From the Gazette of Maine. Mr. Printer, Having lately lefr mv native country, with a view to enjoy the free air of A merica ; I was happy to find on my ar rsd at Portland, a Republican Society conlluutcd, to cultivate, a j ift know ledjrf of ration?! liberty/—At the time I was about to propoie myfclf as a rnem tef, 1 read in .your Gazette the request • ••' a c-witry reader, by which.l. find they arc to undergo a ftritt examination ns to their names, places of abode, bujl tiefs, power, -iu'ifdom and information— As 1 doubt whether 1 fli.il] pais for a peifctt politician, and (hould be fotne thmg mortified to be efcpelk-d the foci ety, I crave my examination before hand and that my name occupation, &c. may be received in the moil favorable light,it is Bryan O'DoGaTHV 1 live in a one (lory house, in that flrait hand f'» . .Stern Duty calls our lingering steps away. But ere we dole—ere yet the curtain talis, And Hars our entrance from these friendly wall*, Permit my lips with transport to impart, The last glad'tribute of s grateful heart : The chosen herald of yon band I come, O may our offering breath a sweet per fume ! Pre yet this spot retiring from the view, Shall bid our bosoms sigh the last adieu; While this gay throng stills charms the ravifh'd fight, And lbud spplaufes shed their rich delight, Ye generous patrons a!! our thanks receive, The gift, tho' small, is all we have to give : To other climes our footfteps now mult llray, To part is painful—but wc are fore'd a- way. From cur fond breast no change of time or place, The dear, the fix'd remembrance can erase ; Fach pal Ting hour with retrofp stive eye, Shal 1 bid each scene in memory pass by, While Fancy wandering on the wing of light. Shall bring her pleajures to the mental fi £ ln » Oft to this spot in vilion we'll repair, Here taste new joys—-relinquish every care, In fancy tread again this infant stage, And view thefcenes which now our hearts engage. To you who here compose this brilliant throng, May Heav'n a life of happiness prolong; Here let no care intrude, no pang annoy, To cloud a lire of virtue and of joy ; May every bills that Heaven can e'er be llow. Without a storms in tide, unruffled flow ; Here may the Youths in paths of Virtue move, Here spotless worth inspire the heart with ' love: From Manhood's sphere the of sor row fly, ' And filver'd ige move upward to the Iky. Foreign Intelligence. MAESTRICHT, July n. " Our success on the 6th was much kfs than was at firft imagined, and was followed by a complete reverse next day. On the 7th the French returned to the charge, andcairied our formidable polls in the sorest of Soigneiby the bayonet. The Prince of Cuboujg, after losing 7000 wen, anchfinding it iinpoffijjle to repel the enemy, ordered a retmt, which wys;cxeciited in good ordet jjiro' Bfuifets and its'environs, in 1 the fiight between the 7th and Bth. He had previously directed the inhabitants, un der pain oT rleath, to confinjft to their Qo'iifes, uithin doorß and win dows ihut, during this retreat. The citizen volunteers maintained a ftrjft guard to prevent discord or plunder, till the arrival of the French, who en tered at one gate as the rear of the Auilrians were going out at the oppo site. " The main body of the Prince of Cohourg's army is near Tirelemont. Yeflerdr.y morning part of his baggage j and artillery arrived here ; and this even ing we expect 14,000 men to cover! Macfiriclit on tlie fide tywards Liege'. > " Since yerterday morning, more ! than fifteen boats and 200 wnggunr j have come in laden- with fugitives a'ndl their effects from the city of Namur. Theft fugitives concur in afTu.iiig Us, that Genetal Deaulieu has evacuated, not only the ci'y, but the citadel, after all the expense bellowed in fortifying it ; and that the French will certainly enter both to morrow. They fay, moreover, that more than 20,000 per sons, attempting to make their escape from the county of Namut, ait detained in Liege f.r want of means of convey ance ; and that the French ate expected at Liege this very evening. " Yesterday morning Count de Mer -Icy d' Argentau paiTed through this place in great haile for the Prince of Cobourg's head quarters. It is suppo sed that he will not have to travel 0 far as Louvain. The greater part of the Atch Duke Charles's court is still here, but in lu>urly expectation of orders to depait. Count Metternieh's baggage is lent to Aix 1 la Chapelle. " This evening the Prince of HefTe expefU orders frora the Hague to de clare Maeftricht in a (late of liege. In the mean time the streets are full of emigrants, both French and Belgian, thete being no room in the bouses to 1 receive then!. " We are informed that the French have pillaged none of the plains the) have entered, byt behaved every where much hi tter than wag cxpefied. " The States rif Brabant, with M. Limpcns their Chancellor at their head, have remained at BrufTels, and proteited Hgjiinll file feizur* by the allied troops of the treasure which they were fending to Holland. This treasure which, as 1 formerly mentioned, was flopped at Antwerp* is estimated at more than twenty millions of florins. " Valenciennes, Conde, Qriefnoy, Sc Landrecy, are all fufhumded by the ! enemy, and rrtott probably surrender' before the end of the month, Wc a:e told here that .Landrecy is already taken." V r. - I'll - ANTOERP, July 10; Yellerday his Royal Highnefi the Duke of York encamped his army near the village of Contsque, about five miles from this city, on the great road to Etuffels. The French did not in the lead attempt to intetrupt or harrafa him on his march. Lord Muira joined him with his army on the Bth inft. which now forms a second line to that com manded by the Dtike. This jun&ion renders his force very rrfprftahle. He has taken a position, where he the approach of the French, if they clnife to advance. Though the ground is inclosed, and tonfiderably covered with wood, yet there are intervals where his cavalry could aft, and they always aft nobly. He will here be able t<» op pole, in my opinion, any force the French could bring again ft him. The Duke and the Marquis Cornwall's were litre yesterday ; they Went to fee upon the Scheldt the transports with the (lores of the army, which had just ar rived from Oftend. They were receiv ed by the Engli(h seamen, and where ever they palled, with every demonstra tion of refpeft. The French had not yesterday enter ed Brulfels when the ordinary courier left it 5 but since Sunday last, 30,000 persons are supposed to have quitted that place with their most valuable ef fects ; and property, to the amount of 30,000!. is not to be found in that city j but the French will take the gleanings when nothing else remains, and will ac cept of the widow's mite when the ari stocrat does not offer a richer booty. 1 he principal inhabitants of this place, as well as of Flanders and Hainault, have fled at the approach of the French ; forne havejtaken the route of Louvain and Liege, others have gone to Holland, where all the great tntt'ns are said to be full of emi grants. The French haVe, according to custom, put every thing in requisition in the diftridls of which they have got pof leffion. All articles nccefiary to supply their armies have been instantly fenced-— It is luppoftd thty will make a requisition of rtcruits for-their army, which i ficknei.. and tht sword have coafiderably diminish cvlj and which on account of the harvest and other cm-umftances, could liarcdy be< procured from France. This fofced levy, which the Empercr did not demand, and which, to secure their persons and pro perty, they hadneitherthe loyalty norpru dunce to grant, will b# employdfl to defend them in their new acquired pofieflion or Ylanders, or to carry the quixotifin, of ronquifi, or the cupidity of plunder, into I Holland, or where the principles of tnfur i region may incline them to dirt6l the courfeof their plundering hordes. ; The cannonade that took place on the i 6th instant, about three leagues from Bruf ' fels, between the Prince of Saie Cobourg and the French threw that cir into great ; confternaiior.. But lit lej{roi.i*l was gain ' ed or IoA by either army . a penona : were killed or wounded, with- t any ad ) vantage resulting from the fheddmg of lai * man blood : th Prince of Heft' .. hilip/tali I was unfortunately kilied k * LONPON, July i 5; Tbi»: day tie of the flirwcll and th? JLondoti, frofa Bombay '*, ibc Bombay Csftl?, wirfc, and the Earl of Chtfter field, fWni China, brought iiitsjligcnte to the £aft Iwdia ifc 4he faJ^arpira^of ik'ive' Galway bay, in company vith the Belkjna, from China, the 3 rince Willipp, Henvjr,. thtc| Rodney he Woudcote ; th„ HiWborough ; tbe TRENTON, September 12. Deptrord ; tjie llarl Lornwaiiis; the Yyarren Haltings; the Northnmber- ADDhESS land, and Kent, all from Bengal, whofc ' Of General White to the Cornets of th, pursers art hourly expected a: the East Nciu-J<-rfey Cavalry, nn prefentin^ India Houfei They failed from St. t them villi STANDARDS. Helena the aoth of May. j havf tbe htftor , 0 By difpatchts from the Duke of ; guards () f your fc (peci,vc Squadron \ork, which were yefterdy brought to _ R «. cisc lh , mwft faclcd of dept>fiu Mr. Dundas s Office by the hop. Capt. Uj foteign and dumcftJc foes tremble Hope, who left the army on Sunday , befort . thtm . and whe „ oppofit | on cea a'- " T™r T'i °? lhe &«. may they he the signal. of Vi3orj uw " atiacked thc j at . d Let J virtue anc o Moiia 8 army, and tne Britiffi , nnofcnce aUavs find Jn afyium u „ dc , army r-u jjtepSnng to rarest to Bre- ; tl]e ;, piitra(l 'jf ti Utter from Sloelkolm, 1. " Some of our men of war are fafely arrived in the fund from the Mediterra nean, iil order to complete the squadron to be funiifhed according to treaty. One of these Hiips, brought over Col. Palinquett as a prifontr; he has been since removed to the old Castle of Rit terholm, where the state prifoneri are confined. Tne colonel is accused before the Supreme Atiiic Tribunal of having pre tneditatedly fuffered Baron Arjnfeldt to efcapc and to have wilfully damaged a 6wediflj man of war, which was, on that Account put to the expence of four months repair in the port of Leg horn, " At Gottenburg, the mod bitter Complaints are made on account of the scarcity ofmeat.V " We learn that large contra£U and purchases of fait meat have been made for the French Convention. To stop this growing evil, expreft orders have been dispatched to four governors of the southern Provinces of Sweden. UNITED STATES. BOSTON, Sept. 13. Rxtra3 of a letter from Halifax, dateA September 3 1 " Some of the American veflels that were captured by Admiral Mnrray'sfquad ron have been tried and acquitted; and it is supposed all the others will like-wise be liberated. Such of them a* were taVen from the Britilh and fold in the Hates will be considered as recaptures, and v i:ber, I 7 94, and in tht rrneteentb-year ef toe independence of tht United States : Re/olved, As the Je»fe of this Society the-.ti whatever Wjf be our fentimer.ts re lative to the excise lu vjof the United-States e li-JaiuUtn, be ,/tglietl by tlx Cljßtrriati and Gierjkatf^p^lb- I * 6 *- pml 'm ! i - ' ' MOSES i!vvxcL^v^amrn ANSWER, Delivered by Cornel Beach, vf the New ark Detachment ' Accept of our warmefl acknowledg ments for the diflinguiihed honor you have conferred on us by committing to cur charge the Stundcuils of Freedom : round thefc, long may we rally. The fentimenOi eoa'ainrdiu your pulile ad dref&received our approbation ; and reft attired, Sir, that our motto, when marching againll our country's enemies, {hall be " Victory or Dettih." Our at tachment to our country and our love of good govenmeijl, we tiuft, will enable lis to fiirmount every obftacfle, and our sense of honor and duty, induce us to aft woithy of Citizen Soldiers* PHILADELPHIA, SEPTEMBER i a . Yesterday morning the infantry who were encamped on the Lancaster road, about 400 strong, struck their tents and proceeded on their way to Carlisle, through Lancaster. The Prefideut of the United States paid them a vjfit ear ly. They were to encamp last evening about 17 miles from the city. ~j This city has produced about dou ble its quota of militia, and these are mofllv volunteers making an army of near 1000 men. Gen. Advertiser. The equeftriati performances at Mr. Rickett's Circus on Saturday last Were atte/ided by a veiy refpeftable company of Spectators; notwithstanding the great numbeis of the citizens who are now absent in the service of their coun ty there was a good lioufe. The ro tin.e of the performances on Saturday was well digested, novel, and agreeable, and there were evident impiovement in the tout-ensemble at the Circus the scene of the sailor's Fox hunting voyage was perhaps one of the moll laughable exhibitions that ceuld well be conceived. Carlisle, September 18. SIR, 1 am happy to have it in my power to inform ycur excellency of the good ef ft& of the orders of the Bth infant. By the afliilance a few of the well difpofed people of this place, 1 set on foot two or three volunteer parties ; and this day I am informed, by one of the parties, that they have enrolled twenty eight men. I am purfuaded, if the bounty was known, (which 'tis said the legislature I Ar^-^a 1 1 f#jlillfri? 'Ag 3 •be chat DH'fi|gH^"M»^& (if &««*U&l).*iU men yo* :oi«cilfc»r< * ' mft." *Hth tb< th^f ~ "&#/*- , frawifciifcrjgntf *.■£'-> - - ■;- ~ .'JWN?'. t oimf Affcmtty ' makiagit high % pei«*«, • ', of death agd jotfeiturc bf „ 1 rj To a iKW go*wjii: *i- a itept fekhin' hounfork^'oF^^hijP^' ;ommonweshh » deferred W cWj«, »?s*?#* lr>!W)^^'p3lSk^' Tufet'upooticcs|br»i^l^f^«tc^ T v , ng? for fueh piirfiofe or ajnfequcnoe of fiteh notfce.> ' ? » --O nialicioiidy And advifedlj J j ronimend tbe faine at any, meefinA^^of,' o retd'i new form to , nduce the profile to adopt, thefime (_• h.> •'•• r . u < . k. , . -. ' J * PERMIT me gentlemen to make a cw observations which on reading this ift at this particular crisis are suggested. The occalion of palling is well worthy >f your attention. It is recited in tlie 4th feftion that ' tjie house had received 110 information that divers ill disposed perfoni, letting at nought every principle of public vir interefted views have caused great un. state, by mani siting the most criminal government within this common wealth." so destitute of public virtue? Gentle which the county of Fayette and Alle gheny were then included. Their am-, bition and inttnrfted vrw • were at this time effeftuaHy checked by the vigor of this aft, but with the encreafed poptt lation of the country are renewed, and now they boalt of their and set the government at deSance. The excise law at firft seemed as a pretext to enflame and rouse into action the ignorant and unwary, then other demands are made—other grievances ipoken of and at length their audacity has carried them to dictate what laws lhall be made and vvhat Repealed. As. ter committing the moll flagrant outra geous the mild conciliatory proportions of government are rejected, though ap proved by their most enlightened fellow citizens, who with molt solid argu ments and perfualive eloquence have in vain endeavoured to bring them to rea son. When it is recollected that their former attempt was made w bile we were Waging war with Great Britain, and the -prtfent when our peacc with that na tion seemed to be precarious, and an actual war existing with the Indian tribes, in al liance and fufpefted of being fucconred and supported by them ; when to thefc considerations are added the threat* thrown out of putting themselves under the protetlion of the British, these seem thong grounds to fttfpeft that the views cf the insurgents are deeper and their designs more pernicious than isgeneral ly apprehended.—l mean the designs cf those incendiaries among fliem who aie working on the passions of the giddy, thoughtless, .ignorant and credulous ; for there is strong reason to believe that most if not all ut the men of sense and conlideration, and a majority of the peo ple of the wellern couutiy are well dis posed, although l»pt in awe by the tur butent and factious. -J--* Whether these conjectures are well or ill founded, one thing is certain, that ■wiihout laws we cannot exist as a So ciety. Now if law* can be violated in one place with impunity the example will be followed by the worthless and factious in every place. It is tbciefore the duty and interi-ft of every gocxi citizen to fuppott the government and laws, and refcuc them frcjn chat con tempt into which they will other wife inevitably fall to our utter disgrace and ruin. If this cannot be done in a go vernment feu tided on the authoriry of the people and on the purell republican 1 I M.