I write C.imiUe Defmoufins, who was J
;ui!tv ot no crime but that of attemp- !
•it tu unmade and to fupprcfs this de- r
•tf J jlil? f iclion. "
1
L 1
After reciting a number of other
crimes and tyrannical proceedings,.the
Writer fays, •' What can be expe&ed
from fucti a society ! Is it not evident
that until the society is thoroughly pur
ged wi shall be devoured with anarchy,
and it will be impossible to ellablifh the
Republic on a durable foundation." So
tar, Frevolt.
It is a great point gained for the
people isF" France to have learnt one
Let ; which is that the Jacobin Clubs
hive produced the popular tyrants and
i!m >.t all thd calamities of Fiance. But
there is another truth, they have yet
In learn—which is that such clubs will
always produce limilar tyrannies and
public milch id. They seem now to
think that by purifying the societies,
that is, expelling the tyraiws, the lea
ders, the corrupt members they shall
gel alont* .V'll enoti^h —and that the
purified or ngeneratt d fncietres will be
guided by motives of public good.
capital error mult be exploded, but
expei iejtce alone will do. the work.
Experience' alone will prove""that 1 felf
c.'iiltiuited clubs, where private wills
the only rules of atban, will ever
produce fa&ions—whatever be the ori
gin of them, or howevtr pure the mo.
tives of the firit aflociators, j they will
necrflarily degenerate into infiruments
ef intrigue, These clubs in France and
in America drdw together a great num
ber of t!>e populace, where some artful
v intriguer employs his flattery and his
oratory to (educe a credulous multitude,
and in order to secure the people and
nuke'rhem thorough dupes, their lea
ders !ake care to (jeep out of the soci
ety every man whose talents,
a"d independence of mind they are
afraid .of.
ARRIVED.
Sehr. Infillfhy, Coppinger, Bermuda.
Sloop Ranger, Dunn, Philadelphia
John and Mary, Bird, do
Nancy, Hubbard, do
Abigail, Tapp, Alexandria
.S I'y, Stocking, Turks Island
P/>liy, Graves, Richmond
NEW BURY PORT, Dcc. 19.
MORTALITY
Jit Algiers, from January 1, to Augufl
1, 1794, among the American Cap
tives—
Names, Sailed from,
Sam. Milburn Philadelphia Feb. 6
Benja. M'lbtim Portimouth Feb. 6
T. Furnace do. Feb. 12
John Abbot Philadelphia Feb. 13
R. Wliitten Rhodelflamd April 24
f. Rensfidd Haverhill May 17
Peter Bendix New-York June 1
C. J. M'Shaine Philadelphia June 16
Peter Loting do July I
Win. Prior Rhode lfland July 3
Thos. Staffofd Newbury port July 14
do. July 16
Philadelphia July 20
New-York Aug. I
J. Harman
Nicholas Bot >
I). Colliiii
There now remains alive ICO, one of
which (Mate to Capt. Morse, from
Haverhill) is Tick. , v
dialers, jiugufl 4 '
BOSTON, Dec. 20,
A fymiom highly favorable to the
continuation of Peace, is, that the Bri
tish government has difplacetl those pri
vileged plunderers, Grey and Jei vis. A
gentleman in London afiures ire, that
the exchange they have remitted to
London, has been attached of
government.
We are told, that orders have been
received at Halifax, not to molelt Ame
rican vefiels.
By an arrival from Halifax, we learn
that the Schooner Del ght, Girdler, of
Cape-Ann, on her return from Bour
deaux, wa» captured by the Lynx Bri
ti(h (loop of war, and carried into that
port on the 30th November —her fate
uncertain On the 9'th inft. when our in
formant failed from thence.
We hear that MefiVs. Thomas Dicka
fon and Co,, of London, well known to
the merchants of this State, on hearing
of the late fire in this town, very ge
nerously ordered their friend here to
pay One Hundred Pounds, L. M. to the
proper Committee, for the relief of the
unfortunate fuflerer*.
THE SEASON.
By accurate observation, it appears
•thai the aggregate of the degrees of
the thermometer, for the firft 14 days
of Dec. 1793. at Charleston S. C. was
705 —and at the firft 14 days
of this month 647*
It should seem. from the continued
openness and warmth of the weather,
that the seasons had got jollied out of
thrir place# or that December had ac
tually been wedded to May.
: S! -tJe car last, one of our brethren
who his been in captivity in Algiers,
for' 9 years p ill, arrived i.v town. He
was liberated in consequence of the
treaty with the Dutch.
Rural Articlet. However it may ex
c:fe the fnge grin of the we al
ways feel happy in recording articles
which (hew the fertility prosperity, or
improvement of our country. We there
fo-e, inform that this season, Mr. Bar
ker, of Cheshire, killed ten hogs, about
20 months old, all from one sow, which
weighed 3223 pounds. In one town,
in .the State of New-Hampshire, yvhere,
20 years since, there was not a white
inhabitant, on a late occasion there were
given in near 500 qualified votes.
Philadelphia, Decern. 30
Says a Ctrrefpondeni.
The felf-created societies are accused of
fomenting a spirit of jealousy and accusa
tion agamlt the con it tuted authorities.—
They puhiifh a manifeflo to clear them
felvej from the charge, breathing the very
spirit they are accuied of fomenting. If
ai>y doubt had remained, their defence
would have banished it. It is recommend
ed to them to be quiet, to avoid all im
pudent things in any defence of themselves,
to let the public forget the licentioufneft
of their resolutions, and not to provoke
the contempt and detestation in which
their conspirators are held. Calm and
prpfperous times do not. favor them. Let
then lie in wait till trouble and confufion
threaten our affa!rs. Then they will be
brL'k and aiftive. Then they will ride in
the whirlwind and direct the storm.
The United States and France are ft nig
gling with the felf-createti societies. If
both countries should defend thpmfelves
from these Vipers, Republican Liberty wdl
stand the more lecure for the conflict.
A Correspondent enquires whether
there was one member of the Democratic
Clubs in the army which quelled the infur
reilion in the Wefiern Counties, who
went in the ranks as a piivate ?—Our cor
respondent has been aflured from an au
thentic source, that they all had offices,
such as quarter mailers-gene
ral, brigade majors, aids-de-camp, quar
ter matters, with their deputies —in short,
that the whole stasis of the Pennfylvanta
line, was composed of members of the
democratic clubs, or their supporters.—
This our Correspondent supposes, will ex
plain the afiertion in the Ddilor's Address,
signed Henry Kammerer, when he fays—
" The Democratic Society of Pennsylva
nia could have made a quorum in the
fiekl." A ■ the loaves and fifties were not
thought of by the Democrats, their Dis
interested patriotism shall never be forgot
ten.
Died
The country people have no clubs to
carry prints, and they universally detest
them. They are very right in their
tiews and conduct. For what do such
cabals effect ? Plainly this, by intrigue
and management in the cities to lead
the country people by the nose.
The Clubs have every where origi
nated in ele&ioneering intrigues—or if
there is any exception as to thsir ori
gin, there is none as to their use. For
all have been used for that end. Such
inftitutioiis however poison the feuntain
head of a Republican Government and
as long as they continue, our elections
will be more and more turbulent and
corrupt. Let Clubs be banished and
freedom of fufTrage reflored.
The wo', ft men have the word means,
againlt a government whichfor freedom
in itstheory & purity in its adminiftrati
011,is allowed to have no rival. Yet such
men, modestly call themfel/es The Re
publicans, as if they were the only He
publicans, and yet, they only, oppose
the laws, and (lander the magistrates.
Such incotififtency, and fuck impudence
may pass for Patriotism in the regions
of ignorance & ciedulity—and it is in
such benighted parts of the United
States, that they have gained influence
and credit with the pople. In the moll
enlightened paits and with the mod
virtuous men, the national constitution
and Government have never ceased to
be refpe&ed and beloved, and Rever
more than at this moment, when the
clubs aiepublifliing their ridiculous ma
nifeftoes.
CANAL of LANGUEDQC.
The Canal of Languedoc in France,
was begun in.1666, in order to effc£t
an inland communication between the
Atlantic, and Mediterranean, and fi
nifhed in 1682. From the Port of
Cette, in the Mediterranean, it crofles
the Lake of Thu, and belcw Thou
loufe conveyed by three sluices into
the Garonne. At St. Fereol near Re
vel, between two rocky hills in the form
of a Crescent.is a large refer voir, 7200
feet long, 4000 broad, and 129 deep >
the whole furface being 687,438 feet,
Into this basin, the river Laudot, which \
descends from the hills, is received and
inclosed by a wall 2409 feet long, IJ J
high, and 34 thick ; having a ttrong
dam, secured by a wall of freeftone.
Under the darn runs an arched palTage,
reaching to the main wall, where thiee
large cocks of call bras» are turned and
{hut by means of iron bars ; and these
cocks discharge the water thro' mouths
as large as a man's body, into an arched
tquedutt. where it runs through the
outer wall, and when got beyond
gees under tile name of the river Lou
dot, continuing its course to the Canal,
called Rigole de la Ptai ie. Thence it is
conveycd to another fine reservoir near
Nauioufe, 12co feet long, and 900
wide, and 7 deep ; and out of this ba
fo it is couveyed, by sluices, both to
the mediterranean, and the ocean, as
the Canal requires it. Though the
cocks remain open for fpme months fuc
ceflively, yet there is ao visible diminu
tion of the water in the great reservoir.
Near Bezieres are eight sluices, which
form a regular and grand cascade, 936
feet long, and 66 high, by means of
which veflels may pass cross the river
Orb, and continue their vdyage on the
Canal. Above it, between Bazieres
and Gapeftan, is the Mai-Pas, where
the Canal is conveyed for the length of
72Qfeet, under.a mountain cut into a
very lofty arcade, the greatelt part of
which is lined with freeltone, except to
wards the end; where it is only hewn
through tjie reck, which is of a loft
sulphureous fubltance. At Agde is a
round sluice, with three openings, three
different depth* of the water meeting
there, and the; gates are so ingeniously
contrived, that vefltls may pass through
by opening which sluice the m?fter pleas
es; an invention that llruck the great
Vauban himfelf with admiration. This
Canal cost something moie than half a
million sterling, part of which money
was furnifhed by tlie King, £ Louis
XIV] and part by the states of Lan
guedoc. The King generous by grant
ed to Riquet the inventor and conduct
or, and his male heirs, all the jurisdic
tion and revenues belonging to it ; so
that the Crown could not come into
poffeflion, till the extifi&ion of that
line. The annual income is Rated to be
£94,500 sterling, from which, deduc
ing the current expenfesand repairs, the
annual net profits are upwards of
1 £24,000 sterling. The length of this
Canal from Toulouse to Bezieres, where ,
it joins the river Orb, is 152 miles.—
" The system of inland navigation" fays
Mr. Svinburne, 46 has been so much im
proved of late years, that I make no
doubt but this Canal would be shortened
many leagues were it to be undertaken
afrefli. It is full of angles and turns
that do not appear neceflary ; and, on
the contrary, in one or two places, has
been driven straight, at an enormous
expense, through numberless obllacles
when a (hort sweep would have convey
ed the waters, with greater ease, and
less expense, to the place of their desti
nation. There are 15 locks upon it in
the fall toward the ocean, and 45 on the
fide of the Mediterranean. The high
est point between the two seas is at
Naurouge, which is elevated more than
200 yards above the level of each shore.
The Canalis carried over 37 aqutdudb,
and crossed by eighj bridges.
By this Day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, Dec. 29.
The following is copied from the South
Carolina State Gazette, extra, of Dec. 17.
NASSAU, December 9.
The intelligence given in the following
extract of a letter from a well informed
correspondent, whose communications on
former occasions have ever been authentic,
affords a pleasing presage of good fortune
in the Weft Indies, where the campaign
that began so auspiciously in March last,
terminated so very unfavorably.
Extract of a letter from Turk's Island, da'
ted December 1, 1794-
14 By a late arrival from windward, we
learn that four fail of the line, in addition,
under Admiral Caldwell, arrived the 15th
of last month, at Barbadoes, after a ftort
paflage, no more than 21 days. It seems
they were dispatched in a hurry, subsequent
to the failitig of a fleet with ten regiments
on board, under a strong convoy. The
whole naval force in that quarter, when
collected together, will form a fleet t>f fif
teen line of battle (hips, besides frigates &c.
Extract of another letter from Turk's
Island, Dec. J.
« A brigisjuft arrived here in nine
days from Barbadoes, the master of which
informs me, the day prior to his failing, a
p lt kct arrived there from England and
from the rejoicing among the people on
(hore, he supposes brought very pteafing
intelligence. ' ' • 3 ••
" Some time before he
four f/il of line arrived off there, and pro
ceeded immediately to Guadaloupe ; and
the very day before his departure, came in
a brig, that sve days before he made land,
parted with the fleet having ten rejiroents
on licard ; to reinforce lae Welt India ar
my.
" From St. Thomas's, we have a re
port, that a division of Lord'* Howe's
fleet had fallen in with a French fquartron,
and taken or funk 7 hi', of thejii.eaud 15
frigates."
a \
Extract of another letter from Turk's
Island, December 1.
" An American brig, to day from
Martinique, brings information, that
four (hips of the line had arrived there
without any troops, and had proceeded
for Guadaloupe. General Vaughan was
on boaid, and was to command the
reinforcement of land forces, hourly ex
pcfted from Gibraltar. '*« ' •
" A brig in nine days firorti Barbad'oes,
arrived just now ; the master lays that
the day before he failed, a packet and
a brig in 22 days from England a rived.
Ke did not learn ( what news they bro't,
but from the rejoicing on (hore, the
.evening after he left the harbour, he
supposed they brought agreeable intel
ligence.
" The brig he understood, had five
days before he made the land, parted
with the fieet having on board ten thou
sand troops.
" Since the four ships arrived at
Guadaloupe, we are infarmed, that a
number of the republicans of all colours
had come in and furrenderedthcmfelvcs.
V There were at Guadaloupe ten fail
of the lire."
The Cygnet a brig mounting 18
guns, and 150 men, fitted out at Chailef
ton, under a French commiflion, with
another privateer brig of 14 were
lately captured by a Spanilh frigate and
carried into the Havanna.
The medical tociety of Conne&icut,
have conferred the degree of Do&or of
medicine on Evans Munfon, and Seth
Bird, of that state ; Benjamin Rush of
Philadelphia ; an<} on John Bard and
Samuel Bard, of New-Yoik.
ARRIVED.
Ship Alexander, Strong, Charleston
Brig Betsey, Boltor, Curracoa
Schr. Ameiican Eagle, Young, Eden
fton, N. C.
Mary, Newcomb, Fcterfburgh
Sloop Betsey, King, L'Arcahaye
A lift of vessels in Cape-Francois, No
vember 8, 1794-
Brig Molly, Wills, from Philadel
phia, 14. weeks in the Cape ; sloop Ge
nera! Green, Godfrey, Rhode-J (land,
12 ditto ; brig Rover, Haynes, Nor.-
folk, 12 ditto; brig Fanny, Dobby,
Philadelphia, 9 ditto ; sloop Lucy,
Wilson, New-York, 4 ditto ; brig N,
and C, Hufley, North-Carolina, 3 dit
to ; schooner Catharine, Galloway,
Philadelphia, 4 ditto ; sloop Richmond,
Levering, Philadelphia, 1 day.
The following were forced into the
o "
Cape by French crullers.
Brig Calliope, Oblen, from New
fork, 11 weeks in the Cape ; schooner
Dolphin, Philips, Salem, l I ditto;
schooner Abijah, Cufhman, Bedford,
(N. H.) io ditto; fchr. Caroline,
Hubbell, Boston, 2 ditto ; (loop Hope,
Paddock, (difmalted) New-York, 2
ditto ; schooner , Higgins, Bos
ton, 2 ditto ; schooner Scheldrech,
, Plymouth, N. E. 5 ditto. '
The schooner Polly, Capt. Maefe,
from Philadelphia, had proceeded from,
the Cape to the Borgne. -m ,
Broughton, from Marblehead, do. •
Arrived yesterday, 17 days from Bar
bados, the (hip Nancy, Capt. Ander
fon, who informs that a transport .had
arrived there full of troops ; and re
ported tbat the reft of the fleet, which
might be daily expe&ed. ;
Capt. Andeifon left there the brig
Eliza, of Philadelphia, and two brigs
from Alexandria, names unknown.—l
Spoke the brig Nancy of New-York,
bound from Jeremie to that port ; all
well.
BALTIMORE, Dec. >5.
Yesterday evening arrived here the
(hip Union, Capt. Johnfton, in ten
weeks from Bremen, Captain J. was
boarded by the Thetis, English frigate,
on the coast, Capt. J. was (hort hf pro
vifiens, and was very humanely suppli
ed by the Thetis and otherwise treated
; with much civility.
NEW-HAVEN, Dec. 25.
There are now living in the town of
Wallingford 122 Petfonsmore than 70
years of age, viz. 2 between 90 & 100,
29 between 80 and 90, 91 between 70
and 80.
SPRINGFIELD, Dec. 16.
While it is confide!ed by American
citizens as a benefit, to be served ir
their offices of the higeft importance,
by men of uncomrron t.Jciiis, of cie.Tr
heads, and pure hearts. Mr. Hamilton's
relinqniOiment of the arduous duty of
Kecretaty of the Trc:ifiiry, will be deem
ed an iiieiliniable loss to one Republic—
his abilities have never ■ been difputed
even by his moll implacable "enemies';
then* pcrftctuio»» ha-e produced the
mull incoiXell.blc evidence of his int'e-
grity, aut] have fe'ived lo disclose truths
greatly to his honor artil reputation,
and to the cxtention of his fame.
BRIDGE-TOWN,,(Bar.) Oft. 28.
We infertthe following extract f:om
a journal of a voyage to' Guadal'oupe;
kept by aCaptain William Hefs.'of the
(loop Sally, anil publifbtd in a' late
American paper, as a fpccim<(n of R e- -
publican ttmtmy ; leaving our reatlerij
to determine whether, h;id Mr. Hels
adled in the mannei he iclaus, Cap<: 1
Rofs, wonld, or riot, have turned "hiirr
over to his Bontfwain's Mate to trtdl
him belter manner?, who, by the help
of his Cat of nine tails, would soon have
out striped his thirteen tvi-colouud flag.
£Here follows Captain Hefs's Journal. J
• November 25. • ■_ ■
By ]ate accounts from America, we"
>■ learn, that Admiral Jforray having late
-Ily paid a vilit to New-York with the
molt friendly intentions, received ftotn
the populace of that fity fitch an abu-'
five and illiberal reception as not even
their Republican Runners can juftify/
Gn his approach -in his barge he w*»
peremptorily commanded to return, and
threatened to be iullantly muiiheted jf
hfr on shore ; he however, difr« -
gardingthem, dtfired his barge-meri to*
proceed to the pier, where Ire landed,"
and in despite of their hisses, threats
and menaces, walked the ilicets of the
town until when he returned
to his boat, her crew receiving him
with three cheers, and was fafely ton
dufled to his ship, then laying at the'
Hook. He the next day moorid his
vessel oppoCte the town, which so dif
concertcd and terrified the inhabitants,*
that theie is not a Jack tar in the ship'
but rpay now venture on (hore and be
heartily welcomed. .......
Says a Correspondent. (
The present is certainly a time of
plenty, and it is'recommcndcd to the
Clubs, if they like 'variety, to collect
and bind .up for a future day of sober'
thought the President's Speech, the ad
dress of the French Convention, the Ja- ;
cobiniad from the Boston Orrery, and
the excellent ferrnon, of the Rev. Mr.
Ofgood of Massachusetts. 1 If v they
really desire information, the Clubs
would,aft confillently as well as honest
ly, to pay for a stew Edition of the tat--
ter, and cause the Copies to -be disper
sed among their own members, andthofe
whom they hare deluded and misled,-
by reading that thanksgiving sermon,'
with the attention due to its found good
fenfe, they would mend their principles,
and extend their-political-knowledge. <>/
The felf-created focictks profefs to
seek information, they cannot firtisfy
their patriotic hunger with such food
as other citizens, for want of knowing
better, are content with, aad therefore
every club is supposed to lay'u£ public -
(lores or magazines of knowledge, from
which every member may <3raw his ra- <
tions. Thus Pharaoh in.the seven years
of plenty, laid up (lores for the seven
years of famine, r
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
ARRIVED.
U . '» DsgS
Schooner Delight, CottseH, Cbineotcague •
Brig F. Antonia, Moreau Halifax 24
'Schooler Eagle» Bordon, R. lEand it'
Neptune, Correy Jeremie 1J
Porge, Coffifi, Boston 17
Sloop Frieadlhip, Hock, New-York y
D<jmocratk Society.
*. • t „ ,
A Stated Meeting of the Democratic '
Society -will be held at the Lfnivertity in
Fourth street on Thursday the lft of Ja
nuary,
ROBERT BAILEY, Sec'cy. ■;
Thetnembera of the Society are requef- •
ted to be puriflual in their 'attendance «3 -
the election'of ofiecrs will take plaee or.
tills evening. ...
j: J ■- ' , U- -
Andrew Clow & Co. ,
■HOTiet-■n f *6mr M OH-H
ptVfiw* «* »*' tlf«*i»t ''Hlti*le'
"«f A"«'' cw Cl®*'aiK< Bo;' bf BiU »J Uthamgt
tf SptiaHiyt tH«t W DiVle'lffid'w»#
to tbtih t»y-tbe-Ey«o»o»i tof Cafy,
whir (VwvWed tUt-jfaid'AadiSfW.
the twitji'day M 179i» at '*®- *«»'
Sooth' Front-! *1 wfcch ♦!»s«■ '
the said Creditor* arc iequeicH ta
Kt " od ' WM. CRAMONIJ,
' JNO*. LEAMY£* . V
• . s -.. -i,, HUGH HOLWffifl, ' •
Executors cf Divid Cay, wK» furrWed
.*' / Andrew Clow.
Dec. i* ■
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