Foreign Intelligence.
lij recent Arrivals,
LONDON, Sept. 14.
The French Camp at Amiens contifli of
ten battalions of Grenadiers of 800 men, 6
battalions of Uillemen, o«(e regiment of
Horse Artillery, and one divilionof Canno
neers—At Beauvais, another camp has
been farmed of some corps of Cavalry Light
Infantiy, and Carabineers.
Receiving houses are open at Hamburg,
and 25 guineas paid for each Dutch or Ger
man recruit from thence delivered at the
Depot in the Ille- of Wight—The Dutch
troops are engaged not to serve out of Eu
rope.
The Volunteer AfTociation at Bombay,
commanded by Gov. Duncan, and compri
sing 750 men, ire dre (led in green, with
blaCk velvet cuffs a id collars, and g»ld em
broidery.
Capt. Adolphus Hinaber,of the 68:h fodt,
is appointed Deputy Adj. Gen. to the foiees
serving in the illand of Minorca, with the
rank of' Major in the army, vice Maken
zie.
The army of General Angereau, confid
ing chiefly of Batavian troops, and those of
the French that were in Holland, is to talce
the name' of the army of Bohemia and of
the Lower Rhine-
Mr. Editor,
The public conversation being so much
engrossed on the dearnefs of provilions, I
hope you will insert the following, which I
trull, gives, a pretty jud idea of the true
caul'es thereof. In my attempt, the begin
ning of 1796, soon after the publication of
my address to the public on the monopoly of
small farms, to get e(tabli(hed a Small Farm
Society, by subscriptions of 100/ (hares, the
meetings at tho London Tavern were but
thinly attended ; it was found that powerful
patronage was necessary to carry the propo
sed plan into effett, and the ininider then
wanting large sums of money, it v - as judged
prudent by the few fubfcr.bers present to
pollpnne their further attfe ipta till Peace.
1 had, however, the fatisfa&ion to find my
plan With general approbation.
From the information then obtaiued, and
the communications made me from various
parts, it appears, that within the lad iorty
years there have been monopolized and con
l'olidared intojarge farms upwards of 40,000
small ones, to the dcdru&ion of so many fa
milies, belides cottages dependant on them ;
but if 1 calculate them at 30,000, their an
nual produce in live (lock only, independent
of Grain'and hay, on the lowest poflible ave
rage will (land thus:—6o,ooo calves,
300,000 lambs 300.000 pigs, 600,000 chic
kens, and 4,500,000 lbs. ot butter, besides
milk, cheele and eggs, leaving ge<;le, ducks,
turkies, and pidgeons out of he calculation.
Since the small farms have been consolida
ted into large ones, it is believed (carce one
fourth of the live (lock is produced, and \ t—
ry probably not «r»re than three fourths the
quantity of grain and hay—besides the small
firms, the cottages which were attached to
them generally railed some live Hock, which
might alio be taken into the account.
From these circuinilances I am induced
to chilling Sir John Sinclair, and all the
advocates for large farms, to prove that
farms of 1000 acres each produce an equal
quantity of grain, hiy and live (lock, and
uip;>ort as many persons as ten small farms
of 100 acres each (there were formerly nu
merous farms of 40 and 50 acres) and un
less they can prove tbis, my positions will
itand good, that large farms are injurious
and small ones highly beneficial to the com
munity. For the advantage and happineft
of the nation, I wilh to provoke a free dis
cussion on the fubjefl, but Bot under the
long black cloak of anonymous;) for it will
bring truth to light—it will then be seen
whether it is for the interest of the natien
that the lands of Great Britain (hould be
portioned out amongst a few opulent per
sons, to the injury of the whole j and it will
alio be fcen whether the Legiflrtters of our
ancedors were guilty of folly in repeatedly
and confirming laws for the pro
teftion of the small farmer and the cottager, i
or whether our modern Legislators have in- j
jtired their country by repealing those laws, :
forfince the repeal in 1768, of the atls of
the 3d, 4th, sth, and 6:h ofßdward VI.
the Id of Philip and Mary, sth of Eliza
beth, sth of Charles 11, and sth of Queen
Anne, those salutary laws which had (lood
the ted of centuries againll badgers, engros
sers, foredallers, and regraters, every spe
cies of provilions have been rapidly advanc
ing in priee.
What do the large farmers in general
raise, except grain and hay, more than fuf
ficient for thrir own family use ? It is the
fmatTfarmer and the cottager who week
ly supply the markets, with small stock,
—-tinfr<*r «nrl and too much encourage
ment cannot be given to thetn.
The immenfc number of enclosure which
have for many years been taking place,
under a bad system, I am fatisfied hare been
injurious to the country. How many cot
tagers have thereby been dispossessed of
their much loved spots, and thrir offspring
forced on the parilll for subsistence ! In
lliort what has the country gained by mo
nopoly, experiments and enclosures ! the
answer is, almost a famine ! Humbled to
solicit by large rewards, foreigh lands to
supply us with bread, whereas we fsrmerly
supplied them.
I cannot too mueh impress on the minds
of the corporation of the city of London,
and of all the great cities and manufa&ur
ing towns, the circuuiflances 3 for surely if
ARMY.
ever there was room to petition the throve
or legifUture for redress ot' grievances, it is
now, when they lo forcibly come home to
every man's feeling.
I inj Sir,
RATI S B O N
September 4.
Notwith (landing the continuance of war
like preparations on both fides, for the re
newal of hostilities, all nopes for a peace
able accommodation are not yet relinqaifh
ed, since intelligence has been received,
that on tht 30th ult. Come hours before the
notice of the termination of the armillice
arrived in the Imperial head quarters at
Ok! Oettingen, another French courier, di
teflly from Paris, had arived there, who,
on being told that he could,not be fuffered
to pursue his journey to Vienna, declared
he would not deliver his dilpatclies, but
would immediately return with them for
Paris, upon which he was allowed to conti
nue his journey, accompanied by an Auflri
an officer. An Imperial courier, coming
-from Vienna, nlfo hastened through Augf
bourg on the 3 111 ult. for Paris. These
circumltances keep :.live our hopes, that
before the expiration of the armiflice, cn
the 10th inft. a favourable change may
take place and we are afTured from good
authority, that Moreau had full powers, in
i« this cafe, to discontinue hoflilities
Lieutenant General Grenier, meanwhile,
continues making the necefTary preparations
in 'he left wing under his command. The
day after to-morrow he will quit this city,
and fix his head quarters, for the prefens,
at Freyfing. The greater part of our gar
rifon will alio leave us, which has already
been the cafe this morning with some com
panies of grenadiers; and we learn, that
only a few hundred men are to remain here,
under General Nejr. By mutual conCent,
the gates of this city were thrown open
yesterday morning, after they had been clo
sed ever since the 29th ult. but the Impe
rialists would not fuffer any provilions to be
carried over from their fide, and but with
great difficulty some waggons with mer
chandize were fuffered to pass. At five
o'clock the gates were (hut again, and fane,
that time, the pofl only is permitted to gos
which departs at five o'clock in the after
noon. To day the General in Chief Mo
reau arrived here, accompanied by eight of
his life guards, and the chief of his Staff,
General lieflolles. T«-inorrow he will
pursue his journey to Straubing.
FRANKFOR. r, *ept. 6.
In our neighborhood hostilities will
not commence to morrow, but on the
loth instant. at fix o'clock in the even,
ing in consequence of the arrival of a
Captain of Szekler huflars, witu a letter
from the Imperial Field Marflval Lieut.
Simbfchen, that the general of Division
Barbou. who commands in the absence
of General Angereau, desiring that as
in Bavaria, the armistice might continue
three days ionger namely to the tothof
Septemoer, ro which General Barbou,
agreed, informing the Austrian Officer
that he had already sent a Lieutenant
Colonel to General Simbfchen, for the
fame purpose. In the night from the
4th to the sth instant, the French
marched from their cantonments in the
vicinity of Wurzburg towards Mergen
theim. General Simbchen, has his
head quarters at Schweinfurt, where he
waits for reinforcements. His corps is
greatly weakened, since it has been left
by the Mentz, armed peasants, the Mi
litias of Franconia, and the Mentz
troops of the line • About the 9th inft.
tlx Ele&or of Bavaria is expedted to
arrive at Bareuth, from Amburg, with
a suit of 232 persons, for whose recep
tion the palace and fourteen houses in
the town are cxpe&ed, exclusive of
those that will be wanted by the ambas
sadors accompanying him.
VIENNA, Sept. S.
On the 31(1 of arrived here, ac
companied by an Aullrian Officer, the fame
French courier, who, in the winter be
tween 1796 and 1797, paOcd three months
in this city. He came lad from the head
quarters of our army ir. Bavaria, the com
mand of which, ad interim, has been taken
by General Count Cellourah. Soon after
his arrival, he delivered in his difpatche*
to the department for FiKeign Affairs, and
thence went to the quarters assigned him in
the barracks of Salfgries. '
At the moment, therefore, when notice
has been given on the part of the French,
of the ceflation of the ariniftice on the 10th
of September, difpatchei have been sent
from Paris, on the answer to which every
thing will depend. The modifications which
were offeied, on our part, to the firft pro
portions of Ronapartc, have been refufed
at P.iris , and it is required that the firft
preliminaries, with a very few alterations,
lhall be accepted a*d ratified) or all farther
uegociations will be broken off,Bc hoflilities
recommenced.
Immediately after the above-mentioned
dispatches ware received, a Council of State
was held. Our hopes of peace are now
foinewhat revived.
An offer will be made to the Archduke
Charles of the command of the army in Ba
varia, which is now entrusted, ad interim,
to Count Collourath. It was before report
ed that it would be commanded by the Pa
latine of Hungary, and under him by Ge
neral Lauer, Direttor ef the Corps of En
gineers at Vienna.
Another letter, same date.
General Kray will retire with a pcnfion
of 4,000 florins. Some other officers, it is'
laid, will likewise leave the army.
Orders have beer, sent to to sup
ply the fortrcffes of that kingdom with pi'o
vifions, artillery, and ammunition, as spee
dily as poflible.
Our State Paper fell S per cent, on the
intelligence that the French had given no
tice of the ending of the armiltice.
An order has been publilhed to day,
far all folaliers, both privates and officers
to join their regiments and refpe&ive
corps immediately.
In Bohemia, the recruiting for the
completion of the regiments is carried on
with the greatest aftivity } besides
which, every 20th man u taken for the
militia.
T. WRIGHT.
Yesterday a full Council of State was
held ; after the breaking up of which a
courier was sent off for France ; this is
considered as in some degree encouraging
the hope of peace.
The head-quarters of General Moreau
will be removed in a few days to Mu
nich.
A deputation which had been sent
from Munich to make representations
to General Moreau, on account of a
heavy requisition of bread, oxen. See.
has obtained no redress ; as the centre
of the French army is to form a camp in
the vicinity of Munich-
The recall of General Kray from the
command of the army was notified to
him in a (hort note under the Emperor's
own hand.
The following article appears in our
Gazette ; —« Ihe appearances of an
approaching peace are agaiu renewed.
AH the French troops which were march,
ing forwards from iiuabia have returned
to the quarters which they left a few days
since, and the armifticc is to be pro
longed for some days.
According to our Gazette, Ihould the
war,contrary to expedition be renewed,
certain foreign powers will take a dcci
five part in it. it is probable, under the
present circum(lances, that the notifica-.
tion of the cefTation of the armistice on
the part of the French, will contribute
greatly to haflen a peace.
Wanted to charter for Madeira,
A good Vessel,
Of loooor i.aoo barrels
APPLY T9
WHaRTON V LEWIS.
No. ti 5, South Front Street,
november 10 J
For Sale,
THE BRIGANTINE
ENTERPRIZE,
is built of the best fcafuncd white
'"l' 2r, d wai failed an tha ftocks—
will cari y about 1500,'barrcU of flour, and maybe
feat to sea at a small rxpence. For terms apply to
WHARTON & LEWIS,
No. 115, South Front Street.
November 10 §.
For St, Croix,
THH BRIG
K ARIEL,
Joseph Paul, matter.
W For Freight or Paflage, apply to
tin matt* o 1 board, or
JOSEPH SIMS,
1 ss, south Water Ureet.
Who has for Sale,
imparted in said brig, a few hcgfheadi
ST. CROIX RUM,
and Al'ci f
BRIMSTONE.
November 17 dlvr
Robert Smith & Co.
No. 58,
South Fhost-Sireei',
Have JuJt Received,
Per the Adtive, Captain M'Dougall, from
London,
A few halei of white and brown
Russia Sheetings,
Also, a general assort mint of
GOODS,
Suitable for die season.
November 11 d ( iot
58 Hhds. Molasses
36 Boxes White Sugars
24 Do. Brown
This day landing jrom on beard
THE SCHOONER
Phoenix
At Sims''s wharf
AND FOR SALE BY
SAMUEL RHOADS,
<Vo. 1, Perm Street.
' To be Let,
THOSE Large and comm»dbu9, Sellers undA
the Universal Church, in Luaibard, between
4th and jth itrtcts, Lately occupied by Mr. Johin
Savage and Co.
Hi quire of John Vsnefs North East Corner of
Walnut in water St, 01 si. How«!l No. 14 North
6th Street*
Nov. 13, diw
AUGSBURGH, Sept. 4
STUTGARU, Sept. 5.
praguk, Sept. 5.
By this Day's Mail
ALBANY, November n.
By his Excellency JOHN J AY, Go vcrnor of
the State of New-York.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the two Houses of the Le
gislature of this State now in iaifion, have
duly nominated and appointed Elettors in
this State for the ele&ion of h Prcfident and
Vice-Preiident of the United States of A
merica, whereof notice will be immediately
sent to each of theaiibj rjeprefs. But as by
reason of accidents either to some of tfic ex
prefles or to the letters committed to their
care, it" may lb happen, that every of the laid
Electors may not receive his notice in due
season—l therefore think it proper by this
Proclamation to make it known, that Isaac
Ledyard of the county of Queens, Anthony
Lispenard of the city and county of New-
York, Pierre Van Cortlandt, jun. of the
county of Weftchelter, James Hurt of the
county of Orange, GilbertLivingston of the
county of Dutchefs, Thomas Jenkins and
Peter Van Ness of the couNty of Columbia,
Robert Ellis of the county of Saratoga,
John Woodiuorth of the county of Renfle
laer, Jeremiah Van Rensselaer of the city
and county of Albany, Jacob Eaker of the
county of Montgomery, and William Floyd
of the county of Suffolk, are the Ele&orsin
this State, nominatrd and appointed, as be
forementioned, for the Ele&ion of Pretideut
and Vice-Pr fiilent of the United States o.f
America. And therefore that it will be
proper for all of them to attend and do
that business at the time and place fixed by
law, even in cafe the notices sent by expres
ses should not come to the hands of every of
them in due time.
Given under my hand and the Privy
Seal of the State, at the city of Albany
the 7th day of November, one thousand
eight hundred.
Legijlature of Neiv Fork.
SATURDAY, Nov. 8.
Answer of the Aflembly, to the Speech of
his Ex. the Governor.
To His Ex. John Jay, Esq. Governor of
of the State of New-York.
SIR,
WE are sensibly imprefled with the im
portance of the business that has occasion
ed the convening the legislature at this
time : and we shall steadily pursue that
temperate line of conduit which is equally
removed from a dangerous spirit of innova
tion and a ilavilh adherance to cuftomaiy
farms.
We contemplate with high fatisfaftion
the growing prosperity of our country, and
acknowledge with gratitude the diftin
gui(heel favours of Providence towards us.
The d.ff rent class s of public expendi
tures which demand more order and econ
omy, shall receive due attention. The ex
traordinary expences of the counties and
towns under the manner in which they are
at present incurred, liquidated and conduct
ed, evince that the fyltem is defedlive and
require! legifluive interference. But not
withstanding any d feft, we lament that in-
Itances have occurred where the boards of
fupsrvifors have disregarded statutes con
llitutionslly enadled ; and we trust that
your Excellency on whom the conllitution
has enjoined the important duty of feeing
that the laws are faithfully executed, has
taken effectual mealures to bring all such
offenders to exemplary punishment.
The amelioration of our present system
of taxation will command our attention,
and we hope by our deliberation thereon
to confirm the public confidence repol'ed ;
in tho- legislature.
Being firmly imprefled with a belief that
it is eflentiat to the duration of civil liberty,
and the well being of a free people, that
the several departments aod officerc of their
government do on all occasions ftridtly ob
serve the conflitutional powers committed
to them, your communication relative to
the interferrence of the legislature, 111 indi
vidual cases, by private afts to control the
lawful operations of wills and defTcnts, re
quires our candid consideration.
That it is the duty of every free and
virtuous government to countenance and
encoiliage morality and religion, is a truth
which cannot be denied ; yet how far le
gislative interference in aid of divine wor
pifh contributes to the advancement of true
religion, is a queflien which merits the
mod deliberate and serious reflection.
The inconveniencies anticipated from cer
tain parts of our constitution, claim our at
tention.
Such further communications, Sir, as you
shall tljink proper to make to us, shall re
ceive our mature deliberations. And keep
ing conflantly in view the true interelt of
our Eonflituents, we shall cheerfully co-ope
rate with your excellency in every measure
calculated to advance this important end,
and nothing on our part shall be wanting
to promote the utinofl harmony.
By order of the AfTembly,
SAMUEL OSGOOD, Speaker.
AfTembly chamber, Nov. 8, 1800.
His Excellency's Reply.
Gentlemen,
IT gives me pleature to be afiWed that
the several r.:atters recommended to your
consideration, will receive the attention due
to their importance ; nor am I lei's gratified
Ry your suggesting, that difobedieuce to the
Laws (hould meet with exemplary punilh
nient. Experience ftiews that a patriotic
disposition in the Legislature to encourage
and support the Executive in fulfilling that
duty, is not unimportant to the uuinter
rupted admiiaflration of juflice and the'
maintenance of good order.
Nothing Certainly can more 'conduce to
ft-curc to the State the benefits resulting
from co-operation and harmony between the
departments of the Government, than that
the true interests of our constituents be eon
ftantly kept in view ; this sentiment cannot
be too strongly impressed on our minds, nor
too uniformly animate our endeavors to pro
mote the peace and prosperity of our coun
try.
JOHN JAY.
The refpedWul Answer of the Senate of the
State «f Ncvf-York, to the speech of his
Excellency John Jay, Esq. Governor of
the said State.
ImprefTed with considerationS,. arising
from consequences conneiled with the Elec
tion of a Firfl Magistrate of the United
States, we are fenlible of its importance and
we trull that the business will be conduced
with that temper and moderation which be
come the Representatives of a free and en
lightened People, and 'that no difference of
sentiment, springing from tins or any other
fnurce, will tend to interrupt the public
tranquility, or in the nod remote degree
affeft the political exigence of the Nation.
With a proper sense of gratitude, for the
continuance of the blessings of Providence,
to our happy Country, our duty, co-inci
ding with inclination, will prompt us to
adopt such measures as may conduce to pre
serve and advance the welfare of the State ;
and in puifuing this end will lead us to con
cur in such improvements in our
affairs as may be expedient.
With this ohjedl in view, we receive
with attention the suggestions of your Ex
cellency refpeiYing County Expenditure* ;
the imperfefjions in our present fyitem of
Taxation ; the interference by aiXs of the
Legislature, in controling the operation
of wills and delcents ; the flatute enabling
Religious Societies to become Corporations
as fct relates to the adequate support of Mi
nisters of the Gofpcl ; and the propriety of
a provision for rtftnfting the number of
Senators and R-prefentatives.
We reciprocate the alTurances offered fey
your Excellency, and consider the general
tenor of your administration as the firmeft
pledge, for your co-operation in measures,
which will render the session beneficial to
the Hate and agreeable to ourselves.
By order of the Senate,
Stephen Van Rensselaer, President.
Senate Chamber Nov. 8, 1800.
JOHN JAY.
To which his Excellency was pi' a fed to
make the following' reply.
Gentlemen,
Acctpt my thanks for this address.
When I confiuer the political fluctuations
which distress so many other countries, I
become imprefled with a flrong sense of the
importence of (lability in our public council* :
it is an agreeable circumftancc that the con
flitution ot the state has not been r»*gardlefs
of this objeft, and that the great and re
speCtable body of citiaens whom you repre
sent, and to whom it is particularly interelW
ing, have much to expeft from yuur ftedfaft
attcntisn and adherence to it.
Whether my administration merits the
approbation with which you have frequently
honoured it, is not for me to fay— but I
cannot omit this eccafion of obfcrvmg, that
I fliall carry with me into private life, the
pleasure of recolletting the marks of confi
dence I have received from my fellow citi
lens, and alio the pleasure of reflecting that
Ihave fervedthem faithfully—My bell * idles
for the happiness of our country will not
ceale or abate, and the molt fervent of those
willies will be, that the high degree ol liber
ty and prosperity we enjoy under our pre
sent government, may be so filled and enjoy
ed, as not to iucur the displeasure of the
Great Sovereign of Nations, wko remem
bers though men too aften forget, that li
berty and prosperity are of his gift and
bounty.
At a meeting of the Council of appointment
on the 29th ult. His Excellency Governor Jay
laid before the hoard, a number of affidavits,
Hating that William Eauehiw, Esq. an as
sistant justice and-juftice of paace for the county
of WeS CheOer, residing in the town of Poun
dridge, had, at a town meeting there held,
admitted non-resident freeholders to vete. These
affidavits were referred to the attorney general,
who, on the third iriftant, reported it as his
opinion (which is founded on the 2d fe&ion of
the sift for the more orderly holding town meet
ings) " that freeholders and others, refidiug
out of the town, have not, by law, a right to
vote at town meetings ; and that the votes of
persons of such description, ought to be rejeislei
as illegal." It was then resolved, that this opi
nion be agreed to, and that thejuftices of Poua«
dridge be advicei thereof-
SAVANNAH, Oftober ji.
A gentleman from St. Mary's informs lis,
that Bowles and his adherents, confining
only of 16 renegados white and black men,
wire lately driven from their encampment
above Cqlersine and obligrd to swim aciofs
the river, by a party of militia from thxt
neighbourhood. One negro, who was. in
the camp was made prisoner.
BALTIMORE Nov. 15.
The extraordinary method which the ft ate
of TennelTee had adopted to appoint prefix
dential elettors, renders it very difficult to
anticipate the result of the elctlion in that
Hate. The lrgiflature, which meet but <iiice
in two years, after dividing the state into
three uillrift, have appointed three men in
each county, who aie to form a convention
in each diitriA, for the choice of an eletlor.
Wafliington county.
Kerfhner 82®.
Williams 644..
The latter is the federal candidate, Alle
ghany belongs to this dillrift, and will p;c
bably give the federal ids a majority.
JOHN JAY.