> ness) wotlld hive sheltered hnitielf from a just tompen fation, under an order, which might at any time hare been procured. The legislature also knew (for it was coinpofed of the raoft enlightened and meritorious pa triots of the day, not with Handing the odium which is now to be fixci upon it) that if any of the provifiom of the act, Should claflt or interfere with any treaty made with Great-Britain, they would »f course cease to ope rate, and that our courts would give effeil to those •laufes only which might not undergo such repeal. :n... i* - j .* Camillas, if is true, does not admit that treatiej, ! on *nd civility from the Officers after their fortunate m-da under the confederation, were paramount to thi J escape. The. next morning they went on board the hws of the states. Proceeding, however, Ra nilies, where British generosity was again repeated with, more caution thin usual, he does nnt flatly deny by Sir Richard Bickerton, and his Officers. Of their tiit* position, but contents himfelf with obfei ving, that it and the Garrison they fpeale with the highell grati w-.s a " question iaf theory, about which there was j tude. • room for, and in this coHntry did exist much diversity of opinion."—What is meant by any law being a ques tion of theory, I do not well comprehend.—\Vhit is the law in any particular cafe in a foreign country, we have ever been taligirt to consider as a question of Fact and not of theory, and Lord Mansfield declares tha filch liWs inufl be Droved AS Facts may he in any given cafe, may' be a matter of uncer- tainty, ami not known to every one, hut it is stilt a qti'flion of fart, whether it he, as stated by one person ov mother—Whrre this diverfiry of opin'on prevails, courts of j'jflioe alone can fettle the question, and until this is done, we mtift resort, for information, to our m'.i'>nal enjigementJ, and the opinions of profeffional men., Ido not mean to admit, that our courts have not determined the queftinn ; for it will he fcen in the fe- que', (r.nd it is fom-what my&ero'is that it should have i'.-ap-d the pen-tration of Camillas, that our courts have ltilernn'y adjudged in favour of the treaty, when interfering with a contrary municipal regulation. T'n< fjueftien defjrves a more minute examination, for it it can be fh»ven that »!1 date laws, contravening the treaty of peace, were therehy repeated and rendered nuii, as to their future operation, all the elaborate rea fou!ns; <>f Camtllns, ar.J its fuperftruct .ire will be over thrown, ami li'. himlWt he compelled, however reluc tantly, to impute '.he firft infraction to the court of Great Rritain. The proportion is fofelf-evid-nt to an American lawyer, tint without any proof, it forces the lame couv-tion on hi? mmd, as the plainest axiom* of Eurli-i. ".thai the whok; is greater than part," cr "that all riy't angles are equal to one another," do that of a miKlematician. To prove either, appears a work of fi-firrerojratirm ; however, as the doubt is raised we will Attempt a .Viitinn ot it. QTc-*- remainder to-ynorrovi.~\ C'AZKXTE OF THE UNITED STATES. PtiILJID'SIPHU, Augujl 13 The merchants of B.>(ton h:ive signed a Protest, in which they declare their Hifappro'iatirm of, and difleiit from'the votes and proceeding's in said tf>\vn in the late meetincr relative to the treaty. 1 his paper was signed by the principal merchants and traders, including the owners ofimote than nine teen twentieths of all the navigation of that place. A corretpondent prnpufes the fullotvi-ig «s an head to the accounts to be p.iblifhed of Tie." v Meet ings, " Proceedings of the people, oppofid to the Treaty at " for ii is notorious chat only its opponents have had aiiy concern in the public vo tings on the occalloti. The whole Revenue of the British Poft-Qffice, !8 £. 627,000 ; expences of office, £. 190,000 ; the pickets, £. 45,000 : nett 391,000. [Times."] EXTRACT. '* When it suited the wicked views of a party to fay that Congress had t To bad as has been represented. Our health-officer, Or. Treat, wai she firJl person who dp ed of any fufpctfed contagions disorder ; the next was a /Mr. Payne, tidf-Waiter. The reft who have died, livedj in the vicinity of the city, betwixt Peck and New Slip*. There have been buried, in aboi f a week, eight 01- trine pcrlbns, five of them fuppofrd o a ma lignant fever.—l have had two of my boys tick, one is recovering, the oth-r continues rerpoorly, has a hijjh fever, severe chills, and a pain in all his bones ; but I hope, by the bleiling of God, we fiiall have no more to alarm U4, as wt had a fine rail on Saturday evening, and this morning we have a 1 fir.s weft wind, which clears the air.—'l have jufi fcen A! iermin Beck man, who defirsd me to inform you, that the Com mittee would receive the reports from the phytician«, this evening, and that they would have ir printed im mediately ; so that in a day or two, ycu may know facts with certainty." L.nttji Intelligence, from the Weji Indies, ST. PIERRE'S, (Martinique) Jone 27. Yefferday Colonel Drummond arrived here with, the reft of the prisoners who raade their cTcape from Point a Petre, from thein we hire obtaiittd the follow ing particnlaTO: For feme weeks previous to their escape a plan had b-cn concerted by a certain numbsr to runaway with a large Canoe which some times came on board the pri son fbips for sick and with different people who might hai'e bulinefs on board ; five or fix times the attempt was fruflrated by the defection of some of the party. — Dut on the Tsih inflant, a Mr. Campbell came on board in the said Canoe, and while he was below (peak ing tc General Graham. Captain Walker jumped in, and called' out, LibtßTy, (which was a sign agreed upon some time before,) the rell of the party imme diately followed, and as soon as poflible got on the Oars, three of the Negroes belonging to the Canoe were thrown overboard, and two were kept. The guard on board were soon alarmed, and got under arms, but had no ammunition, several muskets wtft fired fr»m the different ships, but did no Karm, two of the ships boats, who occasionally firc*d upon them, and three canoes, were in chafe as soon as poflible, and two cannon were fired from one of the (hips as they pafled Hog Island, one Battery they were oblige 1 to , pass within 50 yards and the centries called to them ; to come on shore, but liberty or death being their in-' j tention, they trusted all to their own fupeiiority in rdwing and the assistance of tne Supreme being ; from the Batteries not firing, it was fuppof-'d their fituatioir was the fame as with the Guard on Hoard, which was the want of Ammunition ; one of the canoes ia chace fortunately got a ground which detained her some time, when clear of the island they got ± fall set which was soon found advantageous, as then th« pursuers began to fall astern ; the chace was continued until dark, how long after it is uncertain, as both, parties loft fight of each other, however the oars were conti nued with the utmost exertion, and at midnight they were under the batteries at the Saints, a little after they landed under Fort George, and were conduced up to the Garrison, where they received the kindest attenti- They left Point a Petre on the 15th about half past five in the afternoon, where was about 7 or goo Bri tifli prisoners in as great distress as is poflible for men ta be, their day's allowance being 5 ounces of bad fait beef, 55 ounces of bread made moitly of rotten coru meal. There' was about 50 Britifti Officers and a number of Merchants belonging to thedifftrcni Jfir.nds, What the law without money, aim oft naked, fh« insults, and ill treat- ment they hourly receive is beyond the conception of an Engtilhrfian, or any that have the least imprellion 01 humanity. • BASSETERRE, (St. Kitts,) June 9. Copy of the Log Book, taken on board his Majefty't fluop Thorn, R. VV. Otway, Esq. commander. Miy 25, 1795,—Lat. iS, 52, N. iong. 6j, 30, W. At $ a. M. law a fail in the W. N. W. made said and gave chafe, at Meridian the chafe gained upon us, started a quantity of water and the wedges out of her lower masts, perceiving the chafe to be a French cruil'- ing ihip, at II P. M. came with:* gun fliot of her, at a quarter past, came to close adtion, yard arm and yard arm ; after a very smart firing, and fevtraliimcs falling on board each other, at a quarter before twelve the enemy, struck, (he having ten men killed and twcn ty wounded ; hoisted out the boat and jhifted the pi i for.ers.—She proved to be the Courier Natiojialc, a cruiser, commanded by Citizen Barre. On exar-uiiiirig our damages, found hve men wounded, fails and rig ging very much cut, the main ma!t wounded, with leveral £bot through I Tie hull and quarters. Tfie "Thorn left thin Illand wini the honjeward bound fl;et on the 2iit ultimo, and parted r ith them, all w;ll oathe evening of the 24th. The next morn ing (he got fight ef the French thip, wh ch Ihe did r.ot overtake till eleven at n.g'ut, when tiie action com meHced, a.nd contiriued with great gallantry on both fides, for near three quarters us an hour, when the French submitted to luperior bravery. The Thorn mounts 16 fix pouiide.a. and the Courier Nationale 14 nine and fixes—the difference of two guns in fa vour of the Thorn, was counterbalanced by the fupe nor weight of metal of the enemy, which was a much heavier (hip.—The prize was sent to Antigua, and the Thorn arrived here on Saturday laU. July 14 His Excellency General Leigh; Is now it Antigua, and expelled here in a few days Upwards of 5000 troops are said to have arrived in the lad fleet; a further reinforcement of 13 rtgi nents have received orders to embark, for the Weft-Indies, and may be shortly expedted. The jilt regiment of Foot is to be ftitioned in this Island. His Majesty's ship '.Vookvich, lent in a Brig yes terday, unuer SweJilh colours. Extrail t,f a.letter from Dominica. " Oa the evening of the 4th of June, news came to Town, of the enemy having landed at Lifova, which alarmed the inhabitants very much, particularly so as there was every reason to suppose a number of the French inhabitants would join them. 1 " Two detachments of the St. George's militia were immediately dispatched, with orders to proceed io different routs, until they met the enemy, or formed a junction ; one of which detachments proceeded via Prince Ruperts, where they were joined by a party of Regulars, and some militia from the different quarters through which they pafled, which made their force about 300 ltrong- abused. We have, given this name to the (late of France un der Robespierre, we give it yet to that unsettled condition, to that (late o| crilis, in which we now live. Where inuft we look for the proofs that a country is republican ? Not in the exclamations of fribu es and gronps, but in the form of theconfti tution—and we have yet no conltitution—and there fore we are not yet a republic. It is curious to observe how the word republic changes its fignifipation ; not only among the mul titude. but among the learned. Bodin, t>i his work upon republics, seems very anxious to make us ac quainted with the Opinions of the Greek and Roman legislators ; he thusexprelfeshimfelf in his (irft book: "A Republic, is a juil government, invested with sovereign power, crver many families, and over what they poffefi in common." He adds a. the begin ning of his second Book : " It may be said that there are but three kinds of republics, namely, the Monarchic, the Ariilocratic, and the Democratic." Some narrow minds may conclude, from my ob fc-rvations, that 1 do not love the republic, no cer tainly 1 do not love it, such as it now is, but thr day will come, whin this divinity of th« Greeks and Romans will appear to us in all her splendor, and in all her purity ; then will I be the hrft to raile al tars to her in the mean time, permit me to ad dress a letter to you now and then, on the means of enabling her to triumph ov-jr her enemies. I now qoit the pen, to go and resume the spade and the rake ; I will no longer cite, Bodin, Briffot, or Plato ; among the works of nature, and in the common ienfe ot the. honest villagers around me, I will learch and find proper ideas to enlighten my fellow-citizens on the fubje£l of the best of all pos sible republics, which is nothing more than a govern ment whufe principles aed energy secure the hap piness of the whole people. Be not too hasty in des pising the simple notions of a husbandman—Re member that Belifarious uttered the mod sublime morality, and preached the founded politics, whilfl weeding his garden. (Signed) NEW - YORK, Aug. 11 Extrafl of a letter by the lajl arrivalfrom a gentleman in Havre, to hit Correspondent in this town. " News may bs cxpedted from the regions of war and bloodlhed. The land of liberty and equality may afford in your opinion, an ample field fordiffer tation ; indeed it does, but believe me fir, in nothing are you more deceived, than in the ideas of French Liberty and French Equality, from their own ideas ofit. Equal they are in truth./, Frenchmen are all alike in my notion of things. But I confidcr equality as no blefiing ; unless, in the most refined and philosophical fenfc, the free enjoyment may be called fo'. For my part I have 11a ambition to be the villain's or the beggar's equal, only as we all agree in eHence } being alike curiously wrought from the dull by the finger of Omnipotence. No impartial and dispassionate person will hesitate to fay itany of their innovations'™ government are much for the worse. Many things, however, may be said to their praise, their mode of addrefling by Citizen, is un doubtedly fubiime, and contains a dignity not to be surpassed in the universe. The fpiri't also with which they prosecute the war, deserves the higheit commendation from every true Republican. I h?ve been several leagues into the country, and find it exceeds, for profpedt and cultivation, every thing [ ever saw, or read of. They are building a kind of gun boat here to carry 200 men each, and launch one almost every day. Al! the merchant men and prizes in this port are fitting up for train ports, amounting to near a thousand, five (hips of war and three large frigates (two on the flock* rais ed 7 days ago to be equipped by the 10th Jusej 30,000 yolunteeis and 170,000 regulars to embark, perhaps, for England. This 13 Yankee Doodle fighting my friend. Provisions here are exceeding scarce, bread kind especially, and that vcpy brown. Flour is 20 crowns a barrel, and Rice 15 do. a hundred. Soap is lower than in America, and every thing is very dull of sale ; even bread when it is fold publicly ; for all mailers and supercargoes muit go to Paris before any market can be made. Nearly 100 waggons go to Paris every morning fiom this, as the crv has been very great there. There are about 65 Ame rican ftiip, here. The Eoglifh have ico fail of men of war in readiness for sea at Spithead, which likewise argues formidable •vents this summer. CHARLESTON. Angdft 4. Sunday arrived at Fort Johriiort, the schooner JUNIUS, A FARMER e oSJ|^Baket*, Leogane , schooner Betsey, Star ling, Jeremie. 1 j Yedetday gnioed at Fort Jnhnfon the schooner Heulpion, Carter, Har-.mnah, 9 days ; ship Diana, '°f Kennebeck, Jamaica, 23 days, ;n dis tress, bonnd lis Norfolk. Gapt. Coffin, late of the Diana ; and three of his men, died about ten days ago; The Capt; of tlje Schooner Sculp >n reports tßat it was currently believed, at the Havjmtrah, that a V.ar would loon ta"keplace between Britain arid Spain, in confequen'ce of Spain .having ma le peace v.ith France ; in .confirmation tit which a pafiVn«er on board the schooner fays mat ? Major Allwood. the Brltilh agent in the Havsijnah, had been differed to pay mto the tieafmf there all the monies he had received o i account of the r -.capture of British pri zes brought intojtha: port. Mr. LHiriw 8, the pi' >t of the fiiip Trial, left her ?ellci day. morning . hy finking on the bar, the back part of her tudcL-r w,ls knocked off; the cap tain intended to put into Norfui!: to repair the da- maw tram the Richmond an! RTdnehrfler s!Aver t'tfir. Citizen Pleasa«ts, [ our press has been so aitively employed, that upon enquiry it was found inconvenient to insert the following resolutions 'til! 'fhurfdav's paper: it is hoped they will prove no difagreeablc pre sent to the public, from whom they have been detained lorigei than could JiaVe' been v.-ifhed. Ala numerous anu meeting of tlt citizeK? ol Powhatan, at their Court-House, bn TVtfday the 21 (I day of July, \ 795, for the pur poiC of taking into confulcration certain proceed ings of gentlemen of neighboring counties, aflem b!ed at our Court-Iloiife, on Saiurday, the fourth instant, in confluence of the troop of horse be lohging to the brigade, being ordered to afTemble there :— It is represented to us, that on the aforefaid meeting, certain illiberal and unmerited ceuiures were exhibited, in a public and formal manner, by a man not of the county; a mere Granger, against certain officers of fhc tederal hut in a particular and pointed manner against the Piefident of the United States ; in order, therefore, to ex pi eft; our diflent and djfapprobation, and moreover to difclai'm all political connexion with meh of thtf foregoing description, and to avert that odium that mil(i necfflarily result from an acquiescence to such tneafures— We havc,a(Tembk-d, and do RESOLVE—That, In the name of the county, we pointedly and une quivocally difavo-w fnch frntimenti, in as much as they tend to she Jcdniftion of thst conhdencc which every good citizen ought to have in govern ment, and to the alienation of their affections frona the officers thereof, who, particularly the Prcfident, will continue to Ibare our Wnrrneft afFe&ions, f<» long as the prosperous situation of.government, e vinces the wisdom of their deliberation;. That, Every it tempt to alienate tlie afFeftiosis d the people from the officers of government, Is an open violation of good ordei, and randot be uni fied by any, wiiofe situation and circomflancts in life, would make it their intcrelt to prefer order and government to anarchy and i-onfufioh. 1 hat, vVe cannot help exprcfiing our afianifti ment at the want of delicacy in gentlemen attempt ing to sow the feeds of anarchy in a country wh re they are not inhabitants, among people too, who are as remarkable for their attachment to order and good government, as for their abhorienC'C to every menfure calculated for its definition. i nit, the spirit tor diforginization, which zt pre* sent so strongly feature* the turbulent, has unired, and dilcrves the united difapprobaticin of ail good patriot s. 1 hat the Prehdent, though neither unerring in his judgment or omnipotent in his execution ; for his firm ■eft, virtue, and wisdom, which calculate him for the meridian of Republic—deserves our elieem, leev'tt aad wirmeft applauses, and whilst we difdainto adore him ns a Deity, with equal relu&ance would with - hold 'lis tribute, and wifa to canonize him as the fa ther of his country. That, It is the firm and unbiaiTed opinion of this a trembly, that the Preiident never las, bv migration, or miirtile in government, mei'irretf: a for feiture of the e2e*m and affetfions of his felW-ci'i. lens ; but, on the contrary, that hie public and privaie life arc both fupcnor to ftri&ure. Ihatylt is the sense of this meeting, that the char-x ter of the President, cannot be aided bv eulogies but only requires for it. lupport inveftigatio'n. On a motion being made and feconiied, Tkat U ' e P roc ® cd ' n 2 s of this day be pub BRETT RANDOLPH, Ch.L-xr.an Joeiah S.jith, Secretary. • I^ ter from Jeremic dated July fg, publifliej in the Conner Francaia.of the 13th init.'fays " Th« jCnglifh aie gradually withdrawing their troops from the quart en which they occupy Vi St'. DotoiV go,and a e replacing them by battalii «of Ncgriic:-:, which they liave rcleafed from the work?. ° The' number they have enrolled of the falter amount to more thau twelve llxanfand, arid thevdo not-take indifei iminatcly those which offer those winch the I'.anters offer ; they are too wife to trull to a horde of brigands and jTpolktois. The a greins of his Molt Gracious Majcity will have r ».,e but tnc flower of the youfh 5 they i\le£t eftid iWc< ■ dcfpotically the (iaeft of the hiac!c>. Thev fuid them to their J s, where rfiey aic ia'lructcd i;. theartaud difciplinc of &fc; siß . Many ofth. Plantations are already reduced to one hair, other ; have none left hut oid men, .invalid and'chJluru.. . lh, » attrot ioiis conduct Ws to .I^velc ;>e th - news of the EiigKlh government tovvatds t■ ia , ... happy colony. 1, J, p.oba»V that after >. ct - ftroyecllthe agncultme ami .the |4iti,i< w , t1,,-. will embark (if the KepiiMfca,:.. r... , n, them to evacuate the lUat»d; all tbe bv'.; r. -.-ro'. . also the women and children. IVHAR ION 6 s LEWIS, H A J£ removed theiV INSURANCE OfHtCii W STOHS to .No. x*j South Fipiit lyhere ij&y bane for Coffea Old Bill Madeira Win- Souchong Tea Sail Canvas &c July ij '■ ,