The Letter Bag of the Ship
Adriana, K. Fitzpatrick, Mas
ter, for London, will be t&ken
<irom the Poft-Office To-mor
*ow.
Not. 4.
The Letter Bag of the Ship
Wilmington for Bristol, will
remain at the Poft-Ortice, till
THIS Evening, 5 o'clock.
ovember 4.
John-Burge,
CO NFECTIO NER,
No, 7, North Fourth Street.
RETURNS his sincere thanks to his
Friends and the public, lor the very liber
a! encouragement he ha* received in the
line of his piufefllon,* finee his commence
ment of balinefs in this city.
He refpt&ftilly folicitsa continuance of
their lav »n» s, and affnres them that no
thing shall be wanting on his part to ren
der fatisfaftion.
He has now on hand, and for Sale a
GENK.RAL
Ajfortment of CoftfeElionary,
Among which atc the following
ARTIC L E Si
Pine Apples preserved, whole and fl ; c
cd, Pears, £>u*r>ce?, &c. preserved, Rat"
berry and Bhcldwerry jam, Ra{be>ry and
Current Jellies, Peach Marm lade, and ■
(rMt variety of other articles. AKo
Soft Shell'd Almonds
-—" -
By the Bag or Smaller Quantity.
Nov. 4 2aw4w
Old American Company.
THEATRE—CEDAR STREET.
For the Benefit of Meflrs.
King and Richards.
TO-MORROW EVENING,
November 5.
Will be Presented,
Adtually the last time, a COMEDY,
called
THE
Young Quaker,
O R
The Fair Philadelphian.
Write.i by O'Ketfe, and performed in
I ondon with the most unbounded ap
plause.
Between the Play and Farce a favorite
Song, called
" 7'be -AaW of Potatoet."
By Mr. KING.
To will be added.
Politicly for the last time, the Comit
OPERA of the
Highland Reel.
BOX, one IVilJar —PITT, three quir
eis —GALLERY, half a dollar.
Places in the Boxes may be had at the
Box Office, from ten to one every day
(Sundaysexcepted) and on days of per
formance from three to five P. M. where
also tickets may be had, and at Mr. Brad
ford's book-store, No. 8, south Front
street, and at Mr. Carr's music-store.
The doors will be opened at half after
five, and the curtain drawn up precisely at
half after fix o'clock.
Mefl'rs. HALL AM & HODGKINSON
r;fpe<Stfully 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 (hare o
their patronage, during the (hort Hay the
nature of their engagements will permit
tiiero to make here.
CIRCUS.
Mr. Ricketts presents his
tnoft refpe&ful compliments to (he citi
zens of Philadelphia, and all the patrons
of the Circus, and begs leave to inform
them, that as his engagements at New-
York, will require his attendance there
the second week in November, he there
fore wishes to embrace the present favour
able opportunity to those who may be de
sirous of feeing the performances,by exhi
biting
Every Afternoon, I
(Sunday excepted) until Wednesday next
on which day by particular desire, he in
tends having a public performance at i*
o'clock, as will be exprefied in the adver
tiiementsof the day-
The entertainments will be varied «very
exhibition, and a great variety of Eques
trian Exercises, and other entertaining
performances introduced, that have never
been exhibited, and nMWy of which have
never been aqgenpted by any other person
cither in America. '
Days of are therefore now
fixed for This Jfcgr, Friday, Saturday,
Monday and TwiSay Afternoons, and for
Wednesday next at I* o'clock, which
Jiour, if it should then appear to be agree
able to the public, will be made the time
of performing for the remaining three
days of next week, and the last for the
present season. " d
»' 9-
For the Gazette of the United States.
Mr.. Fenno,
That our city is improving with great
rapidity no one can deny ; tT.c evidence
of the fact strikes every person who
walks the streets ; but your correspond
ent Juvcms has feletted a very extraor
dinary example to prove that we pro
gress in refinement of manners—l am
not an enemy to amusements—they are
perhaps indifpenfible to the nature of
man ; but it may well be doubted whe
ther the fpcaies of diversion which he
has felefted, as indications of oiir supe
riority over European cities in civiliza
tion, do not apply as an argument in
favor of a contrary position. The Stage
has always been obnoxious to the disap
probation of some of the best moral!ftß
who have wrote on the fubjed ; nor
have its advocates ever been able to re
fute the obje&ions brought .t; j
but grant that in the labyrinth of dif- j
quifition it hal ."tceived a fpectous, nay .
plausible support: what is the irrefra- :
gable attestation of experience ? It is in I
vain to class the Stage with inllittitions
almost universally acknowledged to be
eflential; no one ever pretended that
the cause of vice was promoted by pub
licly inculcating the principles of virtue.
Juvents fays, he frequents the Theatre,
the Circus, &c. and that they have ne
ver operated any corruption in his mo
rals. It would be Angular indeed, if
an advocate for diflipation (hould make
a confeflion that the piaflicc corrupted
his morals ; no Mr. Printer, this is not
consonant to human nature ; but con
sult a youth who has paid dearly for
haanting places of public amusements,
by having hit habits of indullry, sobrie
ty and steadiness of disposition under
mined, and who has had the intrepidity
to tear himfelf from the blandilhmsnts
of folly in due season—l fay a(k such an
one, if the Theatre, the Circus or other
public amusements did not operate a
corruption in his motals? This is an
old, an hackneyed fubjedt j nor (hould
1 have noticed the prefortnance of Juve
nis, had I not supposed that the uncon
tradicted currency of his opinions might
be construed unfavorably to the cause of
real civilization and improvement. The
present is an eventful period—jglooms
and fuperllition are not evintive of vir
tue and morality—but if ever there was
a time, it is now, that the people ought
to be
THOUGHTFUL.
Tranjlalcd from the Courier Francois
for the Gazette of the Vnited States.
JACOBIN CLUB.
Sitting—l9th Thermidor.
Polverel and Sonthonax, formerly
Civil Commissioners at St. Domingo,
wrote that they were come to Pari®,
where they were at liberty conformably
to a decree of the Convention, which
had suspended the decrte of accusation
against them—They demanded to be
admitted to the fitting—decreed.
Sonthonax and Polverel appeared at
the tribune.—Sonthonax ipoke ,fiift.
He began by declaring that Polverel
and himfelfhad been undeservedly ca
lumniated in France, and that the au
thors of all those atrocious calumnies
were two pretended commilTioners from
a Colonial Aflembly which no lunger
existed.
We swear to ymi said lie, that we
have been in America, the martyrs of
those principles which you profefs ; and
to prove to you that our hearts are pure,
and our consciences void of reproach,
we (hall content ourselves witli mention
ing our prompt fubmiflion to the decree
of accusation which has been pa (fed a
gainst us.
Sonthonax then entered into various
details on the adual lituation of the
Colonies—from which it appeared that
our Islands had been deliveied to the
English and Spaniards by an infamous
treason, but that Guadaloupe is alrea
dy recovered. The French to the num
ber of 1800 men ftUl poflefs one half of
St. Domingo ; the other part is occu
pied by Royalists, Federalists, the Eng
lish and the Spaniards—the south part
is untouched.—The captures of the
Eriglifh to the north, "are reduced to
one town—ln the weft they have taken
the ci-devant Port-au-Prince—now Port
Republican—They here Hole 45 veficla
from the French laden with colonial
produce.—This place appeared to be
defended, but notwithstanding made a
feeble rcfiftance, and was at length de
livered up—The Cape remains, and all
announce that this important city will
never cease to be pofiefled by the
French.
Sonthonax said that one of the principal
causes of all the misfortunes which afflict
ed the colonies is a proclamation of the
Englilh general, in which he allures the
patriots, that the two civil Conimiffiontrrs
have been proforlbed inFrance, and that
they haß fallen under theix of the national
vengenance—■—The tw Comtni.Tioners
have been obliged to flyfor their own se
curity, and from that toment the com
raandaiits of-the feveralp.laces hadceafed
to (hew themielves as lepublicans ; but
since, the genius of librrtv and equality
bad? arisen from its deprfiion.
There had been in tha coimtry a little
Vendee, compofedof Lhe eyolted negroes
by tbgißbyalilts, who h>j»ed to rcftoie
ilavery- in France, by exci ingj all kinds of
hgjfr9?s in the colonies; 'hd civil Com
mnliones before their deltititioii, publifn
ed a proclamation in which'ttey told the
truth to the pejßjf daceivkl and ltd I
astray ; this prodatnation win a feufibl.
stroke to the power of the R<oya ills, and '
chief part of those who" had been abused, a
baridoned the part/ yho' had betrayed
them to perfidy—The counttr-reyolution
iits had made the negroes to beheve that
Capet had left a will by which the ne
groes were to have their liberty, if by their
; exertions his son Ihould come to mount
| the throne.
After some other details, the orator
entered into some observations on the
chara&er of the negroes, so unjustly
despised by the planters; He asserted,
that these blacks are so brave, so devo
ted to the sacred cause of Liberty for
which they fought, that they had pre
ferred to eat grass rather than fnbmit to
the disgrace of obeying the vile Span-
I iards.
Thefr unfortunates have acquitted
themselves, since they arj 110 longer the
fpoit of the caprices ot their matters,
with a degref of energy which has ren
idered them formidable to the enemies,
of Liberty. Every day, they improve
themselves in the arts of warriors—and
it will not be long before their efforts
will render St. Domingo the molt pow
erful and the mod flourifhing of our
Colonies.
Polverel spoke after Sonthonax, in
which he confirmed the r-marks of his
colleague.
Polverel ended by declar'ng that his
colleague and himfelf had ">een of the
Republican party in the Coonies, that
they had there conducted s Republi
cans, and that the principles vhich had
hitherto directed their conduit, (hould
never cease to animate them.
CONTINUATION OF
LATEST
Foreign Intelligence,
Received by the Jhip Manchtjer Capt.
Cox, from Liverpool which left that
place September 9.
MILAN, August 11.
The Archbishop of this city, with the
approbation of the Government, has or
ed a .solemn expofal cf the body of St.
Carlo, our tutelar patron, in order that
the Saint may inttrpofe the efficacy of his
ijUerceffioa with the Divine Being, for
the advantage of onr, Sovereign, the !im
peror, and his most faithful fubjeifts, en
gaged in the present war. The ceremony
took place at the Cathedral, at ten yester
day morning, and was attended by a de
vout procefhon of the Clergy, the officers
of Court, &c. The body of St. Carlo,
was placed upon the great Altar, for the
prayers and veneration of the public, .for
the l'pace of two hours.
BERNE, August 11.
The cruel scenes attending the Re
volution of Geneva are not confined
to the firft days of it. Again, the 4th
of thi3 month, the Revolutionary Tri
bunal condemned fifty four persons of
different ages and ranks, four of whom
have been (hot,, on?, of therfi banged,
and thirty one condemned to banish
ment, and all their property confifcated.
These circumilances have induced the
Council of Berne to publish the follow
ing
PROCLAMATION.
" We the AVOYER, the Little
and Great Council of the City and Re
public of Berne, &c. make known by
these presents—
" Public fame has fufficiently inform
ed us of the deplorable scenes which
have overwhelmed the city of Geneva.
That Republic, in whose protperny
we have constantly taken an
resulting from long anil intimate join
tions as allies, and the luibittial carioftc:
tions of neighborhood, is delivered' up.
to unheard of calamities, of whith it is
not poflible to forefee tb.e extent,."the
duration, or the confequcnces. At tiie
moment that we had reafori to hope for
the return of peace and tranquility, by
the eftablilhment of the new order of
things, which the Government had so
lemnly announced to us, the fame as
had the Canton of Zurich, a band of
tumultuous men attacked and overthrew
by main force, public liberty and ]--r-
fonal fafety ; they violated private hou
ses, arretted individuals, and dragged
them to prison. These violences were
committed even against the Minifteis
of Religion, in a manner such as seem
ed to announce the intended profcrip.
tion of religion, >n a city
marked as 1
ze na were facritked even ugainft the
will of the majority of voters. New
vietfms were pointed out ; new
were made against persons and property,
even in despite of oatus, of forms esta
blished, and the laws oT the State ; and
Geneva waits in coulternation the tate
which the Gmguinary men who have
usurped the right of disposing of the
lives and fortunes of all the citizens are
delliny of a city whose happmefs has
been at all times the objefl of our cares,
and which, by its proximity, so nearly
intereits our own State and that ot all
Switzerland. But the knowledge we
have gained of the criminal participa
tion of many individuals' of qur own
fcountry aggravates Hill more our griei
and indignation. Our paternal solici
tude for the fafety and honor of our
country not permitting us to tolerate on
our tcnitojy thrfc men sullied with
crimes, we by the present publication
interdict their entrance into our territo
ries ; and will, that all those of our fub
je&s who (hall be known to have had
any part in these atrocious scenes, be
inllantly denounced and seized, referv
[n.r to oirrfelves to pronounce the chaf
jifftnenf which their culpablecondufl,
in a ciry so long our ally, merits. We
doubt not, dear and faithful citizens,
that participating in the fame sentiments
that, animate us, you will redouble your
»clivity and zeal in the execution of
this present ordinance."
j COPENHAGEN, August 19
Hitherto the combined Danish and j
Swedish fleet at anchor in our port had
only detached some frigates on a cruize
of observation: We now learn that a
small squadron of four fail of the line,
four frigates, and four cutters (half of
each nation,) will fail to the North Sea,
under Commodore Winteifeldt, who
will receive his orders, sealed up, rela
tive to his future dellination.
DANTZICK, August 18.
The Prufiian bau'mickof Tanroggen,
in Lithuania, has been again delivered
from the Poles by Major General Von
Schenk without any bloodshed. The
armed Polifli peasants who were found
there, were all let at liberty.
On the 21 It inft. the king of Poland
received v. letter from our monarch, and
a summons was dispatched to General
Oilow, the commandant of Warsaw, by
General Sciiwei in, deliring that com
mandant to spare Waifaw, and to put
a (top to the farther cffulion of human
blood. Gen. Or low anfwercd, 11 That
as long as the Generallffimo Kofciulko
was polled between Wajfaw and the
Prufiian army, that capital could not
dispose cf its fate.
Stanislaus Augustus answered the
king of Piufiia, in a letter, principally
to this purport : " That Warsaw, even
in cafe of refiltance, would the less de
serve the rigorous treatment with which
it was threatened, as its refinance did
not depend on itlelf, as long as Kofci
ulko {hould defend the avenues." His
Poliih majesty also profeffes his attach
ment "to the cause of his country, fay
ing, " That bis life was not in the
least dearer to him than that of any of
-the citizens or inhabitants of Warsaw ;
and conjuring'the king of Prufiia not
to haibour any emotions of resentment
or vengenn'-e, equally contrary to the
example which kings ought to let to
nations, and injurious to his Prufiian
Majesty's own character."
The Ruffians are laid to be already
at Grodno.
i Many of the aioft fkiiful Prussian
engineers have received orders to repair,
by post» to the King of Pruflia'a head
quarters before Warfavv. They are to
be paid all extra charges and costs, and
a proper indemnification. Those Prufr
ftan engineers who rciide in the weft or
weft Priiflia, are already arrived.
BREDA, August 27.
Ycfterday the French made a general
attack on all our out-poftt, and after an
obstinate engagement on both fides, the
Frenph retired.
FRANCE.
NATIONAL CONTENTION,
August 12.
Batrere read the following letter from j
the National Deputies at Treves, dated
the 9th of August :
"Citizens Colleagues, on the 18th
Thermidor (Auguli 6) the heroes of
the army of the Moselle marehed for
wards in three columns, and formed a
junction at Treves. The column com
manded by General Arobcrt enjfted
along thejight tank of tb« Mofdle .
that commart'.'.d bj R cn auc
proceeded to the of the Sar.
•—And, the thin' advanced be
tween the Sarre and th<- Mofette. The
left column encountered the enemy in
front of Remich, & flood their fire with
out fuflaining any loss. Our troopi
inftandy charged with the fixed bayo
net, took poffefiion of Remich, and
drove the Austrian Slaves towards the
Province of Luxembourg.
>roceeded to Grevenmacberein, from
vhence the enemy retreated alio towards
Luxembourg, leaving us in polTefiion
if a considerable magazine of wheat and
lats.
The centre column drove before it
whatever it found in its way ; and that
>f the Sarre was completely viftori
)US. Each of them was diltinguilhed
jy a boldness and intrepedity which no-*
hing could refill. The bridge of Con
"arbruck was occupied by a conftdeia
jle body of the enemy, provided with
rnns. On the seventh, at nine at
light, ootwithftanding many days and
lights fpJnt without either ileep or re
refhment, and in spite of a continual
ain, and torrents of mud, the soldiers
>f libeity fell on the Austrian (laves,
ind in less than*half an hour the bridge
A'as cleared. • A gun, a military wag
yon, and 90 prisoners fell into our
lands, without losing, on dur fide, a
"ingle man. At the fame moment the
eft column carried la Monjagne Vcrd
(the Green Mountain,) defended by
mature and art, and forming the princi
pal defence of Treves. In the midit of
i (hower of cannon balls, bullets, and
rrenades,' the redoubts were carried by
the bayonet. The enemy fled, leaving
behind' them five or fix hundred dead,
tad eighty prisoners. On our fide, we
oft but thiity republicans. On the
following day thecolumnsextended their
"ronts on the mountains, and in less
han two hours Treves was completely
n veiled.
We entered the city, at three o'clock,
and found that, it had been evacuated
hy the Auftrians, emigrants, priests,
monks and nuns. The
in their bed attire, brought us the keys,
y;!ling us, they were extremely glad to ,
fee us. We are malVrrs of the two la
yers the Sarre and Mozclle, and of a
gieat part of the Ele&oratepf Treves,
a rich and abundant country, a true
milch cow for the Republic. The great.
number of boats we found in the.port,
will serve us for the conveyance else- •
where of whatever wc may conceive to
be burthenfome to this territory, and
which may at the fame time be ufcful to
the Republic. _ >5^7-
I fancy that 3 or 4 millions of
in specie may be colle&ed within the '
space of 48 hours for the Republic: ,
this will unquettionably be adting with
moderation. The success of the above
enterpvize has much depended on the
prudent combinations of Ocneral Mo
reau.
Health and Fraternity.-
««BOURBOTTE."
The Assembly decreed, that the ar
my of the Mozelle had merited well of
the Republic."
HAGUE, Aug. 21.
We kvn that four English frigates,
two brigs and a cutter, under the com
mand of admiral Harvey, arrived off
Fluflvng. On board the cutter is Lord
Mulgravc, who is to command a corps
of British troops for the defence of
Zealand, who are every moment expect
ed to arrive in a number of transports.
The Britannia, an Englilh cutter, en
tered Helveotfluyes, with four tranf- .
ports ; one of them carries aitillery and
ammunition for the Duke of York, and
the others 362 soldiers and 114 artille-
ry men.
LONDON, Sept. 6.
The mail due this day had not arriv
ed when this paper went to press.
We are still without any ncwi from
Paris of a later date than th* 15th inft.
The public must naturally be anxious _
to learn what tray have been the ilfue
of the last debates which took place in.
the Convention previous to that day.
They were certainly carried on with
a considerable degree of heat and animo
sity.—The parties seem to have been
nearly balanced ; and the decilion of the
question rafpefling the organization of
the committees, the great point upon
which thev seem to have becu at vari
ance, muli have determined which of
those parties pofleffed the confidence of
the National Convention. From 'l>e
freedom of debate which at last prevail*
in that aflembly, it is at leail <*\ident that
the majority dare speak thei. minds, and
their decrees will l>e the refuit, not ot
the interelted and factious views of a few
individuals, but of the .rolk'ftive opinions
of the Reprefeutativesof the people of
France.
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