Rcjcfcefort, in Fflr.re. No pipers wen*
brought by this veflel, but from the 01-ai
information of the Captain a gentleman ot
vjracity and intelligence, we have co!le<St
e<! the, t'ollowing articles.
That the post, which arrived from Bif
ea/, thiday before he failed, gave infor.
urmion of the capture of Bilboa by the
French. This information he was told,
being unacquainted with the language,
vas officially pu'olilhed in the papers of
Rochefort.
l"ht reports of the capture of Rotter
dim'were in general circulation, and ob
tained universal credence, but he knew
jiot how they were founded.
Tnatan frigate of 36 gun», ar
rived immediately before he failed, a prize
to a? 4 g™ fo'P! that prizes were continual
ly pouring into Rochefort, thirteen arriv
ed in one day.
That nine (hips of the line were build
ing- at Rochefort, three,of 130 guns and
tiie others 74's.
OFFICIAL.
For the information of the public, wc
bave procured the following return of
die late Federal Election in this Com
monwealth ; and vouch for Its authen-
ticitv :
F'trjl tueftern Jf /lrifl.
I^iu.Theodore Sedgwick, Efq, chosen
Second IVffiern .
r r»r • -
H>n William Lyman, Esq. chosen.
Third Wjjlsrn DiJlriQ,
Hon* Samticl Lyman, Esq. chosen.
Fourth Weft em DJirlcl. .
Hon. Dwight Foster, Esq. chosen.
Firjl Southern Dijlrtcl•
Nathaniel Freeman, Jun. Esq. chosen.
- " Secnttd Sirtfhrrri ,D}flrl<2.
Rev. Jnhf) Read, chdfen.
Tbi*d,sauihern Dijlritl,—.No choice
Fi'jl Middle D'tflriS.
_ -Hon. Fi(her Acs, Esq. chosen.
Second Middle Diflricl,—.Ni> choice.
Third Middle D/Jlrift,
Hon. Benjamin Goodhue, Esq. chosen
Fourth Middle D'ijlricl, — No choice
Fuji Eqjltrn Dijlrid,
Hon. Henry Dearborn, Esq. chosen
Se:ond Ea/lern 'Diflricl, —No choice
Third Eqjltrn Di/lrici, —No choice.
ALBANY, December 15.
On the 28th of November, depart
ed this life, the,honorable Frederick
William Augustus Baron Steu
bkn.
This excellent man, whose name will
be ever dear to the citizens of the Uni
ted States, as long as virtue and patri
otism (hall be refpt&ed, was a native
of where his merit hacf railed
him to places of the highest trust and
diftinftion : He was aid-de-camp to
the late king of Prufiia, and lieutenant
governor of one of the circles of the
Germnn empire. These polls, and o
thers, he left to embark with us in the
cause of freedom. In 1777 he arrived
in America, and immediately joined our
ahny as a volunteer. In 1778, Con
gress gave him the rank of major-gene-'
ral, vjhich was the highest grade in
their power, and appointed him inspec
tor-general to the army of the United
States. Under the diladvantage of be
ing a total stranger to our cultoms and
language, of encountering the prejudi
ces which exiftcd again:! foreigners, of
reducing an army, fcarcelv then form
ed, and continually changing, whose
habits in civil life had not been thole
of iubordination, and who, at that mo
ment, weie combating that they might
he free—fa reduce fuoh aq,army to the
fir«sV rules of discipline, was a talk
which none but a brave and virtuous
man would have undertaken ; to bring
this army to a point of kirow'ledge, ex
actitude and order, which infinitely ex
ceeded that of their veteran enerriy ; &
at the fame time to acquire the love
and veneration of the officers and sol
diers, could have been effected by no
other than Baron Steuben ; and no
o,her heart than his could have repaid
so fully the reward, which Heaven gave
to the virtuous exertions of our army-*-
the independence of their country.
The Baron was a volunteer in the
action of Monmouth ; commanded in
Virginia with a handful of militia, a
gainst Arnold and Philips ; and com
manded in the trenches at York-town,
on the day which concluded the itrug
gles of America, on the day that Lord
Corn villi's fui rendered rhe la ft hope of
the king of Great Britain, To his
military chara&er, the Baron added all
the virtues of the citizen, and the ac
coraphfhnieuts of the gentleman. His
knowledge was extensive, his ttnder
ftanding clear, and his judgment found.
His heart was formed by nature to be
open to all her children,' and he never
dosed it. This is a short, a faint iketch
erf" the character of the excellent Baron
citeuhen, given by a man who had the
honor to b; intimately acquainted with
hjm fifteen years, and' who nerer knew
him guilty of an unworthy action—
never knew him oolit a good one.
Steuben, Dec. 5.
i hiladslphia, Decern. 26.
Yefterdav arrived from the westward
and were lodged in the gaol of this city,
20 of the insurgents. They are luch of
the prisoners confined in the garrifop at
Pittsburgh, as were refufed bail; the reiS
due (about x':o) are admitted to bail.
They were escorted hitlier by a troop of
Jerley horse under the command of Major
Dunham.
From the Quebec Gazette of Dec. 4.
GENERAL ARNOLD.
In addition to the account already given
of the extraordinary escape of this gentle
man from the enemy at Guadaloupe, in
whose hands he was prisoner upwards of
three weeks, expelling every hour to be
put to death—we now lay before our rea
ders the following particulars received
from an officer of Sir Charles Grey's army.
" General Arnold was taken with some
other gentlemen paflengers in a Daniih
veiTe!. When under examination he plead
ed indilpofirion, and by his great address.
and command of good humour, he not
only obtained permission to remain on board
the vessel in which he had been captured,
but, by a presence of mind which never
leaves him, was equally fuccefsful, firft in
saving all his papers from the officer sent
to examine his trunks, and finally, by an
uncommon combination of ingenuity and
intrepidity, in efi'eifting his escape to the
British army. It appears that very early
afler their captivity, having obtained an
intimation of their premeditated destiny,
the General openly proposed the means of
escape to the fliip's crew ; but they revolted
at it as a measure which must prove fatal,
if detected, and considered the means of
attempting !t as little left desperate. The
impending fate, however, growing more
imminent, the General at length over
came their scruples, so far as regarded him
f' !'. The flake was life, en which I un
dc, nd, there are many very strong claims
'vii, ! d, perhaps of more value to him
than hi; own; andtolofea moment was
perlu,p~ the only one left for its prefervati
•n. No sooner was the consent of the
1 !"e* ta:aed to favour his departure,
thai. ks .:t about conftru&fng a fmallraft,
which when night came on, he lowered
and set afloat, placed upon it a .trunk] and
portmanteau, to balance each other, and
then boldly committed himfelf to the
waves. He took a small paddle in his hand,
and laying flat on his breast, so that he
might use the paddle impreceptibly and
without noise, he fleered hikifelf thro' the
enemy's Ihips and guard boats, and fuccefs
fully made one of the Bntifii batteries, af
ter being three hours in that situation, as
critical and perilous as imagination can
well paint.
By this Day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, Dec. 24.
It is with painful feelings, that the
Vice-President of the New-York State
Soeiety of the Cincinnati, announces
the death of the Society's late mod
worthy President, Major-General Fre
derick William Baron de Steu
ben, who departed this life at Steuben
Ville, on the morning of the 28th ult.
Cpnfcious that his superior worth will
b? recollected by his surviving brethren,
that the bosoms of the truly great, the
virtuous and the good, will nourish as
they ought the memory of so inestima
ble a friend ; and that while integrity,
friendfhip, and charity, continue to be
revered and refpwfled, that the name of
STEUBEN, will occupy an elevated
station in the annals of America. The
Vice-President requests the members of
the Society, to wear the usual mourn
ing for three months, as a mark of their
particular veneration and iefpe£t for the
memory of their departed friend, whose
benevolence and philanthrophy snoft of
them have experienced, and whose im
portant services to their country every
soldier mult pointedly recolleift.
V/. S. SMITH, Vicc-Pjefident.
New-York, Dec. 24, 1794.
ARRIVED.
Ship Bet fey, Moors, Norfolk
Brig Jefferfon, Morris, Philadelphia
Sloop Ranger, Dunn, ditto
John and Mary, Biid, ditto
Schooner Eagle, Tolls, Norfolk
On the i ith Nov. was captured by
the privateer ship Citizen of Marseilles,
Capt. Chabot, mounting 28 g,uns, the
(hip |£etty Cathcart, Captain Gard
ner, 21 days out from Port-au-Prince,
bound to London. On the 17 th, the
above ship, after an engagement of 20
minutes, captured a Dutch ship and a
brig from Demerara—(hip's name Do
nonzeekirtn, @apt. Hartenfveld,. 18
guns and 32 men, having on board 505
hhds. sugar, 200,000 wt. coffee, and
iome cotton and indigo. The brig,
called the Faflof, Capt. B. Gores, 16
guns, 28 men, with 220 hhds. sugar,
and a great quantity of coffee and cot
ton ; and is the fame that came in here
on Frii'ay lull—she had taken a Spa
nidi brig bound to this place, richly la
den, 2d day leaving Delaware
Capes.
AirircJ at Boflon.
Ship Gei). Lincoln, Jov, Loii-ion';
! iig Abigail, Prior, Lifbou ; si hooners
Neptune, Hughes, ls.irh.idi.es ; Ruby,
Milberry, Gaudaloupe; Lucy, Jones,
Jamaica ; General Heath, Bacon, Roch
fort ; Jane,Cobb, Cadiz; Polly, Drura
mond, Demerara; fcViUiaci, Farnham,
Madeira.
We have in informing the
public, that Captain Norton of this
port, who had been carried into Liver
pool (England) for adjudication, has
received full fatisfa&ion of ail he has
demanded, and in ready cash. He may
be hourly expected.
Latest European Intelligence.
From the American Minerva.
LONDON, October 14,
By letters from Warsaw of the 16th
ult. there is intelligence of an engage
ment 011 the 13th of the fame month,
between the Polish troops under General
Dombrowfci, and the Pruflian corps
polled at Kamiona, to guard a conside
rable magazine of flour, oats, fait, and
provisions of all kinds. General Dom
browiki having divided his troops into
three columns, attacked the Pruflians
with equal skill and bravery. The firfl
column forced the enemy and got pos
session of Kamiona ; the second carried
a battery ; and the third was equally
fuccefsful in the object of, its attack.
The Prufllang in thfs a£tion had loc
men killed, and yy taken 1 rifoners, a
among the latter of vhom were two of
ficers. The whole of the magazines
fell into the hands of the Poles.
October 17.
Mr. Drcfiing yette'day arrived frohl
the Duke of York with cfifpatches to
government. .He lef: his Royal High
ness at Nimeguen or Sunday morning,
where, the utmost pains were exerting
to fortify their fitmtion. No attack
had been made on them'j but MiniAers
have received the most important news,
that the people of EOIS-LE DUC
had rifeh, and demanded of the Go
vernor of the Fortr&fs that it fliould be
surrendered to the French, as they
would not fiibmit ta the horrors of a
siege* Accordingly the place was de
livered up on Thurfuay, the 9th inft.
without fifing a (hot.
The province of Fritzerland has cer
tainly p«fented a memorial to the States
General calling on them to take into
their most serious consideration the a-
larming date of the Republic, and to
occupy themselves forthwith in restoring
PEACE to the country. It Concludes
with a declaration, that if the States
General (hall not think it advifeable to
make peace for the whole of the Unit
ed States, they will certainly think it
advifeable to treat separately for them
selves.
We can afTure our readers that a ne
gotiation has for some time been open
ed between the French and the King
of Pruflia at Bade, It is condu&ed oil
the part of the French by M. Peregaux,
the banker, who is inverted with pow
ers to treat for a separate peace with
The King, by his agent, offered not
merely to conclude a peace, but to ac
knowledge the Republic, on the sole
condition that they ftiould abandon the
attack upon Holland. This they re
fufed, not from hostility to the Dutch,
but because they looked on the reduc-
tion of the States General as the futeft
and mod effectual means of waging war
with their only remaining and molt im
placable enemy, the English.
We have this day given the proceed
ings of the French Convention up to
the Bth inft. By the papers from which
they are taken, it appears that the con
>te!l between the moderate and the vio
lent party has been carried on with
great vehemence in the Jacobin Club,
and that every day adds strength to the
former and weakens the latter.
TRANCE.
Tuefclay Oft. 7.
The new members of the committee
of General Safety, are Laporte, Rever
chon Bentabolle and Reubel, in the
room of Diidarrau, Louis of the Bas
Rhin, Amar and Bernard c'es Saintes.
The popular Society of Marseilles,
[regenerated thanked the Convention
for its Decree of the 25th Sept. which
had dcilroyed the monstrous Coloflus
that threatened to crush under its weigh
all the South of Fiance. They intrca
ted them to pursue this plot thro'all
its ramifications and not to fuffer any
rival power to rile up and threaten its
diflolution.
The Committee of Public Safety
were authorized to correal some errors
that had crept into the fixing of the
miximum.
[Six months ago we ventured to pro.
nounce the French leglflation upon
r names trifling and unworthy of thedig
| iuty of a <?reat nati.iu. We now ftml
j 'ht Flinch Couvci.'iicn <>f t'ie r.me 0-
pinion, and Lv-jUs ;du.iv■> itr.o;- Mitrr-?'.
Jncobi.ufm ii iull ciuniLling tu tiicduilj
■ roni the gh Araerici.i S?Y.
Mr. Wands,
THE folio-wing extemporaneous production
«/ an irritated retainer of tbe Mujej,
occcjioned by an attempt to force kirn in
to the cletfionecYmg fer viu, claims a
place in jiour papa, as it tray
fer-ve to illujlrute th: otfir-vation of Ho
rucj, Iracundia facit Poetam. Simon.
A VAUNT, a vaunt ye venal crew,
The devil take the heft of you !
Co cringe, electioneer, cajole,
Co fell your votes and pawn your foul !
What boots it me, an elf ohfeure,
I'y fortune deftin'J to be poor,
To hear vile panniers* on my back,
if JA \ or CLINTON jfritle thv hack ?'
Go triflers emulate tlie vain,
Go twist and turn if acght ye gain ;
Shall I, whom nature's deadliest hare,
Doom'd on this spot to vegetate,
Who when a few chill nights are past,
Must fink hetieath the chilling blast,
And as my withered stalks consume,
i'hallgivcyournmfhrooin tnbesmore room,
I, whom no change of place can aid,
Say (hall I turn a renegade ?
Ye little fry, who love to sport
On fortune's sea and favour s court,
Go round tha lordly Dolphin play.
And tat the refufe of his prey,
Go tag behind the Imperial Whale,
And drink the fpatterings of his tail,
If such you like, enjoy your cheer,
But from my Ihatter'd bark stand clear.
For me, unlucky Poet after,
Who finds each creditor his mailer,
Is't not enough that I must lie
Unnotic d, while your lords strut by
Is't not enough that I must fee
My juniors take the wall of me ?
See great men rife, like Jonah's gourd,
And dulnefs set where genius foar'd I
See all that erlt infpir'd ambition,
Fall, tumbling headlong to perdition !
And must you still degrade poor Jack
By forcing livery on his back
As slavish Algerines maintain,
Their right to slaves by link of chain
Fix'd round the leg, that men may fee
They're doom'd to labour for the Dey,
Yet this fame Dey isbut the waiter
Of great Morocco's Imperator,
And wears, when whims his mafler'sbrain,
Himfelf a link of gilded chain.
* Alluding to the fable of the Ass in
JEfop.
f Itisfaidthat the Algerine prisoners,
when there are no French or Englilh (hips
iri the harbour, wear a lir.k of chain a
round the leg, merely as a badge of servi
tude. t %
A Special Meeting of the
Pennsylvania Society for promoting the
Abolition of Slavery, &c. &c. will be held
at ttie usual place, on Second Day next,
the 20th inft. at 6 o'clock in the Evening.
M'Pherfons Blues.
THE Corps arc desired to parade in
Unifoi to on Saturday next at 9 o'Clock
A. M. in front of the State-House ;
with their Arms, accoutrements, and
any other public property in their pofief
fion, for the purpose of delivering up the
fame.
By order of the Colonel,
Robert Heyfham, Adjt.
WANTED,
A person well ac
quainted With FARMING as patHi'cd in
this (late, to go to the neighhouihoo I of
the Federal City. He must be we!! re
commended lor Houcfly, Sobr,ety, Induf
tr;, &c. Enquire of
Garrett Cottringer,
north Filth ltre<;t.
Oi w
Dec. 26 <;
Just Published,
And to he fold by tie Snhfcriter, at hi?
H 'use, con er of Loml aid and Fifth
itreets, and by the diffcient Bookfelleis
in t! e City,
THE
Philadelphia Dire&ory and
Register, &c.
Embellijhed with a correct pan. of the city
By JAMES HARDIE, A. M.
(PRICE 6a 1-2 CENTS.)
ALSO, : ■: /
A Ihort Account of the City
of Philadelphia,
Ail<| of t.i« di&ieiu chariuuie and lite,
tary inltitutionj tMrein, emlnlJifHt d with
this f-meplao, price 37 1-3. cents. '
»• WheiV like wife'may, be bad. the I'lan by
itfelf, _price 19 cents. V
N. B An Append"*, containing the
namrs and refideme cf the ( the
Legiflarure of naine& cinit
ted, Officer* of tiie d fllieni S,cietirs, &C.
wili he delivered to Sub f c'i>bets for the
Dire&orv, early in January litx
l)cc. 26
GEORGE MF.ADE's
COMPTING HOUSE is removed
to the South fide of Walnut-Street
Wharf, one Door Weft fioni the COl
ntr. . Dec. 20.
From the Delaware and EaiLrn-SLore
fjstfrs. AAnms S*nfcb.
I rei.-d \oa trj,»flation ot few anccdotts
eMracicii from tjie Jcuntais oi the ju'iiuns
•it Par. §, umlerllc £oveir.nußt of Kcbcf
pierrr.. 't lu-v t? fill-it linking warks
■ k\v ar.rl rcrtitud? under the
■i lien-h
■ raoa iw ,«| i/cv.ntfctncM of mortality.
A priione-r i;i-rre,d rged 27
years, who Jj.ni iV-merly been a grenadier
m the regiment.of. .WoS, was"confined
at the'Cvnritgeric tor.ilic crime of emigra
tion. >' hta the aij cf his accufatioii wa*
brought Mm, he took t.s with great indsfr
termer, and rolling ft «rj, apptied one
end of it to . i candle, andlighted his pipe
with it. When the articles of his accusa
tion were read to him front the tribunal,
he pofitiveJy a< knowledges the truth of
ihcin all. His attorney observing tp him
that he must have loJt his htod, he answer
ed that his head was never nore fully in
Ins pefiefhon than at this moment, though,
iticetd, lie v\as on the eve of losing it in
icality He added, " cease to defend me,
thou officious a<i\ ocate, ?nd let me be led
to the guil.i tiiie."—Being condemned to
die, he walked through the court with his
usual gaiety, without discovering the least
change in his couutenance.
In the lull of the condemned, he cat
<tnd drank \Tiih a good appetite, and
great cheet fulnefs. As he passed thru'
the court of the paljcc, foftie whd fol
lowed, began to hi'Vhirh ; but he an
swered qui.e compelled, What, ye cow
ardly mifereants! do ye infuit me?
VV'lQch of you would go to death with
?s much courage as I do { At the liaf
fold, he excla med, \Vrll, here; I am,
where 1 have long wifiied to he ! ai d
very tranquilly delivered l is head to the
executioner.
One of the prijqners, who excited
the moll pity was RoticJier, the auibi r
of the poem entitled, "The Months."
He pal Ted his tune in forming the you h •
fill mind of one of h s childier. railed
Emilias ; and this Occupation charmed
the tedioufnefs of his confinement. On
the day he received the copy < f his ac
cusation, he clearly forefaw the fate
that awaited him, and sent his so i wiih
a portrait of himfelf, drawn by Spvei,
to his wife. This piefent was accom
panied Wit h four verfrs, adc'iefikd to h< r
and his children, to the following ef
fefl:
" Be not furpr.fcd ye sweet and charm
ing obji.-fts,
" If some dark cloudi obfiure my
placid front.
" While the fkill'd attift this relcrc
blance drew,
" I saw the fcaffold rife, and thought
of you."
I could fend you, Messrs. Printers,
some other anecdotes ot this nature,
but they harrow up the foul, and excite
too diltrefling sympathy for a great and
gallant people, thus bleeding under the
reign of a Despot, more sanguinary and
rapacious than any that was ever deco
rated with a crown. Yet this rmfere
ant and tiger, for more than thr.-e years
profaned the sacred name, while he was
exterminating the friends of Libert) —
While he was daily fending cart loads
of innocent vidirr s to the f«affold—the
rights of man was the coultant therqe
of his declamations, and the a-wfiiip
of the Eternal the fubjeft of his hypu- .
critical canting. Americans; beware.
If any similar characters fhoulrt evtp
arise among you, by their fruit* ye fha'.l
know them, not by their prafejfi'jns.
A SUBSCRIBER.
NEW THEATRE.
THIS EVENING,
; "Will fe'Prtfjstedy
The I*R Y of r
George B^nwell,
'•' ',i ' '%i6j,W»kte;k'
•
Bawtall, ,• Ciive.'and
'• v 'fc!jvOi ; e,en '
' •"' M r * Frsncli
Gaoler,. • _ Kr.DiMcuiins
Maria, ' Mrs Cle'ciar.d'
Millwood, IV,rs. Fraiiu;'
Lucy, JV'rs. Shaw
In A<sl jd a SONG, bv Mi's BroadLur;i
To which <wiH be aJdid,
For the last tTme th : s Season, a PANTO
MIME, calltu i/jc
Birth of Harlequin,
Or the FRIENDLY V, :'j t'HKS.
Harlequin, Mr. Frr ncis
Pantaloon, 'Mr. Or.v.a
Miser, Mr. s'u.'ct
Clown, Mr. .YTilbuuri:c
Lawyer, Mi.Dariuy jam
lit Witch, Mr. Carle- r
id Witch, Mi . fv, a: tha i
,3'dl Witch, Mr. Wohr|3
2a«-tf
Bricklayers,
Maid,
C oluHibipe,
To concl'jilc ivi b
A Grand 'Gjtrla&tf Dance
In the TEMPLE of LiBERI Y,
Aveitifer
Me firs. V. arr-lt, j.
Warrt!i, otc.
Mrs. Ckve'a- i
Mrs. De Aljt(\ c-