■ r ' § ■w r I > BriiCia had in truth never been the enemy or i ranee, and he could not be so. Those t Towers, mutually and neceflarily ri * la, looked only to their private interefti; and who could blame them ? They re £".rde>l their awn country with becoming Icelinjrs, they were not their own enemies, they had not a parliament to Hand be tween them and the people, and therefore their lnimiters were more careful of the advice which the/ gave to their matters, a j the confe(|ue*cea must fall on their ewn heads. 4 X i. t i 1 With these sentiments, it was not to be wondered however, tiut they had been kroughi tn commence the unnatural league they never had been serious friends in the •'jnceft and indeed it would not be diffi cult to prove, that Prussia, as he had no fcipfKM but from France against the power ct ins • val, had never seriously been the • iemy °f 1* ranee, the diimemherment of 1 wlpeh would have been so fatal to him irjf. The third light in which this politi cal queftro.i was to be coiifidered, was the ' resources. lo De lure it was pleasant to hear of a 4 millions being raised in the riorums;. He did not mean to cry down credit, it was in it 3 nature to do wonders while it laited. A merchant of 30,000 1 pounds capiat, could havq more credit t than a nobleman of an hereditary fortune M> the feme annual account. ' .He might circulate his paper for j ( or 600,000 pounds, but it was not unusual that 011 some hue morning he g fhemid break. He would not enter in. to the discussion of the wild theories r about the nature of the credit by which they (trove to delude themlelves ; they had originated in France under its old fyftcm, and yet France had not been f.ived. The truth was, we might go on in the fame blind path without per ceiving, until we fell into the abyss to which ij led. And what were the oh jcttions to treating- with the French for " peace ? The tiril too conrempti- 1 " V b for a serious answer, with whom " con !we in Pia ice ? It was a P' <]neilion unworthy even of a German P' i \i c certainly could find pciions 1 to treat with if we had a difpoti.ion to fcek them. I 1 ranee, with al! its clung es of parties, and in the mi.lll of its molt violent commotions, has not falli fied its engagements fiuce the rfcvolu- w « I.oh, with a.iy o-;e foreign state. The ah next realon againit treating was ! f"' ' What! (hould we give up our invnlua- ! > w ble co iquetjs ? As to thofc invaluable 'hu t'onq ; -o one part of them, tliofe in k«' the Well-Indies, vrtre likely not to 1 fland in our way—Martinique was but 201 too probably already in the hands of P r< the French. As to Corlica, if it had c '" not been tor this idie cnterprife we might 1 a f' have our commerce, guairled tue our coa\;, given confidence to indus- I try, and hiftead of the abominably at- eov tempt to llaive the French by inter- P°' their com»- we might have done what was,confident with legiti- * nc Mate war, intercepted their naval stores, (Fo we have saved -the efFuiiou of mc much human blood ; but then tmdoubt- Y» edly, we (hould not have been able to 1' I*■ added halt 3 dozen fiuecurei to ' P 3 P the i ..luence > f the crown to be par- j m "i celled out among the men who were I alarmed for the exi(truce of the coniti- j liitfijn. He 1 idiculed the idea njf pur debating ourfeKea by the offer of peace ; nothing could be more extravagant. If they were <:i p >fed to treat, thev might : r come together without, submissions on | I rnher part. He had no doubt but 1 • , > I'ra iCjt would treat with the p.efent nd f m .rlters, though perhaps other men j , • • night iKgocta-e on better terms. He : approved of their American treaty, and j °"i I'. they would retract their si tr-o: with France, „ wi f,fy m ihey had j done tyijh o„r Jmeric/v, brethren. The £» • i.obte Lord concluded by giving his " beuriy approbation of tV amendment. P r°? of tr » T * T r final UNITED STATES. P er a . NEW \OR K. March 13. 4 pie Yefterdiy the Hotife of Alfcmbly in be nominated ak! appointed the following I I piilenc", v,z. J.mies Watftin, Jorham theje P.'lt, Lawrence Embree and John Mur- reinft My, jnn, Commifiioners for fuperin tendmg the building „f Gaol> «n toe Mcmity of this city, contempla t"l in trie :,i!i r.ow btWc the Ligifl*. ' * tore f „ tu led, "An aft for -he more ' euectual prevention of crimes." been 1 —ißiiVfffiiin hi - Philadelphia, March \6. T ° c '^ m Th» dchatn» In i n the British Parliament T „ •» the fulj«3 of die war contain but very fclvam f-w uitat— afd none of them appear to be Willia: rw - r 'ok » the o rP ofition to a continu- a " u,n! Wee cf ti.e waf,ur,e the jpjat successes of she [1°: ' 1. H I I • 111 l " '' 1 - : 'ST o. being compelled e- licitous Vsnt.ul'y to accept of worse teron than may r }'> tll« P-rha;: S be tow ohtainod-*ho' tiiey do not ftroU ?': foe'lc .r- CI , . ment, - . - 7 confidently o. the profpeiS of low citi % T-tt.ng any terms whatevei-— they add that have of «he pe.tpleare averse to the continuance of the l hair . °P Vr - Tie ir.jompetenry, aajbition, and a 'H- of the M«a,, s ,e the harthea of the to beT I \ enemy son» and to these the opposition impute all •ily'ri- ""fortunes of the campaign. The(,nn terefti; "? lc " not so prominent a feature in their ey re- speeches, as the mis management of it. Those ' IV ° r ° f contmuln g the war, urge that id be- thc ob j' ;<fl of !t is n °t changed—and that tho' erefore the events of the last campaign have been lairs difafte . roUs y«, °nefortunate battle may re ir «wn cover they have loft—that the enormous expences of the French have so exhauiled ' their resource., that it is impossible they league a ° ulJ be aWe to con,inue the war much lon ia the g er —that the m jment of vielory on the part diffi- of their enemies is not the time for them to power t0 raake a pea«, but on degrading & en the dllh " nor able conditions—that the resources :nt of of the nation are yet fufficient, and the peo pol'iti- P ' C dii P osed to P r °f«ute the war till, success as the " la " °P en a wa y 10 an advantageous peace. ant to . n the Elision for a Senator. down r mders Meeting of a nurauer of Citizens, it 0,000 was agreecfto run Ju=iph Ball, Esq. in credit the place of William Bingham, refiirn rtune ed r At a Meeting of a number of C tizens not ; n Mulberry Ward, it was unanimously a g he greed to propose and support ISRAEL 'r in- WHELEN as a Candidate for Senator in uries the place of WILLIAM BINGHAM hich , they March **' I7?S -old ■ been From lie Aiigujln Chronicle. t go per- To the PUBLIC. fs to ob . R"oert Watkins having again imper. 1 i for tlnen, ly introduced my name into Mr. lpti- M'Millans paper «f Thu.fday lalt, I iom " t!er m y'e'f you vyiil not deem it im- ' ■as a P 1 to liave my reply ; to you I a man !*>%>" for tht?,language, and for tins c ions that 10 ma ke Mr. Watkins feel „t0 he miilt be used like a magoofferby put- ' ing- '' r « on his back. it. To ROBERT WATKINS ' alii- HAVING proven yrju a liar, it 1 dlu- vvsuld be unneceffaiy to fay that you an riic on arrant coward, did not ywur conduct s_ J fully juftify tile sxprcffiin. I will, if '' Ilia- ' you dare, put an end to this iukfhed bur ibie 1 and fay that you Robert Wat- r . kins, as a member of the Legislature, t 0 <iiil, on the (com.rnonly called) the Va- '* but Xl) ° hill, perjure youifelf, and this ex 0f preffiou i admit to be actionable, artd ind challenge, even your lafcality, to bring rht ■ a flit, and let it be tried h» your coniti- I c d ; tuents. ' at u s. I You have with that hoUownefj and l " at . cowardice of heart, which you alone ™ tr . possess, introduced the name affafli,) iv , e affixed to mine ; poor ignorant illiterate iti- *''tl despicable Bobby, could any man r" es, (f° r y ou I donot admit to be onejthink ' of mc capable of ftiL-h djftardly co'iduft ? y bt- t our arrogance, ignorance, pomposity .i t 0 and cowardice, is unworthy the further V to p a pcr attentit)n of all good men, and ar- | more especially that of *rc f ti-j h.osborne. Ifi ur ~ "" j, e ; To the PUBLIC. ht I THANK my God that the tongue jh j°f a perjured villain cannot fland*. mc tit 1 The..following authentic documents fen n( without further trouble, prove Henry n Ofborne to be a pcijured villain, a dii- f c I,onor to 'he human race, and worthy id j on [y °f 'he contempt of mankind. ' I These documents will he an tndlefs the d j fire upon his back -And the the lf . P r| nters are requested to continue pub- upc j s "filing them for the information of the Ha people in general, and of the members 1 of the convention in particular, as the dre: final and Handing answer until the def- Gei perate monster (hall grow sick of ink- a ga Hied, or bring his betters forwaid, who arc i pledge mvfelf, (hall rniet no difficulty to ft y .111 being noticed. judr r I boall of having, at two sessions of the' i thejegiflature, voted againfl the wretch's " - reiuftatcment. be ROBERT WATKINS. «ho ' IVdiet court, Feb. 18, 179 J. " 1C P The documents alluded to above y " U ' are the impeachment of Olborne, by ! the Legillature of Georgia which has •"c been publiffied here some time since ncvei To the Citizens of Philadelphia, and oj the ' Counties of Philadelphia and Delaware. 3 "t' THE vacancy in the Senate of Penn- red '' v "'" a > ° c «fioncd by the resignation of c,lnt : vvilham i>ingham, Efquirc', has induced their a number of citizens to turn the-ir attenli- TI on to the feleiftion of a iuitabWerfon to fill that important ihtioa : they have been fe licitous to bring forward a man of integri ty, talents and experience one who is Th strongly attach.ee • , the Federal Govern- has bi ment, and has the confidence of his fel- u s ow citizens. From the knowledge thev r P have of the character of Ifrmel K'melen, it is , 0m thar opinion, that he poflWTes those quali- chantl fications : They have therefore, agreed to Th recommend and support him st theelednsn an Ec to be held oh Tueiilay next. try in A meeting of the Proprietors of WHARVES, is req efted on Thuritfaf Evening next, at - o'clock nt thi: City Ta vern in Second street, when Buftnefs of Im portance to their Intereit wili be submitted to their consideration. March 16 By this Day's Mai NEW-YORK, March 14. <' From a Correfponicnt. Some further particulars of the .late Action between the LA PIQUE and the BLANCHE, off Guada loupc. An hour after ttis dreadful enter prrze commenced the La Pique heing dilmafted attempted to board the3Unch bnt was three times beat off with great carnage, when.the Blanche secured the bowfp.it of the La P,q lK to her main malt: the battle thus continued with tremendous ferocity above' four hoars ; and half an hour before the Frenchmen (truck his colours the La Pique's gy„ s wej:e totally silenced and the ih.'p°w a s surrendered inlely to the Blanche,with out the smallest afliltance, >s had been -epoi teiVfr«i» the Bellona of 74, which did not come up until four hours afuer La Pique was taken poffefliotr of, for Ale had not her hull out of the water when La Pique yielded. The force of the Llauche of 32 guns at commencing this unequal contcft was 208 men anil boys, of whi.m were killed 114 The La Pique, a new built frigate 6 feet i "Rer keel, than any British 74 in the Welt-Indies, mounted on this occasion, 44 guns, 30 of them French iß's 011 the main deck, and on the quarter deck '4 French y s, and howitzers or larirc caliber. Capt. Rmbert Faulknor, commander of the Blanche, Was killed at the firit broad fide from the La Pique—his Lieu tenant fought the (hip up to vidtory unparalelled. , Yesterday an account was brought to this City, said to be received by a recent arrival at the Delaware Capes, from the Mediterranean, relative to >mc naval operations of great impor- ants. From a c.rrcfpondent. We learn that application has been made by the manager of the New The atre, Philadelphia, to Mr. Rickets, for permiHion to use his Circus as a tempo rary Theatre, during part of the ensu ing fuinmcr season ; bill arc sorry tf> add, that Mr. R. thV fear of displeas ing a froall part of the public, or rather fume gentlemen of I his profeffion among us, has deprived the citizens of New- York of an opportunity of witnefling •he performance of some of the belt Ailors uJ)on the continent. Federal Rtgiftcr. For tTit- weltern diftridV of Vermont, Israel Smith is re-cle£tej. Mr. Smith had 1821 votes, Col. Lyon 1800. Daniel Buck is ele&ed in the eastern diftritl. He had about 300 votes more than Mr. Niles the former repre sentative. NATIONAL CONVENTION. December 17. On the 3d inft. a deputation fram the Communes of Pouches appeared at the bar to felicitate the Convention -«• to felicitate the ! P° n the decree which shut up the ANECDOTE. Hall of the Jacobins. Legendre—" I move that this ad- AT a time when the doc trirf, dress be referred to the Committee of caliinifm and Arminianifm were mucf General Security. Proofs multiply ta 'ked of in a certain village, a coupl< against the chiefs of this Society, who °. f negroes, of the different parties, me c . are (till uflpuriifhed. They have dared j t,w £ on the ro »d. diredtly entered into to fend Emissaries into the departments ; j the fsfhionable debate. Their topic judge if it was to preach obedience to j was ' pettier a man might not die be the National Convention. j fore his appointed time": when, after "I repeat it—the Chiefs, ought to j oinc argument, our Arminian advocate be puniftied, not those deluded men f'^Q-Uffcdthe following weighty propofi who were led aflray by them. If my tion in 'indication of his aflertion. fliepherd allows my flock to break into I " Now Jack,fuppofe you eat a hear your field, you have a rigrH to punish '?f"lf rr dit ehening ;— yau go to bed,— my fliepherd but not to deftr<y my fI"P «*// all night you wake up in flock—( Applause ) Yes,citizens, those t,le and find yourfelf dead : inferual chiefs mud be puniftied. I will What you lay den ? —Dat man live all e never cease to denounce thtm to you. days of he life ?—Debil a bit," My courage cannot be fhaken—(Loud | This is s pertinent caution to us not and reiterated applause.) j to dispute about matters we do not un " I move that this address be refer- dfrrtanrf • »nd a lively emblem of the red to the Committee of General Se- I despicable figuie we make in the eyes curity, who will consider it, and make fnperior beings, in our lengfhy dif. heir report upon it." cufliong upon the incoinpreheiilible at- This proposal was agreed to. tributes of the Deity. I LONDON\ January 2. I The Hanover Packet, Captain Todd has brought over specie to the amount of upwards of forty thoufaud pounds, from Lisbon as remittances to our mer chants. The King of Denmark has published an Editl, by which the Danish peasan try in Norway and Jutland, arc ,to be entirely emancipated in the firft year of the ißth century, Tlie King of Pruflia is » prnfelyte to the principles of Emanuel Sw.dcab6u.-i' and a very warm advocate for his fyf. tem, Qliere, Did he find any liirtgin the writings of this FoutuLr f nuir.yjui ces that Arouldjultify his robbery in Po« ( land i a»4uh Th;s place now fiils !io small space in the puhiic eye, from the ciivmn!tan. ces of a liege, by the molt redoubted besiegers, that ever inverted a towi'. h has other prominent claims, and such as may win for it very enviable preeini nence of rank. Let the /hand of war press lightly upon Mentz.for liere printing takes its date, and the demons of impoffure he gan to tremble—Tfie Bible was ijnifti ed hete in the'ye-ai 1450. I Ins Bible was printed with metal types that were moveable, and on both fides the paper. ' A copy of this, the only one, is in the Mazarine College at Pat is. Cuttcnburff and Fault were the 1 rinters. Ihe colt of this great work was 4000 florins. BOS TON, March 7. A late Paris paper mentions, that the celebrated Contloretf is dead. I lis Preaty is mentioned in the Pa ns papers, without a dii'approbatinjj sentence. The prefeut coHttituted au thorities of France, do not difgracc themfclves, like f ,me other conllitutei! authorities, with intermeddling with the affairs of other Nations. They speak of the United States, as a Re. public, nearly allied to them : but they do not lug our concerns head and fhoul drrs into theirs. They appear to be Frenchmen and Patriots. The account of (he fucccfs of Gen. Wayne, over the Indians, is faithfully detailed in the P<rns papers ; but with out any attendant remarks. Nevj-HampJLirc— Hon. John Pick* ering, is appointed Judge of the I)if. trift Court, Now. Hampshire difti T<fk j vice Hon. John Sullivan, d*ceafed. America Time Saved iy-thr The citizen, of United Amerfca, ought to make the wmmfll returns t>f gratitude to the French natioh, for the lenewed demonlhation of* heir regard to the U.uted State 1 !, «» the aboHtion «f the Jicobm Clu|>a i an eW], morc portentous of deftrtiaion, than eve* war M"I4M coiicsmmitanti. ' - ■'* JACOBINS. The French people, in (heir publi cations and sentiments, use but one ex* predion refpedHng the Jaeobins, and that is, , " Down with those men of blood, those Jabohins, who are eter nally in oppoiition to the National Convention." And the cry in Ame rica would soon of necessity have been the fame, had not our intrepid rulers founded the tocsin in season, and rallied t..e people round the altar of govern, mcnt and laws. " Down with the Ja cobins—those would-be men of blood who are eternally in opposition to every measure of the Preside.it and Congrcfs of the United States." 1 j Wants Employment, A Prrfnn who A» a t-l'erable knowledge ot CONVEYANCING, a K knot, ledge ol Accounts and Figui •*, and writes a good hand. He v«,tfrd engage l,v the year, either in an Office or Merchant' ccmpting l)„life A line addretfVd to T.B. »n«jllel't at tli« Office of the Gaze'te of the United State t, will be duiy mcndcdio. »"• r ° lodtf I / M E N T Z. French I ! 1 V * ' <4 >V Eteilttn of a Stnaitr, At a meeting o? a number of .Ofr»C t.emcii on Saturday e*cnnijj, it wj* a £»eed to run Jefc'ph B. M'Kran, J /,>. >n the place 'of the Hon. li'UUum B,n\- ham, reugnrd. " NOJV LANDING, for fait ly the Sui/iriiin, frtm tieJi>,p Tbtrrfa Jrum St.'Afnrcty 15 hhds! & 3 tierces SUGAR Aid 1200 lbs. St. Deiiiujgo Indigo, Fri * **<: 3rig*mtipt Sotly, frtm Jamaita, 2OD Bags PIMENTO, They have also on hand, Ico <jr cafls of rich Mountain Wine Fort Wine in pipes and h<. g Jhead,, Dnmuone in roll and cake, -\n invoice of Saddles and Harn f. N'ew Cast lr Crown (ilai's 8 by ro ' Liquorice Bull in Ixiies of 1 cwt. each One I i mch Dew CahK ico crates bf Que ns Ware affort-d And 251 pieces of Mahogany. Philip Nicklin Ss 5 Co. March 16 works. Mount ford, Bwren, &f Co. thrf^w ? v* rF V. inform the Patrons to «rvl k l' p nH thC Pl ' biiC ' that very L.oeral fhev hav rtady received in the Undertaking, th-v will „ lftl to P»< the-hn'sT Volume to Pre). ,n, the coiirfc of the cnfu.n.r Mouth. UnhM kT? aUern P [ ma<le in . ' bta '' s for tfi« publication of the Anting, of the celebrated Shakipeare- and the magnitude and elegance of the Work £?&■»<" m t rial] y "p'mfive, the Puh h'hers anticipate a generous Patronage £, om an enlighftned'Pulilic.' * . It will be printed on a new and handsome rif £ ff no" pa i >e . r ot a foperior quality A tJ? r e WUI tontaijl an W ff I"*'1"*' "f Shtkfpcart. , p , r 'n TION ' received by thcprinci ,, T:^ i ' tr m thi » Cit T. an throughout t "" d b X the Publift.r' k> No. Fc-b. 2S. I » — Scheme of a Lottery " a 6 **» T [ 15 P" i/i, fnii,— , 3 *r 2""\- T Hf ' L J'.' ia "?, n ' ' ht Soc i«-tv toi ertarli.n,- ■»■ Ulßi Mjnul.ttuic, h.vini rei v 'd «o wHontttiM f OI r , lfio Vo p : HUNDR to THOUtiNO D.-11*,,, , ■o.n Aft of ,l,eL , Uf V o( fc.t, J, «Xn. C io f f' «PK"«"W-d the f0110w,,,- sSvS&js Thorn.. j'XhHalt Connrl »nri Andrew Bavard ot tl,,- « r H,ctu,d How ell, £fq. hhti Boudmot. Geneial £j,„ D , •n. jam,. Pa,» er , john fiav.rd » Lew,, Don ham, Sa.nu. IW. Stockton u? *• Wallace, Jofcph & terv N-.jcricy, i following Sthemc ») < Lone, v >nA _i j themselves 10 I lie public, ihai u'ey wifltake TT Z'"T"Z'"" < "> 'he,, ppern * er *ve,he Monies paid by the 1 """• <" time,'a, received 1 1 u ' •tank, a, New-Yoik and Ph,l«del.hi. rernai» lor ihc purpofc of B a»in ? P.,' «l)ich lhall beimmrd.a cly difc/,.rged by'. chcc« upon orv »(ihe Hank. SCHEME; 1 Pn.eol 20,000 Doliku ij ao.eoo 1 ,C ' Co ° ,0,000 5.c00 „ ,i '' oco >°.eoo t0 , ' t °° «0.000 ,00 4 '-.OCO IVO 100 30* 50 ,0 ' 00 » .000 f, »«• ' i 4 - ■ 8«0O w s ' .J 6 ,! 00 * r 3>«&9 *'«<«* •' .. •• •A. -W •< f V ~ . 'Jr < * r ' wn numt>Tr - « j,Beo® JSRwnmMr,, ai fte > M "*" hr T«ke»i .*• . >nieh timely noitcr Thf SnlWHHfudim, I«Nb^ of J»yb H. 'w esiuig,ot Ncw-Bfuufwu'k'l amj I. „ a l , thM. ot T.cn.mi, , herrpf, wh" havrgi.e,, „r.p| r feruu.y , of lilchargtng the null reposed in them. £T In order to secure the un.tfu.il pay. net.l of the Prizes, .he Syper.mci.d.m, of he Lottery have dtri&ed that lh( Ma,,,*, r| "ail eirh imift Into hofldt it. 4«iifcodolla.» "th^iirlu«c,entf.- c aV!U «. to perform, l.ctr uttruelioni, ihe fubtlmcf of v> Inch is I, That wl.etie»,rri"ther ofihe Manarrrl nail teceive thefim, ot Three Huno,,D„l »r>, h- (halt immdiately place the lan,, <ne ot the Banks ol NV> York o. Phila.lrl. *ta, to the cieditol the Governor „f th e -ocetv, andfuchol the Suuenry , ~ ve in the city where the tromes are placed o remain thereuntil the Lottery , s drawn' or ihc payment q! the Fines. 11. The Manageta to t»kr fufficiem (». curity lot any Tickets they , lurtt ulh( . r . Ifcifeto bf refporviibte for them lit. To keep regular hooks of Ticket! 'old, Monies received and paid mi. i!, e 'tank, aottratts ol which (hjl| nonthly, to tbrGovcrnot ol the Society. ' Paicrlon, januarv i, 1794. On application to ettllf, ofthr aho.e t m erne,,, wiK be given whte *ckct» may b< had. it eod3t —uw;-.v
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