nuiioiable a&ion, is appointed to the
l<j ladron he now commands, for the na
val protection of Holland.
The firil account of the downfall of
and lus party whiah reacli
' ed this country, eame from Lord M.d
mfib iiy at Manheim. His Lordship
mentioned it in very pofiti\e terms, and
u a which mutt doubtkis have
hem kno A-n in th.'s country before his
letter cuuld reach it.
Augu.l 9.
This morning the four f>l ' owllv S
Kiigs MelTengcri arrived at W ntelmll
Mess, Schaw and Mason from the Ar
m\: Mr. Brookes from Berlin ; and Mr
Drellias from the Hague.
The Duke of Yolk we find had
marched with the army to Breda :
and the French had taken poffeflion of
his former ground at Rofendael.
Letters from Breda of thr 3d inft.
ftatc that the head quarters of th>
Prince of Orange have been removei
tu that City.
The French liave sent a large rein
{brccmcnr to Dunkirk and arc putting
that place and. the cnalt in a proper Itan
of dti'onceagaiiift a defcerit which the)
■expeift from England.
'lie Commerce, Capt, Reyuolds,
coi.rt tut trader from London to Amller
dam arrived vciterday morning in tki
ri*er. The' Captain on Monday laii
in the Noith Seas pafied foifr Dutch
men of war of 64 guns ruling at anchoi
in the Broad f onrtrens ; soon -after rt
pafTed them. They saw several armec'.
(hips to the N'oaljward, when the
Dutch men of war weighed anchor and
piVlued then..
An expedition against the coast ol
France, it- is said ha 9 been finally deter
wined on. The foicc to be employed
in thlj enterprise i« to consist of io,ooc
and will be commanded by Lord Mill
grave. Sir Sydney Smith's squadron
of gun boats is to cover the landing of
the troops, and to co-opeuate with them
on the occasion.
tThc lawft tNMnili from Poland are
of tlie 2Qth. ult. at winch time the
Pruflians hail not taken Warsaw.
Yesterday account* were received at
Uoyd'a of the capture of thirteen valu
able outward bound (hips, in the Chan
nel by which the Underwriters, on a
very moderate computation will lose too
oeol.
Accounts were received at the Sierra
Leonehoufeon Saturday last.by theway
of the Welt Indies which bring down
the affairs of Sierra Leone to the 12th
of April lalt. The colony was then en
gaged in the fuccefsful pui suit of thr
objccfts of its inllitution ; the success of
every one of their undertakings was
such as the friends of humanity mud
rejoice to hear.
A few days ago at the filit of his
Majesty the cause respecting the mar
riage of Prince Augultus Frederic and
Lady Augusta Muriay, which had been
folemnizt Jat the parilh church of St-
George Hanover-square was finally
determined in the Arches Court Doc
tor's Commons; when Sir William
Wynne delivjred the Judgement of the
courtthat the said marriage was utterly
null and void; and also declared that a
former marriage,pretended to havebeen
had at Rome was also by the law of
this countiy, invalid and illegal.
Matters of the greatell moment are
on the point of being brought forward.
It is a fubjetl of general conversation
«nd belief, that the Committee of Pub
ic Welfare are about to propose a de
ree foi arresting several Members of
he Convention. Their names are even
nenticmed. Very loud accusations aie
Iso made against the heads of the Com
mittee of Public Safety.
The wife of La Fayette has been ar
. !ted on her estate near Limoges, and
rouglit into Paris.
J he inundations in Holland now go
n much brisker, and are considerably
nproved by the late heavy rains.
The French, in Piedmont, opprefTed
/ numbers, have been able to make
>nly a feeble opposition ; for all the in
labitantt have now risen in a mass, and
will oblige the enemy to quit their land
entirely.
T l ' e French forces destined to aft
against Holland, confifl of about Bo,ooc
men. The combined armies, under the
command of his Royal Highnef, the
V l°L ° ' arc onl y 4 2 >°°0 ftror.g,
of which 18,000 arc British ; but a
communication will be preserved be
tween them and the Dutch troops
commanded by the Prince of Orange.
The plan of the Committee of Pub
lic Welfare i. said to be the conquest
of all the country on the left fide of
the Rhine a* far as Holland, and to
"lake the Rhine theboandary of France
By accounts from Constantinople]
thro V icnna, it is made to appear that
* scheme of the French, which went to
Muce the Pone to take arms in favour
pt Poland, has been entirely defeated,
« cont quer.ee of the interference of
■ the English Mimfter, who, at the mo-,
I ment that order* had been sent to the
Balhaws, in Asia, directing them to
march their troops into Europe, de
i.ounced a conspiracy, which had for
its object nothing less than the death of
the Grand Seignior, and all the princi
pal Officers of State : this was let on
foot by the Jacobinical French suction,
in league with some persons in the Se
raglio.—Since this discovery the Court J
of Conltantinople is determined upon j
the preservation of peace. The troops
in Asia are ordered not to pass over in
to Europe.
Different letters from Cadiz bring
intelligence, that two French frigates )
having fallen in with the St. Elmo, a ,
Spanish (hip of 74 guns, above Cape [
St. Vincent, a moil obstinate a&ion en
sued. The frigates, notwithstanding the j
imminent danger they were in, reful'ed j
twice to llrike ; upon which the Spa
ni(h Captain gave orders to fire upon
them between wind and water J and '
thus funk them one after another, with- s
out a single man of their crews being j
{aved. The Spaniard had 100 men >
either killed or wounded in this action. 1
The Prince of Hesse Philipfthal, who
was luppofed to have been killed, is a
pnfoner in France.
By the returns of the proper officers,
it appears that 73,000 recruits have
been drawn from Ireland firtije the com-
mencement of the war.
The English fleet at Spithead coil
fids of three of 110; five of 98 ;
two of 84; twenty-one of 50 5 eight
frigates ; four smaller veflcls besides fire
(hip 6, &c. Theft were to be joined by
a Portuguese squadron ready at Ports
mouth, confiding of four 74's ; one 64
and three frigates.
LIST OF THE FLEET AT SPITHEAD.
Queen Charlotte, Earl Howe.Sir R. Curii* ;
Royal George, Lord Bridiporc, Capt. Do
met ;• Royal Sovereign, Capt. Nieolls, no
gum : Queen, Sir Allan Gardner, Capt. Bed
ford : Barfleur, Adm. Elphinftone, Capt.
klphinftone : Impregnable, Adm. Caldwell,
Capr. Wtftcott : GJory, Capt. Bobrmailer ;
London, Adm. Montagu,"Cap'* Halfteid, 9ft:
Royal William,' Sir p Parker, Capt. Pick
more * Cfefr, Afhn. Cornwallis, Capu
Whitby, 84 : Cullodeu, Sir Thomas Rich,
Capt. Scboinberg; Arrogant, Whitfhed ; Au
dacious, A. Hood ; BcUefnphon, Htipe ; Ga
nnda, Hamilton ; Defence, Gambier ; Ex
cellent, Mitchell ; Invinr.jbl , How. J. Pa
kenham j Colossus, Pole ; Leviathan, Loid
Hugh Seymour; Majellic, Cotton ; Theseus,
Calder;. Ratnillies, Mansfield ; Tremendous,
Bentinck ; Ruflel, Payne ; Thunderer, Ber
tie ; Robust, Thoinborough ; Valiant, Par
ker ; Venerable. Sir John Orde; Montague,
Fooks, 74 : Adamant, Darby, 50 : Rigu
lui, Bowater, 44; Ceres, T. Hamilton ;
Fox, Drury ; Niger, Foot; Altrca, Pow
lett; 32: Triton. Barker; Aquilon, Bar
low ; 28: Le Goelan, Stephens ; Ferret,
Nowell; 14; Thorn, Craycraft, 16: La
Trompeufe, Douglafs, 18 : Inccndiary,
Spitfire, Sc Comet Firefliips: Vulture, sloop
ftiip, Charon, hospital ship : Mutme cutter,
Lieut. Weft ; Spider, do. Lanyon : Albion,
The following (hips of the line hive been
put into commission within these few days,
in order to be added to the channel fleet, viz.
Blenheim, Everet-,90 j Hannibal, Mark*
ham ; Bontbay-Csftle, Chamberlaine ; De
fiance, G. Keppel j Edgar. Sir C. Knowlesj
74 guns each.
Ihe following is a correct lift of the P'or
tuguefc ftiips now at Portfmonth.
Ships or the line. Vafco de Gama 74,
J?*"? 74, Reine dc la Portugal 74,
Conde d'Henrique 74, Princeza de Beira 64.
Fkicatei. Carlotia 42, Falcoa 22, Vaoe
der 22. The complement to each Blip of the
Line which is complete it 650 met.
The news from Poland is not very interest
ing. The city of Warsaw is closely beficged
by the Pruflians on one fide. The latter seem
in this situation to be resting on their aims,
waiting for their heavy artillery. The Polifti
army, under Kofciulko, which occupies an
advantageous situation near War law, is {0,000
Itreng. The advanced polls of each army
have daily flcirmifhes.
It is agreed between the courts of Berlin and
Pete burg, that no more Ruffian troops fhail
llatiOned at Warsaw, which is to be gairi
loncd by the Pruflians.
There are private letters in town from Ber
; L menI '°« lhat on the 22d instant,
the King of Pruflia had been obliged to re
treat from before Warsaw ; but we cannot
Vf ' - n positive terms, though it is
told us from , very rcfpcftablc quarter.
t allien whose charader is said to be more
in amous, if poflibie, ihan his predecessor,
uccecds him in conducing the wild machine
of the French Republic.
The Carteret Packet, arrived this morning
'torn Flulhing, went in his passage near Of
tend and Dunkirk. He states thet he could
Mhly d.ftingu.th four or five and a
f re,t "umber of smaller vcffels in Oftcnd har-
Dour.
Sluyi continnes strongly bcfieged by ihe
enemy, who have 27,000 men betore it 1 but
we cannot learn that any advantage has been
gained over the garrison, which i« well fup
pliert with provisions aud ammunition.
The Flinders mail beings an account
that Pichegru had been sent in irons to
Paris. That there had been something
extraordinary tranfa&ing in the French
array J may ealily be concluded from
the circumftanee of their having ftopt
their victorious career without havinj
received any check from the aims of th<-
Allies. If they had bpen in a condi
tion to pursue their vi&ories, and tt>
put their boasts into execution, thev
would not surely have laid upon thei:
arms merely for the purpose of afford
ing the Dutch an opportunity of put
ting their country into such a state of
defence, 88 we frtift, would have fruftra
ted all their views of plunder m t hat
quatrer, had they attempted, <>r lli!I
attemot to realize them. Wj fvan ely
however, could have conceived t[ia.t the
eaufe of this i!el?J oh the part, of tVie
enemy, had been the arrest of .their
General, a circumstance that we think,
may likely lead to a diforganir.ation and
difaffrft.'on in the,' French array, and
may probably be the means of our re
covering Flanders with tile fame facility
with which it was lofh
August 16,
The Death of ROBESPIERRE, and
the fall of his Parly,
One of the letters froth Frauckfort
fays, tbat " On the 26th ult. (oneday
later than the printed accounts from Pa
ns) Robespierre denounced above 100
of the prefint Convention as Itfodcrales
and 'Counter-Revoiul'ibn'ijls : as tlfual, the
applaufeot his hirelings gave the audi
ble stamp of approbation, and the Con
vchtioriril buonets closed for the day.—
On the following, however, the popular
voice, ester being long fttfled, broke
forth against the tneafur.e. At the Ja
cobin Club, a similar difpofiticn gained
the ascendancy, and the Oracle of the
Committee of Public Welfare was 1 mol
ed from the Tribunal ; no violence,
however, at the moment, was offered to
his person, and the" filcceeding morning,
was'expe&ed to bring forth.important ■
events. It armed, arid the firft piece;
of Intelligence publifhcd to the City ofi
Pap's was, that Robcfpierre had put a
period to his own exigence."
Letters from Geneva of the 30th
ult. (late, that the executions had then
coaled for two days—ft'veil lclf-elc£ted
members of the involutional y tribunal
had been difmilfed their clHce ; several
of the irriprii'oned clergy had been re
leased ; and the people in general seem
ed extremely averse to the abandoning
Geneva to the power of the French re
public. The Swiss Cantons have (lop
ped all kind of piovifions and ammuni
tion floin being sent to that City.
There are letters of a recent date in
town, which state, that the citadel, as
Well as the town of Liege, is in the pos
session of the Auitians; . and that the
French have fallen back to some dlf
tarifce. These letter* also confirm what
we yesterday rtated, that the Auftrians
and Pruflians have re-crofTed the Rhine.
A Revolution in Geneva.
This event has takei\ place upon the
principles of Liberty and Equality, un
der the immediate direction of M. Solll
avie and Merle, French Commilfioners,
who had brought over a large party of
the inhaoitants into their mcafures. Ear- •
ly in the morning of the 19th the mem
bers of a Club, ot which the two French-
Men were leaders, had recourse to arms,
and, aiming the populace at the fame
time, took pofTeflion of the gates and
arsenals. They then felefted a Revo
lutionary Committee, by whom every
person inimical to their interests was in-
Itantly apprehended, and sent to prison,
nearly a thousand in number, amongst
whom is M. Necker, late prime mini
ster of France. Among the prisoners,
all the eccleliatlics, no one excepted,
are comprehended.
Soulavie is at the head of every thing
his confidents have taken on themselves
the whole of the management ; and so
fully was he prepared for what was to
happen, that early on Sunday morning
he tianfmitted to the club a lift of those
who were to be apprehended, with or
ders to fcize them wherefer they could
be found.
I he Revolutionary Tribunal was no
sooner elccted, than it proceeded to ex
ercise its funfh'ons. On the 22d it fen
teuced to death fourteen persons—seven
of these sentences were confirmed by
the revolutionary mats—the others were
changed into banishment or imprifon
menf, with confifcation of property.
The condemned Were inllantly ih ot.
Ihe populace, since the revolution,
and at this hour, pillage every where,
and are eager in endeavouring to disco
ver all whom they consider any way
inimical to the present system.
The opposition have long re-echoed,
in scorn, the emphatic interrogatory,
" With -whom can <uie treat ?" We now
repeat the queflion, and let them answer
it if they can.
The Mons. Keeker lately arretted at
Geneva, 13 the brother of the famous
French Financier.
By a letter from Gtiernfey v dated the
nth iirft. we learn, that the French had
then nine ot ten frigate*, and a large fleet
of (hips laden with prcvifions, lying in
Cherbourg.
Mr. Hope, it is thought, has already re
mitted to this Country near half a million
of moDey —mod of which, no doubt,
will be lodged in our Funds.
There wefe such fears eiiterfained for
the fafety of the veflel which kroiifhf
Mrs. Hope and Family to Lngland on Sa-
turday lafr, that the very day before, an
i iurance was i.iide on ker at cloven per
cent.
T.'re Manifesto said to bo stuck up i'
f. rrc of the pv.: i- p!:tc« ill Ainile am
dcclarilig the iicutrality ot the prinj pa
merchants and traders there, in cafe of a
French irruption, we have the best mth .ri
ty tor faying, is tpunoiu, an.l has bcea ei
ther fabricated by foine of the oppolitior.
Papers here, or by i'ome of their Parti/jns
in Holland.
Rubelpierre, Jun. attempted to make
hit escape, by jumping out of a high
window; uitoue of his :egs being fraCtn
red by the leap, lie was retaken and ex
ecuted with his accomplices.
Tallied, whof? character is said to
be more infamous if possible, than that
of his predecefTor, succeeds him in con
ducting, governing and enslaving the
wild French Republicans.
Information is alto brought, that Pi
chegru, Commander.of the army in the
Netherlands, has been sent to Paris in
nous,
DOVER August 15
The .1' xprffs Packet-boat, Capt.
Dell tyhich arrived this morning from
Fluthing with mail and pafTefigersj con
firms the death of Robespierre and his
friends,
By the Packet we learn, the French'
have at Ojtend 172 Boats and Vcffels
carryjng from one to fix guns each, ami
ieveral large Armed ihips. The delli
nation of this Armament is unknown,
but it is supposed to be intended again)! ■
Flufliing.
The }~Ja<wte Sloop of War. Captain
Bowen, came into the Downs fromofi -
Dunkirk this morning ; he states, that
four Frigates were laying id the Road-,
there lalt night* and that the qiie winch
drove on Ihore about a fortnight ago-
Was totally wrecked ; he difcoveredj
lome part of the hull on the shore-; >
This day arrived in our harbor, the
Alert Schooner; Capt. Moore of Bol
ton, trom Calais, which place he left -
yeilerday afternoon. By her we have
pufitive information that Robefpieire
and Brother, St. Jufl, and all tne chiefs
of that party have been defeated and
were guillotined on Fiidaj 1 the ill in
(taut.
HARWICH, August 15
His M?jefty's packcts the Prince of
Wales, Captain Flearn, and Dolphin, j
Captain Flyn, arrived this inurning |
from Helvoetfluys, under convoy of the j
Savage sloop, Captain Winckwovth. 1
Dowager Lady Spencer, Lord and La- j
dy Belborough, Lord Elgin, and :
Compte de Merci d'Argenteau, with
their carriages and domelllcs. came by
the Prince of Wales 5 and the Dutch
Mail, Officers from the army, and other
pafl'eiigers, came by the Dolphin.
Capt. Olborne, of the Diana Dover
Poft-office packet, arrived express from
HelveetfluyS, with MeflVs. Slater and
East, two of the King's rtieflengers,
Who were lauded at Aldborough, on
the Suffolk coast.
From a variety of accoutits from the
continent, there is every rea£r>n to be
lieve that a Counter-Revolution has ta
ken place at Paris, and that Robespierre
(hot himfelf rather than submit to be
made prifaner—Report fays, that three
or four thousand were maflacred.
PHILADELPHIA, Oaober 9.
The Intelligence Published in this
Gazette this day, is taken frorti the
latest and only London Newspaper of
the 16th Aiiguft, brought by the At
lantic.
By Baltimore papers of the 6th and
7th instants, it appears that Thirty four
persons died at Fell's Point in the town,
and precindfs, from Saturday morning
to Monday to the
Statement of the Comm'ittee.
Wc are desired to state that the accident
which lately happened to a carriage and
horses eroding the Delaware, took place
in a Ferry boat that went from Arch ctree;
Ferry bourid to Cooper'* Ferry.
Verbally, we learn, that when the
Atlantic failed it was not known to a
certainty whether Robespierre had been
aflaflinated or put to death after trial,
no intelligence to be relied on had
been received of any confequentand
confufion in the army. Mr. Home
Tooke ; Rev. Mr. Joice, and others
confijicd for high treason were 10 bi
tried in Septftnber. Gen. Ad.
Camp, at C.arl'ijle October 3.
" On Ttulrfday Major Macpherfon.
at the head of a very refpeftable body
of young men, entered this town, ant!
yffterday 27 pieces of artil!<iy, unde
Capt. Thompson, with Col. Cur.iey'i
battalion, arrived, and immediately en
camped near us. Here is a molt ex
tenlive common admirably calculated
tor the present puvpofe : It is fufficient
to encamp 10,000 men on : at present
are about 2000, including Philadelphia
horse, infantry, & artillery—Lancaller,
Berk.-;, See. horse.
" This day, at 12 o'clock, we wit
ntflcd a jno!t interesting fcenf. It was
announced that The PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES, was
approaching. Immediately the three
troops from Philadelphia, Gurney'sand
Macpherfon's battafiions> and the artil
lery paraded. The horse marched down
the road about two miles, followed by
the Jersey cavalry in great numbers.—
We were drawn up on the right ot the
road, wheie our Beloved Washington
appeared on horse-back in a travelling
dress, attended by his Secretary, &c.
As he passed our troop, he pulled off his
hat, and in the molt relpedlful manner
bowed to the officers and men ; and in
this manner passed the line, who were
(as you may suppose) affected by the
fight of their Chief, for whom each
individual teemed to (hew the affection
ate regard that would have been to an
hoiioicd parent. As soon as the Presi
dent passed, his escort followed, we join
ed the train, and entered the town—
whose inhabitants seemed anxious to fee
this very great and good man : crowds
were affrmbled in the ft recta —but their
admiration was silent.
" 1h this mannei- the PirFident pnf.
fed to the fiont of the carnp, where the
troops were aflembkd in front of the
t'tntv; the line of artillery, hovfe and
infantry, appeared in the mull perfect
ordei : the grcateft silence was observed.
The President approached the right
uncovered, palled along the line bowing
in, the inolt refpettful and afFe&ionate
manner to the officers in front : he ap
peared to be well pleased: The fpefta
ele was grand, interelting and afFe&ing
—every man at he pafl'td along poured
forth his wifhcs for the preservation of
this most valuable of their fellow citizens.
The Jersey troops returned, before this
to their own encampment, and were not
present at this lalt fttblime inllance of
the choanal fubordinatior. of citizens to
the call of their chief, for the support
of law and order.
" Here you might fee the aged ve
teran, the mature ioldier, and the zea
lous youth, aflembled in defence of that
government which mult (in turn) prove
the protection of their pevfons, family
and property.
" As the troops are coming in daiiv,
there will soon be here a moll formida
ble body of men, fuffieient to fubdcc
all the oppt.fi-rsof government, and, if
netefiaty, any foreign foes."
M*. Fenno, .
A refpeftahie number of citizen# have'
agreed .to fuppiirt the following Tic-
Act St the eofuing. Eltf&ion : • *
iieprefei itatlve itl Congrtfis—Thomas
Fitzfimons. > >
State Senators—Joseph Thomas,
William. Bingham, Nathaniel Newlin,
Robert Harr. 1
Aflembly—George Latimer, Bcyija.
min R. Morgan, Jacob Hiltzheimtir/
Robert Wain, Lawrence Scokel, Fia/i
---cis Gurney. i
* In a few of yellerday's Gaipirtrc,
the following errors of the prcft. qc.cmThd
in the paragraphs under the Philadelphia
head in the third page, viz. In the ihird
paragraph " probably" for ptohc.bl-, <aiue
paragraph, " reversion" for revijiou.
Old American Company.
THEATRE—CEDAR STREET,
TO-MORROW EVENING,
Otiiter 8.
Will he prcfenfrif,
A COMIC OPERA, ntver performed
in this Theatre, callr-tj
Robin Hood;
Or,
Sherwood Forefi.
To which will be added,
A Grand Serious PANTOMIME, in ;
A els, never performed but once hi V
merica, railed
The Danaides.
With n<;w music, drelTes, scenery, and
decorat\>ns.
In the courfc of the Pantomime, Monf.
Qnenet will dance a Pas tie Deux ; alio
dancing by Madame Gardie.
In a£t a Grand Combat, between
Meflrs. Marriot and Prigmore.
The Pantomime is conij.ofed by Monf.
Queriet.
The Music by Mr. Pelifie.
And the fcentry executed by Mr^Cicc
ri.
Books explanatory of the Pantomime
will lie fold at the Theatre.
The doors will be opened at half after
five, and the curtain drawn up precisely at
half after fix o'clock,
-■*