fiw a licet of »i fail of the line fiecring up
uic channel.
The (hip George Barclay, Capt. Collet,
failed from London on the morning of the
ajth August, and brings papers to the
14th and Lloyd's lifts to the J2d. A few
d*yi ago was boarded by the Niger, Bri
ti(h frigate, which the fame day had cap
tured a schooner from Hifpaniola bound to
Philadelphia.
if he Hope, Young, from Virginia, and
Galen, Eddy, from Bufton, Arrived at
Gravefcnd the 19th and the Lively, C»m
rel, from Virginia, failed the lift.
The Polly, Chad well, from Boston, ar
rived at Portsmouth the 19th.
The Union, Bright, from Philadelphia,
at Cowes, and John Johnfton, from Vir
ginia, at Liverpool the 19th;
The William, M'Carthv, from Wif
cafTet, at Whitehaven Aug. 19.
At Dover, the Eliza, Collay, from
Virginia, and Polly, Crimp, from Boston.
At Bristol, the Roebuck, Bliss, from
Philadelphia.
Capt. Collet has brought letters from
Mr. Jay, for the Secretary of State.
Died oftbegcut in his Jlomacb Col. Wm.
Williams House Carpenter and an eminent
ArcfjiteH of this City ■ Col. Williamj
•was a dijlmguijhed patriot in the late Re
volution.
ExtraS from the Maryland Gazette of
the 16th mjlant.
Aft ion: speak much louder than words,
and arc the heft criterion to form an opini
on of the human mind. When I behold
aspiring men, with few or no recommen
dations of their own, hut their profeflion
of patriotifrn, and a general reprobation
of government, I cannot help entertaining
some doubt of their merit j when I fee
them iajole'the multitude with the founds
of democracy and ariftoeracy, liberty and
equility, I question the purity of their
intentions, and whether their action cor
respond with their profeflions, whether
they are actuated by public virtue or pri
vate ambition, and I am induced to brng
the matter to a test in making the follow
ing queries : if they are men of families,
I tra« them home; if they are single
men, 1 trace their private charailers ; are
they good citizens ? are they indulgent
matters ? are they humane to thefr slaves ?
do they support the laws of their country ?
are they benevolent to the human race!
do they lhew a disposition of philanthropy
to all mankind ? these are the true cha.
raftrreftics of republicanism ; if they are
men of this charadler, they are entitled to
the public confidence, and the end fandti
fies the means—But reverse the question;
are they domestic tyrants ? are they cruel
and barbarous to thefr slaves ? are they
violates of the laws of their country ?
are they despotic in private life > these are
the true charaileriftics of tyranny ; if they
come under the latter denomination, they
may, by profeflion, be democrats, or
what you please, but in principle, tyrants.
The human mind may be improved, the
dispositions may be checked, but these
palTions, which in small circles character
ize philanthropy or tyranny, cannot be de
stroyed in larger ones, because nature will
be always inclined to run in her usual chan
nel ; to suppose the contrary would be sup
posing a natural and moral impoiTibility ;
it would not only presume a change in the
disposition, but in human nature itself,
which is immutable. A man diftinguilh
ed for republican principles in his family
&to dependants,the prelumption is strong,
that he will cxercife them when his coun
try may requir* them in a larger circle,
& on a more extensive scale. But that ado
meftic tyrant, when veiled with a greater
authority, will become a true republican,
requires fometbing more than a change in
the human mind.
By this Day's Mail.
FRANCE.
REVOLUTIONARY CONSTITU
TION
OF THE
FRSNCH REPUBLIC.
NATIONAL CONVENTION,
August 5.
CAMBON, after exposing the arts
by which the tyrant .Robespierre, sided
by the Jacobins, bad continued to ac
cumulate all power in the hands of the
Committee of Public Safety ; and (hew
ing the crrocs in the organization of
the various Committees, presented the
following Decree, which was adopted
by the Convention.
DECREE, &c.'
ARTICLE i. The Committee of
Public Satety shall assume the name of
The Central Committee of Govern
ment." it shall be composed of twelve
members, to be renewed every month,
and not eligible again till after the in
terval of a month.
This Committee shall be under
the direct ififpeaion of the " Cotnmif
iion of Foreign Affairs," and cannot
difpole of «ny of the public funds ex
cept for the secret services of govern
ment. For this purpose it shall have
upon the National Treafyry a credit of
ten millions. The credit which it had
formerly, and is hitherto unemployed,
»s hereby withdrawn.
3- The Committee of Surety and
Superintendence, shall take the name of
" The Committee of the General Po
licc of the Republic." It (hall confilt
of fifteen members. It (hall, indepen
dent of the Convention, have alone the
power of arrelting citizens. For i(Tu
ing warrants of arrest againtl public
functionaries, it (hall adt in concert with
the Committee charged with the super
intendence of the Admiuiftration to
which such fun&ionary may belong.
4. It (hall neither fend to trial those
who have been arretted, nor liberate
those sentenced by the popular Corn
millions without being in concert with
the central Committee of Government.
5. The commiflion of Civil affairs
of Police, and the Tribunals, (hall make
toita daily report of the Police and the
interior security of the Republic.
6. It (hall have under its immediate
infpe&ion, the Police and armed force
of Paris, the Revolutionary Tribunal,
the Committees of fuperintendertce of
the republic, and the popular commif-
fions.
7. The national treasury (hall credit
it for nine'hundred thousand livres, for
extraordinary and secret expences.
8. A fifth pait of the members of
the Committee, (hall be changed every
month, and not re-eligible till after the
interval of one month.
9. All other Committees, or com
inifiions of the Convention, now in ex
igence, are abolilhed.
10. The following twelve Commit
tees (hall be eftablilhed :—
. One to superintend the commiflion
of agriculture and arts, composed of
five members.
2. One to superintend the commiflion
of Public Inftrudtion, to con,lift of
five members.
3. To superintend the commiflion of
Commeice and Provisions, five mem
bets.
4. To superintend the commiflion of
Exprefles, Polt-Oifices, and Pod
houses, five members.
5. To superintend the commifiion of
Arms and Powdefy fix members.
6. To superintend the commifiion of
the movements of the Armies, fix
members.
7. To superintend the commifiion of
the marine and Colonies, five mem
bers.
8. To luperintend the committee of
Public Succours, five members.
9. To superintend the commifiion of
Public works, five members.
10. For the fuperintendenee of Public
expences and Revenues, there (hall
be four feftions The firft, confut
ing offive rfwmhers, {hall superintend
the commifiion of the Public Treasu
ry ; the second, of ten members, the
National Revenues ; the third, of ten
members, the National revenues; the
fourth, of ten members, the general
Liquidation j and the fifth, of ten
members, the office of Accounts.
11. A committee of Legislation, com
posed of fifteen members which (hall
have the fuperintendencc of the com
million of civil Administrations, the
■police and the Tribunals, according
to the report of the Tribunals and
adminiflrative bodies, (hall be charged
with the revision and claffification of
the laws, and the details refpefting
the territorial divlfsons ot the Re-
12. A committee of Infpediors of the
proces-verbeaux, consisting of fifteen
members, is charged with superin
tending the transcription of the acts
, or the Convention in its offices and
archives, the National Prefsandthe
commission of civil Administrations.
Art. 11. There shall also be a com
mittee of Infpeftors of the hall, com
posed of fifteen members, excluGvely
charged with the Police <■. ithin the li
mits of the Convention, the committees,
and the national garden. It (hall regu
late the expences of the National Con
vention and its archives, as well as those
of the committees, also the travelling
expences ©f the Representatives of the
people, fenl to the departments of the
armies.
12. It (hall verify and adjust the ac
counts relative to the aforefaid expen
ces s and the resolution of that Com
mittee, declaring its verification of the
expences of the Representatives of the
people amounting to such a sum shall
be allowed as an admiflion of that ac-!
count.
13. The National Treasury (hall give
it credit for three millions, to be em
ployed in such expences in the aforefaid
payments; and all former credit hither
to unemployed, is withdrawn.
14. l'very Executive Commission
(hall give a daily account of its pro
ceedings to the Committee, charged
with its infpe&ion, and shall propose to
it the difficulties to be fui mounted, and
the means of removing them. It (hall
also submit, for the approbation of the
committee, the agents nominated for
the execution of its order.
15* The cottimiffioner* stall lay eve
ry day before the committee for infpeft
ing the public expenditures and revenue,
a detailed account of the expences in
curred in the course of the day.
16. The committees shall direflly
propose to the Convention all legisla
tive obje&s, after having previously
communicated them t6 the central com
mittee of government. They' (hall con
cert with that committee thro' rhe me
dium of one of its members, who shall
be charged to report thc executive ob
jects discussed in the committee,
17. All executive dbjecls (hall
be definitely fettled by the Central com
mittee of government, Which /hall be
responsible for the refokiticms' it mav
take. : '
The refolutioni /hall be signed by at
least fix members of the central com
mitte, and by the commifliooer of the
committee who shall make the report.
The refblutions (hall be sent to be
executed by the commiflions, and an ac
count of them (hall then be laid before
the convention.
18. Should there he any difference
of opinion in the central committee of
government, the affairs to be difcufled
and decided by a meeting composed of
one commifiioner from each of thecom-
ttiittees.
19. In cifes of urgency whert expedi
tion is required, the Central Committee of
Government may call upon one or more of
the Committee charged with the fuperin
iendence of the matter in question, and the
result of their deliberation (hall be carried in
to execution. But the members who (hatl
aflifi in such deliberations (hall make an
immediate report of it to the General
Committee.
20. the Convention shall itfelf nominate
the Reprefentativel of [ft*" PeopF: to be
sent on any commifiion, the Gcn«ral«, the
members of the Executive Commis
sion, the members of the Revolutiona
ry Tribunal, and Popular Commlfiions,
on the propositions of the Central Com
mittee of Government, United with thecom
rr.ittee charged with what relates to that
particular objedl,
28. The National Convention alone
has power to recal the Representatives of
' the people sent upon eommifiion.
The Central Committee of Govern
ment, in concert with the Committee
charged Hvith that particular affair, may
remove the .Generals, the members of the
Executive Commiffiotis, and other public
functionaries, of which a report is to be
made to the Convention.
12. All the Committees shall have a
fifth of their members changed every
month.
13. All the Committees and Commifli- ,
ons within in the Convention (haft conti
timie to exercise their functions till the
committees that arc to replace them are
perfectly organized; ..
The committee of public welfare at Paris
U now composed of the following perforu :
Barrere, Lolloi,
Tnlien, Thuriot,
Collot D'Herbois, Treilhard,
Billaud Varennes, Carnot,
EJJeeberau,fen, Prieur, and
Breaid,, Lindet.
<1 0 . ,
LONDON.
From a variety of applications which
were made to the feat of Sir James San
ierfon'a honor in the course of the re
treat from Guildhall on Tuesday, we
are told that the worthy Knight has
been rendered as fcientific, as the per
sons described by Hudibras, who have
been
" Kick'd until they can feet whether,
" The Ihoe be Spanish or Neat's leather."
Hid the recent circumftinces of a man
jumping from the top of a house to avoid
being dragged to the field of giory happen
ed at Paris iuftead of London what an
ample field would Tome people have had to
expatiateon the dreadful situation of a coun
try, where such means were necefiary to
recruit thearmy 1 What adecided inference
would have been drawn of the sense* of the
people as to the profccution of the War !
What a strong argument in favour of a
Counter-Revolution being to take place !
NEJV-BKUNSiVICK 08 at.
ExtraS of a letter from an officer of the
ferjey I'olttnteeri, dated Harr\Jburgh
October 10, 1794.
I expert to be with you in 4 or $ weeks,
we Jhall reach Carlijfe 17 miles from this
place to morrow and thenif time mill per
mit y<nt Jhall hear front me again. As I
am writing 3 deserters from the horse are
brought into the camp j yejicrday and two
made their escape- among the latter is Joftah
Loree—we lojl eleven jn one night, two ta
ken, the one whipped theother cleared, three
in all from me. Carrit Ryder is the
only one from Brunfwick.
NEW-YORK* Augiift 11.
ARRIVED.
Ship Cheefman, Ogilvie Amsterdam
John, Ewinff ■< Liverpool
Draper, Goliics - Dublin
Brig Glasgow, Cpdvyife Jamaica
Rebecca, Brown Hamburg
Aftivc, Stevens St. Vincent
Jehny, Martin, Glasgow
(prize to a French squadron.
Sophia, Coles Turks Island
Schr. Salley, Williams Jeremie
Union, Clough St. Euftatia
Friendship Warner
Randolph, Towbridge
Sally, Smitlt
QuiDtdTeriee, Bird
Jud arrived in this Port, the Brig
Jenny from Glasgow, prize to a French
fqtiadron of fix or seven fail of large sri
gates. The Captain and Crew, that
caine in the Jenny are Amei icans, who
failed in a veflel bound from an Ealteni
port to Bilboa, which veflel was taken
by this squadron and was manned for
France.
The Americans were taken on board
the fqHaaron, where they continued
about three weeks, during which time,
the fquadion took eleven prizes and
bijrnt them all. When the Jenny fed
into thi'ir: hands, (he was givert up to
the Captain and crew, who have arrived
here this day. This is the best account
we have been able to obtain relpefting
the prize and the French fqtladron'on
our coatt.
FxtraS of a litter from a gentleman in
St. Marc, to a merchant in this city,
• dated 28th Se/itemler, 1794.
" This place has been a scene of hor.
ror for 17 days pad—having been at
tacked by the Brigaocfs, who have h.ow
evet been repulsed with great loss on
their fide—and we kave received rein
forcements which perhaps may tend to
feftore q tut."
So iit'ftcb for the story of the French
having taken St. Marc's, and put 700
of tfte English to the sword, as per ac
counts from Baltimore, in the Philadel
phia Gazette of lad evening.
Charter,
Lady Walterjlorjf \
'Jacob Benners, Majler.
BURTHEN about 1700 barrels Flour or
8500 bushels grain, fail» remarkably fait
ind will be ready to receive a cargo in a
few days,
For terms, apply to the Capiain on
board, or to
•ague of half the nations of Europe,
or tlie purpofc of fnpprefling the revo
ution. But a careful examination of
this fubjeft will 'probably fatisfy any
candid enquirer after truth, that moit
of the violence committed, and miseries
buffered in France, during the revolu
tion, have been occasioned by bad ma
nagement ; that is by errors which
might have" been avoided, had the lc
giflators of that country been less preci
pitate in some of their mod important
steps, more governed by the maxims of
experience, and less by their own paf
(ions, or visionary ideas of the theoreti
cal or h.id the
revolution happened under more auspi
cious circumstances.
enger, wi.ekedon the Bar of Littl" E P g j one °[™ e , a " d ™* ,vA «'
rlarbour, o« the 7 th mft. in the ftip Sa.it rors cOOltolttid by the Constituent Af
francifco di Paulo of Genoa, from Nantz.> fembly, was to crcate a legislature with
n France, bouud to New York, Nicho- zjingle houft, I believe it was not only
asCaftilHne matter unfortunately drown- ; proper but titce/Tury, that all the diffcr
■d, take this opportunity of publicly ac- ent onJ f M clloft „ to c fc
cnowledgmg ®ui gratitude to Ebenczer . ~ ... , nit
Tucker Esq. Surveyor of the Customs of . e A.lieniby» Ihould ftteet
:he Port of Little Egg-Harbour, for his 1 inonehoufe, otherways the Nobles and
lumane and spirited exertions in our be- \ Clergy would have negatived every aft
L n " nd ! av ? nn ? t0 ? c " re andrec °ver ( ti iat should entrench on their exclufifre
:he effects & cloathes of the unfortunate, i • i j rrn* „ j • 1
;vho were plundered by the unprincipled ! a " d junfd.A.on ; and with.
Shallop-men and Inhabitants on thecoaft; 1 abohlhlng many or their privileges,
sut we have to regret that when we firft [ the revolution would have been incum
jrounded, Mr. Tucker waj absent at Phi- ; plete, and probably useless.
adelphia on business, or we have every I But these orders being once abolished,
eafon to believe we should have laved pro- ' i .t, r i 11 j j j
,erty from the wreck to a eonfickrable a- j ,5 °[ ran . k . 1111 rc . duced and r
moun t< ! blended with other citizens, hi point of
Witness our hands at the Port of Lit. rights, it should have been the firft arti
tle Egg Harbour, this 15th day of cle of the conftitutiori, to eredt an eleS-
October 1.794. . ive Senate, to be composed of any citi
toivme erar 1, Mate zens whatever, and no way diftinguiih
. c -wig aufer, f rom t ) ie members of the other house
but by their more venerable age.
Their negledt of this artisle in the
'undamental Code, in defiance of the
:xperience of two thousand years, and
the recent experience of America, was
1 proof of their contempt of old max
ims and hoary headed experience, for
which France has ever since been bleed
ng at every pore. A venerable senate
s the rock of political fafety to all free
[fates. When eledlive, it is not an aris
tocracy ; it is a reprcfentative body.—>
And a division of the legislature into
:\vo branches it intended almoftfolely to
lid and temper difculfion and to restrain
passions and precipitance. The history
jf the convention for three years pad is
sne tilß:; of fadts to illustrate the utility
jf such a divilion ; and has done move to
onfimMr. Adams's doftrineof checks
ind balances in government, than a hun»
ired folios of labored disquisition.—
Joseph Sims,
Who has for Sale,
A few Cbejls of Red and Pale
Peruvian Bark,
Of tbeFirft Quality,
Madeira & Sherry Wines,
Fit for immediate use, See. &o
oa. 22
Ouiuorh
P. S Any person who has got any of
the cargo of laid {hip, and will deliver
it to the officers of the Cuftomi of Phi
ladelphia, New York or Egg Harbour, (hall
have a Salvage according to law.
Oa. 22
Old American Company.
THEATRE—CE
DAK STRF
THIS EVENING,
oHoler 21.
Will be Presented,
A .New COMEDY, never acted here,
called the
World id, a. Village,
Written by OTCeefe,author of the Younj
Quaker, Wild Oats, Poor Soldier, &c.
Between the Play and the Farce, a Bal
let DANCE, called the Two Philoso
phers or the Merry Girh
To which will be added,
A FARCE, called
High Life beP/W Stairs.
In A a second, x MOCK MINUET by
• Mrs. Bolomonj and Mr. Prigmore.
MefTrs. lIALLAM & HODGKINSOK
rcfpedlfully acquaint the Citizens in gene
ral, that every expence'has been chearful
ly sustained. that might tend to make the
Old American Company worthy a share of
! their patronage, during the ftort stay the
nature of their engagements will permit
thei.-i to make here.
BOX, one Dollar—PlTT, three quar
ers—GALLERY, half a dollar.
The doors will be opened at half after:
five, and the curtain drawn up precisely tt
half afttr fix o'clock.
Hifpa
( niola
do.
From the American Minerva.
REVOLUTION IN FRANCE.
This fubjeft is a theme of genera
Jamaica
conversation, and furmfhes an inexhau
tible fund of ufeful reflections. Me
of'all nations, who have enlarged, ide
of social happiness, have been lookiu"
upon that event, as molt propitious t,
the piVgrefs of truth, reason, fcieuce,
freedom, and national improvements.
The ardi>r of their wishes is fti 11 the
fame, tho' their hopes have been damp
ed by the scenes of blood and tyranny
wbich have been eslu'bited, during the
pcogrefs of the revolution.
What then have been the eaufes of
the langninary, and irregular proceed
ings of the kgiflators of France, whick.
have abated the arder of our hopes,
and wounded the feelings of all good
men ? This is certainly an enquiry of
vail magnitude ; and a fatisfa&ory elu
cidation of this poiut, will be a valuable
acquisition to the statesmen of all coun
tries.
Men whose minds are warped by preju
dice, and who nevier examine caui'es while,
the events pieafe them, lay " Allthe severe
measures of the ruling powers in France
have been occasioned by the combination
of tyrants to deitroy the liberties of the
French, or by internal treachery." With
these people all the sanguinary proceedings
!n that country are deemed neceflary ; and
therefore judicable.
I admit in the firft piace, that w&s
ther such measures arc neceflary or not,
it is clearly good policy in the Conven
tion to make the people of Franco be
lieve tliem so ; and the, deception, if it
is one, will spread among the advocate®
of the cause, in other co-unti its. I ad
mit, in thefecond p'ace, that it is probable
m'peh. of the violence committed in
EV*uu.e he j-uiilyaltTlfauted ta- the
4t
ET.
FOR SALE,
In the County of Fairfax and State of Vir
ginia, a
Trafifc of Land,
THE Land oo Biands ford, contain Dg
189 »cres,ili<r ftJil is good I w hilly, about
ten dcrc, of it liiv ground fii'for meaHow.
Ther* is 011 it two good dwelling h(<uf< s,
llore fcou'e, ftahles, kitchen, ai-d a still
>oiife with two ftiljs, 01 e of U 3 and the o
ther. 53 gallons, in .older for immediate
' 'i(i,rime are also good app'e and p<*acb
irchard# on it. All the houfesare new ex
• epr one «rf the dwellnif, houfes,that how
ver is comple'elv lepaired and rr good or
der it is a oooc! fitimiion for a store Tavern
and D■ Hi 11c Iy, and there is a good MiU iftit
"D it.
£»^ti : rcoi the Priutef
I