principle, the fault can only be attributed
to a want of -public virtue and we (hall
soon experience all the miseries as anar
chy or become the Haves of a despot.
1 (hould not have troubled you with these
remarks after so much has been written
and laid on the fubjed had I not under
stood that in some parts of this country
it is to ignorance of the true nature and
inattention to the valt importance of the
cause in which government has called
upon us to arm, that we are to attribute
the fupinenefs of many people in this
hour of danger, and had 1 not considered
it an indispensable duty in my ilation as
indeed it is the duty of every true man
to rouse and awaken his fellow citizens
to a proper sense of it.
TOASTS sos the NEW-YEAR'S
Day of the "third year of the French
Republic, Orie and Indivisible.
1. The Day we celebrate.
2. Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity
throughout the world.
3. The French Republic One and
Indivisible.
4. The United States of America.
5. The National Convention and the
Committee of Public Safety.
6. The Congress of the United States
7. The State of Pennsylvania.
8. The Poles ; —may they annihilate
the crowned banditti who attempt to
deprive them of their rights
9. 31ft, of May 1793, or, the de
ftrudtion of Federalism.
to. The heroes who have filed their
blood in defence of Liberty.
11. The armies of the French Re
public may they Sans-Culotife all
nations.
12. May the French PeopJe grant no
peaci to England until they deprive her
of the power of diltiirbing the tran
quility of the Universe.
13. Execration to Anarchi(ls, Ego
tists, dilguifed Atiftocrats, Moderates,
and other enemies of the Revolution.
14. Agriculture ; the firmelt support
of the felicity of all nations.
15. The ufeful arts and trades.
16. May the representatives of the
people never forget that they are a part
gf them.
17. The Republicans of the two
kemifpheres; may they dillinguilh them
selves by their fubmifiion to the laws
made by their representation.
18. The benevolent philosophy ; may
it heal the wouncta which religious and
political despotism hare made on hu
manity.
19- The manes of the brave citizens
composing the crew of the ship Le
Vengeur.
20. May the 18th century wonder
that nations have ever lived under
kings.
21. Continuation of the fucccfs of
the true at Guadaloupe.
22-_.TheFair of the two Republics ;
may they give birth to none but to
Brutus'aand Scaevola's.
By this Day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, Sept. 22.
The account of General Wayne's
defeat of the Indians is confirmed. Re
port fays he took seven prifonets in
RED COATS, and ordered them to
the GALLOWS. We anxiously wait
for the truth. [Minerva].
From Manchester, we are sorry to
learn, that the fickntfis theie had not
abated. It is said, that in proportion
to the number in this froall town, more
perfoni have died than in Philadelphia
latt year.
£. Bnjlon Ccntint/.J
txtraS of a letter from a Gentleman in
Lond-jn, to bis friend in this city, dated
9th Jul?, 1794.
" Tour plenipotentiary, Mr. Jay, did me
the favor to dine with me yeflerday. I have
the pleasure to fay that he is in good health ;
and from the high opinion / entertain of his
abilities and integrity, 1 am persuaded he
meets with a flattering reception in this
country. Indeed it appears to me so much
the interefi of our government, united with
the mofl popular opinions here, not only to
grant fatisfaHory, hut the mq/l liberal
terms to your country, that lam convinced
every thing will beadjujled to your perfect
contcnt. —Under tbefe imprefjions, Ifhould
feel myfelf inclined rather to increase, than
iitnimjh, my property in your funds, had I
>-u entertained some suspicions from the re
fold of your Democratic Societies ; that
an instance was prevailing m opposition to
jour governing powers, which may endan
ger the Jecurity of all private property,
•vibich, combined with some resolutions re
lit ve to the fequcfiration of Bntifh effells,
icb-art an infuit io common honor and
honejly, and Jlrike at the root of all com
tnercial confidence : I fay tbefe circumflan
tes greatly dimtnifh my faith, and do not
appear to me to be properly discountenanced
byour Executive :\f aotreprcjfed in their
fir ft symptoms, they may in the present per
turbed Jlate of human affairs, lead to
I anarch) and confufion.
" 1 think that your canfiituthn po[fffj as
much genuine liberty as is compatible with
facial order ; and my -jjiJhes for the gene
ral happ'uiefs of mankind would make me
extremely regret that any principles of the
oretic perfeSion Jhould endanger its conti
nuance"
The following paragraphs are cepied from
the Limerick Herald of the 26th July,
received by the ftiip Merchant:
Limerick, July 16.
Orders have been ifTued for putting the
fortifications at the Cove of Cork, in the
heft state pofTible.
Dublin, July 14.
Monday, the Right. ' Hon. the Lord
Mayer, Recorder, Hiyh Sheriffs, &c.
went in procession to the Castle, where
they presented to his Excellency the Lord
Lieutenant an Addrefj to be transmitted to
his Majesty, stating therein that the city
of Dublin had voted the sum of 15,000!.
for raising a regiment, and bffeecliing his
Majesty to accept of it, and to appoint one
of. his Majesty's illustrious sons to be
commander of the fame.
They were mo{l graciously received by
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, who
promised to traJlfmit the loyal Address
without delay, to the beloved Sovereign
of this nation.
Cabin in the Fair American
William Strickland, Esq.
Miles Smith, Esq. and family.
Mrs. Mary Sampson.
And eight in the ftecrage.
Arrived.
Ship Fair Ametioan, Allyn,
Merchant, Reynolds, Limerick
Amizade, Farrington, Madeira
Endeavour, Swain, Charleston
Neptune Jacobs, Martinique
Sch'r Theresa, Murphy, Cayenne
The schooner Maria, Waldron, has
sprung a leak and put into New-Lon
don.
The (hip Donna Anna andbri'g Two
Brothers, are arrived at Madeira.
HALIFAX, August 28.
Sunday arrived here the (hip Eliza,
Captain Lewis,,laden with flour, bound
to France, prize to hit Majelly's (hip
Thi(be.
Monday arrived the {hip Sovereign,
from Charleston, prize to his Majesty's
ship Cleopatra.
Tuesday evening arrived his Majesty's
{hip Alarm, with a valuable French
{hip, called L'Adeites from St. Do
mingo bound to France.
ALBANY, Sept. 18.
On Monday last arrived in this city
[ from Michelemakanoch, via Detroit
and Niagara, James Niel, an inhabit-
Kentucky ; and one of the pack-horse
men employed by the Contraflow to
General Wayne'i army :—He fays he
was taken by the Indians at the attack
on Fort Rccoveiy ; (tripped of his cloa
thing, and carried a journey of three
weeks weft, into the interior of their
country ; that during the march he was
twice tied up to be burnt, but that some
casualty happened each time which pre
j vented it. On his anival at Michele
makanoch he was ransomed by Captain
Boyle, commanding at that post ; from
whom he obtained a pass to Detroit,
where h« obtained another pass to Nia
gara from Col. England : at Niagara
Governor Simcoe renewed his pass, and
gavehim 11 dollars to tear his expences.
He confirms the account in our paper of
Thursday last, of the defeat of the In
dians at the Miami, and fays several
white people were with the Indians, as
he saw sundry of them who were wound
ed brought into Detroit, while he was
there. He also fays, Simon Girty, and
a son of Col. Magee, who lives at th<
Rapids of the Miami, commanded thi
Indians—that Girty publicly declared
that he took off Captain Gibfon't fcalj
St. JOHN'S, (N. £.) August 2 9 »
On Wednesday arrived the schooner
Betty, Capt. Roden, in 36 days from
Kingston, Jamaica.
Capt. Roden informs, that the Yel
low Fever rages with great violence in
the Weft-Indies, but is principally con
lined to the shipping. His Majcfty's
ship of war, lrrefiftable, loft 160 men
in four days—not an officcr survived the
fatal disease, except the Captain and
Matter. Other vessels were proporti
enably unfortunate, and on board of
several, ev, ry person fell a facntice to
the distemper.
BALTIMORE, September 19.
A letter from a refpe£table gentleman in
Hager's-town to his correspondent here,
received by last night's port, informs that
accounts were receivced there of General
Scott, with the Kentucky militia, having
defeated the Indians, with the loss ef 300
killed and taken—That the general's loss
amounts to 73 men —and that through an
unfortunate millake, 21 of the friendly
Indians were lulled in the eagagement.
The following paragraph is copied from
Mejfrs. Winter'and Cory's Rights of
Man, of Wednesday lajl, printed in
Frederick.
Advices from the westward, received
by a gentleman of vet-acity, who arrived
in this town on Monday last, annoiince,
that General Scott, having tinder his
command upwards of 1400 men, four
miles in advance of General Wayne's
army, was suddenly attacked by a cou
fiderable number of Indians—-that as
ter a severe conflict of 45 minutes, the
Indians were totally routed, leaving be
hind them upwards of zoo dead on the
spot.—-We are sorry to add, that the
loss iuflained by General Scott, amounts
m killed, wounded and miffing, to 384,
among them some brave, entetpriiing
officers.
Extracl of a letter from the Matt of the
trig Three Brothers, Capt. B. Smith,
from hotn'on, bound to Baltimore, to
a Merchant in this town, dated Pro
•Oldence, (R. I.J Sept. 8.
"Si r,
" I have the disagreeable talk of in
forming you that in our voyage fron',
London to your town, in lat. 37, ao,
and long. 71,40, aad 011 the Jtt of
September, we were captured by a
French privateer, from Charleilon,
bound to the Welt-Indies. On the 2d
we saw a fail and gave chafe, and at- 10
A. M. came up with her. She proved
to be the Pallas of Bo[\on, homeward
bound from the Weft-Indias. The Capt.
of the privateer made them take us air
on board except Capt. Smith, who is
gone on in the privateer, to fee if any
fatisfatfion can be had iron; a let of pi
rates—l can call them no better, for
theyphindered iridifct iminately, the crew
and pafTengers on board, and I have 101 l
my all. Mr. Carrol and his liter of your
'own were pn board. I fawfeveral let
ters directed to you, but the bags they
Hare taken tfiw ihe ptivateen"
Hull
(Tlie following article is f-onr'a Gre
nada paper brought by the (loop Bea
ver, Capt. Cartwright) arrived at A
lexandria.)
St. Georgt's, Ai'fvfi 15.
Hie Honor the Governor has been
pleased toiflue two proclamatims, which
were published by the Provofl Marihal
on Saturday: the one attaining the
importation of Lumber and frovilions,
the growth of America, from foreign
islands, to the Ift of November next j
and the other granting ptrmiffion to
impoit t'll American veflels, fucharticks
as may be lawfully brought in Britilh
bottoms from America, till the firft of
October.
From the Knoxville Gazette, Aug 4.
On Wedrtefday the 9th inllant, a
bout 9 o'clock in the tiioru ng Major
George Winchester was killed and scalp
ed by Indians, near Major Wilfon'i,
(Mero Diftrift) on the public toad
leading from his own honfe Snmmet
Court House : He was justice of the
peace, and on his way to cjurt.—ln
the death of Major Winchtfter, the
public have to lament ths loft of a va
luable citizen, and a good civil and mili
tary officer.
On the 24th instant, a party of
Jrreks killed John lfh, at hi? plough,
in his field, within 180 yards of his
own block-house and scalped lim.—lfh
lived eighteen miles below this place,
near the south bank of Holfton—he
has left a wife and eight children, the
elded not eleven years of age.'
From the Wejlsrn Star.
THE CORDWAINER.—No. 5.
COMMEND me to that chosen
people, whom Reason takes by the hand,
and whither she leads, they follow. The
'Age of Miracles Is pait ; we are no more
to expect the " pillar of a cloud, by
day, and the pillar of fire, by night,"
to direst us. We have heard of the
Golden Jge, the Silver Age, the Brazen
Age, and the Iron Age; but our's of
the present day has the felicity to boast
of the Age of Reason.
Methinks I fee a pert, smirking
Arillocrat start up, and adjusting his
powdered lotks, " will be much obliged
to me to illustrate this by some familiar
example."- Just step on board with
me, Sir Lukewaim Leaden-head, and
whip over to France; if we do not
meet with something to our purpose
thete, cut and diicJ, I will charge thee
nothing for thy passage, I forbear to
take a malignant revenge—to lend thee
my fpedacles to look at the fun, or to
dirndl thee to the apothecary's for eye
falve. I forbear to overwhelm thee
with a blaze of illuftratiou—to (hew
thee Kings and Queens Without a head,
Dukes without a ribbon, and Priefcs
without a fliirt. Here is readier change
to our hands.
0 ye groveling, plodding fouls!
How long would ye be delving on in
the old foot-worn, folly marked paths
of prejudice and bigoti y ? How long
(hall the thick veil of hiperltition anc
ignorance (hut you from the beams of
the night-difperling lamp ? When will
ye be Wife ?
Shall it be told to posterity that their
ancellors, profeffing too to have walked
by the light of Reason, merely btcaufe
it was enjoined by a precept found in
an old JeWish Book of Record, did in
faCt devote one seventh part of their
titfic to what they were pleased to call
Religion, alias idlcnefs, for almost. four
thousand years ? A model! injunction
indeed ! Why the very prielts themselves
have not had a' face to demand more
than their tithe ; and (hall not a tithe
of our time, the most precious of all our
trealures, fuffice ?
Now 1 beg to be told what foundati
on there is in nature forgiving this pre
ference to the number seven. It is true
that feveri ftafs happened, as is supposed
to fall together in a duller ; but I am
ready to bet even stakes with any man,
the winnings to be expended in oil for
ihc lamp of Reason, that before the
end of the tenth period of a thousand
years from the creation, (I don't know
what the French would call if) some fu
ture Herfchels {hall lpy out the other
three. In short, I affirm that nature
has no particular affe&ion for the num
ber Seven, But has (he not for the
number Ten? 1 pray thee count thy
fingers and thy toes !
It was reftrved for Frenchmen to
restore, in some measure, the Rights
of Nature and Reason, as well as of
, man ; and then was a fait" portion of the
work performed, (with submission to
the author of the Pentateuch.) when
it was said, " nine days (halt thou labor
'and do all thy work, and on the tenth
'(hah ihou rell." Here, too, is an illus
trious lpecimen of ra.conomy. The keep
ers of ordinaries, of punch-houses, and
places of amusement, may indeed take
occasion to complain ; but lurtly they
may be contented »!;h one day in ten.
We have fecn calculations of the amaz.
ing saving to the nation by this adjourn
ment of the Sabbath. lam not a man
of figuies, and if 1 were, it would be !
fleedlefs tu retrace them.
lint to this faying of lime, by the
French modi.* of dividing it by tens,
add, 1 beseech you, what I have never
yet seen noticed, the favu:g in the ex
z// I. n**! • - 1 r ■■
Nature do her own work in earned,
and obliging her to holri the fefcue as
well as the book. For instance, I have 10
fingers, ten toes, ten finger-nails, and 10
toe-nails, now when 1 have leafned
this new calendar, these fliall be named,
so that this finger (hall be such a nionth,
this finger-nail, or that toe-nail, such a
day of the month, this toe (hall be such
a day of the week, and the like. Thut
my Almanack shall cost mc nothing,
be always at hand, and Jack's pack of
cards will be a fool to ft.
From the Columbian Mercury.
' Nothing more flrongly evinces the con
tempt in which the French hald their com
bined enemies than in the midfl of -a bloody
find expensive war top.ifs a decree for beau
tifying the national gardens, 'this also
dtfproves the censures of thoje who suppo
sed that the French intended to defiroy the
fine arts, and prevent monuments of tafle
and refinement, as incompatible with re
publican ftmplicity. When the national
representatives can that piit every thing wi
der requisition, whether* its objeS be' to
raise armies to oppojie foreign enemies, to
crujh domeflic rebellion, or to beautify a
national garden f when all the citizens are
thus at the public command, whether tg
fight as soldiers, or work as artists—such
a nation, so enabled to concentrate its force,
bids fair to rife to a pitch of greatness, hi
therto unknown in the annals of Mankind.
Obedience to the laws, md to the will of \
the people's representatives, seems to be the
" order of the day in France" (
ExtraS from the Speech of the Duke of
Bedford, in the Briti/h House of
Lords, May 20, 1794.
THE French constitution of 1789 was
formed by men of the firft rank, both in
diftinflion and in talents ; their motives
were pure, and their end was laudable ;
they followed the noblest examples of his
tory, they were eager to deliver their
country from defpotilm, but they wen
actuated by the purest loyalty to their so
vereign, and relpe& for civil lights. How
had these men been received in foreign
countries ? He blufhrc! to think what out
rages had been committed oti these perlbn<
on"Montieur la Fayette, who profefledly
j retired from his country because hi
would not facrtfice his Waltv to hi
king. They right to dispute the
veracity of M. la Fayette, for his whok
life was an ilfuftration of truth, disinter
eftednefs and honor. Vet the' retiring thf
vitfim ofloyaity, he was doomed to dun
geon after dungeon, and now he was tranf
ferredfrom a Pruffiai; to fomc Aufiriar
dungeon or hofpitai—Cod knows where ;
whether dungeon or hospital if was indeed
the fame thing, and his personal liberty
vas thus wounded in the most outrageous
lanner. But posterity would do justice
o his name, his attachment to liberty:
lis glorious life would transmit his naiiie
o the latest posterity, pure and unsullied.
At a meeting of the Philadelphia Vo
lunteer Rifle Company, h-ld at George
Hill s, sign of thi Buck, No. 130, north
Second street, the fallowing officers were
unanimously ele<fted-«—George Tp.ylor cap
tain ; William Kidd, firft Lieutenant. —
A person is wanted in said company to
to found the Bugle Horn.
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
ARRIVED.
Ship Henrietta) Coppinger. St. Thomas i S
Br t. * * Baker, Bourdeaux {3
Polly, Connel, Point Petre (G.)
Lydia, Rirtker, Jet-emit 21
Schooner Thorn, Green, St. Thomas 17
Induflry, Hykndet, Havinna 16
Olive, DiinkWater, Portland 15
Yeltenky arrived at the Fort the Hip
Hibernia Irwine from Jamaica
Capt. Coppinger informs that S-.-h'r
Peggy Capt. Wat to fail ijl 8 days
after him for this port.
C/" The paragraph in Saturday's
Gazette, refpfedluig an attack on Pitts
burgh, was a mistake—the intelligence
teferred to the meditated attaek on the
magazines at Fredericktown, Maryland.
Poji-Offiie, Philadelphia, Sept. 21, 1794•
The mail for Lancaftcr, Yorktown,
Caikfle, Shippenfburg, Chamberfjurg,
Bedford, Gieenfburg and Pittfburg,
closes every Saturday precifcly at
palt t t in the morning.
i lie Mail for Reading,
Harrifljurg and Csrlifle, closes every
fueiday at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Just Arrived,
And will be landed to-morrow morning at
Hamilton's wharf, the CARGO at the
Schooner Industry, Captain Hylindcr,
from Havanna,
CONSISTING OP
85 hhds. [VJolafies,
Of superior full quality.
106 Boxes and Barrels
White & brown Sugar
Parcel of Ox-Hides ;
*08. SALE BY
Peter Blight.
Also,
c -6 fFO:
Just arrived in the Hibehiia, C.iptain
Irwin, from Jamaica.
Sept. i,i
Ricketls's Equestrian
CIRCUS.
THIS EVENING, Sept. 23.
Will be performed a great variety of n; vT
and Surp tiling
Equestrian Exercises,
At the Circus in Market Jlreet.
*„* Particulars of which are expres
sed in the bills of the day.
Doors to be open at a quarter past four
o'clock, and performance begin at a quar
ter past 5 o'clock.
Tickets to be had at the Book Stores of
Mr. Bradford, Mr. Rice, Mr. Campbell,
at the Musical Repository in Market Itreet
and at the Circus near the French ininif
ter'e house.
Old American Company.
THEATRE—CEDAR STREET.
TO-MORROW EVENING,
Sept, 24.
Will be presented,
The Comic Opera of
Love in a Village.
With entire neu> Accompaniments by Mr.
P e!jfitr,
Between the Play and After Piece, the
Band will play the
Federal Overture.
After which wil) be presented a COME
DY in three adls, never ailed in Phi
ladelphia, called the
Midnight Hour.
Written by Mrs. Inchba'.d, and perform
ed at Covent Garden fifty nights
l'ucceflively.
The doors will be opened at half after
fix, and the curtain drawn up precisely at
half pall seven o'cki.k.
Mefl'rs. HALL AM & HODOKINJSON
rcfpctftftiHy acquaint the Citizens m gene
:- J, that every expence hasbeen chearful
ly sustained. that might tend to make the
Old American Campanv, worthy a (hare of
their patronage, during the (hort stay the
nature of their engagements will ptrmit
iiem to make here.
Places in the Boxes may be had at tfij
'ox OMce, from ten to one every day
(Sundaysexcepted) and on diys of per
formance from three to five P. M. whr/e
klfo tickets may be bad, and at Mr. Brad
ford's book-ft ore, No. 8, south Frost
street, and at Mr. Cirr'j mufic-iW-,
4 .. *-v