are determined to consider tliem is
the word of enemies, and convince them
that Jersey militia will not easily part
with their arms to foreign or domestic
foes. "
Captain Doane, of the fchoonerHope
was taken by the Bermudian privatter,
Experiment on Friday lalt, in the Dela-
ware, within three miles of the Light
house, with a pilot on board, and carried
*to Bermuda. The Hope had been for
merly taken by a French privateer and
carried intoGonaives, but was there per
mitted to fell her cargo and return home
It appears {he was on her return and in
the Delaware when taken by the Ber
mudian.
The Royal Humane Society on Lon
" dort have lately reported, that within a
few years they have saved by their exer
tions more than 1800 lives. This is
the most sublime eulogium that we can
pronounce on that and similar initia
tions in the United States. -
THOMAS PAINE,
To the friends of Liberty and Literature,
proposes to institute and publilh a News
paper, in Boston under the title of the
FEDERAL ORRERY.
Solemque fuum, fua fidera, norunt.
CONDITIONS.
The Orrery will be publiftied evry Tues
day and Friday ; the price to fubferibers,
will be fifteen (hillings (t dots, and 50
cents) per annum, exclusive of postage.
Exlrafts from the ConduSor's Addreft
TO THE PUBLIC.
" Weft ward the orb of Empire" darts
its ray,
And Europe's ebbing tide controuls :
Well ward, the bright companion of
its way,
The lister-star, of Science rolls.
The title and motto which the Editor
lias has chosen, he presumes, will be uni
versally consonant with the principles and
lentiinents of every description of citizens.
No fpe<3acle can be more gratifying to the
patriotism, nor more ufeful to the union of
Americans, than thepolitical Orrery, which
exhibits to the naked eye of reason, the
accordant motions of the Fifteen Planets,
revolving, by the equal energy of state-pro
jection, and federal attraction, around the
Sun of Government, whose orb, diffufing
light and heat throughout the hemisphere,
beams n rt from a focus, but the centre of
the system.
Typographical univerfalifm should ever
be the creed of a free regulator of a frefs.
In the annunciation of foreign intelligence,
therefore, the mojl indefatigable vigilance,
and inflexible impartiality, •will be evinced.
When the prolixity or confufion of articles
prevents their insertion at length, the edi
tor <umII endeavortb combine, m a miniature,
thtprina alfeatures of the portrait ; but,
in his draught of the outlines, he will caw
tioufly avoid the leafl use of his colours -
lie is fenjible, that it is an arduous task to
dijlinguijh truth from fabrication, <when
the vehicles of foreign information are
•Wade to convty different descriptions of the
fame events. To remedy an evil in part,
which admits of no radical cure, he twill
open a ledger-account ; enter debt and cre
dit ; and leave it to a judicious public, to
Jlrike the balance.
In the dearth of intelligence, an attic
ragout will be provided for the palate of
the literary epicure. Original dialogues,
combining a mixture of point, humor and
'Jentiment, twill be varioujly interspersed
with periodical essays, <well seasoned with
moral savory ; clafjical com ofitions, un
adulterated by quaintnefs or pedantry;
interefling localities, unvitiated by personal
scurrility ; literary criticisms, equally re
mote from adulation or acrimony ; and
scions of indigenous poesy, blooming in full
verdure and fragrance, from their parent
Jtalk. For the Juccefsful accomplishment of
Jo novel and various an enterprise, the re
cluse son of science, the meditating mora ifl,
the experienced pedejlrian in the fields of
general literature, the able disputant in the
forum of jurisprudence, the queen of the
Columbian Muses, and all the family of
Apollo, are refpeflively invoked. Their
elegant and ufefulfupplies, from the banks
of genius, education and tajle, will be
gratefully received ; and political commen
taries will never fail to meet that critical
refpeß and impartial insertion, which, the
editor intends, Jhail give a momentum to
the wheels of the Orrery.
By this Day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, Sept. 22.
Extra ft of a letter from a Gentleman in
Limerick (Ireland), to his friend in
this city, dated July 15, 1794-
4( It is now pretty generally believed
that we (hall have a peacc with France ;
our fleets have proved victorious, at the
fame time that oui armies have been
dreadfully beaten by these brave Re
publicans wherever met with. They
have driven us from their territories,
and have pursued their victories by seiz
ing on Flanders and Brabant; Ghent,
Bruges, Nieuport, Oftend, &c. are
now in their pofleffion, and we fear the
Duke of York and army are in a Bur
goyning condition, (under the rose)
I think it would be a happy circum
fiance, ss we should then be driven to
peace indeed.—-Tumults in Spain are
arrived to a great height, and we re
juice at the idea ot a Revolutionary
Tribunal appearing in Madrid flioitly.
I think the French Committee of Pub
lic Safety is a grand body, their views
extend to the revolution of the world ;
kingdoms, dates, or empires or small
theatres ofaftion to these magnanimous
heroes and liberators of mankind:
| And may they go 011 until tyranny and
! usurpation, monarchy and aristocracy,
! are alike blended and melted down in
the crucible of Liberty ■and democra
cy. I can allure you the leaven of Li
berty and Equality is by degrees about
;to leaven the whole world. God is tri
umphantly going forward in the chariot
of regeneration : the Gospel talks of the
new man ; our ideas are enlarged, and
we now talk of nations and a new
world; here my friend is a scale of ac
tion to our ideas, which 'bursts forth
with resplendent glory. The prophet
ipeaks of a nation being born in a day,
behold the critical period of these lat
ter times ! we' are on the eve of great
events ; they are at the door : and tho'
you are removed from them, I am in
their midst: and if I perish in the glo
rious struggle, I (hall die a martyr, not
like my forefathers in the cause of ty
rants, but (hall shout " Vive la nation."
" I admire the glorious patriotic spi
rit of the New-Yorkers in working at
tire fortifications, See. and forfome mo
ments I almost imagined myfelf jufl go
ing to take boat with thofeof my occu
pation, to add to the spirit of the day."
A vefTel which left Guadaloupe Au
gust 26th, brings accounts, that the
French had poflefiion of Point a Petre
at that time, and that the English were
bombarding the place. Capt Jacobs,
who left Martinico 4 days later, in
forms that the French had evacuated
the place, their troops being much re
duced by (icknefs.
Fri-m a Correspondent.
By a vefiel in 20 days from Marti
nique, intelligence is received that the
French troops, reduced to 300, had
quitted Point a Petre, and retired to
the mountains, but afterwards surren
dered to Sir Charles Grey: also, that
they previously had funk a (hip of the
line, armed en flute, and 6 frigates,
which brought from France the 1500
men composing the army that made a
defeent on Bafleterre. And, bv the
fame opportunity, we are informed Sir
John Jervis has appointed Robert Win
throp, Esq. of New-London, to the
command of his Majesty's (hip Albi
core, vice Captain Parker, deceased,
in reward for very eminent services du
ring the siege of Martinique. He was
the Admiral's firft Lieut, in the Boyne
of 98 guns.
NEW-LOK*DON, Sept. 17.
Efftds of Jealousy.
At ten o'clock 011 Monday night,
the cry of murder was heard in the house
of James Hart, in Beach-ttreet, in this
city ; some people immediately ran into
the houfc, and found Hart and his wife
extended on the floor, to appearance
with their throats cut ; Physicians soon
arrived, and on examination found the
wounds on the neck of the man to be
merely fuperficial incisions; but the
throat of his wife was cut in a mod
(hocking manner; the incision began
from the left mafteide muscle by the firft
stroke, and extended to the os hyoides ;
a repeated stroke from the right ear met
the left incision and opened the os hyo
ides into the wind pipe; the third
(Iroke was a stab, which separated the
right external jugulars, which emitted
near four quarts of blood—fortunately
neither of the two caroted arteries were
separated, and her wounds are supposed
not to be mortal. Hart, the supposed
perpetrator of the horrid aft, is com
mitted to prison for trial, at the Supe
rior Court which fits in this city on
Tuesday next.
Arrived.
Sloop Sally, D. Fanning, from
Ttinadada, 30 days paflage—came pas
sengers, Mr. Michael I'odd, Merchant
of New-Haven, Mr. Nugent and filler,
Dr. Clark and family—markets very
low—left there 30 fail of American vef
feli.
NEWPORT, Sept. 15.
Last Wednclday put in here, being
ftiort of provisions, the brig , Capt.
Critton, upwards of ten weeks from Ire
land, having near 200 paflengert, men,
women and children, bound to Phila
delphia.
BOSTON, Sept. 19.
On Monday last arrived at Marble
head, Capt. Knot Pedrick, in a schoo
ner, in 40 odd days from Madeira. Just
before he left Madeira a vessel at rived
there in 8 days from Gibraltar—and
brought papers which contain particu
lars of an engagement between an Eng
! hih frigate and \ Algerine rruizers—
the fubltance of which was, that the
Algerines hailed the Englishman, and
ordered him to brinj his papers on
board—which the English Captain re
fused ; the order was then repeated,
with a threat, that if it was not com
plyed with, the Turkilh vefTels would
fire upon the frigate—the answer was
Fire and be damned"—an engage
ment instantly ensued, which terminated
in the finking of two of the Algerine
corsairs ; and the capture of the other
two ; which were condu&ed to Gibral
tar.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMvS, Esq.
our MiniOer Resident at the Hague,
failed for Europe on Wednesday la It, in
the (hip Alfred, Capt. Macey.
From Copenhagen, information has
come that our Extra Minister at the
British Court, wins not likely to adjull
the differences between the two coun
tries so amicably as at firft expe£ied.
The difficulty Mr. Jay's
demanding reftitutioiTof Ameiican ves
sels in all cases of capture; and the
British wishing to except those from
restoration which were taken carrying
the Produce of French I (lands to Eu
rope.
COMMUNICATIONS.
It must afford all friends to the reign
of the law and good government, the
highest fatisfa&ion to find the disposition
of the people generally so favorable to
their existence and determined in sup
porting them. The patriotic exertions
of the 1 lovernor of Pennsylvania, are
above all praise, and the Citizens of
that state, as wel! as the other states
from which the militia have been draft
ed, turned out with an alacrity hardly
to be expected, when the service is con
lidered. The lnfurgcnts we hope, will
be induced either by fcar,oT a sense of
error, ta Seek an accommodation—and
thereby avert the horrors of domestic
carnage—and a civil war. But they
must be convinced from the readiness
of the militia to march againfl them,
that all attempts to overturn or innovate
on the poweisof a government based
on the hearts of the people, will be im
potent, as
" Tube behind tube eternal guards shall
keep,
" Wfcilft in their wombs ten thousand
thunders sleep,"
To blill luch mil'crcants.
From an Kajlcrn paper.
An ELEGY on the Court of Seffiojts.
Written in the Court-Houfe.
WE EP, oye friends of litigation, weep—
-All who in mad confufon here resort,
Who ne'er permit your wrangling fouls to
But love the ruptures of a noisy court :
But frjl ye swarms of peace-commanding
''squires,
By whatsoever names or titles known,
Put on your mourning (so the day requires)
And join to heave the grief-created groan.
For now no more the fated term shall come,
When gathering Squireihips meet with hoa-
- ry-pride, '
To tell how many eyes, made red with rum,
Or black with boxing, by tbemfelves were
tried.
To tell how many loveAnfpiring tricks
Have in close confab been by them disclosed;
That so the weaknejs of the weaker Jex
May to the gaping croud be now expos'd.
And 0 I ye frail ones, who by nature led,
And the /oft whispers of yctir sweethearts
dear ;
Have lov'd too well thtpleafng paths you
tread ;
Here mourn jour loss, and drop the expre/f
---ive tear.
For now no more eachJex rewarding '/quire
With solemn phiz-—/hall mount the jujlict
feat
To view the Jquailing babe, then fx the fire,
Who from their honors bows, can read
his fate.
Mourn then ye damsels <witb uncommon
grief,
Nor check the currents of the burjling tide,
But bring for fafety, many a handkerchief
To wipe the -various Jireams of grief ajide.
For now alas, the mournful time is comes
When all your hopes offuture jujlice flies ;
Hear it ye "votaries both of love, and rum,
For 10, this week the Court offeffions—DlES.
From the Columbian Mercury,
From a Correspondent
As it is firmifed that the Pennfjl'vanin
Counties, now in a Jiate of infurreSion,
intend to declare themselves independent, it
is hoped they swill change the names of
Wafliington and Fayette, for that of La
Vendee ; and Pittjburgh for that <f Lyons :
But as to the lafi, considering <whatfort of
folks dwell in it, andalfo <whap fort of film
would rejoice to fee our Republic in confu
f:on, it may be well to call it Pitts Burrow /
*
r '
all which is however /übmitted to the Ja
cobin Clubs.
From the CentineL m
Extran of a letter from a Gentleman re
siding in London, to his Correfpondeni
residing in Boflon, dated April 12,
1794.
" Dear Sir,
" I GAVE a tranfeript of your let
ter, containing your opinion of the
menfures molt proper to be adopted, in
urder to prevent a rupture with Amfri
ca, to Ministers ; and gave you the full
credit of it. I am, indeed, sorry to
fee our favourite Amerita likely to
plunge beifclf into the present dreadful
convullions which shake Europe. I la-'
ment the growing calamity ; and moil
flncerely hope their, wisdom and temper,
aided by the conciliatory measures,
which I have reason to believe are about
to be adopted by Great Britain, will
vel prevail to avert it.—When I fay ouv
favouilte America, I believe I speak
the language of affeaion and attach
ment, which mofl of the English bear
towards your people, as being virtually
of their own family, and to whom they
certainly give the preference over all
the reft of the world. But in the name
of common fenf'e, what can be their
object ? Bv their neutrality, they will
command the world in every way, which
can possibly promote and strengthen
their riling states: By entering into the
contest,: they must lose all they have hi
therto reci uited by a ten years peace :
Ten years more will raise them to opu
lence and strength, rendeiing them for
midable to their enemies every where :
To interrupt that progress at this
time, would probably throw them back
into a state of consumptive decripitude,
which it would require many generations
to repair. As to the Western polls, 1
wish they were given up, and even Ca
nada itfelf, which 11 more a source of
contention than advantageous to Great
Biitain. But what is it the United
States have not ? Tliey are draining the
mines of Mexico and Peru through
Spain. They aie alluring nil the riches
of diltrefled France into their jnrtfdic
tion : They are about to render Portu
gal dependent on tlvjir ports: They posi
tively command by affedion, intercomfe
and mutual accommodation, the whole
commercial inter ells of Great Britain :
They are every where exchanging their
surplus prodtifU, which would with
them, otherwise be wafle, for the wealth
of every corner of the Globe. By being
the carriers of the whole World, wh ch,
under neutrality, they mult be, they are
rapidly augmenting the real and most
essential strength of a nation : They are
giving employment to, and promoting
the industry of their people :
They are enabling their fubjedts to
acquire property abroad, in order to
spend it at home, in the nurture of do
metlii- manufactures, and the culture of
tlieir foil: They are thus promoting
internal stores and riches, on which
hereafter, if unavoidable, to erect and
fortify the real ftnews of defence and e
ven of offence. I could go 011 for ever
contemplating their true pursuits, their
real, their only intcrefts, as founded in
neutrality and peace ; all which, should
they unhappily be drawn in to engage
in the present troubles, must inevitably
be Sacrificed, alike under success, or de
feat. lam as strong an advocate for the
true principles and meaning of liberty,
when regulated by, and Subordinate to
good order, fixed laws, and christianity,
as any man ; and there are not many
men in the world who have more at
flake in it than I have ; but when a state
misapplies the term, and a£ts upon mis
taken principles of liberty, they destroy
the very object of their pursuit, and, in
stead of laying the foundation of liberty,
in the pra&icc of genuine religion, mo
rality, justice and dignity, on which to
build the fabric of lasting peace an J hap
piness to the human race, they only
propagate a wild and ungovernable en
thuliafm, which can only terminate in
anarchy and mifrul*, of which we have
a melancholy example before our eyes,
in the present dreadful Situation of a
neighboring nation.
May Gtid, in his infinite wisdom and
goodness, avert all such mifthiefs from
our favsurite America, and may the
moderation, firmnefs, and disinterested
ness of Washington, long be their
example for imitation, contrasted with
the wildntfj of noighbouiing States, to
pveferve them in the inestimable bene
fits and advantages of a impartial
and dignified neutrality tctwards all the
belligerent Powers, by which they can
alone preserve their internal and domes
tic tranquility !
" I have detained you longeron this
fubjeft than 1 was aware of. I wish I
could any how open their eyes to their
true interells, and any way contribute
to preserve them from the impending
horrors of the mod dreadful war th
J ver the human race was ciirf.d wit .
unce the creation of the world."
PHILADELPHIA, SE PT. 24.
Translated for this Gazette—frtfni
the Courier Francois of this morning.
ExtraS of a Letter from St. £>o*wgo,
dated at St. Marcs, the id and 2~tb
Auoufl—to a friend in Philcwlpbic.'
I disembarked at St. Marc's after 21
' a y® pafla£e—l have been astonished at
the disasters I have witnefsej-,tiiev arc innti
merable—thofe at Gonaives among'others,
where by the treaf.n of the Spaniards in
concert with the negroes we loUr *30 mea,
nearly all inhabitants—The fuhurhs were
defiroyed by fire—the people saved tbWn
telves at St. Marc s some by land and ("one
by water—The Englifli amidst all the
verity of existing circurn fiances, conduct
theinfelves well—we do not. complain of
all the Spaniards; but the Prefulent Deo
Garcias is a traitor.
In the affair of Fort Dauphin, 771 pi
habitants were maflacred bv the tronpf ( .f
Jean Francois. The whites were those
vi&ims who by the perfidious infinuatioris
of Father Vafqoez, that scourge of Axa
bon were facrificed to the vengeance of
Don Garcias,made furious bvan addrefsSt
complaint made again ft him fignedby thefc
fame inhabitants, as well as by the officers
sf the Spanish squadron, and' sent to the
Court of Spain.
Eight days iinctf the legion of Mori
ta'embert confining of ioo men, made
a fticceTsfnl sortie—they took the chief
and were going to punish him, but he
begged his life and promt fed to difeo
ver some camps of negroes—tliij lie has
done.--He the word of command
—which was cochin dans inis, et plavte
palate. Montalembert attacked a enrnp,
furprfczed the centinel, and found 900
negroes, which he put to tlic fwovd
Since then Montalembert has had new
fusceffea.
Yesterday a Veflel arrived from the
Cape bringing the women which Vilatte
commandant of that City had sent off
They were bound to Poit de paix, hut
by contrary winds were driven below
Tortue—and the Captain was obliged
to come in here. The passengers report
that they left about 60 Whites svomen
and children and 3 or 400 mulattors.
(To be concluded To-morrozv.J
The toads published iu
Gazette, were given at a meeting of a
number of French Citizens on Monday
lad, who assembled to celebrate toe
foundation of'the French Republic or
the commencement of the New Frtn. t)
year.
A Gentleman frcmi Wilmington N.
C. informs that on the of S,?,:*.
at to o'clock A. M. the Ship N-.ncv
of London, Capt. Mc'Donald fiftfn
New-York bound to Wilmington*: was
cast ashore in a gale of wind oft the
North fide of the frying pan (hoals, the
Ship in a few minutes after (he ft ruck
was totally djfraafted—the Capt. &crew
were all saved.
Sbort Logic for Insurgents.
Either the infurreftion is right or it is
wrong. If right, the people of America
will fee the propriety of it and join the In
furgents—lf wrbng, the people will unite
to support government, and the Tnfurrre
tion will be cruflied. If the Infurreflion
Ihould succeed by becoming general, a re
volution is the eonfequence. If it should
be fiipprefled, much property will he waft
ed, much expence incurred, the burdens
nf these very Insurgents will be augmented
blood may be Ihed, violent ammofities
will be enkindled between* fellow-citl
zetis ; and the deluded multitude must Pt
lafl submit to the laws, with difgraee and
accumulated burdens* After being fitly,
dued, should they collet in final! "Arties,
violate property or perfona'l fafet'v, ind
givemuchtrouble,a/landingforce beeom-s
necefiary—this force must beunder the di
reiflion of the executive, whose power vi"
thus be increafedj and thus a (landing 2--
my and despotic power will grow out of
the factions and the turbulence of our re
public, and a free government muO it',
as every free government has ended, in
arbitrary fo<wer.
Such has been the progress of all 'free
states, and fnch is the commencement of
the progress of the United States. Men,
in refitting thefenv unavoidable evils of go
vernment, bring i load of unnecejfan evils
on their shoulders. Too mucli liberty,
that is, the liberty of private wills, or li
centioufntfs leads to anarchy, and whenttfe
law is prostrated ,men enjoy no liberty at
ail _
Violence may pull down and ehanjre
a government ; hut power will always
prevail at last j and when men who wiiti
to enjoy peace and fecuritv, perceive
that mild laws and a gentle government
will not give them peace and fee 111ity
they will fit down tamely under an ar
bitrary government, rather than be for.
ever exposed to the dorms and whirl
winds of (hobs and infurre&fons. THflt
it is that the insurgents furnifh the
strongest arguments for a high-toned
government and realize the very d.m;;er
of a public loss of liberty which they
design to prevent. Minei va-
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