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    Twenty Dollars keward.
RAN away from the subscribers in
Woodbury, Giouceiter County, Ne'.v-Jf r
<ey, on Sunday mornii»g the i2tt. Instant,
Two young Negro Fallows,
named Jdck and ; • in, c .ch about 20 yt»rs
°f » J'lcic is of a dark black coiodr and
afour loi.k ; T«"W It f itti open counte
narce, of a yellowilh colour, and much
difpoled to labgfi.
Tlie> are f|irightly iclive fellows, and
but little Ihoft of lix fc-et hiy.!i ; they Wtre
botl. well drefTed j Jack had on a blue
broadcloth coat and different kinds st
clothes.
Whoever takej up fiid servants, and
feciires ;hem in a:iy gi ( in the Unted
States, fotnat their m .Hers may gift them
again fhail receive the above rewa-d aod
realonab e expr icer.
'Jo/, n Sparks,
Andrew Hunter.
2a ..tf
Oft." ,14
Tcf the Public*
A SUBSCRIPTION
Is opened for Printing the
Theological Writings
o F
Emanuel Swedenbourg*
At Francis Bailey''t Book Jlore, Ao. I iiti
Market Jlreeti Philadelphia,
WHEN > fui&ciena fubferi|«io« liter,
place, a meeting will be ad'ertiled to c'ni*;
titer the mod eligible mode for conducting
tbe printing of tbcb of the WsrV« « ftrafi'
bi tote ot the grfatail Utility iri
the firftinllance. -
The following Treatifei may be now had at
Mr. Bailey''j ••
The Do<stiine of Lile, or the Spiritual
sense of the Ten Commandmeots.
The Universal Theology of the New
Cnurcii ) which was foretold by the
Lord in Danirl, chap 1 . 7, v. {, t3> >4,
and in the Apocalyple, thap. 21, v. 1,
2, &c.
A summary View of tlie Heavenly Dot
trines of the New Jerusalem Church.
(£T" As various opinions have been en
tertained re;pett:ng theft invaluable writings
and yet no perfoit by rational argum> nt has
been able to refute them, bnt inltead there
-41. invidious calumnies and groundless re
ports have been irdufti ioufly propagated
todifcredit the honourableandenlightuncd
Author, as well a.« his Works, we doubt
not the can id and fineere inquirers after
Truths of the highelf importance, will se
riously examine those Wurks for themjehesj
In which rt ;s to be hoped, thct being in the
puifuit and love of the Truth lot ;he lake
of it"; native excellence ani v/e, they will
rrgr.rd them a?, ihey jultly rielervo-, and in
the eid receive :io?n profit and d<light.
Oft. 14 eTmaw
CIRCUS,
This Aftetnoons
(W Ptrmitimg)
Will be perfo' med a variety of Srrprifing
Fcati ot Horsemanship.
In particular for this time, Mr. Ricketts
will go through the
Manual Exercise,
Standing on a horse in full speed, and go
ing though ail the motions.
The POLANDEK'S aftoftifliiftg Tricfcs
by Mr. M'Donald, who wilt also exhibit
a number of other wonderful feats. To
«onclude with
Johnny- Gilpin's Expedition,
Or,
The TAYLOR DONE OVER,
for the last time.
In ' dertomake the hour convenient
to such ptrfons as may wish to attend the
Lied ion, which is to be held this day at
the State Bouft, the time ol opening the
Circus doors will be at three o'clock, per
formance to commence exactly at a quar
ter past four.
As Mr. Ricketts's engagement will soon
Tcqirtrefiis attendance at New-York, his
stay in this City will be but veiy Ihoit.
tmch T.adits and Gentlemen, therefore
a; may bcdefirousof visiting either the pri
vate exercises of the morning or the public
entertainments of the Circus will conse
quently engage places in the Boxes at the
Circus, where attendance is given from,
to tiH ] o'clock every day.
Old American Company.
STREET.
TO-MORROW EVENING,
Odder 15.
Will he prefertted,
The TRAGEDY of
MAC B E TH.
To tukhb Unit be added,
A COMEDY, never performed here,
id two alls.
Called the
Rival Candidates j
O R,
The ELECTION.
Mefirs. HALLAM & HODGKINSON
rtfpe&fuily acquaint the Citiarni in gene
ral, that every cxpe nee fail been cbearful
ly fciftaincd.' that might tend to make the
OUljl mtrican Com-panj, worthy a (hare of
their patronage, during the ihbrt stay the
nature of then- engage-menu will permit
them to mik* here.
Far tb* Gamtttt- »f tbtVuiittl SlQtai
Mr. F'hilo,
In vour bf last eveninj? a simple
fa<ft was stated refpe<sttn£ (he Speaker of
Congress ; thisisdenominatedinthe Gene
ral Advertiser " a barefaced attempt to
iVnpoFe on llie good Tthfe of the ele&t'M us
th< County of Philadelphia"—th? electors
will determine for themselves—and not
be biafild by the flimfey pretences of Jiolc,
Who square thfcir conscience to the times,
Int V<y?-make the test of crimes.
The Constitution of the United States •
was cllabiifhed to form a moreper/eS union
—aft oath to support that Conftitutibn,
never included a right to petition that this '
union should bt undermined and over
thrown by interpoGng the Leg'flafivc au
thority of .1 part in opposition to the Le
g illative authority of the tuhote.
I will suggest to the Insurgent para
graphs in the Genera! Advertiser the fol
lowing queries, r.ot doubting that they will
be duly attended to by every independent
elf-ftor. !
lit. Whether the principle of an excise
was ever obi&ed to by the candidate in
qyeuion, till it extended to his owl bujt- j
ness ?
2d. Whether the petitioner did not
propose in a certtin houfc, that (for the
benefit of the-poor no di'tbt) the duty on
raw or brown sugars, should be enhanced
in lieu of irtipofmg a duty ou refined fugaro,
which would fall entirely) Kid exclulivtly
oft the rich ?
1 ■■ "■
From a late jLnglyTi 'Paper.
DIF,J>—In the Fleet Pfifon, London,
Benjamin Pope, EGq. in the 67th year of
his age. Mr. Pope was not a less extra
ordinary character than old Elwes, of me
mofa.'ble memory. He was originally i tan
ner, in Southwark, and his flcck tvas
•worth' hot left than 70,c001. Though
slid to polTefs 100, cool, he had been near
ly 11 years in prison for debt of io,oool.
which his creditors agreed to take 1000 for.
His chief luxury was a pint of small beer,
which fie always examined carefully to fee
whether it as full before he paid for it,
and about tw6 penny worth of n.eat per
day. Kis tbfeefArthing candle he always
bought by weight, i. e. he had the heaviest
of eight or ten for his money. He was
never known to have a joint of meat on
h'Stable. His coat had been far years so
old antj faithful a .fcrvantf, thai it had long
wanted a nr.p. His wig Would have dis
graced a crow's reft. In his illness,
being told by an apothecary that his diflo
lution was Rapidly ipproaehing, " Well,"
said he, with a fort of lambent finite,' jn
that cafe I shall wipe off my debt of
10,0001.'' Notwitliflanding these lock
ing vices, they were mingled with fftme
unaccountable instances of benevoknee,
for, (whilst he was irt the habit of Weigh
ing his candle, or measuring out hi», fmafl
1 beer) he to the last gave weeklv orders for
j a stone or two of meat to be divided a
n 10rig a few poor house-keepers in hie
neighborhood.
Foreign Intelligence-
FRANCE.
National convention,
July 30.
Richard, Representative of the People
with the Army of the North, to the
Committee of Public Safety.
Antwerp, July 17,
" Citizen Colleagues,
" I annouiiceto you the evacuation
of Fort LHlo. The English on their
retreat broke doivn the dykes, and in
undated more than fix leagues of the
country. They carry jwith them the
hatred and the execrations of the inha
bitants, which they had merited by
their pillage and their baseness* They
continue to accelerate their flight.—
Our scouts advanced more than ten
leagues before they fled their advanced
polts. They fccm to be taking refuge
under the cannon of Breda and Bergen
op-zoom. They left us thirty pieces
of cannon at Antwerp. We found
contiderable magazines, especially of
hay. More than three hundred indi
viduals have concealed articled belong
ing to the allied armies. We are now
searching for them. To this mercan
tile conduit of the inhabitants of Ant
werp, 1 mntt oppose an instance of dis
interestedness and attachment to the
French nation, which does honor to
Citizen Jacques Leemains, a merchant
of this city. On the retreat of Du
mourier, i« order to save 400 sacks of
corn which were deposited in his ware
houses, he declared to the enemy that
he had bought them. By this patrio
tic lie he saved them to the Republic,
and has now reftorcd them,
(Signed)
« RICHARD."
August i.
Committee as General Safety.
The business commenced at ten
o'clock.
The Convention proceeded to the
Nominal appeal, in order to complete
the Comm'ttee ot (general Safety: the
majority ot the luff rages was united in
favour of > t
The citizens Legendre, (of Paris)
Goupilkau, (of Noritenay)
Merlin, (of Thionville)
Andrew Dumont.
Bernard, (of Santes) and
Jean Debrie.
Rrvclutionary Tribunal.
Ltcointfe. I demand the repeal
ot the law of the 22d Prairial, relative
to the new organisation of the Revolu
tionary Tribunal, it is tantamount to
Martial Law."
This decree was instantly and unani
mously repealed, amidlt the plaudits of
the Contention.
FrerOn. " 1 have beheld with a cer
tain degree of ammifhrtient mingled
with horror, in the lilt of the mefnbers
presented, in order to compose the Re
volutionary Tribunal* the names of mtn
who defcrve the public execration. All
Paris demands of you the jiiflly merited
punishment of FouquicrTinvi'le. (Plau
dits) —You have sent to the Ke.olnti
onary Tribunal, the infafiioiis Dutfias,
and the Jurymen, who with him, par
ticipated in the crimes of Robespierre.
I shall prove to you that Fouqufer is
equally guilty, for if the President, and
the jurymen were influenced by the Ty
rant, the public accuser must also have
been his creature, fincfi he drew up the
adts of accusation. I demand then,
that Rtuquier Tinvillc may be sent to
expiate in HclJ, the torrents of blood
which he hath shed." (Plaudits)
The Convention inilantly ordered
him to be arretted, and delivered over
to the Revolutionary Tribunal.
Favau observed, that Jean Dcbrie,
hitherto attached to the Federslifts, was
appointed fine of the mebers of,the
Committer of Public Safety.
lean Pebvie, laid, that as without
the public confidence he could not he
fcrvico&ble, he begged leave to give in
his fefignation. ;• Like many
me nr. be is of the Convention he had been
betrayed into the" pljni of the Briflb
tines ; but he always atted from the best
of motives.
The Convention accepted his refign^
ation.
After some «>bfervations fVoifl Chari
er and Cochon, relative to the law of
the 22d Prainil, tlie committees of
Public Safety, General Sai'etv, and
I*egi(lation, were ordered to bring in a
report relative jo a new organization of
the Revolutionary Tribunal.
ROBESPIERRE,
Brival and Bourdon mentioned feve*
ral anecdotes, relative to tiiat bloody
Monster. The firft ttated, that he had
threatened to discharge the Jurymen of
the Revolutionary Tribunal, because
they bad not put every one to death,
that was sent him before this Tribunal;
and the second affirmed, that four of
them at the trial of Goffin, were mena
ced with aflailinatibu, because they re
filled the tyrants orders !
15 Tktrmidof—-2 Augujl.
After hearing a denunciation again ft
Roflignnl and David, the Convention
ordered them to bt arretted.
August 4.
In tfie evening fittings yesterday,
Merlin of Douay w;* declared f"refi
dent; Barras, Freron and Columbel de
la Meurthe, Secretaries.
The Poet de Lille, author of the
Hymn des MarfeiHes, transmitted an
Ode on the confplraey of Robespierre.
It was remarked that he was under ar
rest. His ode was then sent to the Com
mittee of Public Inttru&ion, and the
examination of the motives of his deten
tion referred to the Committee of Pub
lic Safety.
Citizen Moline offered his honi.ige
in a prologue aud hymn, composed. for
the approaching opening of the New
Opera-house, in the Rue de la Lot.
Honorable mention, and transmitted to
the Committee of Publjc InftruCtion.
Honorable mention also of a letter
from the pupils of L'Ecole de Mars,
to the youth of the diftridt D'Avennes,
who took arms to snatch Landrecy from
the enemy !
Two fddiers efeaped t'lom the ene
mies' chains, after having each left an
arm, aflured the Convention, that our
armies burnt with desire to prove to the
enemy, that there t was not a soldier of
Robespierre among them, Upon the
proposal of Andre Dumont, the Prtti
dent gave the fraternal embrace to the
two Republicans.
Several addrefTes to the Convention,
expreflive of gratitude and affedtion,
were then read.
Santhonax and Polverel have written
to the Convention, that they no {boner
heard of |he decree again ft them upon
landing at Aiac, th3n they immediately
themfelvcs and t!iei» papers.
They repreftnt, that after their cuudud
(hall be examined, the CoijvcntH
be sorry for the ligoious
giinft them ; and e? it might
gerous to divulge what they Have n.
fay, they beg to be examined in secret.
Breard said, thofc citizens arrived
vefterday at Paris, under the conduct
of a Lieutenant, arid hepropofed —sus-
pension of the decree agamft them—Lt
btvty( not however to quit Paris; and
tiiat tiie Committee us Public Safety,
-Marine and Colonies saraine into their
business immediately.
Sittings of the tB/A Ther 'midor f f Aug) 5*
GolTuin informed the Contention,
that the inhabitants of the frontier CcSm
munes are not without disquiet at the
despotic proceedings of St. Just and
Lebas. He proposed that the consti
tuted authorities bf the Northern De
partments, the Paysde Calais, of Aifne,
of the Moselle, of the Higher and Low
er Rhine, (hall be ordered to fend to
the United Committees, within th£
Decade following, the notification of
the present decree, all the order* of
those perfidious mandatories of the peo
ple.
Bourdon de l'Oife, defranded the re
form of another abuse. A crowd of
excellent citizens, said he, groan yet in
the dungeons of guilt, and the Conven
tion will draw down the benedidtions
of the people, by restoring thefn to
their difbacted families. He proposed,
to expedite this happy moment.
I. That the Committee of General
Safety shall liberate those imprisoned
as suspected, whose detention has
not been oidercd by the law of Sep
tember 17.
11. That all the Revolutionary Com
mittees shall communicate to those
detained, to their relatives, or friends,
the motives of their arrest—Adopted.
A Member demanded the extent ion
of the obligation upon the Reptefenta
tives of the People, in employment,
and the Committee of General Safety.
Decreed.
GoufTry demanded, that the Conven
tion should yet do something for tlie
citizens of Arras. Upon quitting that
commune, the lith of the month, Jo
seph Lebon promised to return in fix
days ; he ordered the guillotine to be
permanent in the public square. He
proposed the charging the national agent
of the diftcitl, to displace this instru
ment of death fiom the fight of the
good citizen*, whom Lebon has too
long perfecuted.—Referred to the com
taittees.
Chailief here informed the Conven
tion that Goflinhal was arieiled, and
demanded fp'-rdy execution upon the
head of this Traitor. Fhe Revoluti
onary Tribunal being yet uninformed,
he moved they Jhoilld be inverted pro
viforily with powers to diredt the apr
plication of the law upon Goflinhall,
and all the other Conspirators, until the
re-organization of the Tribunal.
Fayau resuming the fubjeft of Bour
don de I'Oifc'n propositions above, en.
deavored to demonstrate their impracti
cability ; but Tallien came to their sup
port, and refuted him with great advan
tage—no one supporting his opinions.
A letter from Lebois, the Public
Accuser, announced that they had inen
tified the person of Goflinhal, and sent
him to his fate. Several congratulato
ry deputations have entered—particu
larly one from Clermont Ferrand, and
another from Bourdeaux.
Salaries of the Clergy &c.
Maliavwe in the name of the comit
tee of Finances, Brought in a report,
which gave rife to the following decree:
The national Convention, being in
formed that the payments, which ought
to have been made quarterly to the ci
devant clergy and nuns, pensioners of
the state, have cealfd to be duly liqui
dated for some past, decrees a* fol
lows :—
Art. i. The ci-devant clergy, nuns,
&c. pensioned by the Republic, ffaall
immediately, and without delay, be
paid by the receivers of the Diilrifts
the arrears of the sums which may be
due to them, and they (hall continue
to receive their pensions at the end of
every three months.
Art. 2. The commifiioneis of the
NationalTreafury are hereby ordered
under their responsibility, to trans
mit the neceflary sums for the above
purpolles to the receivers of the ref
peftive districts, and continue at the
end of every three nvouths to do the
fame.
Finance/.
Camdon, Jn the name of the Commit
tee of Finance, proposed the following
plan of a decree, which was adop
ted : y
" The National Convention after
heating the report of its committee ef
Finances decrcw. that the provjfional in
fcriptions of the confolidatcd debt, ftiii
continue to be admitted in payment foe
the National Domains, in conformity
to the difpoCtions of the law, of the
24th August, 1793(01d ftile)untßtfce
deliverance of the definitive infcriptioiis
be closed."
A Deputation from the Refugees of
Jemappe was admitted to the bar. Tile
Chairman congratulatedthe Convention
on the energy it had difp&yed, the dan.
gers it had experienced, atod thetreafr m
it had difcovercd and overwhelmed.
He concluded by affiiming," that UaL.
tors and tyrants would pass awav, but
that the Common-wealth (hould be
eternal."
fures a-
Cambon delivered a long and able
speech relative to the organization of
the Committees.
Merlin (of brpugbt in a Re
port, in the name of the Committee of
Legislation, in confequencp of which,
Jean Baptifte Tintetin was liberated
from prison, and the fentenyt agair.ft
him reverted.
SvcceJJcs in the Pyrenees.
The army of the Weitern Pyrenees
obtained on the 6th, new successes; and
after a desperate rcliftance, they earn
ed by the point of the bayonet, the
fine vally of Baflan, all that of Lerail,
two considerable Forts and Fortarabia
is nearly dellroyed by the bombard
ment.
They pafled defiles extremely narrow
scaled the most alarming precipices, and
took pofTefiioii of redoubts placed upon
the lofty mountains, which commanded
the BidafTon. The enemy, who had
iz,ooo men were repulsed on all fides,
and the fruits of the vi&ory are im
meufc in artillery and various stores.
Feafi tf the Tenth of, jlupifl, ''
The-Committee of Public Safety de
crscd, that oil the ei.fuing celebratiou
there shall be no market. That the
Citizens in the evening lhall assemble
in the National Gardens of the Thuil
leries—Each Section conducing the
warriors they (hall honor—There a
grand concert shall be performed—snd
one bon-fire re-unite in du(t the fpoila
of fedeialifm and tyranny —The fete
shall be finifhed with songs and dances
exprefiive of national joy.
August 6.
I A letter was received from General
j Pichegru, dated Antwerp, 16th Thcr
f midfire, congratulating the Convention,
\ in the name of the Nothern Army, on
'i account of the overthrow of the ty
; rant.
Similar congratulations were rectiv
ved from Michaud, Commandant of the
Army of the Rhine.
The provifionaiy Adminillrators of
the regenerated Police of the Commune
of Paris were admitted tp the bar.—
They congratulated the Convention up
on the late occurrences, and referred
with pride and gratitude to the func
tions, which in a moment of peril had
been confided their discharge.
The Citizens of Maubeuge, by let
ter, felicitated them upon the late e
vetits.
Patriotic Giftt from Senegal.
The following letter was read from the
Commandant of Senegal, to the Pre
sident of the Convention at Paris:
" Citizen Prefdent,
" The Colony of Senegal, deprived
during eighteen months of all communi
cation with France, leariu at length by
the corvette Oifeaii, and the (hip Hen
ry, the combats and vi£iories of the Re
public, the labors of the Convention
aod it* for ever memorable triumph.
** We envy your toils, and tinee we
'cannot (hare in your glorious eaertiont,
at least offer you the fentiroent* wfach
animate us all, without diftinftton of
fortune, condition, or colour.
" Officers, Soldiers, Government,
Merchants, and Inhabitants, all contri
bute in a patriotic donation, an account
of which is annexed, amounting to the
sum of 20,039 livres.
(Signed) " BL.ANCHOT.'
" P. S. The difficulty of communi.
cation and the immediate departure cf
the Henry, prevented our adding the
contributions of Gorce to those ot Se
negal,"
LONDON, August 18.
One hundred persons have been ar
retted at Biufiels, and the celebrated
Chancellor Von Umpens has been k ßt
to Maubeuge. One ninth of the bar
veils of Belgium is sent to
no Clubs are allowed to bs htW w
NetJjerlandSs
(Loud plaudits)
Augtfft 7