Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON, July 25.
The French name may how be said
io be politically extin& in the Weft as
Well as the Eall Indies; and hence it is
we are again induced to observe, that
through every period of this eventful
war, whenever GreAt Britain has acted
by and for herfelf, she has uniformly
been fucccfsful.
By private ktters which arrived yes.
terdav we learn, that tire Earl of Moi
ra i« (hortly expe&ed in town, in confe
quentie us a point of etiquette, which
mult be determined before his Lordftiijf
■ can join the Djkeof York. It will be
tccolle&ed when the Earl of Moira ac
&ptcd the rank which he now holds,
viz. that of Lieutenant General,
that a promotion by brevet immediately
took pjace'ih the< officers under his com
mand : Majors were railed to the rank
of Lieut. Colonels; Lieutenant Cols,
were made Colonels; and Colonels Bri
gadier Generals. Tlrefe officers thus
railed, in a cafe of a jun&ion with his
Highness, (which was uot forefeen at
the time) would comma*! those in the
Duke's forvice, who claim by seniority,
as always has been the cafe in ihe army.
As this is a matter of great delidacy,
we (hall trot prefmne to advance any o
piniort orr the result of rt.
The French agent at the Court of
Copenhagen is arrived at Paris. He is
said to have accomplilhed the object of
Lis ro.llionj
What a grand treat and noble exhi-,j
tiiion for the Emperor of Geunany J
and his coadjutors, to behold several j
tifoufands of the hurtian species welter
ing in then gore, and legions agonizing
in the pangs of death ! Such scenes are
truly fublimc and worthy of the great
and mighty of the earth ! Would, said
Nero, the Roman people had but one j
head, that 1 might enjoy the pleasure \
of feeing them exterminated at a blow ! j
Would, .-i)'s one of Nero's successors, <
the French Republicans were to a man j
immolatrd on the altavs of religion. .
Humabe fentiinents, and worthy of an ,
Emperor and King.
A cafe of a lingular nature came on -
to be argued in the Prerogative Court,
b.fore Dr. Wynne, refpeding the va
lidity of the will of a gentleman of for
tune, who had left his eltates to perions
not "related to him in bloods
The will was opposed by his nephews
and next of kin, upon the ground that
the ieftator, at the time of the execu
tion of it, was infected with a particu
lar species of infinity, which produced
a ftiong deitffion of mind, of which he
never perfectly recover«d.
It appeared in evidence, that the tes
tator, at the time of his death, was se
venty seven years of age, aad a gentle
man diltinguiflied for many Angularities,
for fifteen years previous to his
he kept no fervai.t, dreiTed his
Own wig, and washed his own linen.
It alio appeared in proof, that up to
the year 1783 he manifefted great af
fection and regard for his two nephews,
but in November of the fame year, he
wr>s suddenly afflitted with a delu'ive
imagination, which led him to believe
that he was poisoned, and that his ne
phew John Nicholls or his wife, had
given him something of a poisonous na
ture. He indulged this notion till his
deaths and 110 afiurance or persuasions
of medical men could remove the im
prefiions from his mind. Upon all other
fubjefts he was perfectly rational. Se
veral years after he rvas affli&ed with
this mental delusion, he gave inftruc
tious for making his will, which he duly
executed. /
All the fubferibing witnefles to the
♦vill swore, that the teltator was in their
Opinion of perfect found mind, and in
full pofl'effion of hitnfelf at the time he
executed it.
The counsel foe the next of kin con
tended, that the will ought to be pro
nounced invalid, inafmuthas the testator
was affli&ed with a mental delusion at
the time he made it, and which made
him leave his fortune to lirangers. In
cases of wills, the law would not <iflmit
of a dubious underftandfng, but requir
ed that the parties should be tn the full
poftefiion of their intellects. A man
upon all general fubje£ts might be col
lected and rational, and yet he afHifted
with a particular species of infariity.
'l'hey cited a cafe in Doctor Perfect,
where a man vt>as admitted to be perfefi
ly fane upon all general topics, and yet
labored under a particulal" kind of insa
nity, which confiftyd in a strong perlua
fion that his legs were made of glass,
and therefore never would walk for fear
he (hould break them.
After counsel were heard on the other
£de, the learned Judge observed upon
the whole of the evidence, and was of
•pinion there was not fufficient proof of
mental incapacity of the testator to an
nul the will.
FRANCE.
NATIONAL convention.
8 Mefiidor, Thursday, June 26.
The commune of Milbai'd informed
the Convention, that they had deKroy
ed a den of returned emigrants.
ADDRESS
Of the National Convention to the citi-
7.ens and the Communes of the Re
public.
" Citizens, ivhen the country was
declared in danger, upon its call, you
sent your youth to the frontiers to de
fend it: for five years you have fhewjn
yourselves worthy of liberty by the la
crifices you have made in its cauie. The
Convention do not require of you new
facrifices in the present moment; they
have only to congratulate you upon the
abundance which iurrounds you, arid
which Nature leems to have bestowed in
order to crown your generous efforts ;
never was your territory at any period
the feat of such riches. You have in
your fields fubfillence for yourselves and
for your brothers, who fight for you on
the frontiers, and for thole who watch
over liberty iir all the Republic. The
law now calk you to the preferration
of so precious a deposit. When you
were surrounded by perfidy and malevo
lence, severe laws were nccellary to o
verawe the traitors, who fought to dif
tradl and rfiiflead the people in order to
deprive them of fubfillence. At pre
fen: when the law has removed, and
punilhed the conspirators, and their
accomplices, the Representatives of the
people address themselves to their re
publican virtues ; they entrust it to pure
hands and the mod luxuriant harvelt
that a free land has ever produced. It
becorfieS us when daftatdly foes, defpairjj
ing to subdue us by valour, havp alrea-1
dy attempted to subjugate us by famine, 1
. to reduce them again to despair, and
fruftrate their perfidious efforts by fe
c-uring to uurfelves all the advantages of
abundance. Citizens, to attain this
object We must disconcert the maiiaeu
! vres to which ntalevoknc.. - may still have
j recouife ; in order , to ttrengthen our
I confidence, the Convention wilh the re
| sources «f the republic to be completely
i afcertaintfd.—A decree hag jntt been
pafled for this pvrpofe,- while it requires
. every citizcn to give an account of the
| produce of his kirvell, it fuggells how
that obje£t /nay be attained by the most
simple means. Who is hc> that while
h'is brothers (hed their blood in his de
■ fence will rerufe to fubtriit to a census,
which tends to secure theif subsistence ?
Who is he whose heart does not defiie
j a mcai.ire so salutary, and who will not
I be eager.to concur in it as soon as the
» intention of the law (hall be made known
to him ?
" If there ftiil remain among you any
felfifh person so insensible to the wants
of his conntry, as not to comply with
the spirit of the law, or endeavor to
elude it, let him be declared, let the
law that moment punilh his infidelity,
and let his name, unworthy to be placed
among those of Republicans, be inferib
ed on the fhameful lift of fufpetled citi
zens. But no, citizens, the law will
not find among you any individual so
base. It belongs only to slaves who
have no country, to insulate themselves,
and think only of their petty interests.
Here all Republicans are brothers, the
means and the wants of the fame family
are common to all its membeis. This
sacred maxim is now recognized in all,
quarters of the Republic; it exilled in
the hearts of those worthy citizens, of
those refpe&able communes, who with
out even being required, have fliared,
and still (hare, their means of fubYiftejice
with their brothers in the neighboring
departments. Such are the instances
which history will collect with enthusi
asm, fnch is the heroism of Republicans
which ought to make despots tremble.
Citizens, be tranquil, rely on your means
of subsistence; in order to direst their
destination, and ascertain their extent,
the Convention has paiTed this precau
tionary decree. The harvest is about to
commence ; your fields are covered with
abundance. Turn your eyes towards
the country where your brothers fight
against tyrants, and swear that these
brave soldiers, their paients and their
children whom you have among you,
fhali not want the means of subsistence.
Hasten amidst the labors of the harvest
to prepare that subsistence, that it may
be speedily sent to the armies, to thole
markets where any scarcity is felt, and
the armies who are in want. Let each
of you be an intrepid fuperintendant,
and'a faithful executor of the law : have
always the Republic in your heart, on
your patriotism it reposes its moll ten
der solicitude."
This addrefa was ordered to be print
ed and diftribGted.
UNITED STATES.
SALEM, (Maf.j Sept. 23.
By a letter from a very refpedlable
house in Letidon, of tlie of July,
we are told, that Mr: Jay's demand of
indemnification for velteis actually laden
with produce of the French ifiands, and
bound direct from thence to Europe,
has not the least appearance of being an
obltacle to a favorable ifTue of his milli
on; as lately reported by way of Copen
hagen. The letter adds, that Mr. jay's
charadter (lands high, both with the
people and government of England.
i)AN BURT, Sept. 13.
The 2id ult. Mr. Abraham Pennoyer, of
Canaan in croffvtg a bridge in Stamford,
with his team, being in his cart —i 's horse
(eager to drink f turnedfhort row d at the
end of the mufewrty, and drawing W t'::
cuttle, overfi■! the which eai'ght Mr.
Pennoyer by the neck and wider jaw, and
killed hiiit inji.antly
PHILADELPHIA,
SEPTEMBER 30.
SOCIETY
FOR THE
INFORMATION ASSISTANCE
op
EMIGRANTS.
WHOEVER reflects tlpon tjie various
causes of emigrations from Europe to the
United States of America, mull be con
vinced Whoever lias the opportunity
of appealing to'his own experience muit
know —that many of thole who emigrate,
although frequently endued with talents
and virtue's the molt valuable, arriv'ng on
an unknown foo're, bereft of (he means
of support, and destitute of friends to
whom to apply for advice or a fij fiance, are
loft for a time to society and to themselves.
With a view to lei Ten, or totally to ob
viate thele. .inconvenicncies, ( which from
preipnt appearances, .ire likelv-to increase)
—to render emigration as advantageous as
pofiiblt, both to the emigrants thcmfelves,
and to the country that affords them re
fuge —to give them every information &
aflmaqoe in cur power in Ihort, to fof
ten the afpcriti.cs oi' the ftrartger's , fnuali
-011, at his firft ov.'.-jet in a new country,
we, the fubfrrihtTs have affooated our
selves under the title of
" The Philadelphia Society for the
Information and sljjijlance of Persons e
migrating from Foreign Countries."
And have adopted the following
CONSTITUTION.
x. THE officers shall consist of a Presi
dent, Trcafurer, Secre
tary, and a Committee of Conference antl
Correspondence, to bitledled (by billot J
every fix ironies.
4. The Pivfuient, and in his absence,
the Vice-Prefklenr fba!! prefids in all flic
meetings ; and fubfcrite all the public a<fts
of the Society. If neither of thefn are
present, a Chairman (hall be chosen for the
time 'icing,
3. ThTreafurer i?ia!! take charge of
all the monies and securities belonging to
the Society ; and stall pay all orders iign
ed by the President, Vice-Preiicleut, or in
their abfcer.ce, by the Chairman of the
Committee ; which orders (hall be his
Touchers for his expenditures. He shall,
before he enters upon hi: office, give such
security as the Sotiety may require.
4. The Secretary Hull keep fair records
of the proceedings of the Society, and
also of Ine Luuiimuee.
5. The Committee of Conference and
Correjpondence, shall conlift of leveu
members; of whom the Secretary, for the
time being, (hall be one. They (hall tranl
aft such bulinefs as ifiay occur in the recess
of the Society ; be empowered to draw
upon the Treaiurer for such sums of mo
ney as may be necefi'ary to carry 011 the
buftnefsof their appointment: and call in
aid of a Physician when necelhry. _ _ | Mr Fenno
6. Every person, previous to his bung j '
admitted a member, shall be proposed at J Please to publish the following ftate
a monthly meeting ; and be I allotted ior on , rncU [ 0 f Interments in the grounds of
the ensuing. On his admiiTion, he ifcait ; t fj e German Lutheran Society, (con
' fubferibe the conAitutioia of the Society, | fift; of Thirtecn Hundred Fa miles,)
' andpav into the nanus or the treaiufer not ; • i r . 1 • v> m a c *.\
• 1 3 , r r ■ j n f as copied rrora their Reaiiter, from the
t less than the sum of one dollar: fubicribing \ V . o »
\ annually one dollar, at quarterly payments j | to 1C twenty ninth ot September
»towards the necefiary expellees of the So- t incJufivt which comprehends the City,
ciety. The Secretary shall give notice to Northern Libeities, Southwark and the
each member who may be more than one township of Moyomeniing, & Paflyunk.
quarter in arrears, requesting payment; y; Zl r men, 2 women, 16 children.
which, if he neglect for more than one Philadelphia, Sept 30, 1794.
year, he (hall, upon due notice being given r ___
him, cease to be a member. , . , , . . .
7. The Sociecy fhail meet on the firft Extraß of a letter from Baltimore, dated
fourth day,, called Wednesday, in every September 28, to a Merchant in this
month, at such place as may be agreed city.
upon bv a majority. Quarterly meetings u k ; nd con?ratu l at ; ons f or t h e
shall be held on she fame davs in January, , , , A r , .
April, Julv, and Oflcbei ; when each hea thy ftatc of the town are no longer
member shall pay his fubfeription ; and all applicable to us, for this town is now in
accounts of the society shall be adjusted.— the molt alarming situation ; a maug-
On the requisition of fix m. mners, the nant fever has raged with great violence
President shall call a fpeciol meeting. All at fell's Point—from ten to fifteen die
which meetings lhall be adveitifed in . e there everv day, and it appears to be
public papers. No less than ten members • ;' pto thc t . fevcral have
's. No of the confti- died whofc business was on Bowley's
tt tion shall be made without being pi opof- wharf, and many are fiek ,who have
ed at a previous meeting. All ftorc# there* Many are (hutting up
ihall be deckled, where tl*ere is a division,
by.a majority of vctts ; when the Society
is equaliy divided, the picfiding officer
{hall have a calling vote.
It will appear evident, that the ireful"
hefs of this injlitution, can only be propor
tionate to its numbers and refpeh ability ;
the ,present Members therefore [olicit the
signatures and fubfer/ptions of tbofe Citi
zens, zvhqfe sentiments and wifkes upon this
fubjett are in unison with their own ; for
*ui>icb purpose, a Book is now left at Mr.
Pearce's, No. 45, South Thirdjlreei.
N. B. The FIRST QUARTERLY
MEETING will be held on li ednefday
Evening next, at fix o'clock, in Sharplefs's
School Room, Fromberger's Court, North
Second Jlreet, at which time the Society
will proceed to the election of the Officers.
W. T. BIRCH, Chairman.
Pro Tempore.
September 19,
From the General Ad-vert fer
of tr-'is morning.
An express arrived lalt evening from
head-quarters at Lancaller. By this con
veyance we have reeceived communica
tions frotn our correspondents there to
the 27th —'They contain nothing of
material importance. T e whole com
plement from Philadelphia was arrived ;
the Blues were to leave Lancaster on
the 28th—Col. Gurney's regiment to
depart on the next day. The horse
were considerably in advance. All in
good health.
The following General Orders, is
sued on the 27 th are enclosed to us by
one of our correfpo'udents ; from whom
we also received a speech delivered to
the officers, of the militia and inhabi
tants of Lancaster county, by Gover
nor Mifflin on-the 26th at Lancaster:
the length of which obliges us to pod
pone its insertion till to-morrow.
GENERAL ORDERS.
Lancaster, 27th Sept. 1794.'
The Governor, intending to profe
ecutc his route to Cailiflc to-morrow
morning, takes this opportunity to ex
press his entire fatisfadtion with the
progress and appearance of the De
tachments of Cavalry, Artillery and
Infantry, which have reached this bo
rough, from the quota of the City and
County of Philadelphia, and of the
County of Cheiter. The example of
order, difcipiine and expedition, which
they have gi en on their march, cannot
fail to produce the molt beneficial ef
fects ; and the Governor is happy in
being able to assure them, that they
will fpecdily be joined by their Fellow-
Citizens from the other Counties, in
eluded in the present reqiiifition.
To the Militia of Lancafler County
in particular, he returns his bell thanks,
for the spirit and alacrity with which
they are preparing to engage in a ser
vice so honorable and so mtcrelting to
eveiy freeman.
As many faife and injurious reports
are in circulation refpe&ing the state of
the Western Counties, and it is proba
ble, that they proceed from a desire to
relax and defeat the patriotic exertions
of the Militia, the Governor thinks it
incumbent on him to guard his Fellow-
Citizens again (I the effect of such arti
fices, by llaiing that the moll anthen
tic advices lately received, do not juttify
any expedition of a general fuhmiffion
to the laws, and that nothing but an of
ficial declaration of the Prcfident's be
ing fatisiied with the nature and ex
tent of the submission of the Insurgents,
can herv after be fufficient to warrant a
difsontiifuance of our military prepa-
lulions.
By order of the Commander
in Chief.
JOSIAH HARMAR,
Adjutant-General,
their {tores on that wharf, and I mist
do the fame ; May and Pay ion have
Jott a fine young fellow who lived with
'them, and Mr. May is now fa ill that
his life is defpaiied of; tnany families
have left, and are leaving the town.
Another letter frorrt Baltimore, writ
ten by an eminent Physician ilates, that
the disorder now raging there, is high
ly contagious —that the number who
have died daily at Fell's Point, has en
creafed from ten to tweuty—and that
within thelail twenty-four hours, thirty
had died—that sortie had died in the
town, whose cases could be all traced
to the Point—that the diiorder was
spreading, and in all probability the
town and point would veiy fliortly be
in the fame situation. That bleeding
and purging had been found highly ef
ficacious, and that when they had not
produced a cure, they had mitigateii
the horrors of the disease, and lmoothed
the paflage of death.
By this Day's Mail.
BALTIMORE*. Sept. 26.
By two gentlemen 'just arrived from
Kentucky we have been favored with
thefollowingvery important intelligence.
LEXINGTON, Sept. 8, 1794.
An Express arrived here, on Saturday
Evening alout 8 o'clock with Isttcrt
from the Army, from -which <uie have
colleftedthe following particulars :
ON-the 20th ult.,- about
advanced of Greenville^''the
guard, confiding of two
were attacked by about' I loo.lndiant
and Canadian militia; the attack being
sudden and unexpe&ed, the advance
guard fell bßck on the train arfriy afcd
threw them into confufmn, which bc
cafioned a retreat of about oye hundred
paces before they formed again ; aftfr
forming, not more than two heavy fir<B
were exchanged before they were order
ed to charge the enemy, wtjkh jtoas in
stantly done; upon which the enemy
immediately gave ground, and our men
rushing forward with inch impetuosity,
the enemy were diilodged from their
coverts, and the cavalry takingadvah
tage of that event, purfucd them about
two miles, when they dispersed. The
aftlon continued about an hour and a'
quarter; we had about 30 men killed,
and 80 wounded ; among the former
are captain Campbell of the cavalry,
and lieutenant Towles of the infantry.
Among the latter are captain Slough,
captain Van Ranfellaer, captain Prior &
lieutenant Campbell Smith, of the fede
ral army ; —Seven of the volunteers were
killed, and fourteen wounded. 127
scalps were t;;ken, and a number kiHed
in the river that were not fcatped. The
ahny remained three days on the ground,
and returned to Fort-Defiance, at the
mouth of the Auglaize, where they
were 011 the 24th ult.
/The action happened within fight of
a strong Britilh fort regularly built, and
garrisoned with three hundred men, be
tween forty and fifty miles below Fort-
Defiance, on the Maumee of the Lakes.
The Commander in chief Tent a flag to
major Campbell, commander of the Bri
tiih garrison, to march his men out to
the nearest Brit ifh post, and give up the
fort, both of which he positively vcfu
fed. The Indians had 5000 acres of
land in corn, all in excellent order on
the bottoms of the Maumee river, a con
siderable quantity of which the army
have destroyed.
The following lifl of the »« of the id
led imd wounded of the Kentucky vo
lunteers, was received this day,
Killed-
John Jackson, Alexander Innes,
William Mitchell, Thomas Moore, Wil
liam Steel, Benjamin Bill, and James
Wiley.
Wounded-
Captain Rawlings, lieutenant M
Kinney, ensign Duncan. Privates,
George M'Culloek, John Howard, Ro
bert Scott, John Hinkfton, lfaac Ran
kins, James Cost, James Stewart, ben
jamin Bantle, John Montgomery and
William Woodrow.
We have the pleasure of announcing
that the opening of the New-Theatre
last night, was attended by a numerous
and brilliant audience, who def«vet!'y
bestowed their reiterated plaudits on the
very fkilful performance of the com
pany.
On Wednesday evening lall the firft
troop of Baltimore Light-Dragoons,
commanded by Captain Moie, arrived
in town from Frederick ; and yeilerday
morning, the whole detachment of vo
lunteers. who so spiritedly marched in
defence of the arms of our common
wealth, arrived here, all in high fpiiits.
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