' Ar ikt Qaxeth of tbt UnUcJ StaUr.
MR. FENNO,
5..1J1; pe;Ton» talk of hulls " about
an election" a« a necelTary appendage
of the exilifitc of the high and sacred
right 01 fuffrage—l never had a con ;
ception that noift and buft'e conduced
t<< iheiprefervation of liberty, threw any
01. the ciiaradter of candidates, or
enabled a man to vote with more wis
dom and underdosing—the feveife of
tii.s will be foand the cafe—Some men
are full of bu.lle, they can make a noise
it is riCeciiai'y to their purpose ; but
tlicfe is no relation between their bullle,
aud thi;t wisdom which (hall promote
the public inteteft.
Of all public traductions, that of
clcetioft* ought to be conduced with
the guateit cahfliiefs and decency—it is
l ;o: i" croud that tbe Hill foal! voice
of rea/on is heard—it is not in a bustle
that 0 ftian wotJld vO'eiglf talents, fcruti
u'y.u ..haraetcrs, antt form - a judgment.
1 his i<> so well known to many, who
k u-/w very Ifltlf else, and yet set them
t Ives up for candidates, that they treat
the people as if they were a swarm of
Jj£e*, who art.' to be'-led by founds and
noise only—-for their bustle is made with
the fame delign with which an artful
** mer tinkles on a brass kettle, to lead
a swarm at his heels.
Translated fcr thii Gazette—froni
* he Courier F.ancols;
National Conventioh fuly 6|
TV fallowing decree proppfed by Crtti
bon was adopted after difcuflSon—The
National C< nvlntiou luvirtg hekrdthe
report of the committee of finances dc
ti as follows:
All persons having in their poflefiiori
FP<*» brlonjirfg to cburtriei at wa r with
the republic, ftjall lend them in one month
fron» the proinnlg.ilion of thilDecide to
—and in Paris to the national Treal'ury,
where they will be furnilhed with the re
ceipts.
Fhc debts of stranger* fhal! be redu
ced to the money of I'iauce, according
tu tire price of exchange at Paris at
the period of the leisure and confifca
tion of the property of (bangers ; the a
moftnt according to that valuation, fhal
be paid in afiignals.
The cornmifTioners of the treafurj
(hall regulate tjv.- price of exchange pur
fuaut to the foregoing article, and sent
Hieir valuation to the dircAorj and re
ceiver* of the different dillridVs.
Theft! directors ftull take poffeffror
of the effects, real and jlerfonal belong
ing to the fubjedts of the countries a
war with the Republic •, winch the)
fh.il! dilpofe of another national proper
ly, and the proeeeds'fhall be paid int<
the hands of the receiver's.
Tlit receivers shall pass to the nationa
treasury the amount of their receipts
wblcTi shall be depofiud in the Chest with
tluee keys.
i hey lhaii keep a paiticular account
«>f the payments made in vir ue-of thi:
Decree, laving however, the mode tie
c.eed for depolits and aflignment.
Tliofe who (hall not obey this decrei
v thin the time limited, fliail be sub
jetted to pay four times the amount bj
them retained.
it is enjoined on the national agenti
to attend to the execution of this De
cree, and to profccute thofc who an
delinquent.
The following is published in an appen
dix to the lecond report of the Com
mittee of Secrecy, of the House of
Commons of Great Britain, as a co
py of an address drawn up in the
London Corresponding Society, to
the French National Convention.
FRENCHMEN,
While foreign robbers are ravaging
your territories under the specious pre
text of juftiee, cruelty and devastation
leading on the van, perfidy with trea
chery bringing up the rear, yet meicy
and frieudfhip impudently held forth to
the world as the sole motives of these
Kicuitions ; the opprefTed part of man
kind, forgetting for a while their own
lufFcrings, feel only for yours, and with
an anxious eye watch the event, fer
vently supplicating the Almighty Ru
ler of the Universe to be favorable to
your cause so intimately blended with
their own. Frowned upon by an op
preilive system of controul, whose gra
dual but continued encroachments have
deprived this nation of nearly all its
boalted liberty, and brought us almost
to that abjedt Rate of flavejy from
which you have so lately emerged, five
thousand Brit iHi citizens, indignant,
manfully flep fotth to relcue their coun
try from the opprobium brought upon
it by the supine conduit of those' in
power ; they conccive it to be the duty
of Britons to countenance and assist, to
the utmott of theit power, the cham
pions of human happiness, and to fwcar
to a nation pioceedinjr on the plan yon
have adopted, an inviolate friendfliip ;
sacred from this day be ihat friendlhip
beLweeti us, may vengeancc to the
uttermost overtake the man, who, here
after fhajl attempt to cause a rupture.
Warm as our wilhcs-are for your suc
cess, eager as we aie to behold freedom
triuihjjhant,' dnd man every vvhere res
tored to the enjoyment of his just rights,
a fei.feof our duty as orderly citizens
forbids our flying in.armsto your aflift
auce ; our government has pledged the
national faith to remain neutral In a
struggle of liberty against despotism,
Britons remain neutral! O lhame!
But wi have entrulted our King with
discretionary powers; we therefore mull
obey* our hands are bound, but our
hearts are free, and they are with you.
•Let German despots aft as they
pleiife, we fliall rejoice at their fall,
com;Wiionating however their enslaved
fubjecia. We hope this tyranny of their
mailers will prove the means of reinstat
ing, in the full enjoyment of their right J
and liber tics, millions of our felfovr
creatures.
With unconcern, therefore, we view
the Elcdtor of Hanover joiu his troops
to traitors aid robbers ; but the King
of Great Britain will do well to remem
ber, that this country is not Hanover
should he forget this diftindtion, we
will not.
»
While you enjoy the envied glory of
being the unaided defenders of freedom,
we fondly anticipate in idea the nume
rous hleflings mankind Will enjoy. If
you succeed, as we ardently wi(h, the
triple alliance (not of Crownj, bur) ot
the people of America, France, and
Britain, Will give freedom to Europe,
and peace to the whole world. Dear
I friends, you combat for the advantage
of the human race—how well pnrchafed
will be, though at the expeirce of much
blood,' the globus' unprecedented pri
vilege of faying mankind is free—ty
rants and tyrtfhivjl are no more—peace
feigns ori the earth and this is the work
df Frenchmen !
, Though we appear so few at present
De afttued,-Frenchmen, that our num
bc r nn-reafW daily. It is trhr, that ihe
ftt fny'iplifted arm'of authority at pre
sent keeps back the timid ; but busily
circulated impo(!ure» hour] mislead the
credulous; aVidthat court intimacy with
avowed i'reiid'i'traitors has son ,c efFetft
on the unwary ,1 and on the ambitious ; ;
but with certainty we can infotm you,
friends and fie<?ma"n, that information
m;ikes a rapid frtogfefs among u* j <_u !
riofity has taken pofTeflion of the pub- !
lie mind ; the conjoint reign of ignorance :
and despotism pafles away. I
Men now ajt each otixr, what is free
dom, what are our rights ? Frenchmen, j
you are already free, and Britons dre pre- i
paring to become fa Cajfing far from us 1
, the criminal prejudices artfully inculcated by
I evil-minded men and <wily' Courtiers, que,
I tnjlead of natural enemies, at length dif
i cover in Frenchmen our Fellow-Chittns of
the World, and our brethren by the fame
Heavenly Father, who created us for the
purpose of loving and mutually affijling each
other, but-not to hate,, and to be ever ready
to Cut each others throats, at the command
oj weak and ambitious Kings and corrupt
Mmiflers. —Seeking our real enemies, we
find them in our bosoms ; we find ourselves
inwardly torn by, and ever the viaims of
a rest.ess and aU-confuming arijlocracy, hi
therto (he bane of every nation under the
Jun. if ifely have you a3ed m expelling it
from France.
Translated for the Centinel.
National Convention, July ji.
Gollot D'Herbois, President.
The committee of public fafety appear
| ed in tf* hall, with the colours captured
trom the enemy. They were received
with apolaufes.
An officer appeared at the bar, and said
Citizen Representatives, You fee float
ing the vile flandards which have for a
long time disgraced the walls of Landre
cies, which treachery gave to our perSdious
enemies.
Immortal Representatives, you have
given, by your decree, to the army and
to the republican guards of the communes
of Maubeuge. Avefnes and Reunion-fur-
Oife, the signal for victory, as well as that
of terror to the Satellites of tyrants. -
These coward* gain momentary fuc
celTes by perfidy; but they owe their de
feat and their death to juftiee, truth aqd
courage, which you have n .'.e the -order
of the day throughout the Republic and
the armies.
The President in rt; >•, fitfj, That it
was by the exploits of '* rtuuli ans tha vic
tory expiated for the ft, -f s ft P sometimes
gave to the arms of jtytasto, Each day
fays he, is but the forei inerof a battle
Each day but the eve of a new victory.
AppUufes.
_® a ". ' n t ' le name of the Committee
ofPublicSafety. Anotherday for Austria 1
The city and Castle of Nam'ur arc in the
power of the Republic. (Lively Ap
plauses.) While an officer is at the bar
with the ensigns of defpotifin taken at
Landrecies, another is in the tribune with
the silver keys which the people of Namur
presented to the Emperor of Germany.—
The eoemy firi&ly adhere to the plan of
flight. (Applsufe.)
l"be terror which tjie horde of cannibals
threatened tu bring into franco, has recoil
tart on IhcrafUve*. Th-y fly at thp very
name of republicans. . ( Applaufes.J
The combined (laves are in full flight.—
Dutch, Hefliahs, and Aultrians,
have all learned their ta<£tics from the fa:n(
principle ; this for LoridoijJ the proud
ir.iftrefs of the nugative coalition, to h)2ve
the honor of recording this portion of
modern history.
Foreign Intelligence.
j- LONDON, July 15.
All the accounts leeeived by the
Mail, concur ;n representing the lofi of
'he Netherlands as complete# and the
acfedlion of the Einpeior fiom the
Grand Alliance as cfttaiS.
The accounts from the French and
Allied Armies on the Rhine, down to
the 4th in ft; contain nothing lifrt de
tails of movements and attacks, always
concluding with the return of both pai
ties'to'th'eir former poiition:
It is remarked," even in the German
p;:pers, that the whole weight of these
skirmishes falls upon the Aultrians, as
the Prulhans and fh< trench never mo
lest one another.
To the Editor of the Times.
StK,
Senfitile as I a'rh tliat you afe a lover
of truth, ai'/d that you are not apt to
impose upon thic public by falfe accounts,
1 am induced to think it was owing so
bad information, that you iifferted in
your paper of Tuesday, the 24th 111 ft.
a paragraph, Hating, that ah EivgHft
ship entered th* port of Spezzia, and
was ordered to put to sea again; and
that upon the Captain making no reply,
the foitrefs fire.i on the v«ffel; which,
after receiving some damage, was oblig
ed to put to sea.
As Miniiter Plenipotentiary and en
voy extraordinary from the Republic'
of Genoa, I have it in my power to
commuructttc to you bcttcj information
refpediug (lira tad. Oil the 12th o,
lafl May ; at two o'clock in the after
noon, the Diamond 1 , C.ipt. Sutherland*
was forced by' had weatlver into the
! Gulph of Spezzla, An officer from the
> ship was fc'wt on shore. who exprefled
: that the Captain was sorry lit had not
fainted the fort, an he hid not seen any
flag hoifled.—Ke thc-n enquired after
the Bi itifh Vice Consul, and wished to
know whether he might get any provi
sions. The next day, as the ship had ;
hoisted a Commodore's flag;-, the fort '
saluted it with 7 which was re
turned by the ship. The Captain of
the fliip, and the Commander of the
fort, paid each oti/er a vjht.
I hope you will be so good as to rec
tify the mistake, and acquaint your
readers with the frue account that 1
transmit to you ; by so doing you will
oblige mo,
MARQUIS or SPINOLA.
June 26, 1794.
No 2»J>utchefs Street, Portland-Place
DUBLIN, June z.
Tuesday morning a duel was fought
in the Phoenix Park bttween MrWha
ley, famous for his pedestrian excursion
to' the Holy iand and a Mr. Burke, of
1 the county of in which each
of them fired a pistol without any efieft
The quarrel arose st Daily's from the
latter, aifcing the foimer why he flared
at him ? Did he learn fnch manners in
his travels ?
The other replied he did, yet he had
not been at Jerulalem. This bro't on
abusive language, which was followed
by a blow from Mr. Burke, when a
challenge ensued—On the ground, the
gentlemen flood at twtlve paces distance
and both fired together, Mr. Burke
fired his piltol in the air, and they
were afterwards reconciled t« each
other/
PHILADELPHIA,
OCTOBER 7.
The Committee appointed by the citi
zens at their late meeting to carry into ef
tedt the resolutions for flopping the inter-
Course between this city and Baltimore,
have had a meeting, to consult on tl.e
uieafurei proper to be adopted pursuant to
their appoihtment—They have written a
letter to the chief tnagiftrate of the Town
of Baltimore including the resolutions and
exprcfSng the regret of the citizens at
being compelled by the neceffit? of the
cafe to have recourl'e to this painftil mea
jure " the committee have taken the proper
ftepsto execute the resolutions, by applying
to the proprietors of directors of the land
and water stages and requefling that thev
would difcontmue the plying of thole
wages until in the opinion of the Commit
tee the bufmefs may be resumed' without
endangering the health of the inhabitants
of this city—They have also taken mea
lures for providing the neceflary guards at
the Ferries—Provision i» jJfo to he made
for tli# temporary accommodation of such
paflengers as may arrive, not knowing that
the intercourse is interrupted. House and
are ,request.'d by the committee
as they value their own lives, and the lives
of their fellow-citiztns, not to admit any
person coming from Baltimore or Fell's
point, or the neighborhood thereof to
lodge in any of their houles, until the
committee (hall have f»tisfa£iory evidence
that the malignant and contagious disorder
exilling therein lball have ceased.
Extraß of a Idler from Baltimore, 4th
OBtber, written by a person of respec
tability, and a Merchant there.
" THE fiekuefs heitj till Tuesday
lad, had become very alarming ; on that
morning the weather took a favourable
change, which has since put a Hop to
the disorder, and I have not since Wed
nesday heard an instance of any persons
being taken with it ; in Ihort, we are
now, thank God, in our usual state of
health.—The mortality was much the
greatest on Fell's Point; and it was only j
a few days before the alteration of the J
weather took place that it became alarm
ing in town.—The merchants carried
ofF by it, and other ficknrfs from the
wharves were, Moses Morcau, John
Griffith, Benjamin May, and Jofiah
Crofby. It will, I expetV, take a few
weiks to eftahliih the usual intercourse
in our trade with the Country, which
has so much decreased and ilagnated
out markets, it is difficult to define
tbem—and it has oecafioned the great
est cmbarraffments and defects in pay
ments at our Banks, that has been
known since their establishment."
Letter! ta. received by the ship Ameri
can Capt. Coit (fays the (New-York)
Columbian Gazetteer) state that Mae
(tricht had been carried by storm by the
French—that on the 13th July the Prus
sians had furiered a defeat with the loss of
1000 men—That Robespierre, in attempt
ing a didtatorihip, had failed, and fulfer
ed the weight of the guillotine.
The (loop from Guadzloupe is said to
have some difpatehes for the French minis
ter, the captain of which informed capt»
Smale at th<; Fort yelkerilaythat the French
were ftiii in possession of Point Fetre, and
that the Bntilh were continually bombard
ing it.'
I Sunday last John Barry, Esq. failed for
St. Mary's River, ( Georgia) in the! brig
Schuylkill, capt. Knox, tor the purpoie
of expediting L he cutting and coHctfing of
the timber for the frigate to be built by
Mr. Jofiiua Humphreys, and of which he
has been appointed- to the command, and
has carried with him the different moulds
for Ihaping and fixing the wood, previous
to its being lent to the thip yard.
On Friday Lft, as a ferry boat, (in
which were a coach and several horses)
was doffing from Cooper's Ferry to this
city, a fiaw oi wind heeled the boat so
much that the horfei fell to the leeward,
and ovi-riet her. The accident being ob
served by inany people on the Warves, se
veral boats went immediately to the assist
ance of the ferrymen, who held by the
boat until they were relieved. The hor
se ' swam to the upper part of the city,
where they got fafc on Ihore, but the car
nage (the property of Mr. George
Green j iunk, and has not been found lince.
The people who had traveled in
fortunately took paflage in another
boat.
The schooner Elizabeth, Barret, for
Norfolk j the Sally, Peck, and flpop
Will,am, Thrafber, for Char,efton, failed
from Kmgfton the 19th of August.
MARRIED, on Thursday Evening la/!,
by the Rt-v. Dr. E-wi/ig, Mr. Samuel
ISRAVL, to MiJ's BtTS£Y TaGGAKT,
both of this City.
By this Pay's Mail.
NEW-YORK, Oft. 6.
Lqfi evening arrived herefrom London,
in 56 days, the/hip America, Capt.
Coit, who has obligingly favored the
Editor with London Papery as late as
the yh of Augufl As the public are
anxious to know the fituatiun of the
armies in E-urcpe, a '/ietch, thu' very
brief, mufl be acceptable. The follow
mg is all that can pojjibly be given in
the time previous to the paper', gain* to
press. 4
C?" From verbal information from
Captain Coit, we learn that Robespierre
is beheaded.—This info, mat ion was
communicated to him by an officer of a
French Frigate which boarded him nine
daya after he left the Downs. It is said
he was executed for the assumption of
too great a degree of didatorfhip.
i here were two French frigates in
company with the one that boarded
p ap, . a ' n £ort» who had in tow„ a lat r e
' ngidh (hip. which they had captured.
Ihe day preceding, Captain Coit paf
led through a very large fleet, nndcr
convoy of three English frigates, bc
fides several other veflA of force.
Several of the passengers in the shove
vellel, lay, that the melt prevalent be-
' ' *•-
Kef in Eiigl.nd vvaf, tlr.tUe r,c.,d.
would, without much «oiff»c«ltv, n.i.ti
nue toprogrefs into their enemy's domi.
mons, till they had completely got rof
lemon of all Holland.
LONDON, August i.
There is ho news whatever from the
British troops ; but we are foiry lo ! taill
hat a detachment of Prince Cvbouro'J
jrmy has been defeated near Maeftricht
ay the French : and it is said that a fo
reign Prince was killed.
The 88th regiment is fafdv arrived
»t Bergen-op-Zoom, from Jerky.
Wednesday a Cabinet Council was
held at lord Grenvllle'i office, at whxh
the Bavarian Minister was pretcnt. The
principal business, it is said, related to
the taking of 30,000 Electoral troops
into tlie British service and pay, to be
employed 011 the continent.
From Liege, July 19, we learn, "that
Namur was evacuated yesterday; the
garrison marched to Hoep.
The Austrian artillery and gunners
from Nainur are palling through this
city at this moment, and the French
entered that place yesterday without the
fmalleit oppolition.
The Imperial army under the Prince
of Cobourg is still in the fame pofitioh."
All the accounts that have been re-
ceiTed from the Continent concur i&
stating, that the French are colledting
an immense force in the Netherlands for
the purpose of invading Holland. The
defence of that Republic will most pro
bably be undertaken by the Dutch and
British troops only.
Liege had been abandoned ; and th«
people, it is said, immediately after the
departure of the Prince Biftiop, s ent a
deputation to the French inviting them
to take poflfellion of that city.
The fucceflfes of the French on the
Rhine are so complete, that Frankfort,
Manheim, and Mentz, are in dangei,
and several of the inhabitants have re-
tired with their eftcitg. Others, who
| were preparing to follow their example,
have been prevented by a proclamation
iflued by the French General, who pro
mises that no one {hall be moleited in
his property.
The following narrow escape of tlie
Duke of York has hitherto been unno
ticed. As he was palling over a small
river by means of a plank, a foldicr sud
denly came behind him, brushed by
him, and reached the opposite bank.
The duke flopped, (truck with indigna
tion at therudenefs of the soldier; but
his indignation was quickly turned into
gratitude, when he saw the man's head
carried off by a cannon ball, as soon as
he had left the plank,
The attack which the French lately
made upon the Prufiians in the neigh
borhood of Kaiferflatitern, was perhaps
the mod desperate and bloody of the
whole campaign. They followed it up
from the 9th of the month, day after
day, till Sunday the 13th, from which
lime, till the Wednesday following, the
Pruffiant had not a moment'* refpits ei
ther night or day. The numbers of
the French encreafed to 180,000 at
least ; and in their latter atta«k, they
rufhtd up t'j the Prufiian cannon with
as much indifference as if they had not
been loaded, carrying the whole at the
point of the bayonet, killing or wound
ing every artillery officer except one ;
and almost compkuly annihilating the
Pruflian army.
August 4.
, 1 ' le French are have marched
into Antwerp at 3 o'clock P. M. on
Wednesday the 23d ult. The Duke of
York marched from it nearly at the
fame time.
There is an account received by the
way of Frankfort, that Landrecy fur
tendered to the French ou the 14th of
last month.
Our letters from the army mention
nothing of the reported defeat of the
Prince of Saxe Cobourg—A detach
ment of his army, we believe, fufFered
a little ; bnt there was certainly no ge
neral defeat. The army under the
command of that Prince, by the last ac
counts, was at Foron le Compte, a post
about two or three leagues to the S. E.
of MaeHricht ; and his heavy artillery
was withdrawing towards Dufleldorff.
Died, on Saturday last, at Cromwell
House, aged 36, Richard Burke, Esq.
Member of Parliament for the borough
of Malton, and the only son of the right
honorable Edmund Burke.
The American Merchants are pre
paring an account of their debt's due
from the fubjetla of the United States,
contracted during and previous to the
■a W '][" r " ' l IS supposed, ha*
initruttions to put them in a proper way
of adjustment.
By letters from Madrid, wc are in
formed that Pampelena is menaced by
the French, and that the Spaniards are
endeavoring to aficmble the militia to
oppofif them. The French have take*