-« is to htim-.ri nitUre, that the affords so ma;.y ni.linces of m 11, high in popular favour, becoming envied, fufpetfted, per lec ..icii, Jiiihted dovvn and ruijed, so that K /,. 'he old adage of Hofannah te-day, and et . crucify liiin to morrow, is not Vet out of jo, date " and ' ie keen-eyed and quiek-fcented ,al- cbrijrrtjttee of invalidation, of hunters and 01 ltiiOrmers, who have probed eve- ry channel of information, and searched every corner for intelligence, have, with j unwearied indultry, traced all the un oi- counted million? an I tens oi millions-with jrs which he had bein cnlrnfie'd ; and it now appears, that\THAT the tkmptations HOWKVER QR t AT, COUIiD NOT OOR- RtJPT hi.u, since nothing has been found :U- igainft him, except with respect to the nd iNc w Loau Certificates. H;nce I am in ly, duced to believe, that the public confi he encc was not mifpHced. Months of la . borious industry have been employed by a committee, constantly fit ting during the ' i y recels of the House, with free aceefs to ■ u s his books, papers and official documents, k- and yet they have been able to bring for *f' wap d nothing else again.'t him. He has lir undergone this fiery ordeal of more than °r- if quifitorial perlecution ; and if he shall »n not be found guilty, his charaft 1 mult, like pure metal doubly refined by an over levee heat, appear with unexampled u- lui'tre. »- " There is one thing, Mr. Speaker, d, which ray client has juftcaufe to complain es of. iLe House of Repreientatives after a- exhibiting their charges, pledged them es selves to offer p oof of the premises ; but ' - upon what groands did they thus pledge ! te themfetves ? Why as to the very ejenee of I ~ the third article it was on the hear-say of 1 °f the committee of impeachments; founded , y- on the hear-iay of the commute of ways 1 a- au I means; founded oq the hear-!ay of a . 'h man not tinder onth; and they afterwards ' ot materially altered that charge, on a chit le Chat conversation between the fame man, ( and a member of the House, as it was re- * lu ported to the House by that member, and ( without requiring any oath from that t te member or his informant, or taking any • trouble to enquire into tiie truth of it. ' Ie <« 3y t> U s extraordinary procedure has the defendant been deprived of that fecn- c nty to wiyeh every m:n is, by the laws lC and conlfitution of his country, entitled; ti '• and this too by the very men who have v S thought proper to impeach the defendant, a "> for a fiippofed violation of the law and a constitution ! It he is guilty, they have certainly been so complaisant as to keep him in countenance, and he mayjuttly ie- 1 ' tort u P on them, 7urpe efl doQari cum cul- \ 1 <' pa re wrguit ipfum. j I u " When it is considered that they are I t " the fworit guardians of the laws and con- j j ititutinn of the country, they mult appear ! '■ but with an ill grace as the accusers of ; " others, at the moment of committing so ; ' n flagrant a violation 011 their part. I allude i v t'« the third article' which charges, that b the defendant did ' not consult the Regif- b ;1 ter-Gen ral nor the Governor; and yet |, F those who made.this charge, knew 110 ',i '* gaily speaking, than any man in Europe. ? e It appears, indeed, that Mr. Gallatin told " the House, that Mr. Donnaldfon had told I ' him so; but it also appears that the House 1 0 e upon this 'nformation, unlupported by , F any oath or enquiry before themselves, or j J v a committee, voted the charge true—and ;j. 11 what aggravates their rondudt (if it be > capable of aggravation) is, that Mr. Gal- C ' '' lati'i, a leading member in bringing for- P u ward the impeachment, now fwtars, that n s as Mr. Donnaldfon <was an officer 0 j g O . u ; ■vernrnent. they thought he might be h.-ard ft ■ 'without an oath! A British peer, when £ ' fitting 011 an impearhment, answers upon > his honour; teflifying as a witness, he an -1 fwers upon his oath; but the House of • Reprefcntatives have attached to the offi- " cers of government a privilege fantflioned li' ; by no exper'ence, and reprobated by the 1 laws and constitution of the country I" tl Philad. April 13. t£ f tc PoJl-OJfue, Apr.l 8, 1795. 01 * # * The Metchants, and others, , are particularly requeued to take no ( tice, that after this day the Sou thern Mail will be closed every Friday, Monday, and Wednesday, precisely at ' 10 o'clock in the morning, and the Pittfburg Mail every Saturday, at 11 1 o'clock- || C? l'tie Letter Bag of the (hip A- th ' mity Captain Campbell for Hamburgh, P will betaken from the Pod Office Sa- P \ ttmlajr Morning next, 18th inft. te The Letter Bag of the ship Star, for Hamburgh, will be taken from the Post Office on Wednesday Evening next- April 14. . A LIMNER from Europe. L WHO has acquired a certain celebrity in the art of taking faithful and agreeable Like- CO nefles, in fevcral parts of the world where to he has resided, is desirous of making a ten der of the exercise of his abilities (in that line) to the puMie of this flourifhing city, Cr where the cradle of the arts is set in motion by the enlightened part of its inhabitants, of R whose oroteClion and encouragement he hum- ar bly c!a : ms a small (hare Q f g/T Specimen? of his {kill in painting may nc be seen at his room, No. 93, iouth Eighth (r tlteet, between Walnut and Spruce ftjeets at r Mr. Henry Andrew Heins's. °* N. B. His prices are very moderate and he warrants Likenuffrs. ha April 3 th ler- Foreign Intelligence. hat i » - u i Received by the Hero, in 48 Jays from Liverpool. ted — ers LONDON, Fehrdjirv (9. ve- An order of council was passed yef 'ej| teiday for laying an embargo upon all " vcflels in the different poits of this kiii£r jn- 1 r & ■ dom. )w The vessel from New-Brunfwicklate ns 'y taken by the French, had about 80 ik- mads oil board, of different fiies, and nd twj oj theeia for firft or fccoud rates. ,' le \ February 18. We yerterday liated that an action la- ta ken place in the Mediterranean, , a between his majetly's friga.e Inconstant, }, e commanded by Csiptain Montgomery, to and Iwo French frigat.s, the one of 44 ts, and the other of 24 guns. We arc j happy to confirm an account of an afti as on so honofahle to the Britifhflag ' u j 1 [ Capt. Montgomery fur.k the 24 gun j Ihipu foo'n after which the other struck. er That gallant officer is said to have 101 l ed a leg. , Yelterday accounts' Were received V :r > from Holland, of a very recent date, ? which date, that the French had pro n. cec ded in that conntry to abolish the ut office of Stadtholder; that they had £ C placed the executive go/ernment in the of hands of several committees, ants had of declared their intention of immediately (1 eftablilhing a republic founded upon, Li- t • s bertv, Equality, and the Rights of il Man. t _ Ambassadors from Der mark & Swe-' " den had already arrived among them, V e- with a view, as it was generally under- a id (tood of conciliating their mercantile in- \ ? 1( tereft in that country. Menfures were > intended to be taken with a view of '' is ilill keeping up the commercial inter- ;c' course between that nation and this. :C ' rs Many of the articles which had been !; demanded by the French-had been pro e vided, and were ready to be furnilheJ, according to the terms of the requifi- a tion. ] h; Col. Ramsay, who went over some i bi .. time ago to Helvcetfluys with a flag of !al t. truce, to enquire into the state of the di Brltifh lick unavoidably left behind in ' a ' e j that place upon the approach of the • | French; has returned with the mod 01 J. i pleasing and fatisfa£lory account of the fa ■ 0 i treatment they receive. They have e e ; very comfort and convenience which can si tj be procured for them ; and it having « : been suggested by the physicians of the 7' t hospital to the French commandant R " that ft>mc port wine way (lantly crdtrC J a quantity from Rotter j dam for the use of the hospital. m j It is not true as has been dated, that »• e our sick are sent into the interior of m yj Fiance. They are only removed from r ; Helvcetfluys as they recover fufficient- b< J ly to be removed, for the lake of ac- F cummodation in the inland towns, that m _ place being very much crowded by a »> t numerous garrison. The attendants ni - upen the hospital are at present at per- in i fed liberty, and may even return to <u 1 England when they will. ly Col. Ramsay, we understand spent a j week at Helvcetfluys, & was entertained by the French General in the most po j lit# and hospitable mannei. M e The Dutch were perfe&ly sincere in the treaty or agreement which they en tered into with captain Shank, previous - tc( his leaving Helvcetfluys, the conditi- ' h ons of which they hoped to be able to fulfil. ' There were French papers at Hel- ou voet down to the sth intt. That of the Ai 4th contained an account of the arrest kc \ of Dubois Crance and another deputy. t0 1 accused of having been the partners of Robespierre—The fyllem of Moderat- ° 0 ism is carried to as great a height as Fr that of terror ever was. f r< A fire lately happened at Brest, which a ■ the Frenchmen extinguished with the Ti , Port Wine taken in the Oporto Fleet- r Previous t« this it had been felling at ten pounds sterling per pipe. ' The Harmony, Harris, from Phila- At delphia to Bristol, is loft. tw February Ij. ve Horse-Guards, Feb. 15. 'hi A dispatch, of which the following is an extract, dated Deventer, Jan. 21ft, 1795, has been received from the Hon. Lieutenant-General Harcourt. by his ho Royal Highness the Duke of York, & fen communicated by his Royal Highness to the Right Honorable Henry Dun- At das, one of his M. jetty's principal Se cretaries of State : " I have the honour to acquaint your Royal Highness of the arrival of the army in their cantonments on the banks urn of the Yffel, on the ißthinft. though the not without some loss, as some of the fid. traineurs, unable to support the fatigues an< of the march, and the extreme severity mu of the weather, were left behind, and have probably fallen into the hands of the enemy. 3n( ■f? " It is matter of no small fatisfafli on to acquaint your Royal Highness, that we have not only saVed all the ord nance, and molt of the other ftoies de om posited at Amheiro, but that we have burnt all the vcflels containing forage and stores upon the Leek, and have de stroyed most j f the aril mini it ion contain sf- ed in 15 ordnance veflels at Rottci all dam." g* ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS to r the commander# of our Ihips of war and privateers, that have or may | have letters of m3rqUe against France. • Given at our Court at* St. James's, the 9th day of' February, 1795, in the ' 35th year of our reign. ' ' George R. I. That they (hall bring into the ports of this kingdom all, Dutch Vessels bound to Or from any port in Holland, in order that they together with their cargoes, being Dutch property, may k be detained provisionally ; and that fpee dy restitution shall be made of all luch cargoes, or parts of cargoes (or the value thereof) found on boaid the fame, as shall appear to belong to proprietors , being the fubjeds of allied or neutral powers. „ ; 'J 11. That they (hall bring into' the ' • ports of this kingdom ail (hips, to what j ever country they may belong, which (hall be found laden with naval or mili tary ftoies, and bound to any port in ( j Holland in order that the said cargoes 1 m*y be detained provisionally ; a full t indemnification being given by our go ' vernment to the owneis and millers of j * all fucli veflels, belonging to the fubjed\s | allied or neutral powers, as may !be brought in, in consequence hereof, f j and likewise the proprietors of such cargoes, being fubjeds of al'Ld or ueu- t ; tral powers. By his majesty's command, ' PORTLAND. 1 1 , Bv accounts received yeftcrdav, by h . a filhing vessel which arrived from' Cru- d I j haven, and brought letters from Ham- 11 . j burgh, it is stated, that the Dutch are ° f: about to call a Cbn Vent ion at Amfter- ; dam, and enter into an alliance offenfive f, 1 ' and defenfive with France. le ; 1 The East-India dispatches biought If \ over by the Nancy packet, contain the ; favorable advice of the fafe arrival'of all . , the outward bound Eaft-Indiamen, con- J' , filling of more than forty fail, under j , convoy of his majesty's Ihip Suffolk, of f, 74 guns, commanded by commodore p Rainier. 1-. FcLm Urti y If. W The letters received by the Corunna lc mail, dated the 31ft January, allure : ( us, that a total change in the Spanish Ul " , ministry had just taken place. Neither Pampeluna nor Rosas had 01 been taken by the Ficnch ; but the w French having on the 26th January m made a great breach in the fort of Tri- c< nidada, which is near Rosas, the Spa nilh garrtfon evacuated it the next even- e ,' ing, having previously spiked the can- g, , non ; Ihey were taken up from its fal -1) ports in boats, and Conveyed r on 'y board the Spamfh fleet without ahy loss. to THE BLANCHE FRIGATE. Minutes of proceedings on board of his r majesty s (hip Blanche, Captain Robert 1., Faulkner Commander. Sunday, Jan. 4, 1795. We have'had the fortune to bring to an action a French Ra frigate which after an engagement of five toi hours, struck to the Blanche. r ,-i At day-light, saw a frigate at anchor ir.J outside of the haibour of Point-a-Petr«. tre At seven A. M. (be got under way, and kept working under her toplails at times, (j, to keep company with a fcliconer. Weran ~ ■ towards her until nearly within gun (hoi , of Fort Fleur d'Epee ; then taeked, hove P' ; to, and filled oceafionally. Finding the French frigate not inclined to come out th< from the batteries, we made fail to board 011 a schooner coming down along Grand m , Terre. *■' At eleven A. M. fired a gun, andbro't her to. She proved an American, from U " : Bourdeaux, and appearing suspicious, de- w " tained the master, and took her in tow. l ' ls At this time the battery at Grozier fired Rei two guns at us, and the frigau fired fc- tha veraland hoifled her colours. None of an , the (hot reached. Finding her Hill not in- - flined come out, we made to fail to- lr wards Marigalante, under top-fails and CQurfes. int Monday at 4 p. m.—We tacked and mi) hove to, took out the American crew and by sent a petty officer, and men into her; — To saw the frigate fti 11 under Grand Terre. ,; rt At 6. P. M. wore (hip and stood towards p Dominico, with th£ schooner in tow. At half past eight P. M. Saw the frigate about two leagues astern j cafl off the schooner—tacked, and made all fail. Ata quarter past twelve a. m. Pafled 1113 under her lee on the (larboard tack, (he on re ' J the larboard tack, and exchanged broad- 'on fides. Athalf past twelve A. M. tacked, P o * and came up with her fact ; when within cor mu(ket (hot (he wore, with an intention Sps to rake us ; we wore at the fame time, and engaged her nearly aboard. < At one A. M. Put our helm a (larboard, R f . and ran croft her stern, and lalhed her ma t 1 6H- bowsprit to oi ,r rsp <•>• jt it n. ,«-.r efa, qu. rtc; dcil. .--(.I an" .h : , j. would bear uio i> . a,. „ M ...rv. , which Ihe re ~d a, a:': from her quarter decs 3Te ihip fore and aft. At this time o.: 'ge and mizen malls, went over board, de- 'they attempted to board us but were - in. pulsed. cr . At a quarter before two, a.m. She drop ed astern, (at this time Captain Fauikntr fell.) We got a hawser up and made her well fall with her bowsprit abreait of our ' " starboard quarter ; the marines kept a cpri a s ltaix fire of mul'quttry into her. Findingthe carpenters could not make the ports large " enough, we blew out as much of the up "e" per tranfam beam as would admit the two aftcrmott guns on the main deck to t>e he run out, and si. Ed into her bows. At two he a. M. all her masts yvere (hot away. In this situation we towed her before the wind engaging rill a quarter past five, when iue called ouc that they had struck. The Se . cond Lieutenant and ten tuen then swam onboard, and took polfefEon of La Pique of 16 twelve-p uuders French. \- ;ir 8 nine ditto ditto iy 2 thirty-two, brass carronades. ■e ~h 36, with a number of brass swivels on her gunwale. At the time of adtinn we had, away in prizes,- 1 malter's and e > 12 men; they had 70 killed, nowound rs ed, and about 30 ioit with the masts. al Their compliment, at the beginning of the 0 aiftion, was upwards of 400 men. Our le l'ofs, including Captain Faulkner, is 8 kil ( leo, and 21 wcuaded. , N..8. i'hey came out on purpose to fight us. Captain Faulkner himfelf laihed the n bowsprit of La Pique, to the capftern of ?8 the Blanche, and wasfoon afterwards lliot |] thro' the heart, by one'.of the people on , the bowiprit of La Pique. From the London Gaz. tte, February 17, ; - S I79S y — MADRID) January, 18* h BY accounts pubiifheit by this Court of 1- the proceedings o' the enemy before Kolas dated the irth milant, it appears that the place AMI held ont, notwithf'anriinr the evacuation of the final! Fort de la 1 rini dad ; that the operations of the enemy jf had been considerably ilackened by l'ome . deep falls of fnpw, and the general incle h mency of the weather ; and that a fpirit t ed enterprize had been executed by a final 1 body of Spanift volunteers, on the ene my's Park of A' .illeiv, in which they e succeeded in fpikinj 14 guns, having kil led and made prisoners of near 150 Artil t lerymen. e Accounts have al.fo been received here, [ that 011 the ioiii inftint, Admiral Langara ill cruizing o!i" the coast of Catatonia, fell in with and captured the French Frigate r I'lpiiigenie, of 31 guns, which had fatijed 1 from Toulon on the 4th inliant, 111 com s piny with la Vefla e. They hid, been, fefa* rated three day- before in a florm, in* whicirit IS luppofrtf, that La Ve a.e was 5 loft. The greatest part of the French Fleet 1 under the command of Monf. Villarer, has reached Bieft. Seven arrived theit 1 on one day, nine on another, and two were towed in totally dismasted. There , mainder have got 'ale into L'Orimt, ex cept one of 80 guns, which foundered at tea, and moll ot the people on board of. her pc-rifhed. Ihe information is receiv ed by a gentleman who left Br eft the be gum :ng of last week. The Cxeife officers have been all on dii "y within these last few day's, taking the Itock in hand" in wine cellars, preparatory to the new dutuson wine, Vwhich will form part of the Budget. It is fa,d that the new duty on Port will be 71, a pipe. The duty is to' include all the flock on hand immediately on the pallia- of the Ait of Parliament. The letter from General H in Saturday's Gaz t'e, i»extrem i- iefac tory, so far as it cantradi&s a v.rietf ®f reports in circulation, of our an, v liv ing been harrafftd very much in their re treat to Devent r. One'hundred and ninety veflTe's of a!! sizes were lying in the Bon : . when the French gained poffel&ir of tli,<; plape. An immense quantify of tlr.fth. ing and floresforour army was on art j these vessels, of which the 'emQ „ nt ,£ our unfortunate troops will no\" s et moll heavily the want. Nineteen ojicn boats, loaded , v ; t h unfortunate emigrants, arrived lit wich on Thurfilay IhH ; the> re'. | )r , e( s that the number of people w':o wcr . e , ger to get away was very p rrat, ; r that there were not boats nor vefie' of any kind in proportion to the dcrv rid. The Dutch were so afraid of their allies, that they drew all their (hips t.p into the canal of Amsterdam, !iai ! , y might not be either carried off or Li: t by the Fng'ilh, as the ships were t 1 onion, but be reserved whole and en tire for their more friendly enemy the French. . SPAIN. The letters received by the last Corunni mail, contain some irsterefting particulars relative to the French invalion into Cara lonia and Biscay. The following ror'ref ponoence will enable the public to r orm a correct judgment of what is palling in apam. Pantorbo, in OU GaJliU, Jan. 20. " It was. by means ol trea'on, that the Republicans yjferd-y made thenifelvci masters of the fort, of Iron, St. Seba.tua - ' f ' ~ "• - '
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