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    Price of Stocks'.
6 ptr Cents ' 20f
3 per Cents l i/io
Deferred IV3
Bunk of tile United States 4^3
Pennf/(vania 40
North- America 45
NEIV "tHE AT RE:
Miss BROJDHURSr sNight.
Oil Monday Evuiing, June 8,
> to the Opera, Mil. Mokston wilL
rAt OCCASIONAL ADDHESH
-~V fir MR. HARWOOD.
f r which W-'l he (with
ations) a Comic Op ra, never per
formed . here, called
~1 ne Beggars Opera.
Pcachmr.', Mr Bates
Lockit, Francis
Captain Macheath, Mr. Marfiall
Filch, Mr. Blijfett.
jemmy Twitcher, Mr. Cleveland.
Mat of the Mint, Mr. Barley
Ben Budge, ' Mr. Gr en
Robin of Mr. J. Darley
Nimming Ned, Mr. Warrell, jun
Harry of Paddington, Mr. Warrell
Mrs. I'eachum, Mrs. Sbatv
tolly Poaehum, Miss Broadharjl
Lucy Lockit,' Mrs. OUmixon
Ir. kit HI. A HORNPIPg, in character, by
Mr. We.rrell.iim.
Between the 2u and 3d Acis of the Opera,
A CONCERTO w the VIOLIN,
, By Monf. 9ouLL.tr.
[Composed by Gi<f>rnowiecki.j
The Opera to conclude with a DANCE, by
the characters.
Previous to the Farce, by way of Overture
The BATTLE of PRAGUE,
[Adapted for a full Bind. By G.J.C.Schetky.j'
I. Slow March. | tillery.
Word of Command 6. Trumpet of Recall,
and ift signal cannon. 7. Cries 3c groans of
3. Bugle horn lor the j the wounded &dying
Cavalry, and id. fig-|B. Trumpet of Vidkory.
nal Cannon '9. Grand March.
4. Trumpet call. (ia.Turkifh Music.
5. Attack. Cannonade.! 11.General Rejoicing.
Muiketry.Lighthorle Go to bed Tom. and
advancing. Heavy ar-, Finale.
To which will be added a Farce in two a&s,
called
The First Floor.
Whim fey, Air. Grceu;
Mon ford, ' Air. Cleveland
Young Whim fey, Mr. Moreton.
Furnilh, Mr. Bates I
Simon, Mr. Blijfett.
Tim Tartlet, Mr. HariuodJ
Frank, Mr. Warrell, jun.
Snap, Mr. Darley t jun.
Landlord," Mr. Warrell
Foitboy, Majler T. Warrell
A'lr:. PattyPan, Mr;. Roivfon.
Charlotte, I.ljL OUfiJJ-
Nancy, Mrs. Hervey
Tickets may be had of Miss Broadhurft.
No. 21 North Seventh street, anu at the usu
al places.
MRS. SHAW'S Night will be on Wod
nefday.
A Comedy, ncves performed here, called
TheQ' II APT E R&/A.C CID EN T S
To which will be added a Musical Inter- *
hide, never performed here, called
Linco's Travels.
W'th other Entertainments.
Mr.&Mrs.FßANClS.'sNigibt,
, Will be on FRIDAY.
Ladies and Gemlemen are rcqnefted to
fend their servants to keep placcs by five
o'clock, and order them, as soon as the
company are seated, to withdraw, as they
cannot 011 any account be permitted to re
main.
Tickets and places for the Boxes to be
tak«n of Mr. Wells, at tne The at «
from ten'till one, and on days of perform*
ane? from TKN'tiil three o'clock.
Alfoat Rice's Bookstore, No. 50, and
Carey's No. 118. Market Ureet.
— rix ot a Dollar—and
Gallery 5 a dojlai.
Just Imported,
And for Sale by
yoseph Anthony Iff Son,
A Quantity of Nankeens oi fine quality,
An affortmcnt of India Silks in boxe9,
And a few boxes containing
CompleatSets of Tea Table China.
They 'also have JuJl Landing,
200 Barrels Prim Bofiou Beef,
70 Barrels Pork,
Malaga Wine in Quarter casks,
biuret in calks and cases,
Russia Hemp,
3itto Sail Duck,
Ravens Duck, ,
White and Brown (heetings,
iaft India Sugars in Sacks,
Hogs Lard, tn kegs and barrels,
Whalebone, Whale Oil, & Spermacaeti candles
N. England Tow Linen,
' Vindow Ghtfs of various ltzes, and
.1. neat assortment of Looking GlaUcs.
Jue % dxot
at -tTtc ' ,
Z. Office Nc> 149 Chcfnut Street', concerning ,
> e Drawing of the Wafhingt n and Pater- t
- n Lotteries—and alio-where 'i'ickets may
: 1 ■ kad. J
Far Sale, \
' .—HE time of a Stout NEGRO LAD, who
L has upwards of fix years to serve. t.
E-Kjuire of the Printer. 7
fun; 8 d t
EXTRA C T,
from Plrt 11. A BONE to Gnaw, f&r
the DEMOCRATS.
Siege of Lyons.
Conclnded.
The pause was not long. The depu
ties, profiting by the impious frenfy with
*vhich they had inspired the soldiery and
the mol), and by the consternation of the
relpe&able inhabitants, continued" their
butchery with redoubled furv. Thole who
led the unhappy fufierers to execution
were no longer ordered to confine them
-1 selves to l'uch as were entered on the lilt of
j profcriptioiij but were permitted to take
whoever they thought worthv of death !
To have an enemy amonp th« democrats,
to be rich, or even thought rich, was a
fu.Ticient crime. The worus, nobeleman,
prielt, lawyer, merchant, or even iioneft
, man, were i'o many terms of proluripti
on. Three times was the place of the
guillotine changed, at every place holes
were dug to receive the blood, and yet it
raain the gutters ! the executioners were
tired, and the deputies, enraged to fee
tiiat their work went on l'o slowly, repre
sented to the mob that they were too mer
ciful, that vengeance lingered in their
hands, and that their enemits ought to
perifti in mass ! *
Accordingly, next day, the execution
in mass began. The prisoners were kd
out, from a hundred to three hundred at a
r time, inro the out lkirts of the city,
where they were fired upon, orftabbeJ.—
, One of these maflacres deserves a particu
lar notice. Two hundred and sixty nine
perfonsj taken indlfcriininately among all
classes and all ages, were led to Brotteaux,
' and there tied to trees. In this lituation
they were fired upon with grap lhot.
Here the cannoneers of Valenciennes, who
had not the courage to defend their own
, walls, who owed their forfeited lives to
i the mercy of the royaliits, valiantly point
ed their cannons against them, wh<*they
were bound hand and foot!, The coward
f is .ever cruel. Numbers of these unfor
. tunate prisoners had only their limbs bro
. ken by the artillery; these were dispatched
with the sword or the musket. The great
est part of. the bodies were thrown into
• the Rhone, some of them before they were
I quite dead; two men, in particular had
strength enough to swim to aland j!>ank.in
, *he river. One would have thought, tfiat,
thus saved as it were by miracle, the ven
geance of their enemies would have pur
lued them no further ; but, no sooner
were they perceived, than a party of the
dragoons of Lorraine eroded the arm of
the river, stabbed them, and left them a
prey to the flowjs of the) air Rea
der, fix your eyes on this theatre of car
nage You barbarous, you ferocious
monsters ! Vou have found the heart to
commit these bloody deeds, and lhall no
one have the heart to pubtifh them, in a
country t*at boasts of an unbounded liber
ty of the press ? Shall no one tell, with
what >pleasure you plunged your daggers
into the defencelefs breafis of those whose
loolto—JmJ ofiiir putted your cowa-rd
hearts! Shall no one tell, with what he
roic what god like conftaney they met
their fate ? How they smiled at all your
menaces and cannibal geiliculations >
they despised you in the very article of
death ? Strewed with every fweetefl
flower be the grave of Mons. Chapius de
Maubourg, and let his name be graven on
. every faithful heart! This gallant gentle
man who was counted one of the firft en
gineers in Europe, fell into the hands of
the democrats. They offered to spare his
fife, if he would serve in the armies of the
Convention: they repeated this offer,
with their carabines.at his fcreaft. " No,"
replied he, " 1 hatfe never fought but for
" my God and my king; despicable cow
" ards ! fire away !"
The murder in mass did not rob the
guillotine of its prey; there the blood
flowed without interruption. Death it
felf was not a refuge from democratic fu
ry. The bodies of the prisoners who
were dead of their wounds, and of those
who, not able support the idea of an ig
nominious death, had given tliemf Ives
the fatal blow, were carried to the fcaf
fdld, and there beheaded, receiving thou
sands of kicks from the fans culottes, be
cause the blood would not run from them.
Perfonsfrom their sick beds, old men, not
able to walk, and even women found in
child bed were carried t(f the murderous
machine. The refpedtable Mons. Lau
ras was torn from his family of ten chil
dren and his wife big with the eleventh.—
The diilraiSled matron, ran with her chil
dren, threw herfelf at the feet of the bru
tal deputy Collot D'Herbois. No
mercy ! Her conjugal tenderness,
the cries of her children, evety thing cal
culated to foften the heart preftnt£d
themselves before him, but in vain.
Take away" (laid he, to the officious
/ruffians by-whom he was surrounded) —
f ' take awa-y the (he rebel and her
whelps."f Thus spurned from the
* Let not the reader imagine that the
Convention did not approve of all this. A
depuiat: on from the cit\ went to Paris re
presented at the bar of the Convention the ■
devastation and carnage to which their ci- I
tywas a prey; but in place of being heard i
with that attention they deserved, they i
lucre thrown into a dungeon, and the Con- •
■ventiqn decreed that LyonsJhould be dejlroy '
ed even to its very name, which was in '
future to be commune affranchie (free com- t
mon), and that a column Jhould be erected >
to commemorate its having warred againjl >
Liberty! ' i
\The readers indjgnation certainly will t
not be lejfentd, when he hears that this Col- >
lot D'Herbois, this arbiter of life and death I
was, before the revolution, a player !it is I.
presence of him who alone was able to
save her beloved hufbarwj, ihe followed
him to the place of execution. Her shrieks
when (he saw him fall, joined t® the wild
nefs of her looks, but too plainly foretold
her approaching enct. She was seized
with the pains of .child birth, and was
carried home to her noufe; but as if hertor
mentors had (hown too much lenity, the
fans culotte commissary soon after arrived,
j took posse ffioii of all the effects in the
name of the sovereign people, drove her
" from her bed and her house, from the door
r of which (he tell dead in the street. -f
' About three hundred women hoped, by
1 their united prayers and tears to touch
" the hearts of the ferocious deputies; but
all their efforts were as vain as those of
j Madarfie Ltiuras. They were threatened
with a discharge of grape shot. —Two of !
1 them, who, notvyithftandfftg the menaces '
1 of the democrats, Hill had the coarage to I
' persist, were tied during fix hours to the 1
pofls of the guillotine ; their own hulbands [
were executed before their eves, and their !
: blood sprinkled over them !
' Madanoifettt Servian, a lovely young
: woman of about eighteen years of age,
was executed, because (he would not disco
' ver the retreat of her father ! " What !"
(said (he nobly, to the democratic com
mittee) "What! betray my father ! im
" pious villains, how dare you suppose
» it
Madame Cochet, a lady equally famed
1 for her beauty and her course, was ac
cused of having put the matchTo a cannon
1 during the siege, and of having affifled in
1 her hit/band' j escape. She was condemn
ed to liiffer death ; (he declared herfelf
with child, and the truth of this declara
tion wa» attested by two surgeons. In vain
did (he Imp! >re a respite, in vain did (he
' pltad the innocence ,of the child that was
in her womb : htr head was fevered from
her body amidst the death howl of the
' democratic brigands.
Pause here, reader, and imagine, if you
1 can, another crime worthy of being added
to those already mentioned. Yes, there
is ontf more, and hell would not have been
fatisfied, if its ministers had left it uncom
m tted. Libidinous brutality ! Javogues,
one of the deputies from the Convention
opened the career. His example was fol
lowed by the soldiery and the mob in ge
neral. The wives daughters of al
most all the refpe&able inhabitants, par
ticularly of such as had emigrated, or who
were murdered, or in prison, were put in a
state of requifit'ion, and were ordered, on J
pain of death, to hold their Bodies (I j
spare the reader the term made use of in
the decree) in readiness for the embraces
of the true republicans! Nor were they 1
content with violation : the firft ladies of '
the city were led to the tree of Liberty i
(of Liberty !) and these made to take the <
hands of chimney-sweepers and common |
felons ? Deteftabie wretches ! at the very
name of democrat, humanity (hudders, '
and modesty hides its head !
I will not insult the reader's feelings by ]
desiring him to compare the pretended i
tyranny of the Britiih government with i
that I have here related ; nor will I tell (
the United Iriflimen, that even anlriffi
Massacre is nothing compared to the ex- .
ercife of the Democratic Laws of France ;
but I will alk them to produce me, if they '
can, an inftarice of such consummate ty- 1
ranny, in any government, or in any nat
tion. Queen Mary of England, during a i
reign of five years, caused about 500 inno- ,
cent persons to be put to death ; for this,
posterity has, and very justly tpo, branded \
her with the fur-name of bloody. What
fur-name, then, (hall begiven to the affem- '
bly that caused morr than that number to 1
be executed in one day, at Lyons ? The <
massacre of -St. Bartholomew, an event j
that filled all Europe with aonfternation, r
the infamy and honors of which have been •
dwelt on by so many eloquent writers of \
all religions, and that has held Charles
the IX. up to the execration of ages,
dwindles into child's play, when compart
e»l.to the present murderous revolution, a
which a late writer in France emphatical- c
ly calls 1" a St. Bartholomew of five v
even said that much of the blood shed at a
Lyons may be ascribed to his having, some '
yrjrx before, been hissed. from the f
Jlage in that city. 'there are a hundred f
persons now in Philadelphia who havefeen {
him inthe character of Harlequin. Blessed j
revolution I that exposes a city of a hun
dred anl fifty thousand inabitants to the
wanton -vengeance 0) a diverting vaga- n
bond I I
"f Citiztn Benjamin Franklin Bache's c
gazette fay!, that" it "Mould be an easy r
" matter to apologize for all the murders t
" committtd in France let him apolo- f
g'ze for this. Not that I imagine he can- c
not do it, according'to the democratic creed,
but it twould be curious to hear his a ology. (
Doctor Priejley also, fays that all these
things are Jar the good of the Unitarian f
religion, and therefore fays he, we mufl 0
look upon tl.em as ft blefling .' t
" Thus if eternal juflice rule the baft, 8
" Thus shall their wives, and thus their C
children fall" r
\ Too much cannot be said in praise of t
the intrepidity of the Romijh priejls. No 1
terrors, nor torments, could bring them to f]
confefs that they had done anrang in adher- f
ing to the Catholic church. They fujfered <_
death with a degree of cheerfulneft that *"
never has been fUipajfed.—Mr. Maupetit n
also deserves to be immortalized. He tvas 11
taken prisoner during the ftege ; but he d.d n
not, like the poltroon Brutus, put an end to v
his life for fear of the feoffs of his enemies. t
He fuffered himfelf to be buried alive, up
to his neck, in 'which situation his head was ,
mashed to pieces by four-pound balls, that
his enemies tojfed at it in derision, all which v
he endured without one plaintive accent. 1'
) years."s According to MonS. Boffuef,
1 there were about 30,000 persons murder
i ad, in all France, in the massacre of St.
Bartholomew; there his been more than
1 that number murdered in the fingli: city
1 of Lyoas and its neighbourhood; at
> Nantz there have been 17,000; at Paris,
■ 150,000; in La 300,000. In
: lhort, it .appears that there have been two
1 millions of persons murdered in France,
since it has called itfelf a republic, among
whom are reckoned two hundred and fifty
thousand women, two hundred and thirty
thousand children (besides those murdered
in the womb,) and twenty four thousand
Christian Priests I
i And is there, can there be, a faction in
America, so cruel, so bloody minded, as to
wi(h to fee these scenes repeated in their
:j own, or any other country ? If there be,
| Great Ood i do tnou mete to them, ten
I fold, the measure they would mete to
! others j infliil on In em every etirfe of
j which human nature is susceptible ; hurl
'on them thy reddest thunderbolts; sweep
the sanguinary race from the face of the
creation !
(J Charles IX. bigoted and bloody mind
ed at be was, durjl not attempt that tone
of tyranny which has beeu assumed by the
National Convention ; there was some ho
nor among the Frenchmen of those days.
The Governor of Bayonne having received
the order for the massacre of the P rot eft ants
of that city, wi ote to the king : " Sire, I
" have found in your city oj Bayonne none
" but loyalJubjeßs, and not a fmgle cut
" throat-" At Lyons, the common hang
man being ordered to enter a prison, aud
dijpatch two or three proteflants : Ko,"
said he, " I am an executioner, but no
" murderer." Let aty man produce me,
if he can, a fmgle injlance of this kind a
mong the republican French : let him tell
me when a democrat has been known to re
fufe to shed blood• The common hang
man at Lyons, when France was a mo
narchy, entertained a higherfenfe of hon
our thau bnsyet_ been expressed by any mem
ber of the National Conveneiou.
* This computation is from les details
des creautes des Jacobins, lately published
at far is.
For the Gazette of the United States.
Mr. Fenno,
There is nothing that can equal the
ptftriotifm of agenuine democrat but his
modesty; and by the. aid of these two
ingredients united he will attempt things,
which no man besides would dare : —Of
this defeription are the two writers who
through the channel of the " Auro
ra" have offered their remarks on the
" Review," which appeared in your
Gazette of the 2d inft. One of them
indeed is so extremely out of humour
with the author of that piece, and with
you for publifliingit, that there are no
names, he can bellow, too hard for you.
Grub Street Gazette, Witch of" Endor,
detejlable slanderer, wretch, John Hull't
calf,andpredantickpedagogue, " flip from
his pen in such rapid fuceeffion as would
alirioft stuD a teader, who had never
looked into an "Aurora" before. But
this isall confiftentenough. The "Au
rora " has an exclusive right it> be the
vehicle of abuse. Clubbifts and demo
crats may employ her to traduce the
Government of their own country ; to
spread discontent and opposition to the
la>vs ; afid to pour all their viaU of filth
on the heads of the firft and faireft cha
racters of the age. They maylikewife 1
make use of her to canonize and offer
incense to murderers and atTaffins ; to
sing the praises of guillotines and fuftion
boats ; —to vindicate the demolition of '
towns, the oppreflion of innocence, and j
all the other high-famed deeds of mo
dern patriotism. There is nobody that
wifhesto interfere with them:—they J
are welcome to all this bulinefs ; and
for ought I care may have a copy right
for it. But if they were not as uncon-
fcionable as the D 1, they would r
stop here, and not set themselves up for J
lictnfers of the Press. This is an Of- N
sice not known in free countries. Were r
not your Paper and some others in the >
United States open to the impartial dif- e
cuffiot%ofal! public questions ; were you ! '
not free igough from undue influence ' *
to publish what you think is the general j
sense of the virtuous citizens of Ameri- i •
ca, however opposed to the bypocritick i <
cant of designing men, their mifrepre- t
fentations and falfehoods, what would
posterity in the next generation think v
of their predecessors. They would cer- *
tainly believe that we were all as much ' t
governed by French councils and opini- j
ons, as if we were not an independent j:
nation,buta diftantappendage ol France, t
The least they could suppose wonld be a
that the virtue, justice and religion of 1
America, if there was any left in it, had 1
shrunk into secret corners to avuid p«r- r
fecution. God forbid that the Un ; ted
States should ever interfere in the inter
nal government of France, or that of a- t
ny other country. This would be too I
the treatment she has jecei- t
ved from Fiance herfelf.notwithftanding f
the Republic is now quarrelling with
one half of Europe for the fame offence, J
But so long as there are men among us,
who endeavour to introduce foreign po-
litics into the councils of America f to t
, mislead the publicmiad ; and to change
the fpecific names of a&ions, is it'a
• duty to oppofe.tliem, whatever the pre
sent rulers of Franee, or their American
[ friends may think of it.
' From the Columbian Centinel
; ODE,
t Peter Addrejfeth the Jacobins in much
d'jlrefs, and great tribulation.
O ! HOW melodious is a friendly found,
Which comes with greetings to the
[ woeful ear ;
[ Which comes, when sorrow spreads .her
veil around,
And the heart trerSbles with a dea€ly
fear.
No balm, tho' brought by beauty's peliih'J
hand,
Serv.'d in a golden-vase, -or ;
Made of the riches of a blooming laiid ;
Can like to friendfhip soothe a languid
foul.
With such dear friendfhip fee meek
Peter comes,
With eyes half drowned, and with blub
ring chops;
Heaving up sighs, as thick as hops,
And droping tears, as children drop
their crumbs.
O ! could you fee his mournful, wailing
face—
You'd fend your cluft'ring sorrow» out to
grass.
He knows thy tribulation, and thy iverij ,
How that thy fouls are Jpungy, like to
corks;
Thy pa<verty no prudence e'er could screen;
And I, yes, 1 have also heard and seen,
The blasphemy of thojc, who call thee
good,
Who call thee citizens and peace promo- '
ters ;
Whene'er in Satan's synagogue youv'e
flood,
And bend for his young imps, the only '
voters.
Take til oil that little book* into thy
hand,-
Which thy dear friend for pure inflruition,
wrote,
And warble o'er and o'er each melting
note,
'Till thou haft ev'ry sentence at com
mand :
'Twill in thy mouths grow sweet, and
SWEETER ;
But much I fear 'twill be in belly bitter.
And he, that cannot read, (whom Peter
fears are many,)
But has an ear, and is not quite a ninny ;
Let him request anoltOr, wisek, brother ;
To read the contents to his droopmg
foul;
That each may cease their inconsistent
pother,
And crawl repentant to their Jkulkmg
hole.-j
---'Tis the jirjl ivoe, which has around thee
past,
And facHy rumbl'd on thy ti enabling
ear*; «
Made thy lank forms with horror look
igliattT —_ ""
And fiiook thy fouls with multitudes of
fears.
Leave off fiveet Jtmitrs, ev'iy crying
crime;
No more the whore of Babylon exlol ?
Remember, she has had lier fall,
And that thy turn is in the womb of time. *
Therefore take godly Peter's good ad
vice—
" Hang thy ringleaders in a trice,
1 Then wajh and cleanse thy faces :
Throw ofl each Jacobinic badge,
No more patrole thelfreets in rage,
Or bray like droves of aflls :
But to the (hovel, spade, and hammer,
lurn all thy strength, and cease thy
clamour.
, PETER QUINCE.
* Peter, I fitpbofe, bints at the Jacobiniad.
f Peter mujl mean the Green-Dragon.
ANECDOTE,
Ex traced from the Republican Franqoit,»
the
A fadl is now reported, which gives a
{hocking idea of the ferwijjufnefs of the
moniler who had succeeded in subjugating
all France. Trial a comedian, and at the
fame tmje a magiitrate of the people, a»
was Col lot d Herbois, declared, fonie mi
nutes before hit death, that he died eon
vulfed with remorse for having caused the
execution of ma'dame de St. Amaranthe,
her beautifußSaughter, inadame de £>artine,
her ion aged 16 years, her whole family,
and many of their frieijds. It happened
111 the following manner: Ro'eefpierre and
Trial were admitted into madanie St.
Amaranthe's house, and were frequently
there entertained at dinner. One (Jay Ro
befpier®, intoxicated with liquor, spoke
with much indiscretion, and even difcl.ii'ed
some of his puipofes in prefeuce of some
of the gucits and attendants. The next "
morning, Trial came with eagerness to
Robclpierre, to reroonflrate upon the irn- "
prudence he had committed, and expoled
to him the dangers he might run by such
an indilcretion. Robespierre paused a mo
ment, then enly laid to Trial, « be not
uneasy." Two days after, the wliylt ia- _..
mily and all the-fei vairta. VviVguiilotined.
MR. RUSSELL,
IN your last, I read a paragraph denying
that Capt. Joseph Perkins, of the fchoonir
Polly, belonged to Kennebunck, (as had
been announced in the Centinel of the 20th }
since wh'ch time I have heard it alTerted
he belonged to Pepperelboro'. This is to
assure you, there is no such man belonging
to Pepperelboro', and 1 presume there is
no commander o£ a vefTel il.trc, but del
pifes such condudl as faijl Pti kins is found
to be guilty of. J",