POBT OF PHILADELPHIA
AIKIVIiD.
Sh:p Andromache, Moore,
Goddtfs of Plenty, Thon pftn,
Brig Sally, Cochran, Aux Cayes r
Sarah, Mann, Hamburgh 5;
N. Orleans 3 s
Larcnhaye 17
Two Sifters, Roach, St. Marcs 18
Active, Hallet, Savannah 10
Schr. Nancy, Poll, P. au Prince 18
Industry, Grinnell, Norfolk 8
Debby, Brown, N. York 7
Betsey, Parsons, Boston 18
Sloop Miranda, Potters, Havannah 16
Hope, Bumett, Nantucket 8
Trial, Gibbs, R. liland 5
Sally, Brown, N. York 7
Sally, Dunii, Do. 4
Industry, Wharton, Havannah 18
Cleared.
Brig Ariel, Gardner, St. Croix
Schr. Lilbon, Drummond, Norfolk
Sloop N. Yfcrk
Lively, Bunker, Newport
leggy, Willis, Alexandiia
Capt. Mann of the brig Sarah, from
Hamburgh, informs, that the (hip Star,
Captain Vanneman, of Philadelphia, ar
rived there the Bth of Septembur ; the ship
Jane, Capt. M'Pherfon, was to have fail
ed for Philadelphia, in 7 days, and the Au
rora, Captain Suter# in 3 weeks after capt.
M.—the ships Chefapeak, Captain Wife,
and Juliana, Captain Willing of Baltimore
were arrived and unloading.
Captain Mann spoke the following ves
sels :
On the 13th October, the brig Mary of
Boflon, Captain Homani,bound to Bilboa,
out 13 days, lat. 41, 2.
On the 15th, the ship Betsey, Captain
Fox, from London, bound to Baltimore,
out 45 days, lat. 41, 42
On the 22d was brought to by a Britilh
ship of 16 guns, the Brufler, from Port au-
Prince, bound to London, (he fired two
shot.
On the 26th, the ftiip Leeds, Captain
Bunker, from N. York, bound to Hull,
out 9 days, lat. 39, 44.
On the id Nov. the brig Junius, F. W.
Callahan, matter, from New York, bound
to Jamaica, out 4 days lat. 39, 44*
The lhip Cleopatra, Capt. Israel, failed
from Hamburgh-several days before Capt.
Mann<
Old American Company.
THEATRE—CEDAR STREET.
thp. Benefit of Mrs. Miller
Mrs. Hamilton # ahd Mr
Ryan.
THIS EVENING,
Nov.' 10.
Will be presented,
A Serious OPERA, never performed
here but once, called
TAMMANT;
o u,
America Discovered.
With new Drefles, Music, Scenery, &c.
In aft 3d a Grand Indian DANCE con
duced by Monf. Quenet, in the course
of which w ; .li be introduced a Scalp
Dance by Messrs. Miller and Durang.
Between the Play and Farce, the favorite
Epilogue of
Belles have at Ye All,
By Mrs, Melmoth.
Afterwards Mr. Marriot, will deliver the
Description of an Englilh Spouting
Ciub.
To which will be added,
A COMEDY, in two a<sls called
The True-born Irilhman
BOX, one Dollar—PlTT, three quar
frs —GALLERY, half a dollar.
places in the Boxes may be had a* 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.
MefTrs. HALLAM & HODGKINSON
refpeAfully 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 of
their patronage, during the short Hay the
■nature of their engagements will permit
them to make h«re.
Mrs. Melmoth and Mrs.
Pownall,
Refpeftfully inferm their Friends and the
Public,
Their BENEFIT is fixed for
Wednesday next, Nov. 12.
On which Evening will be presented
The Tragedy of the
gamester.
With a Musical Piece, called the
Wedding-Ring.
As performed in London, fifty nine suc
ceeding nights, with the most unbounded
appUufc.
Mrs. Mclmoth will, for that night only
recite Collins'* Ode on the Paflions, and
deliver an occaf.onal Address written by
herfelf.
Other particulars will be eXprefied m
the Bills of tlie Theatre.
From the Philadelphia Gazette.
ON PUBLIC FASTS.
- t>ay«
«Mtic >9
OF the many Angular modes of war
fare adopted among nations, that of
which we are now about to treat is cer
tainly one of the molt remarkable. A
about the opening of a camp ►gn, it is
not unufualfor nations to endeavour to
reconcile the Deity to their projects by
means of public exhibitions of this fort
which are fomctimes performed on btfth
fides, although is be impossible that
both ihould succeed in their views, and
although it be improbable that both
should have equal juftiee of pretension.
Yet treating the Deity as if entirely
partial, each party endeavours to woo
him to himfelf; forgetting that the im
partiality of his nature, and the eflenti
al perfection of his being, Humid hare
totally repelled every idea of his being
influenced by pomps and profe£fions of
I this kind.
Yet, if nations, after thns setting
out in a campaign would treat the issue
of it as ah interpretation of the Divine
Will, and would drop arms oil the lide
that proved unfuccefsful, the practice
might tend to fhortcn the duration of
wars, and thus might abridge the peri
od of human sorrows : But alas ! tho'
unfuccefsful, they pursue obstinately
their former career; and, unmindful of
the effedt of their prayers, go on to in
volve thsmfelves in additional ruin.
These thoughts were occalioned by the
late facts celebrated in England, for suc
cess in their war against liberty and e
qualityin France. The learned doctors
of the church in that kingdom mount
ed their pulpits, and exclaimed against
the rices, the cruelty, and ii'religion of
the French ; not at all doubting but tie
Supreme Being would accord complete
triumphs to their superior virtues. In
like manner in Spain, solemn procefii
ons were instituted ; but what has been
the iflue ? Why, we find that Pichegru
has driven the holy array out of Flan
i ders, and now threatens Amsterdam,
just as general Dugommier is menacing
Spain, with an immediate invnlion : and
thus those odious Frenchmen (as far as
success may be an evidence) appear to
be the favoutites of that very deity
whom they were said to have disowned.
How the learned may interpret this I
know riot; but would be happy if Eng
land might be convinced by this experi
ence of the folly and wickedness of her
intermeddling with the government of
her neighbours, anfl might thence be iu:
-duced at once to leave off having any
thing more to do either with our sava
ges, or the internal commotions of
Francc; for, whatever she.may think
of the matter, it is probable that nati
ons like individuals would be frequently
better off if they would substitute sin
cerity for parade, and the pradtic e of
the moral duties of peace, charity, and
goodness towards their neighbours for
the unmeaning observances of an empty
fact. RUSSELL.
From the LEVEL, oj Europe and
Serfion the Third.
Principal Axioms of Political Economy.
Specie is theadtuating principle of power.
Remark.
A (late which is destitute of it can
hardly defend itfelf ; and, therefore no
such (late as yet exists in the political
scale.
This principle is the cause of the ef
forts made by all the sovereigns of Eu
rope ta draw specie into their domini
ons. This axiom didlated to England
the article of her Magna by
which (he inhibits herfelf from confis
cating the property of aliens placed in
her trade, excupt in cafe of the confif
cation of property of her fubjefts by
aliens. By a natural confeqnence she
has extended this regulation to all her
enterprises and her loans. This exam
ple has been imitated by almost all the
Sovereigns of Europe: nor could it fail
to be so, especially at the present time,
when the object of almost every war is
the encieafe of the commereeof the vic
tor. B. xx. Ch. as vi. Montefquieus's
Spirit of Laws.
America can draw the capitals ofEu
rope to her and their product, as every
(late of Europe can draw the capitals of
its neighbours into its public funds, or
its grand undertakings, and those capi
tals are every where under the protec
tion of the laws.
According as specie enters into a new
country, cultivation is extended, popu
lation encreafes, and the arts flourilh.
The reason of this effect is that mo
ney piompts men to undertake all the
work it can pay, and iotices to a coun -
America.-
Axiom I.
Axiom 11.
Remark.
try all the men who are wanting to per
form that work.
Ready money for ldlior is a kind of
riches eagerly fought after by the iuha
bitants of impoverished countries, and
without sustaining any apparent loiTes ;
a country is hecomfc poor, when dart
ing from the fame goal with other na
tions, it is considerably dillanced in the
race of prosperity.
It is from labour and its wages that
Holland alcertains the numbei-of its in
habitants. They amount to 208 per
square miles of 69-12-100 to a de
gree. Fiance contains 120 ; Swiffer
; land 89, &c.
Axiom 111.
For every government and above all
for ait infant fociefc the mod essential
object is rapidly to engreale its popula
tion to aa exa£t gropoition frith the
extent of its territory and the possible
number of its enemies.
Remai k.
Met) are the ft'rength of a government
their labour is its revef>ne. This is the
two fold cause of their power.
The (late which in proportion to its
extent of sea coalt mud command the
sea, is moreover exposed to all the ene
mies that the ocean may waft to its
shores. That llate therefore is not fuf
ficiently populous, if it be peopled only
like governments which polfefs territory
alone.
But the idvantages which the feapro
cures, are the rewai d of courage and
skill. If Rome had not poffefled the
empire of that element, (he had not
been the capital of the world ; and,
at the present day more than ever, thfe
people who poflefs the empire of the
sea have the preponderance on the
land.
In a word, the sea is almost equally
With the land the nurse of man; the
population on the sea coatts is double
and often quadruple, that of the inland
parts on the bed lands.
Axiom IV.
The corruption of mankind arises
not from the abundance of specie, but
from the means by which it is procu
red.
Remark.
The specie drawn into a country by
agriculture and by the arts which are
exercised in rural occupations corrupt
neither the heart nor the opinions of
mankind. On the contrary, it is an
antidote again ft corruption, when a go
vernment persuades ' men to quit the
occupations of opulent townsto embrace
the labour of the fields.
V. '•
Every wife government must depend
on two kinds of means, the means that
will procure its prosperity during peace
and those that will prefirve that prospe
rity during war.
Remark.
No war can be carricd on with the
sole product of the taxes to be levied
during its continuanee. Hence arises
the necessity of a solid and unprecarious
credit.
A Hate forced by fucceflive wars to
have recourse to continual loans, with
out having any funds of liquidation,
is a leaky vefiel without pumps. If it
has a liquidating fuudbut inefficient to
reimburse during peace more money
than it will'expend in its next war, and
soon fuccefiively, it is a vessel which
takes in more water than its pumps can
difchaige.
Vlth, and aft Axiom.
It it fubmlffion to the laws that em
pires find the guarantee of their dura
tion, and the laws derive their llrength
from no other source but morality,
hence on morality depends the prosper
ity of empires.
Remark.
This axiom is the apology of human
nature. Happiness is the constant wi(h
and fond desire of man. Man then
was formed for virtue, since, without
her, neither man, nor empires can bs
happy.
Therefore, O fovereignsof the earth,
ind ve, congrefles:*nd fcnates,be watch
ful left corruption take rife aniongft
yourfelres, and your own hands deltroy
the feat of government which you are
bound to pieferve ; andfince being all
powerful, you can render mankind vir
tuous, bow grateful mutt be your tran
quility when you know that in youi
own hands is the measure of the dura
tion of your empire !
A sovereign may be a vs tuous man,
and yet in point of adminiilration enter
tain depraved notions imbibed from the
persons with whom he is surrounded.
Whenever this is the cafe, the springs
of the empire are relaxed, no less than
if the sovereign were himfelf vicious.
It is ati instance of depravation, when
a prelate whom his scandalous life hin
ders from holding a fee for which he
was designed, receives by way. of indem
nification the firtl honors of the court.
It is a farther instance of depravation
when men who have forfeited their re
putation are seated in the council
chamber. Then the laws come Forth
from it environed with all the contempt
that the people bear to the authors of
them. Obedience is refufed ; and as
opinion is the firft lovereign of the earth,
we are then constrained to felicitate the
armed force for having refued its sup
port to laws which, to be refpedted,
(hould have been made by men of a dif
ferent charader ; and thus the empire is
already fallen to difTolution,
As the laws of nature regulate the
seasons, and point out to the stars their
course, so ought man to be regulated by
virtue ; and when virtue (hall govern io
ciety, the earth will be ruled like the
heaveni. LAROQUE.
Foreign Intelligence
BERLIN, August 16.
. Various are the reasons alledged that
Warsaw is not yet in the hands of out
troops. Some fay that Kofciufko has
threatened the life of the king of Po
land, if they attempt taking the capital,
whilß others aflure us, that the Empress
of Ruflia has infilled, that in the attack
upon Warsaw every thing shall be a
voided that may endanger the fafety of
the P&Kfh monarch, besides which there
has long been a talk of private negocia
tions, which hare (topped the operati
ons against Warsaw; however, that
they are slackened if not entirely (lop
ped, is mod certain : and it is now said
that the Prussians are in want of heavy
artillery, that which they have before
the city bearing no proportion to the
Polish artillery at Warsaw, which is ve
ry excellently served ; for which" reason
the king of Prussia has ordered a frefh
supply of artillery from Breflaw, which
ia already on its way, and expected to
arrive at the army before Warsaw by
the 20th.
LEYDEN, August 28.
According to accounts from the
Rhine, nothing of importance has pair
ed within thrfe few days, except that
Genera! Brown has been forced to quit
the army under the duke of Saxe Tef
chen, on account of his ill state of
health.
It it the fame an the Meufe and the
Moselle,
On the i «th General de la Tour
marched with a great division of his ar
my towards Hui, and at four in the af
ternoon he thicw a bridge aerofs the
river near Thaufontaine.
The rear of the army of the "rince
of Sixe Cobourg on the fide of the
country of Juliers, is actually covered
by the cordon which is formed in the
diftrifts of LifTel by troops under the
orders of Generals Lilien, Naueudorff,
and Zopff.
HERVES, August zj.
The news of the blockade of Lux
embourg, so far from true, is officially
proved falfe by the arrival of count
Kinfki, directly from that fortrefs.
We learn however, that the French
have marched as far as Echteinach, and
have demanded from this town, and its
rich abbey, a considerable tribute.
The bijhop of Namur has been sent
to Paris as an hostage.
LONDON, September 2.
By a letter from Warsaw, vfelegrn,
tfet'thc fire which took place there
fame weeks ago, was neither accidental
nor occaHoned by the Prussian batte
ries. A few persons, in the pay of the
enemies of Poland, undertook Hi set fire
to the city in several places at once.—
The plot was discovered before it had.
been wholly carried into execution, and
two of the ruffians have been since
hanged. . '
By the fame authority we learn, that
an universal and ard nt enthusiasm pre
vails among the people of Lithuania.
None but women and children are seen
working in the fields. Priests, peasants,
and nobles are continually exercising.
Mufquets and cannon are much wanted,
but they have plenty of pikes.
There has been lomething apparently
unaccountable in the conduct of the
French in Flanders. They seem to
have made a strange pause in the mo
ment of vi&ory. Conjecture has ascri
bed this to the convullions in the capi
tal ; but, from the information we have
received, we think that we can account
for it in avery different manner. A
congee, we undei(land, was given to
all the rcquilition men of the neigh
bouring departments (and these formed
the main force of the northern
to go to their several homes for the pui -
pole of collecting the harvest. Last
year,, we may remember, that these ar
mies could not wake any great move
ment, nor attempt any considerable en
terprise till after the harvest was ga
thered in!
UNITED ST Arm.
FREDERICK-TOWN, Nov. -
On Saturday evening last, an exprdV
arrived at Hager's-Town, from' the
well ward, with the melancholy inteili.
gence of the death of Mr. Elliot. That
gentleman was fliot, by a party of In
dians, en Monday the 6th of October
last, within 6 miles of Fort Hamilton.
The particulars of this unfortunate as.
fair, we have not yet been able to learn.
BALTIMORE, November j.
ARRIVED,
Brig Rebecca, Bunbury,
CLEARED,
Schr. Expedition, Boyle, St. 13*r.
tholomcw*.
St. Mark*
William, Kelly,
PHILADELPHIA,
NOVEMBER 10.
By theßrig Sjkjh Captain Mann, ar
rived ou Saturday evening from Ham
burgh, we have Hamlurgh Papers to
the 6th September la/1, from which the
following are extrads. Am. D. Atl.
"HAGUE, September 2.
WE were in hopes that the fnc
cefsful attempts which had been
made to repulse the two attacks which
the French made upon our own, and the
Englifll and Hanoverian out-pofts in the
neighbourhood-RnH-i, Had
all expectation of a siege of that plaei ;
but we received, on the 30th ult. the
difas'feeable information of its being- ac
tually besieged, and that it was sum
moned to forrender on the :19th in the
evening; that the fortifications being
in good order, and the fortrefs com
manded by Baron Von Genfaw, a Ger
man, who in the two last campaigns,
signalized himfelf by his bravery, the
fate of that place, gives us, as yet, no
great uneaiinefs.
The chief of the patriotic party at
Amsterdam, known by the name of
father Host, died at his country fer.t,
aged upwards of 70 years. He was
formeily burgomafler, and father in law
to Admiral Kinfbergen. It is said a
monument will.be ere&ed at Amiter
dam to his memory.
MAESTRICHT, August a -
Qrt the sjd inft. thi Vreuch marshct
up in two columns of cavalry, with
some cannon, and drove in the Imperaii
out-pofts before the gates of Tongres ;■
but a body of troops marching out 0 f
that fortrefs, and the cavalry getting
likewise in motion, they retreated.
BR E D A, August 11.
Since the day before yesterday every
thing has been in motion here, and head
quarters have been removed in the great
est hurry from heiice ; all the out pofl*
have likewise been called in. A French
officer with two trumpeters arrived here
the day before yesterday, but the cause
of his million is not yet known 5 after
having received his answer, he and the
two trumpeters were conduced blind,
folded, under a flrong escort, as far as
Hoo<»ftraaten. Yesterday some French
hufiars, and about 100 cavalry, appear
ed close before this fortrefs, took four
horsemen and some infantry prisoners,
and then withdrew.
All the houses before the Hague and
Ginnek.cn gates are demolished, and the
Grift mills are blown up, the other hou
ses outlide the gates, where the enemy
might take shelter, are like wife to be
demolished. Yesterday 4 regiments ar
rived here to reinforce our garrison.
The English, Hanoverian, Hefiiar*,
and .Dutch tiuops, have alljmarehed to
wards Gertruydenbnrg, Bois le Ducj
and the neighbouring places.
EINDHOVEN, August 27.
Yesterday we received information
that the French had eftabli/hed their
head-quarters at Oers. This day we
teceived a letter from the French army,
wherein jhey direst us to furnifh bread
for 1500 men, and hay and oats for
35.00 horses within 24 hours, on pain
of military execution. This being im
poiuble, we sent two deputies to the
French general to repn sent our inabili
ty : But the general would aba'e no
thing of his demands, and said be/ides
that to-day 800 men and to-morrow
15000 more were to encamp. 011 the
heath at Statum, the head-quarters
whereof were to be here at Eindhoven.
But as yet they are not arrived, and it
is even said that they have retreated as
far as Peftel. The above contribution
consists in ijooowt. bread, 36.0 bai
relsoats, and 5000 wt. hay.
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