;•< *>i. -* Foreign Intelligence. FRANKFORT, (Get.) August. 17. The Field Marshal of the German Empire, Duke Albert of Saxe Tefcoen La 3 declared to \iit circics of the Upper ai d Ijower Rhine, that they were not onlv to provide a large quantity of am munition for the defence rif Mayetiee, but alio to furnilh the ganifon with the iiticfTaiy provisions, and that in cafe ol nori compliance, he would, at the approach of the enemy, find himfelf in the dilagrecabie neceflity, to, abandon that city and leave a paflage open to the French. The city rtf Frankfort being reqweft ed to make the nccelfary advances for all this, the magistrates held extraordi naty fittings; and after many debates on this fubjeft, it was resolved ; not to comply with the demand as far as it con cerns advances of any kind. 500 Prussians lelt velterday the hof i> pital, and were feiit 10 their refpeftive regiments. Ah officer, arriving here from the army, icports, that a corps of 20,000 Auftrians, under Gen. La Tour, has been sent towards Treves, and Luxetn burgh, in order to support the prussian corps, commanded by Kalkieuth, and to dislodge the French, who, according to tome of the latelt letters, have only left 4000 men, <0 guard 'he defiles a bout Treves. It is ftippofed the great er part of the Ftench are direding their march towards Colo'gne. There is a reyprt, though not con fiimed, that the National Convention has given oftfers to take Treves, Cob lentz and Cologne, and to burn the town of New Wied though the. exeiu tio'n of thin favorite plan Ihoilld colt tbe greatest part of the army. A transport of Imperialists and 500 hotfes, have partly reached the Circle of the Upper Rhine, and the test is expe£led before the last of Au gust. There are this morning palled through the city 500 Sclavonians be longingto the fiee corps of Michalvich. WORMS, Atigufl is. The French reconnoitred yesterday moi'ning the whole position of the allied army from the Banks of the Rhine to the Vogefian Mountains. This gives us some feafern to expett ere long a general attack. They drove, in the Au- Jttian advanced pods near Oggerfhcim, and proceeded to Frankenthal j but the Imperialists being reinforced, occupied the fame day their former position a gain. The French fUrpiized at the fame time the Piuflian poil at Kleincar lcnbach, killed a lieutenant, and made some prifuntrS. Our army was to-day again reinforc ed by a battalion of Palatine troops. HERVE, August 9. Part of the Aullrian camp of Richellt' etoffed the Meufe iri otder to attack the* French aidvanced ports. The particu lars of this engagement are not known yet. VIENNA, August 13. ( Extras of a letter.) " The order of his Majesty, that all French emigrants, who are permitted to live in the hereditary provinces, ought not so vefide.in any other place but ca pital cities? wis enjoined again to be molt rigoroufty executed. " Two millions of florins in gold, weie sent the day before yesterday to the army. In the chief depository of all military economic commiflions, efta biiflied here, they go on with redoubled activity, in order to prevent our brave warriors, inceiTantly harrafled by a furi ous enemy, and expol'ed to uncommon fatigues, from fuffering for want of (lollies. " A grand ministerial conference was held to-day, at which the Extraordinary Envoys of Great Britain, Lord Spencer and Grenville, attended. The Empe ror according to report, agreed to the c «Snditions proposed by .Lord Spencer, a rid it is said, he promised to continue t !ie war with vigor. M A Spanish (hip with one miQioa of piasters, for quickfilw, by out court, arrived lately at Trielle. This Bpani(h money will be carried to Gunf burgh (ail Aultrian town in Swabia,), in order to be coined into Imperial dol lars) and pieces of twenty kreuzer. Quicksilver for another million of pi attets will be again sent to the kingdom of Spain. The place where all this quicksilver is brought from is a mice rear Iftria, not far from the Venetian frontiers. —This mine is one of the great resources of Austria, and a conli. dt table portion of the national debt is mortgaged on k. Quicklilvcr is there' ftretii in great abundance, sometimes in the hole# of the rocks." COBLF.NTZ, Angtift 14. When the Flinch td«k poffeflion of Tievesthe magistrates of that city went out to meet them and beg for quarter: 'flie Frentfh iffuefl hereu{aon a procla mation which dir-c&ed the citizens to be quiet, to deliver up their aims, and to reft allured of the protection of a free people, See. The richfs of the Abbeys Convents, &c. ate ;migrated and partly fafe arrived bete And in this neighbor hood. The Frebch have a Iked a 'con tribution Of one million of livres, foui thoufpud pair of (hoes, and rccr thou sand pfiir of flocking* at Treves If' : reported,- the French wfcre gj|BE|at Merxbcrg, (a steep mountain in the left bank, of the Moselle, which C 'iTi raands the city, and requires no other foitification but some pieces of artillery, in older to be mailer *f a cross road, which opens a paflagc to the Geifnan cantons of Luxemburg. PROCLAMATION. From the Prime Minijler of Spain to the Spatujh Nation. Brave Spaniards, As I only intend to lay before your eyes trr.'hs that will cause your fears to subside, and only ask of you to lilten to trie attentively, my solicitude gives me a great right to require it and your own intereit warrants it. J am well aws'c that venad and poi tonous pens will endeavor to pi&ure the late fate of war as the depth of misfor tune ; and that bold and calumniating tongues will represent the itppetijoftty of the enemy as irrefutable. I know that traitor* to God, to the King, and your cause, will not be silent, -but will use every means of bringing you ov«i to their senti ments ; that their seducing language will represent to you every thing as pol fible; that the venal spy will endeavor to engage you among infuripountablc precipices } but at the fame time 1 am acquainted with your loyalty ; the king it, and confides in your forti tude agaiuft the torrent of civil-advisers. Do yoM feel the tfue extent erf our re fourccs ? Be allured, that they .ate fuf ficient, when combined, not only to diive the enemy as soon as they shall begin to a£t, but the King hopes to fee that enemy crulhed on the arri val of the reinforcements which have begun to march,, and which are anima ted by the mod ardent desire to meet the enemy, rather than to take reft in camp. Spaniards, Can 30,000 went and undifcipiined men, vvage a serious war upon us on the fide of Navarre and Biscay ? They are not and cannot be in great numbers, owing to the state of the frontier pro vinces. The combined armies in the North require their firft attention, and while the French appear augmenting i their forces, they in fact dirfilniflv< It is by violent means that their people are forced to their armies. Terror and the guillotine are the springs of all their operations, and they excite hatred and despair, You fee that the lacred right of property no longer exists among them ; you fee that justice has disap peared from among them, and you'fee, that under a fallacious cover of right they succeed Tn bringing into fubmifllon men—but that in the end th:y make flavtt of them. Unfortunately our cities and villages have experienced this fatal ill. Scarce ly one inhabitant did they leave free, when they made their incursion. This incursion is not astonishing, it is a con fluence of their unbounded cupidity ; but weigh the motive and judge of the infufficiency of their arms to pursue their advantages. Could you imagine that or 30000 men would be able to fubjeft our pro vinces, if we bent our endeavots to de stroy them ? Look into history ; the innumerable examples of a wonderful defence made against mightier-attacks will be the answer. It is not surprizing that they (hould at this time have seized upon an open country ; but they can form from that ■BODTetewfions to victory. The nature of the country atoncTrmft flop their ca reer. Be well aflured that the experi- enced and brave general who commands our forces, will permit to keep what they have usurped only so long as they (hall incommode him, and as soon as he (hall undertake to destroy them he (hall succeed. Dispel therefore the fears with which you may have been imprefled ; but at the fame time make an effort to secure yourselves in your homes. God, his sa cred law commands it, and refledt that your field* will not afford you their J>ro- i-srgf juce unless you r under tiis tannei s. He Will then ailiftou and he will fight; tor you. Pray uim finccrely aiid im- 1 plore his prote&n. Td this effedi I public prayers flu a!fo be offered. But dontlet yo iprefentfituation discou rage you : do mt nagite thrtt cur affairs have reached tie lajl extremity of daw get'. Means ojop>:Jing the enemy are not wanting, Tbt King <wiil bring w-'j their injoknee cm p'ide by taking bimfetj the command obis Catholic army. Jove reign repojj ail conjldcnc in Span]/? loyalty and be n;<h'sivours"to make return for ity by limitiig as mucb cts p'Jfihle his royal pomp fau new impojls may be avoi ded j hii as the I fcO?l4f# i I LT L'>- .7£ rmiti. 'This >jlf - fur: una te+r i&hi - \<-re evmicd. kt b.u |' of : ' 1 ' f** gSwuf j • '■» lift's o, ' i ~ rwa rig&r f w preferit moment k? us fecurv -<*/ jtU -'~y- . Let peace flpd tranquility a mow* you make retutu for the upright intentions of your king i and alibis faithful fubj 3 sftjed» receive marks of his gooduefsi H' dear fellow citizens, thefinCere rffufions of my heart, and yon willjind truth and candour j have been my guides* I buvt no other end j in 'View but your tranquility and to roufe^, your Jpirit to deflroy a horae of banditti who wijh to difiurb our quiet, 1 If I fuccecd in this sou willfind in a few days the fruits of my endeavours. -AJfift K n y with your endeavours and you willfoon feel the advantages of your exertions. Religion will contribute to your triumph, and its aid iiuill be without inter mifli on invoked for all by your true friend. ALCVDIA. DUBLIN, Augull 19. Injhe killory of Europe there does not occur a more •■xtraordiiiary circum-' stance than at present exitls, viz. That a Britjfh Raiment of.Light Hoife (the r2thj ]hould be nowaiUially doing du ty at Rome as Life Guards to his Holi ness the Pope! By letters from some Officers of that Regifnent we learn, that on the evacua tion of Toulon the regiment was land ed in Corftca ; but after some time, be- ' t iijg found ho longer necessary there, it \ya3 conveyed to Civita Vecchia, and ■ marched from therce to Rome : there 1 they were received as the Guardians of j j the Government and People ; the offi | cers and foldu-is were superbly lodged I in the Vatican, gratified with every ele -1 gance and plesfure of life, and tieated by his Holiness, and all under him, with the molt unbounded affeftioil and generality !—fiow an- the mighty fal -1 len !—Rome, Once the Miflteis of the 'World, calls set - fnecoar and defence » upon a little lflhrid, which In (he meri dian glory of her Empire, was consider ed: by her but ai a ipeck of her im > menfe dominions,' and inhabited, by I holtile barbarians. LIMERICK, August 15. Admiral Kingfmill, with the follow ing Ihips is arrived in the river Shannon, where he will wait the arrival of the India Ihips in G?lway ijaibour, to lake them under convoy to England—The Alexander, the Monmouth, the Ganges, the Swiftfure, of 74 guris each, and Lewder frigate. KINGSTON, (Jamaica) Sept. 6. Recent advices from St. Domingo, mention the Biilith in that quarter to be in the nioft promising situation. Colonel Brisbane, by extraordinary exertions, having taken the field with an army of men well armed and appointed, advanced ir\to the plain of ArtihonitCt where, after obtaining pof fefllon the heights near tfte town of Petite Riviere, and being joined by Monf. de Villqfiueve, with fomeSpanifh troops, he wa6 waited on by the chiefs of the Republican arriiy then in that town; and articles of capitulation were immediately agreed on. Before however tliefe articles were sign ed, it was found to be indispensably ne cessary that the Spaniards fbould relin quish poffefiion of the parish of Petite Riviere, as the brigands would fubjtift themselves to no other than the Britiih government. By the latest dispatches we find that the Col. has had an interview with the negro chief Touflaint, who is under the ordeis of Laveaux, and is chief of Go naive and other neighbouring quarters : This interview wag followed by a tender of his flibmiflion, ackl his willmgnefs to give up Gonaive and the other places under his com rod ( Grts, MotntlVrre" .Nue*e,JWa«ueWe, PlaifancCj &c.) to the BrSUh.-. The chiefs of the Cflhos, Claude and Gilliame, had alto offered tbemfelves, and requested thflr Colonel Brisbane would write to the Spanilh command ant at St. Michael for a suspension of hollilities. In short, every tiling wears the most favourable afpeit, an J the good under- Handing which subsists between the Bri tift) and Spanish commanders promise a termination to that anarchy, which has | r y< been so fatally predominant m tins in- estimable island. ■ , ■ 11 ' Brigadier-General Horneck is on the point of departure fur St. Domingo, to take thecofcimandot rt'irpolkffidnsthers. It is expected Gen. Whyte will fail for jEurope in a few days. Col. Brisbane's talents are likely to be more extensively employed, oilier aiilrias having ftewn a lincerc desire to follow the example of Gonaive. UNITED STATES. NEW-YORK.i<. T» n'trarfr',..- to obicive the policy of the | • preietu i'crocious war. I Thecoinlir... d powers unprovoked, began I the f*\ bviugim? aito lu'jmimotr, and to j h :■-<rendering the war ! r. ..:---'A:ermination.— Aga•:oft Great Br'tain, the great ftrenjth and foul of the league against France, do the French aim thpir arts, their force and their resentment. Great Britain de rives her ftrengtii from commerce —to de stroy is this now the obje<sl ofFtanee. The navy of France has f'ifFered io much at Toulon and in the late aiStion, that it will require a considerable time, to build and equip heavy (liips fufficient to cope with the Briciih fleet ; not to mention the want of experienced officers and lean:en on the part of France. The French therefore have had recourse tp a masterly scheme of injuring the Briiilh commerce l>y fitting out an mmenfe num ber of large frigates, mostly of 44 guns. These (hips rarry heavy metal and fail faft —They will escape all larger Ihips and capture every thing below their bwn force, which will comprehend all lrnall frigates, and other small armed rellels, letters of marque and merchantmen. With these heavy frigates the French are now cover ing the ocean. To risk nothing themselves, they have stopped all trade of their own ; and turned all their marine into the mod suitable Ihips for annoying the trade of their enemies. To crown this policy, their (hips have j orders to bum and destroy every prize they ; take, which they are not certain of lend- J ing fafe into port. Tiiis order is designed t to prevent the possibility of their prizes being retaken. Thus they are sure of de stroying the commerce of their foes one way or the other. If they are near port, or want any part of the cargoes of the prize veflels, they lave them, if not, they destroy them. Never was the commerce of Great Britain so much injured, and we Ihould not be surprized to hear of fomt paralytic (hocks at .Lloyd's Coffee house. While such is the ingenious policy of the French in defeating and wounding their | external enemies, their internal affairs ex : hibit the molt evident macks of political ( impotence. The Revolutionary govern ment is indeed a revolving body—perpe tually changing. It has no fixed principles, tior permanent form, nor order, no sym metry. A few days ago the committed of General Safety, in union with the Jacobin Club, directed the whole nation—now the Centra! Committee of government does the fame, aided by twelve subordinate committees. Such a monster of a politi cal body with twelve or fifteen heads of different sizes, cannot live long—it is a lufiu nut rim, deltined to be the wonder of fools and the crtntempt o wfe men. While the French have no more wifdoin than to veil executive power in such a multiplicity of Committees and fub-com mitteee, none of them wholly responsible fdr any, ineafure, and all difftriug in their views, revolution after revolution will change the adminftration, and faflion will find ample employment for the revolution ary tribunal, and the guillotine. Revolution in France. The division cf a legiflatirre into two houses is not a chimerical proje<£l of a fan ciful theorist; Ihe history of evt ry free ibte is, or wai on earth, will furriilh stub born fails to fanflion the pradlice. What r would have been the career of Republican Home, had (he bc<-n fubjeil to the caprices andvthe headstrong violent pafilons of her popular Afiemblies, with out a Senateto r< ftra>n them ? The history of that Republic will ant'wer the quellion : Her legiflatire proceedings would have been guided by turbulent tribunes, jullas the populace of Paris have been led by a Marat, or a'Robefpierre, or the people of a great town in America are nolcd about by uoify demagogues ; and her laws wouid have been palled with as much precipita tion, and as little ceremony of diflcuffi on or freedom of debate, as the resoluti ons of a New-York or Philadelphia town meeting., It was in Rcme just as it is in all free countries, pafiions governed the populace, reason was found in the Senate ; the energy or physical force of the nation ■was in the commons, but that force was often misapplied and ill directed unless controled by the -wisdom of the Senate. In America *nfo fl»t« made the expe riment "f » Ugiflitwe monrliotife. Both States after a very few years prailice, have called conventions and new modeled their Constitutions, introducing a Senate, or council as a diftinil branch. But in this fliort compass of a few years one of these states, Penufylvania, saw its consti tution repeatedly violated by the rashness and precipitation of a popular AfitmUy.— One of the rath hasty mcafures of the Le gislature raifcd an arn,cd force to expel iome of the citizcns of the (late from their pofiefiions, on a controverted tlaim to their lands ; and blcod was (bed. in conlequtiice of tliii iincoiiltiiiitioH.il fttj). ■\Yliat particular incotivtnicr.ee the slate of Georgia lutferetl from ti>e coUt/lion of all legislative power into one house, I am not informed j but the constitution is alter ed. Vermont is still making the experi ment of a lejjiflature in a single branch, j in defiance of the experience of her fitter states. In times of peace and political tranquility, When rto Violent parties, no fervid palfions diftradi a state public mea sures may be verv well conduced in luch a legislature. But when factions exist, the most tyrannical, and pernicious fures may be carried into efftdl, to the great injury of the public, if on6party 'can obtain a decided majority in the legil lature, and there is tio veto upen their proceedings. Instances of this kincT tray be found on record in other countries, and in America, the recollection of ;,ny mid dle aged man, will furmth hiru with' fimi ! lar examples. It fignifies nothing to fay 4 things i'-*~ a- tfrat the good fenft of men in tHis age will fupercede the necefßty of artificial re straints upon their pafiicr.s. My remarks are founded upon fadls ; on experience as old as government: and two thwufaud years have not furnifhed any evidence that this reasoning is filfe or inapplicable to the present state of society. On the other hand, the difliafled state of France is it felf a body of arguments that canuot he refilled, to prove tjie utility of dividing a ' legislature into two branches. ELIZABETH-TOWN, N. Jersey, October 22. Yesterday was raised the roof of a building, so tremendeons to the eyes of the poor wight, who does not fufficient ly discriminate between the meurn ai:d luum, a lions chapel ; or, in [he more common language, a gaol.—Often has the voice of humanity joined with that of policy ill earnestly enquiring," why the unfortunate debtor is here buried from the world—unable to futcor his family —incapacitated from 'doing juitice to his creditors—and undergoing the fame punilhment as the hardened villu'tn.' From the foundation of thishoufeto the present time, but one person has been hurt- He, poor fellow being t - thcr top-heavy or not fufficientiy careful, was,precipitated', in a centripetal direc tio , from the third (lory, and tailing into the lap of mother Telh:», was "fed by her so roughly, that many philoso pherS have maintained, point-blank, that file aded the part of a fnrly Jltj dame.-—He is now in the hands of the fens of Efculapius, and bids fair to re- cover. 16. The rapid victories of the French Republicans have lengthened the ph«e« of the Aristocrats moil enormously ; and, in them, their native vivacity and volubility of tongue seem entirely change ed for the Spanish solemnity and taci turnity. 18. Politics run high—On this day was doled the poll for the ele&ion of assemblymen and iheriff for the county of Essex ; when one of the magnani mous candidates having facriiiced so freely to Bacchus that, to ule his own expftfiion, he wa i pretty •well in for it, meandered Molt beautifully and could fcaicely keep his totteiing carcase in equilibria—lt is to be hoped that men of this stamp will never be moie fucceftful than this one has been. Another per fain, who. as well as the former, miffed the office at which he was aiming, was so much offended that he feolded mo(t vociferoufly and musically, to the n<J small dfveriion of the fpe£tators. 20. This day was appointed as the general training —the troops were to meet at Tufkin-Hal!—accordingly at about 8 o'clock, some soldiers, having furnifhed themfclves with a waggon, started for the place, but, by the molt unlucky accidttit in the world, they had not proceeded twenty yards before —crajh went the ilage—down go the pafitngcrs. One cuifed the driver—a notherfwore at the ilage—a third dam ned his eyes—a fourth flood gaping it silent surprise, with his eyes and jnouth ftretehed wide open—a fifth groaned [ most fymphonically for a dodlor —Such was the tirft scene of the farce of this day : The fccond beheld them under arms, performing their evolutions with spirit, when a inoft impertinent (liower obliged fpe&ators and a&ors to seek re fuge, cach for himfelf. The jostling, and crowding, and shoving far exceedtd that which took place in the play-house of Nf>v-Ynrl[ ytif-n 'aught brr-: tjjt ladies screamed—the dogs barked the whips cracked—-the uien fwore — ai: " the huckflert sighed for the fate of their ftalla overturned in the hubbub. In the evening we were entertained by a lattle royal" not being li;liityent]y acquainted with tlie clttumflii ces, and not feeling the Homeric i/ifp;ratioii, we decline giving the particulars at pie fept, and shall therefoVe only observe, that the cataftrophc was as follows: I broken head, 6 bloody noses, "r , * Daily Occurrences. j peeper* closed, 1 black eyes. , > r-'\
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