Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1794-1795, November 06, 1794, Image 3

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    exptnee, my will is, that I haw so
oilier monument than the (bouts of the
populace.
My heart 1 leave to he laffled for
between, Barrere, Tallien and Cdllot
d'Herbois
My principles to be lhared in com
mon amonglt the firft.clafsof Jacobins
in France, Great Britain, &c.—Over
and above, which, I bequeath my cou
rage to the English jacobins, being the
only quality they seem to want in the
prr r eotiiwi of their education.
My f«er*il leave-to be m*A<»C*&ur
ed in bell ropea, to celebiatc the future
fuccefles and triumphs of the guillo-
tine.
My poverty as a cloak for modern
patriotism.
My wreaths, my triumphs and re
v..rd», I leave as encouraging ex
amples to the riling race of revolution
iiu:
To all the French and Englilh Re
publican JomnalilU, paragraph writers,
&.c. 4cc. i bequeath my turned eoat,
to be Ikirted in partibus amongst tbem,
as the mat appropriate reward I can
bellow on them for the zeal with which
lam confident they will celcbrate my
obl'equies.
To my dear and loving friend and
coadjutor, Mr. Barrere, my fine fcal
of Judas Ifcariot.
To Monsieur Reaard d'Anjfieterre,
for praising my conflitution "as the
molt glorious fabric ever raised by hu
man abilities and integrity," the Pro
phet's cap, lined wjth fuflain, which J
intended for Cathaiine D' the
late pretended mother of G
To Monfieu;" S*******, le grand
politician d'Angleterre, et <res plus
gtand Poete Dramattque, all my poli
tical Farc.s.
To citizen Stanhope, all my e(Tays
on fermented lees.
To Marc Angeld, Le petit fils De
grand ArchiteCte, all the game I {hall
die polTefTed of.
To my friend Monfietir David, (in
order to be copied) my fine picture of
the iinprilunment of Count Ugille.
And finally, to (he a that J die in
clierity with ail mankind, I leave and
bequeath my late peace of mind—to
mine enemies.
Signed and sealed with my blood
Itone, bearing the arms of the Re
public, this 26th day of July,
I 79+*
Maximilian Robespierre.
TRENTON, November 5.
A fufficient number of the members
of the legislature having met on Wed
nesday lall, both houfea proceeded to
bufinefg.
Thomas Henderfun, Esq. is chosen
vice-president of the council, and Tho
mas Adams, clerk.
Silas Cor.dift, Esq. is chosen speaker
of the house of aflfembly, and Mafkell
Ewing, clerk. }
A letter trupn a refpeCtabje officer in
the Jerfeyline, dated Bedford, Oft 22,
1794, concludes thus —" I hope and
expect that the btifincfs will be done ef
fectually in a very short time from this
date, and that oui troops will be able to
reach Jersey by the firft oi December."
A vote was taken in the house of af
fem'oly yellerday, oti the question, Whe
ther the repreientatives in Congress
from this state fliould be defied by,ge
neral or riiftriCt election ?—and carried,
by a small majority, for general election.
BALTIMORE, November 4.
Yesterday ev.-ning arrived here, the
brig Philip, Capi. Solomon R utter,
frorfi Curracoa—Captain Rtitter was
hoarded off the Capes of V&guiia by a
Britilh I\, who was accooipwied by a
64 —names unknown.
It is well ascertained, that there is a
French squadron of 7 (hips, cut-down
74's, and (loops, iii the North Seas—a -
not her of 4 vessels of force on the coalt
of Holland—l 6 large privateers from
Dunkirk, &e. all of which are continu
ally taking prizes.
BOSTON, o<flober 30.
COMMUNICATIONS.
St. JUST, a late member ot the
National Convention mult have become
well acquainted with.the Arrerican cha
railer, by their conduct towards Genet,
when he made his report to the conven
tion ot France, a few months fuice;
for he uttered not a single word about
the " Secret ferviee money," that may
have been sent to America. Bur thus
he speaks of the other neutral nations,
or, the exorbitant amount of secret fer
visc money, " that the expense in Tur
key, including diamonds, had been fc
venty millions of livres; in Switzer
land, more than forty millions; in Ge
noa, J4 millions 5 in Venice, Denmark
niid Sweden, very considerable ; and
that the only fruit of this wade of trea-
X* J'. 1
2.—'
fitte I\ad beeti to keep t|>ofe Hates neu
tial, \*hich, from weakness or interest,
mult have Continued neutral at
events."
Su Just was the creature of Robei
pierre—they both proved villains, and
both are guillotined. They may have
sowed the feeds of their villainy in this
country, perhaps in this very town* It
becomes the duty, therefore, of all those,
who are friends to Peace, and enemies
to War, to be upon the look out.
I verily believe the country to be in
danger. Watchman.
OCJ" The author of the above, we
are informed, is the author of the
" Watchman," who announced, some
rime fioce, in the Centincl, two recruit
ing ojjitert being in town, two months;
before it was known, even in South
Carolina, that an expedition was in
tended by Genet againlt the Spanilh
settlements.
One thing is fadt—When the In
dians were lately defeated by General
Wayne, under the guns of the Britilh
fort, on the Miaitiis, they were refirfed
succour or Ihelter from that fort. Call
this by what name you will, it does nol
look like hostility.
It is with pleafure'and avidity, we
announce the increafmg wealth and
profperify of our country.—ln the
town of Cheshire, in the county of
Berfefhire, orte tree of which was not
felled 30 years ago, there has hee«imade
this feaJon one hundred and fifty thou
sand weight of Checfe.
THE ATTIC ORDINARY f
lH OR,
TJTBIT fOR EVERY PALATE;
DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.
Dr. Priestley, when in England;
gave " the Sans Culottes of England,"
at a dinnerparty. A clergyman of the
church of England, willing to get rid of
politics, archly exclaimed—" Yes, with
all my heart, I prehime you mean the
single ladies, for the married ones gene
rally wear the breeches." The wit
being; called upon in his turn, Dr.
Priestley desired the president to be
on his guard, si r he saw plainly that
the clergyman, if presented with an
inch, would take an ell —"Thank
you for the hint, doCtor," replied the
clerical hnmorilt—" Yes, I'll take three
Is, so here's liberty, loyalty, and
lawn sleeves room, of
course, was in a roar, and the doCtor,
quite s hoc KFb, went off like lightning
without a conductor.
The only retreat of the British.
Som« ingenious friends of administra
tion contend, that our retreat from
Flanders is an advantage. By leading
the lo<zo countries to our enemies, we
take up higher ground, and show how
much we are above them.
SALEM, OAober 20.
Succefsof the French in Guatlalnupe.
Capt. John Fairfield, in the* ft-hoon
er Fifhhawk, arrived here on Saturday
last, in 23 days from St. Anne's, Gua
ilaloupe.—He informs us, that on the
23d Sept. in the night, die town of
Poiqc Petre was set on fire by some A
ristocrats, in order to favor the attack
of thtf British, who were oft the other
fide of the river, but the Republicans
were lo well prepared to receive them,
that they were contented with firing,
from their fort their cannon and bombs,
which were well anfweied from the dif
ferent forts in the town.—After this,
on the 27th, all the forts in Point-Pe
tre commenced a tremendous cannonad
ing on the Britilh fort on Windmill
point, and silenced it—in the mean
time, the French troops eroded the
rirer above and took pofleflionof Gueoff,
and a fort defended by 4 .4 pounders,
without the least refinance, the Britifti
troops fleeing before them.
The next day they marched down to
Petit-Bourg, on which, 3 British (hips
of war, then cruising in the Bay, run
down, and took the troops off, and pro
ceeded for Basseterre, qnd the French
took pofieffion of the town without any
refirtance.
V-V.
Previous to, and at the time Capt. F.
failed, the French had so completely
surrounded thefoit on Windmill-point,
that it was impoflible for them to es
cape, except by their boats.
A reinforcement was momently ex
pected from France—for which the
French were anxiously waiting, in or
der to' attack Bafleterre, which they
were certain of pofl'efiing in a short
time.—The French have a large num
ber of Blacks, who are welf-difciplined,
and make excellent troops.
From the Federal Orreryi
A PUN.
NEW-YORK, Noreraber 4.
Rfuciutian in France.
As the French Jacobins artfully
brought into use two abftreS terms,
Liberty and Equality, to £ave the trou
ble of defining or underltanding a true
Republican Canftitution of government;
lo with great address they gave them
fclvel the name of patriots, and their
oppofers in general the name of drijto
cralt. A patriot in France has been a
man who has followed the molt violent
demagogue of the day ; firft La Fayette
was a patriot, then Dumourier, then
BnfTot, Paehe, Bailly or Petion, then
Danton and Marat, then 'Robefpicrre
—and flow Tallicti, Coltot and Billaud.
All who support the ruling party are
patriots ; all who oppoft them ate Ari-
hcrtUt.
The great mass of the people annex
no clear idea* to' these terms. Patriot
is undoubtedly a friend to his country,
but what kind of opinions such a man
must have, or what form of governmertt
he must advocate, ii never a fubjeft of
enquiry with the multitude; and that
kind of government which is belt for
France and which a real friend to that
country ought to espouse, is no more
defined or underfiood, or fettled and
agreed upon, by the pedple of France,
than it is by the Chinese or Tartars.
Mod Frenchmen agree in opposing the
armies of the combined powers, arid so
far are patriots, but Whether Coudor
cet's, or BriflTot's, or i* obelpierre's
ideas of a good government for France,
ace right and patriotic, is not fettled or
ascertained.
The term ari/i'Herat is of ft ill le£» cer
tain import, It is a name that incurs
odium : it aufwers its purpofc, of expo
fmg any man that the demagogue of
the day wi/hes to get rid of, to popular
refentmenl and fury ; and hiftury will
hereafter recount numberless instances of
men, who have fallen a facrifice to that
finglewoid hxed upon them by a jealous
rival, without committingthe leait crime
againfl their country.
La Fayette, 1789 and 1790 was the
bed of patriots. The Populace of Pa
lis in thousands and ten thousands,
thronged around him, with Vive La Fay
ette. 'I'his man accepted the Conftitu
! tion of 1791 and took a solemn oath to
! maintain it. It i« admitted on all hands,
by the friends and foes of La Fayette,
; that he has never changed hi* fyfterti or
; his'conduft—he risked his lite to bring
1 about a reform of government, and he
, swore to support that reformed govern
ment—he adhered to his <58th—he adt
ed the part «£ an honed man.
But fix months after, it new fa&ion
springs up, and proposes further reforms,
in the government. The Jacobins fay,
we mult throw aside the Constitution of
' 1791 afid down with the king, tho' in di
rect violation of their oaths. The Jaco
bins bring over the populace of Paris
they in an instant change their tone—La
Fayette is an ariltocrat and a traitor.
Why! he does not change his conduit—it
is the people who have changed—his con
duit was patriotism yejierduy but to day is
treason, without any change in the man.
Js there then in France any standard by
which patriotism can be known and de
termined ? Not at all; patriot and aristo
crat are terms of in definite meaning—their
lenfe is chasged from day to day to suit
the whims of the moll capricious populace
in the known world.
The fame may be told of Petion, of
Pache, of Bailly, of Roland, of Demou
rier, of Ballot, of Hebert, of Dantoiu
and of Robespierre. Each of these lead
ing men has been hailed as a patriot one
day, and the next as a tyrant, a traitor, a
conipirator. Why ? Simply because there
is in France no Conilitution paramount to
the wills of men—no fixed ilandard of
political right and wrong. j
If the populace to day can be per
suaded to believe the constitution of
V 791 the belt for France, then its advo
cates and supporters are patriots. If
to-morrow some demagogue can make
them believe, that a federal republic is
bed for France, then La Fayette is an
arijlocrat, a traitor, a conspirator, and
Briflbt and Roland are the patriots. If
the next day, Marat and Danton can
turn the populace of Paris about, and
make them believe that a republic one
and indivi/ible is the only good govern
ment for France; in a moment Briffot
is a traitor, a conspirator, his head is cut
off, and Robespierre is the patriot. If
another day Tallien can make the po
pulace believe that Robefpierte has too
much power or is aiming to dbtafn it,
in a moment the popular cry is changed
from Vive Robespierre, to an aristocrat,
a tyrant, a villain ; and his head is off.
Yet these men have never been proved
traitors. The truth is, there is no Itan
dard of patriotism in France but the
whim of the populace. The people
wifli for liberty, but know not what
form of government will secure them
that liberty.
'SP*'
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Philadelphia, n™. &
CONGRESS.
, Thursday, November 6, 1794*
The Senate aftcmbled, present as yes.
terday.
The number afTembled not being fuf
ficient to constitute a .quorum to do bu
finefa, the Senate adjourned to 11
o'clock to*morrow morning.'
In consequence of the Senate not
making a quorum, at 12 o'clock the
house adjourned.
Landing from on board lie fbip Hannah
Cap/. Lake, from St. Piterjhurgb,
and to be sold' by
Mordecai Lewiss
At his STORE, No. 24% Great Dock
S T r t 1 T,
Who has fir Sale, a
FEW BALfiS tiV
Baftas, CoflaS,
iCnlerties, Salamp : ies,
Pungiim Cloths, Humhiifns,
Ronk Mufliai, and Ha tlkerchiefs, &rc.
Birceiona Handkerchiefs,
' ' in Buxev, '
A (etr China Silk?,
liattiafk and Dtapei-TabTfc Lineu,
rtJarrk »( an excellent
Gin in cafcn,
iSxa 4 f t EA,
Roll Brimftoiir,
New Cajile Gfindjlottes, t&c.
Nov. 6 3tawim
CIRCUSi
This Afternodn,
The Performances at the Circus will com-
mence precisely
At 1-4 before 4 o'clock, P. M,
The fame Equestrian Exertifes, that
were exhibited yelterday, and which gave
such general fatisfa&ion will be
Repeated thia Afternoon,
Together with several additional Perform-
anceg.
* # * Doors will open This Afternoon,
and To-Morrow Afternoon, at j o'clock,
and ..
On Saturday next*
the Doors will open at 11 o'clock A. M
Performance will then commence at half
afttr 11, for the purpose of accommodat
ing Gentlemen from tne country, who ge
nerally have otfcafion to be in to wn on the
market days.
Old American Company^
THEATRE—CEDAR STREET.
For the Benefit of Me firs.
Munto and Solomons.
TO-MORROW EVENING,
November 7.
Will be Presented,
A PLAY, in three adts, never performed
in this Theatre, called
Day^_of_old;
O R, —
The Battle of Hexham.
Interspersed with Songs, Choruses, &c.
With Alterations by Mr. Hodgkinfon.
After the Play, will be delivered art Ad
dress written by a Citizen of the Uhited
States, called the THREE REASONS
by Mrs. Solomons and Mr. Munto.
After which a Masonic Song, ij charadler
of a Mailer Mason, by Brother Solomon
with the chorus, by Brothers Carr, Mar
tin, Wools, Richards, Prigmore and
Barwick.
After which the favonrite Song of the
WAXEN DOLL, byMifs Solomon.
To •which will be added,
A COMEDY, in two a&a cllled,
The Citizen.
Tfce doors will be opened at half after
five, and the enrtain drawn up precisely at
half after fix o'clock.
BOX, ose Dollar—PlTT, three quar
ers—GALLERY, half a dollar.
Places in the Boxes may be had at the
Box Office, from ten to one every day
(Sundays excepted) and on days of per
formance from three to five P. M. where
also tickets may be bad, and at Mr. Brad
ford's book-store, No. 8, south Front
street, and at Mr. Carr's music-store.
Mefirs.HALLAM & HODGKINSON
refpe&fully acquaint the Citizens in gene
ral, that every expence has been chearful
ly sustained. that might tend to make the
Old American Compary, worthy a (hare o
their patronage, during the short stay the
nature of their engagements will permit
them to make here.
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hemp;
Russia sheetings,
XUSNIA DUCK,
Ravens duck,
RARR IRON,
Oakum,
MATTS,
From an EngSi/h Pafitr.
Ever since the vigorous Republic o/Crort
well, Jamaica has been a settlement of the
Englift, as Domingo, fifiee tile treaty of
Ryfwick, (1677) has beep. a pofeflion of
the French ; yet a part firsmthe Influence
got by Government on both fides, what
have the people in e.ther nation gained, but
a balance of inexplicable aitontfhment
loss ! The vain privilege ofbuying of tneir
countrymen at a dearer rate than the fame
commodities fell for in the foreign mar
kets. For at Vienna, obviously iS-placetl
as it.it, sugar, indigo, and cotton are
cheaper than at Paris, or in London 1
EPITAPH UPON A bWAftF.
From the Spani/h.
BONANO lies here, a iinall minikin
, weight,
To whom this grave-stone can by no means
be light ;
Foi"fo little is his bulk, that a worm,
without pain,
Might (wallow him 'up whole, and his bo
dy contain,
With much more convenience, or heaven
disown tis.
Than the whale that once gobbled the bo
dy of Jonas!
A Maid of honor, virgin
In the lift of Chinese prcfents, witbi
which lord Macartney is loaded, the
twelve 'virgiru turn out to be a dozen
maids oj honor i a difference ariling, we
fuppole, from a of the traoflator!
tOHi Of rfiiLADELI-hU,
An • vsß.
Sloop Ml}, Levis,
Cleared
Ship Caroline, Hilton,
Schooner JLinots, Wi»tk t
PoUj> t (olvitl: %
Bcfl, lirifff,
fiarftmy, t
Ihomas, button,
Polly, Peachy,
M ffi'i Wgrircr-ttf
Sloop t-Uzd, Bi;.gham t
Pha*ix y i ennis,
Hah), Lindjey,
iiEW YORK, November 3.
ARkiv&d.
Schooner Pamela, CfarAi
Laura, Glume,
NEW.LONDON, oSober 22.
Arrived, brig Eliza, Van Deutjen, 17 daysjrti*
St. Lroix. He touch'd at every ijlandJrom liar,
hadoi to St. Croix, hut coula "iJ/.oje oj no Jullei
p'oujtons, not being permitted to ai.d them in any
tn&i'Jh ifiand, and the neutral rjtand, ctmg over-
Jtock'U, noJale could be got there, by xuhicu mcuns
adhis cargo of pruvjioni are returned, aeef
wusjetlmg at 6 dollars per barrel, am very dull•
In isatt Hock pajjge, was brought too by tne Liittt
Republican, trcmh pnvatur, uho two aays be.
Jore, in company a itn Jchooner Succejs, another
French Privateer, had iaptuied a brigj rom 1,
hada, bound to Gutrnjey, uiith 160 puncheons of
rim, and ,50 hhdi.Jugar; aIJo a brig oow.d <#
Jamaica. They treated captain Pan JI (H ,J tn wr _
politely, wishing him a good voyage.
MUTPORT, October aj.
ArUivsd.
Shehi Whim, Amirofe,
Mary, Finch,
Schooner Bet/), PhiUipt,
Lucy, Monrot,
Hover, Look,
Hoop Kef lane, Smith,
PRQriDEUCE, October 24.
ARRIVfD.
Schooner Fatigue, Stevens, Richmond
Columbia, Harrington, Cape Afichota Molt
Deani Spragne, i u7 ks JjUnd
Cleared.
Sckocntr Arethu/a, Worth, Jamaica
BOS J ON, Oiiober go.
I Thaddeui Cook M Jier oj the Jchoontr Rover,
fl/ Bojlcn, viko arrive Jat A'cwpori on Friday lajl
from -\tncga /, uias boarded on the Mo day bejore,
by the boutqf a French Frigate, t which u.at in
company with aJltiop oj war) that had been out 71
day 1 from France, and had then captured Q_ MuJ
0/ prizej, soj wucti they hai bnrnt, ant nad
2»0,d0G dollars in Jptcie on board, which they
had taken out oj their pr'Z'i, and that they vteri
m new rork- ' —'
'lIRED At THE CUtTO W HOUSE,
Snow Harmony, blone, Lcogane \ Bug) Marga
ret, Berry, Amjlerdatn ; Dolphin, Fiji, Grena
da ; Lively, Burn/lam, h i clem'cAlUt
Trajk, Gotienburg j Jchooners Dif patch, T homp
fvn, .11. Lucia ; Hejtcr, Bayley, Jereme, Three
■Sijlers, Dnidjm, tljcqutko.
AALtM, October 28.
Cap/. Fairfield in tat. 3.2, jpoke (he brig Betsy,
Jo/eph Barnes, 8 iaysjrfn Portsmouth, at!well.
The brig 01 ve Branch, Buffingion oj this port,
was taken the 24th Augafi by a French Jiigaie,
and carried into Bieji ; the crew June arrived at
New York in a Scotch brig.
Capt. Efhraim Delano put in here en Saturday,
evening, in tl.ejhip Hazard, 63 day) jtom Liverw
pool, bound tt BoJJon : 15 Leagues W. of cape
Clear, he was boarded by a French 20 ur. Jhip,
the officers oj wh'ch treated him very politely, hut
the nen fumed indu ed t» plunder. Hit) had ta
ken 18 prizes, and had 6 of them in company.
They alje law two other frigates in company, an 4
underjtoodjrom the vejjel that boarded them, that
there werefeveral others trui/ing there. Six days
after, anojrom that for about 3 days, they juw
scattering vellels, which thcyfuppofca to be part of
| the Wejt India jleet.
FOR SALE,
/llovt Seventy Cafkt
Claret Wine,
Fit for (hipping—and three hundred
BOXES
Dutch Cheeses,
A Pr TO
Deblois & Br^ck,
Between Walnut and Chefhut Street
"WTjaryefc ■
Mo*, f +
Aux Cayes 36
St. Simons
Lape A icholu Mth
Jumaita
Wujkmgun
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Nor/elk
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Apoquimmmk
St. Johni Nil
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Turk's Ijltthi
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Bengal
Turks JJiand