From tie Virginia Gaxettr. Mr. Printer, I'y Minting the rodofed Dialogue which happened between one of my neighbors'uonc of the lowercoiiTltie& ;I, ai dant - which it i ''tuber 4, 1794- account for ; if he enters by tiic month Ir is ENOUGH TO MAKE A (H'akF.r an. lif he ent ei sby the gallon it is wori'e The above fen.cnce was ..tiered by a argumcnt . — m)t m ,, country oilfiller, very early or. Most- los i; , o (he faml day nun,,.ng, m the- he.ghth of the , • ico , )vemcne J; diddling fcaton, 111 Virginia. After a , D j ftr __ No> For men of property great ram, (hehavmg with much ado . . o) . at ]ea( veil <1 the Sabbatl.,) all his Uj thci he being driven up without halt Deep . jo th|s hw yQU f . )tal to fcthi.ftill towoik, that he ln , ..it , [ • fayou . of j f an ini rot be mined by the tax, and oblige as far ai might complaining cm- • oi ,._ lt fr . c|ng y . n , arc v ,-n ; s: T I,C 'J i ;<c , )!■.,/'. to plenfc ; ,vhat could Con H ,d Ins pre hufiK an overwne to . , i r t i 5 \f t, -i , ~1 , , ..I do, to plenfe every body : Y oil have al moke and llenc i, u . ; ,d V given up, that money tnutl b. warm, and he warmer, when «,.,etf -*v m fcs> what bette , nughbors, an exc,fe t ffioc,be..| > be early trf'the <Wcof Ins bvmncft D ; ft) ,_ A nlcthod not to opprcf* a so, rode up of a hidden with h» I ,t „ i. „fci , B „' n , , . ~, . nor endanger the health, nor lim.s or ti ltli'd fh.rt, C<c.- —-broilirirt on the 1 . . " . r> r 1 „ . . . 0 j the citizens, nor create a uu!i,« number dia ogne . j of offices to prey upon the reventif. Cloud 1 ring neighbor ! .1 Off.—l am at tf lois to knou 'i lie diftilTer, rising uj» and looking , method you can have in y'our head, ah 'iit, it being dark, piping his , t | ta , would answer better than the ho fiid, {food morning^to you fir. . j no)a ;,] c Cougvefs, lias thought proper , {Jry this morning—Do Qaukers ever t I>;|l r> Why if the revenue require* «it, pi't a moderate tax 011 the iiills AMSTERDAM, Augujl 18. Diiiiller. Ido not kil-nv tilai T eVcifj thnriftUes annually, whet her we work We continue to he kept here in the cornple ! one swear ; hut this hvlUjh e'xitfi \ t ] l Jin or n otj accordiit;; to their capnci- tejl fyhorattci rifpeß':ng the operations o, 'iazv, thitijr* that I know of • t ; L , S) a3 1)n , ying carriage:., &c. the arm its on tbt frontiers of these frovin iu the general government, i« enough to , / T | lo > I mud corifefs, it is a doitbt, ' «'■ *bis day thepojl arrived.from Mae m-k- 11 heft man in the world swear, j Aether eithet arc strictly con- J'j;'* > *?% tbe . 'f f T"? „ v i r tIH , :f tvvffiWe In- • 1 \ . » , , , ; fell in with n party of French pat roles, by v ; " P s" fJ• . , i ft.tntio.ial:) and then there would not [ mnms w / dep^', ed Llti lajl lixiifc utkff, VV about dotib. you be , ialf , he u s e tlicre Ig> f or f 0 needlefa o f t i M i etterj j,. om t j x M e uf>. When are out or your tenles this morning; it | a f tt „f beings as you ar#j riding a- \ tbe taj} accounts came away everything in is the law ycVu so mncb exclaim agaum I boU ( j n fplen Jov, lording it ovet lion eft ! Maeftricht <was in Jlatuqtio. The gazettes makes your brandy bring fueh a price ! a|]( j ;„(J u Hn o | ls labourers, enmmitting j mention that an atiion took place near the thii year a« it is like to do :as to the ; n t j l9 execution of your office horrid , Mmje on Monday lafl in ivbith the French other things you know of it. the y )ders . / w | lich | lil3 not been uncom- ' ™re*p«t/eJ with loft ; but of this event al government, Ido not knbw what you . mo()f even wtt hin the narrow circle of m „ , , r | ! m Y acquaintance,) to the great prejti- ■■ WLt , n Antwerp and Hoo? flraeten, which Dlftilk-r. Pox lake tlx? puce tor mc - jM| CC 0 f a number of citizens. Jbouldfee?* ta indicate an approaching at- Ex. Off.—l think you talk with mare i tat* ou Breda. cit idi U.lt 1 know it is not the duty I ro „s Jence than good sense ; for Ido ! It is fatd that the Spaniards have rccent o our spirits, that raises t!ie price j nQt know W |, Q be so C a. )a bJe to' b obtained fame important advantages,and 11. 4 • .1 • r . it „i , i have forced the ent -ny to raise the ficve cj " tc "' tii determine in this cale, as our well clio- | j> >«/ • • DllilLfwhv foreign 1 ! » that j 'sTLJdred m,n of tbe Dutch -dragoon . ' . , , i ucKjy. 1 and Svjijs guards arrived here on Saturday IpiriU, and the articles tlity aie com-1 ]Qj;l v . —lf you are not careful I fan- i injl from, the Hague to reinforce thisgarri posed of ;or else we might drink our 1 y (U , w j]] g Ct wat m ptefentl'v !—But fan ; the cause of theirfit den arrival is wi Krrrrdynt n.: o!d price, ancL have our ,fa what m ay about fdfco.itidci.ee, 1 known. • ' S; '' . . time rur ihft;llinjr it, without en- |or non ),. n f Cj ; t ; s f rom a very painfu* :a rM :S °;' r i ufo of my sense?, that I have learned vei.e cfl'eer. \<>n are very much w ] iat ] | lave an( ] j c | o mo (l can mi'taken, tor you ought to thank yom ! assure you, that 1 depend more '• '■ lk " " •- vtr tl,e " cad on thole monitors, than all their viiion • " ,s » P"'? " c " * lu " ary theories in politics, and inconfilhrnt - - 1 hanit toe DvVi ! fvlloj'ifms which either ancient or mo oflcer. \on lee 111 to be warm den , philosopherS) politician,, or logi this int. in 1 , , 011 1 a ve j c J anß , have dnvvvii, and I again'repeat •; ~ -t ).u wot.ltl have cooleil from j t> a .id mult fay, that the excise law, as '!:! ,v »'t» hv this time. ;; t , low ttands has not a feature of re- Ji truer. 1J- not know what fhouh : pub l icail ; fm in it . but is i ; , u; . i'ous, op ',M ' r ' K ' 1 ue, . c '.'ke m y . preffive, and a law, dan-cous to the ; ; ; i, V.nd of lite :i.r it teems as if the j hea , th an j ,; ves of citixrlls> am} , lee(1 . U ... was ,n tier tins morning, the vyood, , ]cCv t )enflve . a ,„j f(Kll as ~( >u |h ; Ilk lire, or a!, of tl.ent together ; for it j am> , can demollftrate it> if }K3l . had sj.pears as tlio.igh 1 (hall never get her to hfar ]ne to : But to tell you the truth Qg-—p ra y j et ug jj Car jj OW r, lam never cool, when I think of Ditir. —it is inquitious ; —becanfe it this iniquitous law, even the coldell day dots not bear equally on the citizens in the i. winter. Union; as might easily be shewn, iu fun Excite officer. You do not seem to dry instances. It is oppressive, because it In ... a proper frame for conversation, deprives free men of the free use of their t .1 ■ i_ i 1 , r 1 • liberty and property; and it is a qucl ur eifc 1 think. 1 could eanly convince .- _ . e K L . . .. n '\ r c , 1 Hon with .ne, whether a greater Itreteh of you ctyonr mi Italic. power has ever been exereifed in the most; Dtliiller. I have be«n angry it is despotic government's —for I aflc, might 'rue, and am now ttoHfeled at my heart, not Congress, with as tnucl. propriety, - Ttrit the general government, whom I make a law to number mark our had inch conlidence in, Ihould so soon p ,ou S'» s > carts, waggons or even our after the adaption thereof, treat their >'orfes &c. and that when we wanted to conllituents like a set of (laves ; but if use ° ur £ lou^ 3 f* we » r .1 , T certaiß officer by law appointed tor that yo». can convince me of my m.stake, I plirpofef namely J . To g ,.[ nl us liccnce to will attend with all the ears I have, and ufc our ploughs &c. certifying when we jrive your arguments all the weight I should begin to use them, how long «c think thev deserve. might use them ; and that if we warned Excise officer. You know there must mi re time to finifh our crops, or accom he moncv raiftd to pay our debts, and pbfh our jouriiry &c. as the cafe might (.?, defray b Mic exDences luppofir.g it (hould be only a day or two, , , 1- a j u -i we wanted, or a small remnant ol a month And am heartily ve must flop our ploughs, leave our carts willing to bear my part of that ex- &c, from home; or else take out a new pence, licence for a whole month : or be fubjedted Ex. Off, —Well then. What can be to a heavy fine. It is dangerous to the more equal than the duty on spirits ; for health, and lives of the citizens, because thole who consume to pay the tax ? h P uflies ', a " d unnecelTanly drives them i va. t + c »*u mglit and day m a llcklv leafon of the —I conrels it appears lo at the +2 -au • • ii u j .. u . ~ , ! 5 r i » year, to aroid being ruined by a heavy and nit view ; and has, arid does fool thou- opprefTive duty. Upon the whole, if )i ---.g nds ; and at the firil had the fame ef- bcrtv breathes through any part of this upon ; but 1 have seen better law, I have loft my ideas of repubiieanifm. i?nce ; for I must affnre you, that when x * Off.—But there is or.? comfort, viz. a rra;i gives up hlerty for money, he y ou arconl -y one °f adifcontcnted few, who r V. ; a bad ba.gaiu I fa« a wordagainft it- Ex. Off.—l know not what fort of 3n P n i, r "~ f . may .^ w . ,W ' s n , , , and patience of Americans in general, a:,d , you must have, or bow you calcu- thf ; r ~,f ire „f s U p a gcvenime.it it.- ci>.w filch an idea in this cafe. honorable to them ; known..; that the eyes ij.llr.—l think it is very ealily seen, of all the world are upon thein , ii' their ' : I :ean tilt impoiition of this law,) by governors would let them be oi-lv halt i'riv; > ail tboic who have the use oftlicir com- mean) enjoy liberty hi a tolerable de - 'Jiifesnot to lay any thin- of but let me tell ; thatfvo.u wha: .t- jj* i • J 1 b nttle I know; thougn that is but lade V ' ' i acu if , that Americans nave some courage et ILx. C, ,t. Now do tell me wherein . an( j very fevr like the excise law, as i i-itir.—Why to be short. Every now stands; except it be t'nole whi man's still is not a-like expeditious of arc tintfnred with itriftocratifia, and I fear the fame capacity, cvcrf man has not if * rupture fl»o»U tun. up, the conle the fame advantage of sing his ft.il you think td/tbfltiame pr»>ht ; and huitltsi, men o c on( y re f Sj js coinpoied of a let of arif flender force who have no out to depend tocratical tyrants ! :on but a few weakly children with him- Diftr. —I have not faidfo ; but if I may felfto carry mi thehtdinefs (at the belt he permitted tofpak freely, I thinkfirom » ;l,an<j) at this ficWf season of the y<str ; their proceeding* in this matter, and some .it mutt be presumed, will lole nbun- thing* that I hh e ddeovered m the.r CIL «,WH f.vm S he mull management; that they mean to try what we can bear : and it is my opinion as an individual, that it is the heft way to let | them know, or at least, keep them in mind, that they our servants, and not our matters. Ex. Off. Be careful left you fpeaktreafon. Ex. Off. —J am not afraid of that in this cast, for j have ,fetu, and noticed the corillitiition, on this particular. Ex. Off. —But it appears you are too warm and noisy. Diftr.—Well I may : for I do not know but you are come to take me n, by some of the enfnariilgclaufes ot this law, (and >t is evident there are many, ) perhaps you are cotne to fee, whether 1 have maric e<l itiv Route with capitals, OF SPIRITS, or whether I have not left out a letter, or been guilty of some little matter you can get hold of to tiring me to punifliment; tliel'e things, and futh like, are enough to warm a man arid, him noisy too. - Ex. Off. —I fee there is nothing t<? b dope at prel'ent: I must pursue my bufi ness, liiit Khali fee you before long ana Ih all wifn to know what you mean by the " 0- ther things yo i kno?w of in the general go- | vernmdnt." —Good day to you. Diflr. —Thejlike to you Sir. «*> •otis or Foreign Intelligence. HEIVOETSLUYS, August 19. i Yeftcrday two tlioufand IJritifh troops j from England pifled by this place to j ioin the Duke of York's army. Two thpufand more we underlland are gone to Amilerdam, where 6 hundred Dutch troops arrived a few days ago. Of the four hundred Dutch soldiers in gtiriifon in this town only ninety are fit for duty ; tire remaining are ill of a fever which rages with great violence in this part of Holland. LEYDEN, August 24. From the Meufe there is no other intelligence but that on the 7th and Bth, the French seemed to be making difpoiitions for an attack, which how ever did not take place, and that in the mean while Ikirmifhes were very fre quent along the whole line of defence. General Kray, being reinforced by a divilion of Uhlans, and by a free corps of Michalourtz, has now on the left of. the Meufe before Maeilricht sixty three squadrons of light imperial cavalry un der his ordett. The aultrian army from Luxembourg to Ruremonde, is divided into fix corps, the principal of which is encamped on three lines near Tonrou la Comte, covering an extent of ground of about four miles. This corps is com puted at 35,000 men, and the whole 90,000. The pontoons were ready at Tourou. At Keer, on the right wing of the centre were expected the Muii fters, Counts Metternich, Mercy, M. de Waldeufls, &c. The Arch Duke Charles was gone from Aix la Chapelle, to Bonne, to pass some days. Accord ing to the report of some deserters, Qucfnoy had surrendered to th« French, who were now occupied with beficging Vak-nciennes and Conde. A great part ol tiie French soldiers had returned to their habitations to get in the harvest, but they were expected to return by the 10th September, for a general review to be matte near Tirlemont. FALMOUTH, Aug. 29. Ssr Ed-ward PrUe-jj, iu the Aretbufa fri gate and Jive others of Sir J. £• Ivan-en's j'quadroi: arrived here this morning after a . cmii~.' upon the French coajls near Brefi, and \ have brought :n t'aio homeward bound Weft indiamen, retaken from a fquatron of French frigatej I'e-ry near Brest bar tour. 7 bey engaged tte French, and even under their batteries dtflr»'.-d a Freuchf igate of 44 g'">s and t<wo Jloops of %ufir. Ibt bat safari a Tf : m '^^^l* und jloet'i *°"»* *"»* «*?, kilMar<uM>u*ded - J; T • divided into four squadrons ) bape twenty one Jail of loaded merchant 'vejjels fromMartinico and the other captured France. DUBLIN, September 3. Jjt seems surprising that the dispatches of Lord Dorchester to ministry, should dif fer so widely from the reports of the Ame rican newspapers, relative to the mifunder ltanding iubfifting between the United States and our government. That the in tentions of both powers are mutually pa cific) may certainly be depended upon ; but the American people manifefting so ltrongly as they do a hostile disposition to wards Great Britain, will render it ex tremely difficult for their Ainbaflador, Mr. jay, to obtain such terms from our minis try as will appease their fury. And to this no doubt, is owing the extraordinary length of the negotiation. PORTSMOUTH, Aoguft 31, At a quarter before fix on Friday evening last, L'lmpetueufe, one of the large line of battle (hips, lately captured by Earl Howe's fleet, and which lay but a small distance from the dock-yard, was perceived to be on tire, and flames buriting out with great rapidity, and forming a pillar of fire, that had the mod awful appearance. Signals being immediately made, all the boats from the (hips in harber were manned* and fortning themselves into two divisions, the boats lashed together, they contri ved, at imminent hazard, to grapple the Impetueufe fore and aft, with strong chains, in order that when her anchor cables were bumt, she (hould be ktpt from moving, so as to endanger the Northumberland, which was near her, and prevent the conflagration from spreading, as might be the cafe if (lie wa9 adrift. With these grapples the boats could also force her wheiever the fire would he leait dangerous, and they accomplished their purpose by keeping her in a proper ftatibii, until (he burned down to the water's edge. There were some Spaniads on board, one of whom was prefervCd, after being much scorch ed by the fire. The others, it is said, fell a facritice to the flames, which were got under about nine, but not totally extinguished till 12 o'clock. LONDON, Auguft'29. The articles put in requisition by the French in Brabant are as follow: the whole pi the harvest: a part of the horses, oxen, flieep, &c. the sugar, soap, brandy, cheese, linen, leather, iron, lead, pot-a(hes, &c* The aftignats are there on par. The Peggy, Capt. Lant, which is just arrived in the river'from the city of Wathington, has brought letters, which mention that the building of that capi tal is carrying on with inconceivable ar dor ; that the President's house was nearly completed; and that thecapitol, in which tlie Congress were to meet, was just covering in. Bricklayers, carpenters, and black fmilhs, were so much wanted, that the - most enormous wages were giyen, while provisions if) that city were about half the price they are in London. As one proof of the sincerity of the Emperor, the command of the army is, it seems, to be taken from the prince ot Saxe Cobourg, between whom and ! his Royal Kighnefs the Duke of York, it is whifpei c-d, a difference lately took place. Whether that was a£lually th/e cafe we> cannot afiert on positive inform ation of our own ; but we can-state with confidence there was hardly CTjer any a greement between tlum, 01 indeed a mong any of the Generals of tile allies. During the late campaign, it was no unusual thing for the Germans to (hike tents and quit the ground, without so much as giving t6 the Bntifh the flight ed intimation of their designs.—Nay, in one or two instances, they absolutely deilroyed the bridges behind them a3 if it had been their mtcuiiou to prevent our troops from retreating. This ho ned manoeuvre (foi in war every thing is fair, excepting rhelricks of the enemy) was pra&iccd when they quitted the neighbourhood of Tournay, with the view, it was thought, to compel the British to remain there to gafrifon the place ; or at Iea!l to prevent them from carrying off their Itorcs, which confe quentlv were t'.epofned in the Austrian lyagazinw. Generals Clairfait and F an., to have the principal comii aod i„ ~ new operations, but under th'r nominal dire&ion of the Archduke Charles. Accounts were yelterriay received from Leghorn, of the furrendcr of Cal- Extras of a letter from Mount's Bay, Augujl 24. " On Friday lail the 12d a Frerch cutter privateer was seen ofrthe the Land's-end to capture five En.-rifih brigs and two Dutch vefTels let wee;- ■ Long Ships and Woulf Rocks, about fix miles from shore. She saw the tu ridyce frigate Handing into the bay ; The Swiftfuve had scarcely rounded the Woulf Rocks ten minutes with a con voy to Cork. The cutter came down like a dart rowing 24 sweeps." Count d'Artois continues at Rotter, dam, under the name of Count Pon thieu. He goes abroad but fcldom, and • theti always at night. Lull night died Mrs. Hardy, wife of Mt. T. Hardy, fhoemakcr, now con fined in the tower under a charge of High Treason. Mrs. Hardy, a few moments only before Ihe expired solemn ly declared, that the fe pa ration from her husband & the uncertainty in which (he was, refpe&ing the time of his tri al, was the occafiou of her death. The Belmont merchant Ihip, taken Welt Indies, had on board twelve or fifteen French emigrants, on their way to take poffefTton of their colonial pro perty. FRENCH FLEET IN OSTEND. On Monday afternoon, August the 4-th» the whole force of French trans ports, which have been so long aflemb ling at Dunkirk, Boulogne, and Calais, failed from the former place at two o'clock, and arrived at Oitend, under convoy of the following ships, which :;mc into the haiboi, and moorei) along- The whole amounted to 17; in nnni norning at nine o'clock. La Robufte, a frigate mounting 3 6 runs, all 36 pounders. Tins ship was "oriTU'tly a '.me of b.ittlc i! Ip, and h;;s >een lately cut down, and carries the flag, wnto is a Dutchman, ind emigrated from Holland at the :ommencement of the French Revolts ion in 1782. L'lmpcrilabli, a small frigate of 28 ',uns, commanded by Tcrrevflle, La Vidctta, a Hoop of war of 16 runs, commanded by Citizen La Fon aine. L'lnabordable, a brig of war com manded by De Chere, L'Azon Fleufs. Two stout cutters—names unknov i/. Three privateers, brig rigged. One lugger piivateer. Seven gun-boats, brig rigged and schooner rigged ; mounting each 3 guns brass twenty pounders. Foui Dutch galliots on anew'peculi ar conitruftion, mountjng from fix to eight guns each, generally 9 or 12 pounders. These vefTcls are supported by props between decks, to prevent tl.e weight of the metal from forcing in the deck, and have bulwarks or made of faggoti, and covered with tai paulins to fgrm ports for the guns; thp tackles of which are' fattened to stays and back Hays from the crofs-treea to the chains, and others limning from the cat.head to the main (hrouds. The vefTels are like logs on the water, ind have a lingular appearance. Three armed bye-boats, viz La Fleche de Calais, La Success, and the jacket taken from before Oftend laP ear belonging to Capt O(borne. o a i These boati hare on board 26 n ert each, and go always out in the eveni.^, and return in the morning. The officers and men are totallv ig norant of the place of their definiti on, though tliey hippofe it is (one part of Holland—Fluih ng inoit pf»- bably. Lad Thursday night at 12 oYlotk, the Tower was put into a per eft state of defence; the guns upon the wharf and Wuiiid the battlemcnti, wire all loaded with grape flint. The tower was in the great eft contusion, and the piifoncrs in the gwateft alarm ; all thi» in consequence of a lying report, that several Kidnapping parties had taxen refuge there,* and that the mob were de termined to attack it. It is impoffiMe to describe the bustle and ferment thi occasioned ; the military were all turn ed out, and every person ordered to hi poli, as if a siege was riniHy cxpcctei but all was quiet. Ycfterday morning Mr. Pitt, Mi. I)unda», <x Lord 1a borough, visited the tower and were there for a cwnfiderable time ; —what tn 'ir bufmefs was we have not. karot. The numhtff of Bntifh. Hanoverian, and Hefiian troops at this time on the X V
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