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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
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gSwuf
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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,
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Daily Occurrences.
j peeper* closed,
1 black eyes.
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