French Regicides have obtained conflagration ; and what it more to be
the entire poffeliion of Imperial Flan- regretted, the greater number were the
tiers at a period the mofl favorable for principal contributors towards the fup
their wi.'hes, viz. a: the eve of the mofl P ort of the poor.
abundant harvest that country ever
knew.
It is fr.id that Sidney Smith will go,
up the Scheldt, with his fleet of gun
boats ; which arc looked '.ipon as 0:1 c of
the furnt means of protection fat Hol
land.
Jnly 23.
FIRE at RATCLIFF.
Wednesday afternoon, about two
o'clock, a mod dreadful lire bioke out
at a Large builder's Mr. Clove's Stone-
ft airs, occasioned by the boiling over of
a pitch kettle, that flood under his
ware house which was consumed in a
It then communicated
very (hort time,
to a barge, it being low water, lying
adjoining the prernifes, laden with fait
petre andother ttores,
the conflagration to spread widely in a
v.*ry fhprt time. Several other vefTels
and small craft, lying near the barge
soon after took fire, without any poffi-
bility of getting them off. The blow
ing up of the saltpetre, from the barge
occasioned large flakes of fire to fall 011
the ware-houses belonging to the East-
India company') from wiience the salt
petre was removed to the Tower (20
tons of which had been fortunately ta
ken the preceding day.)
When the fire communicated with
the East-India ware house, the firemen
difcofttinued their exertions, and pru
dently withdrew from the threatening
scene, as did also, by their advice, the,
nearer neighbors—Soon after, the com
bustible matter contained in the building
blew up, with an explosion that could
only be likened to the bursting of a vol
cano, and which ha 3 the effect upon the
surrounding houses, as fat nsL'mc-houfe,
Tower-hill, and Mile-end, of the (hock
of an earthquake : thole immediately
adjoining were unroofed.
The conflagration now spread in eve
ry direction and waS greatly increased by
the wind, which cowards evening, blew
very frefh, and all that followed was
" confufion worse confounded" by the
Impotent efforts which were made to
oppose what had so completely obtained
the mastery ; till at length, it may be
fairly said, the fire ceased for want of
materials to consume, having reached
an open space of ground, where the
i-onnedlion of perishable fubftanccs, was
broken.
It was at the farther extremity of
Mr. Shakefpear's Ropewalk that it
flopped.
It is not yet possible to ascertain the
number of houses demolished : the
whole extent of gronna from Stone
Stairs to Ratcliff-Crofs, and from the
water fide to Slepney Caiif?way, is co
vered with one coufufed mass of smok
ing ruin. Where the different ftreeta
ran cannot be traced. Some accounts
suppose so many#s a tlioufand buildings
of different descriptions dtftroyed ;
there cannot be so few as five hundred ;
among the principal of these were the
above India Company's saltpetre ware
house, a laige sugar hoyfe, a glass ma
nufactory, a lighter builder's and all !
the warehouses which extended along
ihore. The ship deflroyed, on account
of her being aground at low water, was
a Barbadoes vessel.
The dawn of day presented a scene
most diftreffiugto the feeling mind ; all
the surrounding fields were covered with
houfclefs poor families that had with
difficulty saved fufficient to cover them ;
decrepid old mt;n and women, unprotect
ed wives and famifhed infants ! What a
fubjeft foi the cxercife of that charity
so chara&eriftic of Britons !
It is deferring of particular notice,
that one flood entirely uninjured in the
very midst of this mighty ruin, and
] which we are informed, was never quit
] ted by the family that inhabits it ; af
fifled by their friends they so drenched
it with water, that not even a pane of
glass was cracked. It is a jyod house,
and well worth the labour bellowed up
on it, but it appears to the fpeiSlator to
i Hand by miracle. It belongs to Mr.
! Bear.
The loft fuflained in confequencc of
the above dreadful catastrophe cannot
at prcfent be even guefied at : it mull
exeeed a million sterling !
That feme idea may be formed, the
warchonfes of Mr. Whitiiig contained
sugars to the amount of upwards of
40,C0C1. which were entirely deflroy-
ed.
The fury of the fiamej was much
encrepfed in their progress in London
street, by the great quantity of deals
in the yard of Mr. Jcfeph rfaiita.
It having been repotted that the fire
was maliciously occasioned, upon the
most minute enquiry it is clearly ascer
tained it was entirely accidental, from
the caufc ab»ve mentioned. It raged
with so much violence that it was with
the greatest difficulty Mr. Cloves and
his iervanta ckaped, one of whom was
terribly burnt and is now in the London
hospital ; and Mr. Cloves himfelf had
unfortunately his arm broke apd is other
wise milch hurt.
the great difirefs the above fire
oci afioned to a great number of poor
families government has humanely or
dered 120 tents to be immediately
pitched for their accomodation, in Step
ney Fields, till they can be more com
fortably provided for,
This occasioned
Experience having taught the allies,that
they cannot subjugate France by external
means, now it is said they have taken up
the notion that Frenchmen can be beaten
only by Frenchmen. French Princes are
to be put at the head of fifteen thousand
French Emigrants, covered by the British
fleet aud twenty thousand British troops ; '•
and with this descent a declaration is to
be made, " That \ve have no other obje<sl
than to re-eftablifo in France a govern
ment which fnall not expose the fafety of
others."
Tranquility is restored in the Island of
Sardinia. A provifionary administration
&as been nominated for it by the king.
The recent fuccefies of the French in the
Netherlands have afforded much fatisfac
tion to the mal-costents in Holland, v, ho
txult in the profpeii of their approach to
that coimtry.
GofMes, it is said, has been reduced
to allies by the French.
During the public prayets which \vc
were eight days offering to Heaven for
relief, a vatt quantity of hand-bills were
placarded, and numbers scattered about
the ftrcets, infenbed with—" Down
with tyranny ! Massacre the nriftocrats !
Liberty! Equality! The French foj
ever !" Search is making for the of
fenders that they may be brought to
punishment.
At Parma three fanatics lately parad
ed all the ttreets, wearing the bonnet
rouge, and crying out, " Liberie Li
tem! But the guards being called out,
the town was reltored to tranquility.
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
Ship Sedgely, Hodge, Jamaica
Brig Two Sifters, Forte, St. Eitftatia
Schr. Good Intent, Miller, C. N. Mole
Mary, Caflin, Montego Bay
Jeremie
Sloop Endeavor, Paine, Boftor
Ship Ohio, Kemp, London
The Ohio left the Downs the 3d of Au
gust, but brings no accounts later than 22.d
July, confequcntly not so recent as those
before received.
Capt. Uinker of the brig Lydia, fpoVe
yesterday in the Bay a brig from Camittes,
a ship was seen yesterday coming up.
Capt. Hodge, of the ship Sedglty, 3 5
days from Jamaica, informs, that he left
there the ship Hibernia, Ir wine, of Phila
delphia, which was to fail four days after
him, for this port. Sept. ift, in !at. .;o,
48, hefpoke the frigate Quebec, Captain
Rogers, who sent an officer on board and
! took.out one of his men ; the 9th, ofi the
! capes, he was boarded by the Experiment.
. Ejaculation
By a Lady, on feeing the defenders of
their Country's peace and honor march
" May God p'ofper them—and preserve
every haiT of their heads from injury.'
Letters by the Ohio fay 4 that the Caro
line and the Neptune were to have failed
from London about the asd July.
WILL be opened on Saturday the icth
inft. at half pad four o'clock, and the ex
hibition will begin precjfely at a quartet"
before six 1 . On this occakon Mr. Rickett*
forbears narticularifing his Performances
but ifflires his Friends and Patrons that lie
■will exefrt his utmost abilities to render the
Entertainment as r.OVcl and intcreftlng a»
: pofllble.
The firft evening will conclude with the
Tickets to be had at the Book Stores of
Mr. Bradford, Mr. Rirc, Mr. Campbell,
at the Musical R. r.ufitc'-y itt Market ftfeet
and at the Circus neat the French minify
ter'shoufe.
• *****
MILAN, June 12.
ARRIVED.
Patfey, Sampkins,
Arrived at New York. >-
RicketLs's Equeflrian
CIRCUS.
Sailor's Voyage of Pox Hunting,
Or the
Copenhagen "Far in a Sack.,
Sept. 19
1; a _>
Norfolk