PHILADELPHIA, ! . OCTOBER, >;. the repbrt of the execution df Ro belpierre i % probably Untrue—our last ac counts from Pan's are to the middle of July, at which time no accusation had appeared againlt hitn—and tho' accusa tion,- (rial and execution follow in rapid fucteffiorj in Paris, especially in the ca f'-fc-of distinguished perfonaget, yet the time will hardly allow the usual ftiort ratine for Robespierre.—Some persons fappol'e that the officer Who boarded Captain Coit wan from an English fri gate—-thor* he might speak the French language, and appear as a French Offi cer. Such deceptions are frequently practiced, tho' in this cafe it it difficult tt> account for the motive.—The pojjtbt lily of the account's being true, results from the great and sudden reverie «f cir cumstances, in refpedt to federal other public characters, who have fallen un d?r the ax of the guillotine. Suppos ing the French frigate to have been on ly 48 hours from Brett when spoken by Cap;. Coit, as has been Sated, and he to have failed from England the loth of August, and to have been 9 days out at that time, it will follow, that tae French Frigate left Brest about the 17tli of Augult, which ij a mouth la ter than our Paris aecoumt. By this Day*s JVIaiL Foreign Intelligencej KECEJTCD' B* THI. SHIP AMERICA CAPT. COlf. MANHEIM, July iS. The French have made nomovem'ent since yesterday.. In oilr neighborhood the refpettive videttsaie between Mau d.'.ch :«td Muiid'-iiheirn. We have no official detail of the ac tions that happened near Lantern on the /2 th in it. and tire following days, Ttie followipg is the fubftancr from what we !<arn from private account?. On the 12th, between «iine and ten in the in filling, the French attacked General-fcalkreuth in the environs of Kayfhoven, Weitelberg, Henerftwrg, and Rofcukopf, The adtion was hot, •od the cannonading did not ceafc till . towards night. '1 he loss muH have keen great oh both fides ; a flying bat t-ery, it is remarked, fvrept off 25 or 30 Frenchmen at each discharge j but it t /terns that General. Kalkreuth could not maintain his ground, for about mid night hit army filed off for La ndfhuhl, which town it had passed in the morn ing, continued 4s retieat, and going to take poll on the Kayferberg and the Gagenberg before Lautein. The fame night MollendorfF's army marched for Trippftadt, a post menaced hy the French. The caonooade began very early on the 13th; the French carried fcveial batteiiei by assault, and among Other* one before Trippftadt, tho;igh defended by an abatis, in spite of the dreadfnl fire of the Prussians. Some of the French crept under the trees, Which had been felled to render their progress impracticable, and others leap ed over them. The Prdfiian gunners had fcaiccly time to escape. At seven o'clock the news arrived at Lautern, that FYipplladt was taken, and orders were given for the baggage to hie off for Winweiler, towards which place a part of Kalkreuth's troops took their course. On the 14th the army of Mollen dorff drew up in order of battle 00 the Kayferberg. They began to move the magazines from Lantern, and at half after eight the baggage and ammuni tion took the road to Winweilei. The French, being maftera of Trippftadi, lent patroles to the defiles of Lantern, and, as it was feared they would talce n number of wounded Pruflians at Hock fpeyer, the latter were haitily removed to the rtar of the army. The loss on both fidea muit be great; though that of the French, who atttcked batteries on heights and defended by abbatis, we mutt fuppofc was much the more con ti trable. July igt The inhabitant* of the" Palatinate, who fled on the approach of the French 4re daily returning to their villages, in confequervce of a proclamation by tht- French Generals, which promise fafety liberty of person, and refpeft to pro perty, for all the inhabitants of the ter ritory over-run by the French armies. The molt severe orders have been ifiu ed against the least attempt to pillage by the Freuch soldiers. FRANCKFORT, July 12. tfh* advicM from GaUicia leave no doubt of a body of Auftriant 'tavlng , paiTed the Vistula near Kofcielniki, a lcagut and an half from Cracow* and taken pofleffion of the Palatinates bf Chehu and Scndomir. The orders ilTu ed for this tfruption after the conference between the Emperor and the Ruffiam Embair«dor, Count Rafumowfki, were countermanded; but according to let ter* from Vienna of the 12th inftapt, a courier from Peterfburgh arrived, and the orders were soon renewed. Thus it appears that by the interventio'n of Russia, our part in the new division of Poland, and that our share will be the Palatinates of Chelm, Lublrn, Sendo mir and Cracovia, which lg included in the lot of Austria, is probably already in the pofleffion of the Imperiall/ts; as well as the town and castle of Cienltoc how, are likewise a part of the Austrian division ; the Pruflians and Ruffians, mean time, are in the vicini ty of Warsaw. COLOGNE, July 22. The Prince of Cobourg has quitted the important position of Nerwinden, and eiiablifned hishesd-quarters at Ton gres. Namur is evacuated, and Oen. Latour, who covered it,- hat retreated > Liege. Thousands of cafricgcs, with le .baggage of Prince Cobourg's army, re daily passing through tiiis city ; >oiitoncer» are also arrived to throw >ridge* over the Rhine.' From all this *e conclude that the Auftrians aie to 'etreat beyond the Rhine. Under these circumstances the news from the Rhine are the more alarming. The force of the enemy is estimated at 160,000 men ; arid the htu.rtion of Field Marshal Mollendorff it rendered infinite ly embarrafiing by the unexpected re treat of the Duke of Saxe Tefchen, or the Rhine. We are under great appre hensions for Manheim, for Frankfoit and for all that part of Germany. It i: very difficult to conje&ure the iflue o these events. The general wifb for pcaci • gives luch easy currency to the report i circulated by commercial men, tha with very little ground sot thinking so ' we prrfai'de onrfelves that a negociatio is actually begun'. j AMSTERDAM, july 28. f We leam from the frontiers, that 1600 Englifft have arrived at Bergen . op-Zoom, and that they will be imme diately fo!k»wed by 2000 others. The garriion t>f Maellricht has been reinforced by 7 or 8000 Auilrians. Letters from Cologne of the 2 2d, ob ■ serve : " We daily behold many tbou . sand loaded with the : of the army, pa fling through this city ; 1 and the proper persons have air cad v ar- I'rived in order to throw pontoons ajrofs '■ the Rhine; thence we naturally con clude, that the Aullrians are about to : leave this country." LONDON, July 26. Mr. Pitt, we learn from refpe£table authority, sent Tome days ago a letter to Earl Howe, in fubitance as follows : That it would be very advantageous to his Majesty's service, if the no ble Earl would at this time wave his claim to the vacant blue ribband —whicli had beer, his Lordship—in favor of the Duke of Portland ! Earl Howe exprefled his astonishment and indignation in warm language; and, it is said, concluded wijh nearly these yords: That his personal ambition (hould _ never tend to the interruption of his Majesty's service; that he would not only wave all claims to the vacant blueribßand in qtoeftion, but that he would alio beg leave to de'cline the proffered honor of a Marquifate! Mr. Shaw, the messenger, has brought aa account of the total defeat of the Piiiflians under General Mollendorff, riear Keyferflautern. The battle lasted several days with various success ; at length, unable to refill the superiority of ihc French, the Pruflians were forced to retreat with the loss of 27 pieces of cannon. The A'.ftriani were at the lame time obliged to make a precipitate retreat across the Rhine, at Manheim. It is reported by some, that General Mollendorff (hot himfelf after his defeat —by others it is said that he w.as killed during the a&ion—His loss exceeded 10,000 men. July 31. Dispatches were yefteiday received from his Royal Highness the Duke of \ ork, dated Britilh head-quarters, July 28. Mr. Heflop was entrnfted with the communication. It contained no thing of greater importance than a mi lute detail of the military operations on the retreat of the allies into Holland. The Britilh troops, as already Hated in this paper, were in the neighborhood of Beigen-op-Zoors. The French for- Cm are piling their fueceffes with un common ardor ; and, if not soon check ed in tkeir victorious career, Tomt ajJ prehenG>ns may be entertained for the fafety ol Rotterdam. I oid Moira, on joining tfls Ddke of York's irmy, found himrelf one of the Major Generals in the line j and tha foftead of corriftlandirig his army, le would ftarce be entitled to com maul a brigade. This greatly fnr prifed hm, and on that account he re signed lis command. The ground which the Duke of York occuprd at Conticque is the fame where Princt Eugene, with an army of 30,000 men, cept in clieck for fcveral months .Louis XIV. at the head of 90,000. Admiral Kruyger is the commander of the combined Dauilh and Swedish fleets. The jundtion was tfte&ed on the 6th inll. when the two squadrons, , after having fired the ufiial {alutr, form ed one line. This fleet coulifts of twen ty three fail of the line, fevett frigates, and four (loops of war. It will shot tly he reinforced by feveraV more Swedish (hips, which ire fitting out witll all pof (ible expedition. On the 3d, 4th, and sth of July, 72 perfot>g were executed by sentence of the revolutionary tribunal of Paris. On the. sixth, thirty ; of whom were magillvates of the ancient parlia ment of Toulotiß'—among ft this num ber was coun'cellor Bardy, aged 85 and two others of 80 vears. On tHf 7th, the IVdliori fitting in tb< la'il of liberty condemned 69, and that n th'e hall .if equality 9> all as confpira org againfi the liberty gr»d fafcty of the >eople. Amongfl the Gift was the late \bbe of Sali niac Fen clou. >e<l So • t /tars, for whom the little Savoyu or whom he fc-td eftabliftied at Paris, at veruneiit. Amopg "number likewise, were his relation J. G. FefteTsn, formerly Colonel, and so.i of the amudfador who G<vres ; the c:-devant Prince de Herrifi; chamber- ofacco'mts; Labaume ?od de Boifgelin, ci-devant field nwfiialsj See. The number condemned ?nd execu ted on the was 44 ; hud notwitli (londinp the daily O icvitions, the num ber contained i'n ihe prisons of Parts 01 the 6th infti u'« 3 7502. ■ August 4. > . 1 : Mri Eaftj ; the meflenger, arrived on Si&irthr? iftfl wiih' difpa'tcKes /rom the Unite ai— York, dated British Head nrar ik.'i gcn-cp-Zoom. No thing of-importawJe has transpired. , ; H4» rf*nw>ttrcd,that Printe Cobdurg Ms ccfigaedin drfgaft. hte ddmjnand of the army that he tots b*en succeeded hy-th? Arch Duke Charles ; and that the latter iY to-be aided iB the planning of the figure ipilitr.ry operations by Genesis Clairfaity a (_ Jo ncl Maek. :: , . * ■ The information received on Satur day at Lloyd's refpcdffng the audaoity of the French Cruisers who now infect our coal'ts, has caused fotnc alarms among the mercantile interest in the city ; but as the Gran 3-. J3ntifh Fleet will very soon proceed io ft |i, the infoler.ee of the Euemy will be but of a Very (feort du ration. For the confutation of the Merchants, the following notice was on Saturday stuck up at Lloyd's : 1* Stonehaufe, July 3 1. " Admiral Macbride's Squadron is ordered to fca this afternoon, in quelt of Thirteen 'French Frigates that are cruizing oft the Channel ; he is to be joined off Falmouth by the Squadron under Sir J. Warren." Diirrifh Lyon, mate of the Raith, of Leith, taken bv the French on the 2/ft of July, in company'witli the Dundee, off Duncanfby-hcad, but afterwards re taken, arrived at Lerwick, gives the following account of the French squa dron tn the- North Sea : It conrtfh of Lt Tartar, of 44 gun on board of which a Rear Admiral has his flag; La Bcllona, of 44 ;Le Bru tus, of sO gims,' formerly a line of bat tle (hip, belt rit>w cut down ; Le Rc pnblicain, of 3)6; Le Vengeance, of 24; La Montagne, of *'24,; and La Nereade, of 16. This'fleet failed from Brest on the 7th ult. and pafled round Ireland. ' < The De -Snalrfe Post, Dutch fidop, Captain Spockler, from Lisbon, one of the convoy, was taken by the following Frerifch squadron, Le Proserpine,' 50 guns, L'Audacieux, and 44 each, and another frigate, La Mu lette, Le Tigre, Lc Dequetois, and another (loop, on the 26th of July, and was retaken.on the 27th by the Refuta tion privateer of Weymouth, and carried into that place. The French prisoners fay they have other fquadronj at sea ; ant! that fix fail of the line were toha»e failed a few days after tliey left France, which they suppose to be at sea now. A molt tragical scene *as pet farmed at Warfawon the 4th inft. It is laid that upwaids of 200 PoHlh pnfoners, in the jails, were that day tried and exe cuted. Among other ohjefts which the Chan nel fleet will have in view, in their next bruize will be the escorting fafe home the 17 valuable Eait-India ftiips which have put into Galway Bay. REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL. The following persons have been condemned to the Guillotine finee our lad lilt was published : M. le ci-devant Chevalier de Puyvert, an officer of the Marines. M. de Biiffon, son to the faipous Na turalist. M. M. H. A. Sefpenapee of Tou louse, aged 64. Blanquct de Rouville, of Marfujoi, 37. F. Comfelle la Bouverie, of GaiUac, 29. J. F. Pcyrot, 59. J. A. V. Jngonon of Poiitclioriiet,4J. M. M. Guirongand Perrey, Carton, Jarres, Dufar.quct la Borde, Sefpen pee, Val Lauri, Dafpei, Balloe, La Tringlecoftc, LanufTe, Guil e Btin, Motirlrnt, Tonrnier, and De Carhonel, all mertibers of the Parlinrnent of Touloufu. FMB/I&aY TO I Hit/A. We a* e hippy in being enabled to lay before our ieaders a brief account cf tht principal, parti culars lelat ng to th»» AAjfio*, uhich'the pub. lie maybe ajfvrtd is perjedh authentic, tho' Jome of tht circumjtame) may appear, to £u rot m ideas and mrtdes of thinking-, almofl in* credibly. V " ~ Without detifi«i*tg our teadets to irjorm them of urcumjlanees 1 elating to the early part of the vo\age, tl will he enough to notice lritfl\< that after pajfing the bank.- oj Sund,a. thty muae feme unfuecejsjuf attempts to explore the Jlunds of Ban cat and the freights of Malacca. The Jtopped at Pulo( ondffre, and J ram thence proceeded to Tu~ rjn i>ay, in Cochin China, inhere tht\ Jtur.d a \aungpnitCe ejtablifileduj>vn the •t/i>o*ie l fjter a cipii uuj of 20 se-iri continuan/e, which end d in a TcvclutiMy jot such ei'tnis, it mould appear, ' art not'peculiar to the IVeflert H'o+/<T. A con fact able number oj M*ffi«nartes had o> ce been ttr Cdcim-\ hi/14 1 hut the- were all gone, having fol lowed tile fates oj tbe Ro\alline expelled by tfys tao'uiiti' , una which full rtta>ncd pofhjien oj a /wall corner of tbe kingdom. In their voyage they vifted Macao dud Chufun. the cajierntrwfl ex tremity oj Lhu a, an if at fajl reached the rnonth oj the rher I ienj:n, in f„e hp' torn of the Ptcheli Cm J cn t.'t ?6'h of July 1793, wher they found the water Jo fhai/ocvy though they hud no fight of land t that they c*ft anchor m 6 jathumx water. ttovi hence they diJpaUhtda btig to annohr.ee their arrival, to teyycfl that vt£ei% might be j<nl to recen-t the trejents mterdcufor the ut tht tnghjii vejjels Could fitoceid no further Jor oirto/ XMlr ; an d aljh to fitted a fipp.\ of JrxJh t-omfiotis On thefr/i of At£ufl a number of J*>ah veffets arrived from ine fiote, having cn Kuid Joiite' primtpa/ Mtrndai u.c., ahtk u mo/I magmjicen! Jupp!) oj tvity uiiicle oj prcvijtcns. Twenty fuI.MM, ut n aids cj icojictp, as ma„\ f'grcat iiiimiiroj /ftii/i. 1/ various hindi, antl On immenjc fnu»nt\ y ihc ruhejt aui jtnrj! jruiis of tie cvuiiiiy i jeitfai ilejls t>/ Ua.fi s-r - t-h'na, &C &C onia n r g c Jupph e/fiw, mi f*, tread, rite, ana oUier uiticiti in great fircJvjiOTi. '' '.e dijferent prefen'.* being put. on beard the Chitiefe junks, lara Macartney, on the 51A, ucr.i iniL-Uaiexe hrlg to 1t.,,,. \ a Jen, ml-1 a thertrer, ieheri thtgocdi were obhgei to be transferred tofiiiljmalcr vcjjel,, to c o "lxy them to Ifitgchu, about 10 mif(SJrom Pektrt ihe bmbajj'y left Jjcao, zaher, evfry accomoda. tion was djfordtd th m, cn r/fe Sth oj Au*ujl, and airivai at I ien/in the nth, what tlitft a-eit entertained on fltore, tmiitjl taaafandi oj people, "'jtir the entertainment he) got a present oj vic la-'h, m tame of a atnne'r, fijficient U lajt the whole 0/ them fir a wteh—eM ojjiier go! bejides, two pieces ttj jni—and even t/ltjoldiers and me chaiFii) St. had a piece oj Jilk and cotton. lienfin is situated at th^ confluence of three large rivers, and is a -place of Jarge and exteniive commerce. Its population is not to be counted by thouiands but by millions J the burying 'gronnd o»ly,anijn ttienle plain, extends farther than the eye Cap reach, and appears only bounded by the horizon. The other relating to this placc. which they left on the iKh, would appear incredible were they record- i ed here. They next went to Tongchu, to which place they were conveyed by water in vcf. i'eli dragged by t*en ; they reached it on the 16th. Here the present* and baggage were landed and deposited in houses erec ted to receive them. !• On the 11ft the ambaflidor and hisfuite ,set out for Pekin ; Lord Macartney, and Sir G. Staunton in sedan chairs, the, offi cers, &c. in carriage*, the i*ft in a kind of covered waggons. L hey reached Peakin about 9 o'clock that morning. The streets are not pa ved, the longed are about fix miles, crafting each other in right angles, as in Philadelphia, and from 90 to 130 feet in bteadth. The houses are only one llory high. The walls of the city are of an imme ß f f height, and the prin cipal streets terminate at the gate 6, which are very magnificent. Sumptu ous apartments were provided for the furte, and every neeeffary of life was furr.ilhed to them without purchaie. They remained here till the begin ning of September, when Lord Ma cartney and suite let out for Gehol, the country iefid*nce of the Emperor. His Lordftiip went in an Englifti coach, the other gentlemen on horse-back, the foldt crs, See. in waggons ; so that with the baggage train, the whole cavalcade was of very great length. Gehol is about 170 English rr.ile* from Pekin. They were a week in go. ing thither. On the 4th day of their journey they reached the famous wall which forms one of the barriers of this empire, their way leading thro' a gate called Canpe-Rieu. There are only such pasTes in China. This wall was built upwards of 200 years before Chii* from which time, for 14 or 1500 yea ~ it served as a complete defence agnirift every enemy; but at the end of that period, Ghcngis Chan invaded the em. pire, and got poflefiion of the throne. It is about 26 feet high, and about 15 thick at the top, which is wejl paved, and has a parapet on each fide, the b»fe is about 2 a feet thick. At ever)' d:f. tance of about 90 or 100 yards, there is a tower jppon it of about 15 feet each in height, and 45 in length. In fevc ral places there are other walls within the main one, which take in a sweep of several miles, and then conned again with it; so that should the outer one be forced, the inner remains as a de fence i and these again are covered by other walls within them ;• but this is on ly at the 4 piincipal passes. The ground over which this itnmenfe fabric <« cani. Ed, is in some places very rugged and uneven, more so than the molt moun tainous part# of Cumberland. This wall is more than 2000 miles in length, without allowing for thf bendiiigs over mountains and through valleys. The towers are about in number. When" they r chej Oehol, some mifundcrftandiug teipefti the mode of ptefentjatujn pKvent; J the ceremony f'ropi Lord Macartney iufifted that the ceremonies required to he performed by him before the Emperpr should be performed by a Chinese of ecjiial rank before the pic ture ojf bis Majesty. .One of the prime Ministers, of whom there are five in China, (tiled Caldos, having commit ted some mistake, in reporting that Ma cartney had agreed to comply v, it hcerr. monies to which he had not affewed, was degraded fomeftepsi.n his rank, and forced to wear, in his bead dress, ,u | crow's tail instead of a peacpck's, which it feem6 answer there to our flats, gar. ters, ribbands, and other iniignia of no. bility. Chinta-gin, one of tiiefe mini* I tcrs, on finding what hindered the bufi [ ness from going on, ver / shrewdly re? ! marked that he thought it ftratige that ! an Ambaflador who had come such a great distance, profefledly to compli merit the Emperor, should commentc his business by contending about forma lities. It was at lafl, however, fettled, that his lordlhip should pay the fame refpedls to the Emperor that he paid on appfoacliing the King of England. The suit were received in a large tent. The Emperor was carried thither in an open chair borne by sixteen men : as he pallid to the tent the English kneeled on one knee : every one of the Chinese proflrafing themselves on the ground, being all arranged in and round the tent, they ha<ia sumptuous repast, which was followed by music, tumbling, wrestling, and other exercises. The Emperor paid great attention to Lord Macartney, and he and all the gentlemen had pre sents of silk purses, fans, &c. The entertainment being ended, the Empe ror descended from the throne, and walked to his chair", and was carried a nay in the fame manner in which he camp. The croud of Mandarins, Prin ces, and other people of rank, which attended this ceremony was almofl in numerable. Next day (the 15th) the J again saw Lord Macartney. He came in the fame manner as on the proceeding day. He told his Lordship, that he was going to a Pagoda, at some dis tance, but that he had given orders to his Miniilcrgto attend upon his Lord ship, and (hew him the palaces and gar dens. When the Emperor was gone the suit were conveyed to an island, in an extenfivGlfheet of water, where they found a large building, in almott every apartment of which there was a kind of throne, and also a number of curiofitie* of Er.gliih manufacture On the left of each throne was a large agate, in a batten form, depolited there as an em blem of peace in the empire. From this they were conveyed by water, and afterwards IheWn a number of other buildings, where they were enteitained with fruits, fwectmeats, &c. _ The 17th which was the Emperors birth day(he is 83 years of age) they visited the palace before the morning dawn. They waited till day light in } large apartment after which Lord Ma crrtney and the high Mandarines were admitted into an inner court : the off. cersof the fnite were in the fecund cowt, and the Mandarines of inferior tankin a tkird ctmit, the tur®
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