Philadelphia, Jtugujl 17.
A FACT.—
A gentleman, this day p»fflng by a place in Third
®ieet, where a house is erefling, heardone of the work-
Wen fay so another, " well the President Has figiied the
Treaty,"- —the other replied, " I am glad of it, for he
has more fenfg ia t»i» fiiigle fcuii than all its oppofm put
together."
* A meeting of the Phyfieiani of New-York is notified
in oVie of the papers, on bufmefo of the firft importance,
, as it refpe&i th.it city.
6' T 0 C K S.
SW p'T Cent.
a :ire; per Cent. -
DctcrrcJ Six j*er Gent,
!3 \NK United gf.it
-r ■-> — Nofcfch \mci'ica.
J?cnn%lva;i''i,
In surance C'o.mpaMy North America, 30
Pen itiy 1 vahia,fißt. off) 6
NEWS FR.OM FRANCE.,
Yesterday arrived tlie (hip Ariel, Capt. Decatur,
from Bordeaux, which place lie left the 28th June,
and :nform?, that two days before he failed a Da
ii:(h brig arrived, and gave intelligence, that (he
h;d been taken near Breit by a squadron of 7 Bri
tish (hips of the line, and several frigates, but im
mediately ' after difmiifedy in confequenre of "the
appearance of a French Sect of 12 fail of the line,
which came up with and engaged the British, and
after forge time law four of the Utter strike t! eir
and the French pursuing the reft.
Captain Decatur allures us, lhat the Danish
captain went before the Municipality of Bordeaux,
produced his 100-book, containing a minute of the
E'lave tran'aftion, ar.d folern.i'y made oalh of the
tr.uth of i».s contesita.
T.,e followingt was communicated to Captain
Decatur by .a gentleman direff from Brest previous
to the arrival of the Dane :—Tlie fleet in that porf
were for fume time T6 inactive, that at a late period
there \< - ere but two men of war in the harbour fit
for service. and'tijeiv enemy's,fquadrons, taking
advantage of tticf neglect were, continually on the
Cualt, and frequently flirwcJ- thcmfclves at the har
bour's mouth, which at length roufjd the officers
mid sailors to fu V. a spirit of a£Uvity, that in the
short space of two days, eleven ships of the line were
in readiness, and actually set fail at the departure
of the informant.
ARRIVED
Ship Arethufa, Swaine, Bengal, la ft from St
Cato, Skltar,
Ariel, Decatur,
Schr. Andrew, Hillm'an,
Sloop Lively, Bunker,
Arrived at the Fort.
Brig Sally, Courtney, _
Schr. Columbia, Billis,
SJoob Farmer, Browne,
The brig , Capt. Moitv, from Surinam,
aftll schooner Holker, Capr. Miller, from Leogaiie,
are at the fort.
Capt. Swaine informs, that 8 Dutch Indiamen,
from the Cape of Gooi Hope, were taken by the
Biiiii'h near St. Helena, at which place thev meant,
to touch for lefrcfhmcnt, not being informed of
hostilities between their nation and Great Britain. !
A f'ore-lhip from Ell jib.'.id, which parted with a ]
fleet of fix fail of the line, arrived at Si. Helena,
wiHle captain Swaine lav there.
Capt. Billis, of the schooner Columbia, on Tuef
c.ay, July 28, at 3 P. M. was brought to by the
republican (hip Brutus, in fight of St. Thomas :
■ it had taken one flup from Jimaica bound to Ha
Wax, and sent her to Boftoii Difmifttd us very
politely.
Thursday, August 6, spoke the brig Patteifon,
of New-York, Capt. John Defhon, bound to Ha
vanna, oat 16 (lays, in lat. 36, 50, and lor.g. 70,
so," W.
iiy tins .Day's Mails.
BOSTON, Augull 12.
lixirllS of <J Utter frem Capt. Tint ham, if his Iro-
ther at JVifcaJTit, daled
" Morant-Bay, Jamaica, May 23, 1794.
" We arrived at this place the Bth inflant, and
having an offer for our caigo, the fame price as was
felling in Kingston, concluded to fell, asit was very
iickly ill town. We bad got our deek load nearly
on fiiore, when, on the 14th, the British man of
war Regulus, of 44 guns commanded by George
Oakc>, canoe in and took and carried away every
one of our men, except the mailer. We immedi
ately applied to a trugilhate, and made out an ac
count of the amount of veflei and cargo, (leaving
her on the hands of Oakes, and demanding pay
ment for the fairfe, or the men to be deliverd up)
which Capt. Savage swore to, and procured a boat
to carry him off to deliver it to Oakes, but the (hip
was under way before Capt. Savage could get on
board. Capt. Savage has been very particular re
fpectinghis proceedings in regard'to the men in his
letterj- to you, I (hall not therefore enlarge on this
fubjeit; but only just observe,. that I hope both
we and the poor men, will get ample fatisfa£lion
for this piratical pioceeding. We should have made
a very good royage, was it not for the detention
and trxperrfe we {hall be put to by the loss of our
rfien ; and when we fllall get away, God only
knows.''
■}■ This letter has not Coifte to hand.
The.mtn were all born and live at, or within a
few miles of Wifcaffeti
By the brig Eliza, Capt. Fairfield, arrived at
Salerri, the editor has received the Northern Star,
publilhed at Belfall, to Jirne 22, \yhich the Post-
at Salem was good enough to fend yefter
. Extra&s from them follow, and more (hall
be given'.
PARIS, Juns 16.
Adjutant-General Charjjentier lias this day fire
iented to the Convention, the twenty-four /lan
iards' taken at Luxemburg. The garrison eon
.i3.';d of 11,187 men The military stores taken
ire 819 cannon, 16,944 muskets, 1,330,000 vvt
powder, and 816,000 wt. oF-lead and copper.
•The Chouans are not suppressed. They flill
threaten mifchief.
Toulon is agaia restored to the republic. The
Jacobins are completely routed. Many have been
killed, and many more must fuffer.
32 pr. Cent
5°
2$
It is genei ally believed at Paris, that (he will be
permitted tu*rclide in the southern parts of France ;
and it is even infmuated by some, that (he will be
fufFered to quit the republic, and join her relations.
Letters from Saintes of the 3 tit Prarial, 9th
inft. state, that Rarrere had arrived in that town
for the purpose of being carried before the criminal
fribtiaal of the Lower Charente, by which he is to
be tried. He is treated with some refpett. His
colleagues, Bi'laud and Collot, have certainly fail
ed to Guiana. The captain, we are informed,
has received orders to freit tnem as galley (laves,
and to keep them chained.
Diet of Ratisbon, June 2.
The sessions of the Diet re-commenced to day.
I hey were opened with discussions on the Imperial
decree of commifiion, refpectir.g the overtures for
an acceptable peace In the College cf Ele&ors,
the Electorate of Brandenburg made feveral'propo
htions relative to the declaration pre fen ted in the
Diet, and which had already appeared in different
publications. The Ele&oritc of Treves has alrea
dy voted in the Princely College, as well as Mag
deburg, Augsburg, Palatinate, Deux Poms, Hes
se Caffel, and Pomerania The Directory of the
Diet has re'olved, that an extiaoidirtary Congress
fnall be held t:ext Wednesday, in which the respec
tive ambassadors are confidentially i« discuss the
propositions made on the bufmefs relative to prepa
rations for a peace.
, Mr. Von Huge!, the Imperial Con-Comt\iifTary,
hafc, per interim, communicated to the Diet, that
his msjelly the emprror is a&ually engaged in a ne
gotiation with Fiance; and that the Diet of the
err,pue will soon receive further information relative
to this important object.
Dftvs
BASLE, May 30.
The negociationa of a peace between the Ger
man empire and Fiance, arc said to have for their
objedt the exchange of several places ; conformable
to which, the Moselle, from its source to the Meufe,
as far as the North Sea, is to be the future boun
dary of I' ranee. The Abbe Syeyes is laid to be
the projector of this plan.
'Helena, 6c
.Bordeaux, 68
ditto, 48
Port-au-Pi ince,- 16
.New-Bedford, 8
St. Croix, 12
St; Thomas, 18
L'Archaye, I I
Condemnation and Execution of fereral Members
At half pall twelve o'clock, the Commission con
demned to death, R >mne, Duquefnoy, Duroy,
Bourbotte, Soubrany and Gcujon, convi&ed of be
ing accomplices in the dieadful events which took
place on the 20th May, of having conspired agatnft
the Republic, aimed at the difiolution of the Na
tional Reprefen.ation, and the affafiiaation of her
Members.
Peyfard, on account of his having been less vio
lent and rebellious in his conduct, though at the
lame time, convicted, bv his own confcflioh, of bar
ing moved for the removal of the constituted autho
rities, as reorganized iinte the 9th Thermidor,
the Commission condemned to transportation.
Foreftier, not having been proved to have taken
an adlive pait in the events of the 20th May, the
Commission ordei 8, he (hall be conduced to the
Houie of Arreit ; and be under the furveyance of
the Committee of General Safety, who may order
what they find convenient relative to him.
After judgment had been pronounced, Gou'/on
said, There is my poitiait, which I bcl'eech you to
return to my wife.
Duquefnoy. i trull you with this letter, it con
tains my adieu to my friends and my wife. 1 de
sire that my blood may be the last innocent blood
which (hall be (hed. May it consolidate the Re
public. five la Repullique.
Bourbotte; The enemies to liberty, are those
have asked for my blood. My lalt vow—my last
sigh shall be for ray country.
The condemned put on the bureau, their pocket
books, a letter, and a deputy ticket.
Duroy, Bourbotte, and iioubrany, were put in
the cart at one o'clock, P. M.
Duroy, when in the yard of the Tribunal, point
ing to iome of the members of the Commission,
said, " There are the affiiflins who enjoy their own
work ! Oh, how unhappy am I, to have failed in
putting an end to my existence ! Were these
hands of mine made to be tied by a common execu
tioner! Enjoy! enjoy the fpeftacle, Messieurs Ar
illocrats !"
Bourbotte was executed the last, He said on
the fcaffold, "We are nt guilty ! Adieu till our next
mettiitg /"
Romme, Duquefnoy, and Goujon, killed them
selves, as soon as condemned.
FRANKFORT, May 29.
The French army of the Rhine hn* lately bees
reinforced ; they are making every poflible disposi
tion of eroding (he Rhine in feTeral places, in cafe
peace (hould not take place with the empire : ma
ny intrenchmentfi have been raifej by them oppo
site Marneim, to secure themselves against the Ger
man troops, afiembling in great numbers at Ean
heim. Meanwhile the hopes of peace increase dai
ly, the apartments for Government are actually re
pairing at Mentz, by order from the Kledtor. The
French representatives, Merlin and Cavignac, had a
long conference at Ongetfh. im with the agent of a
German foverei^n'
£* N
June 18.
The Son of Louis XVI. was buried on the 10th
inft. in, the evening, in the churchyard of St. Mar
guerite. He was conveyed to the-grave by three
•ommiffioners appointed for that pnrpofe, by the
'committee of general (afety. Prerioufly to the bo
dy being put into the coffin, it was ojx.jed by two
iiirgeons, in the pretence of feveial pcrfons, in or
der to aS.ud complete proof of his havin; r clie'd a
natural death. The daughter of the late king ii in
an infirm state ot health, and change of air has Lean
preferibee for hy
H.IKBINGF.RS Of Pp..ICL
of the Convsntion,
MIL IT ART COMMISSION**
Baren de Hardenberg, the Prussian mintfter of
(late, held a long conference with count de Lehr
bach, and M. Albini, minifler of the ele&or of
.Menu. It appears that count de Lehrbaeh, after j
visiting Cafiel and other courts, will repair to" fiafle.
COLOGNE, May 26.
Nothing of importance has pafled lately with le
fpeft to the movements of the armies.
The Aultrians are not in great force oppafite to
us; and it appears that they will undertake nothing
of importance in this quaitar. Since their unfue
cefsftil efforts on the Upper Rhine they have re
mained wholly inactive.
1 hefe countries do not experience any scarcity,
nnd alt the objects of the fird necessity are in great
plenty.
BASLE, May 20.
It is now certain, that the chevalier d'Yriarte,
the Spaniftl envoy, has actually received plenipoten
tiary powers to commence a negociation for peace
between Fiance and Spain, with citizen Batthele
my.
The negociations of a peace between the Ger
man empire and Franc* are said to have for their
object, the eschsnge of several places ; conforma
ble to which, the Moselle, from its source to the
Meufe, as far as the North Sea, is to be the future
boundary of Franee. The abbe Syeyes is laid to
be the proje&or of this plan.
RATISBON, Mar 26.
In conf.qnence of the proposition made on the
2 lit to the Diet of the empire, by by t lie dictatorial
minilter of Mentz, a pieparatory conference has
taken place between the eleitatorial minitters. Af
ter which each of them sent a courier extraordinary
to hiscourt. It is generally ihought that the city
cf Frankfurt will be chosen to hold the Congiefs.
This proposition has at kft been warmly leceiv.
Ed- $
STOCKHOLM, May 22.
The acceflion of our king in quality of duke of
Pomerania, tw the peace concluded between PrufiFu
?.nd France, will rtiortly be announced to the Diet
of Ratifbon. The consequences of this deftru&ive
war will thus cease to be further troublesome to Po
merania, as no more Roman months nor any other
charges can be exafled.
ITALY, May 23.
TFie head quatters of the Aultrian army have
been removed from Alexandria to Aegis, when
24,000 men are aflercahled. On the arrival of Ge
neral Kelletman with the French aimy, General
Sclieies quitted it to take upon him the command
of the army of the easter Pyreimes. The French
make serious dispositions for the purpose ot pulhing
forward 011 the fide of Anita,
WESEL, June 4.
General Jourdon and fojir representatives of the
French people were expe&ed at Cologne, on the
29th ult, their fuddeu departure has given rife to
various conjectures.
AMSTERDAM, June 7.
Within these two days past 15 vessels have ar
rived from the North, laden with naval ftorcs and
provisions. One of them frll in with two Dutch
sloops of war, having with tliem 12 merchantmen,
which they captured in the North Seas
HUNINGEN, ift Frairial,
We arrived here on the 28th of Floieal, with
Gen. Pichegru. On the 29th, Baron de Harden
burg, the Prussian ambafTador, invitsd the represen
tative and the general to dinner at Basle. They an
swered, that they would not go out of the territooies
of the Republic, but the armies, or when a peace was
made. The ambafTador, being curious to fee Mer
lin of Thionville and Pichegru, asked leave to dine
with them at Hnniiigen ; whither he repaired with
the ambafTador Barthelemy, the miniflers of Hefle,
Wurtemberg, and others, The grcateft cordiality
prevailed during the dinner ; and I really think
1 mflia sincere, and to be relied on, in her pacific
advances.
We understand, that all Germany is ready'to a/k
for peace, through the medium of Piuflia.
further Particulars of tht Vire.
COPENHAGEN, June 6.
Yesterday afternoon, a little after three o'clock, by
some unfortunate accident, which remains unknown to
this moment, a fire broke out in the buildings of the
Old Holm, where the ship timber and other naval flores
for the fleet are kept. The flames, with an incredible
rapidity, still further increased by a yery strong wind
from the southeast, fpreud to the great magazine, and
also set fire to this edifice so eflential to the state, after
the principal tkings kept in it had however been previ
ously been saved. While the firemen were occupied
here in extinguifliing the flames, the fire also broke out
at the fame time in the steeple of the church of St.
Nicholas, which lies at the distance of three whole streets
from the Holm, and had even escaped in the great fire
of 1728 ; the flames not only destroyed, in a very ljttle
time, this beautiful edifice, but spread also through all
the adjacent Areets, so that at this time almost the whole
of Old Holm, the College of Admiralty, and the build
ings belonging to it, the edifices along the canal, the
old strand, and all the houses situated in that part of the
city, are now- eiitirely in aflies. The number of houses
already burnt, iseftimated to amountto amount to fe«
▼eral hundreds.
1 he damages which this conflagration occasioned,
cannot yet be ascertained, though it is already ettimated
to amount to several millions of nx dollars.
1 lie Prince Royal, who hafteuMmmediately with the
Princes of Hefle Auguftenburgh and Wurtembirg, to
give aHi fiance, was extremely aflive in encouraging the
people occupied in getting the flames under; but our
fire engines and fire men, which are good in other re
fpefls, could have no great effetf, owing to the violence
of the wind, which threw large fleaks of fire all ovej
the city.
The conflagration, especially the fall of the lofty
pile of the church of St. Nicholas, exhibited a most
terrific and awfully grand fpetf acle. The uity was
illuminated all night, as in a fise clear mosnlight
night. In this melancholy crisis, of which we can
not foretell the termination at this moment, the
Prince Royal will probably not let out to the Swe
dish camp, to which he has been invited in the
name of his Swrdilh. Majeftv, fiyCo;v :s Msrner
and Stecnbock, although his depaaure was fixed for
next Monday, and pcrfous had been appointed to
compoietjie luiteof his Royal Highness.
p. s. The fire continues to spread farther and
farther, and the whole Guildhall is now in fl.imes ;
appreheniions are also entertained for the church of
Our Lady, though all possible pains a e taken to
save it from the danger. All the houses that have
no walls lo refill fire are pulled down to prevent
the conflagration spreading farthpr. Both the
foldietc and sailors. whose number has been confi
dt-tably increased hereby the fitting out of the fleet,
have much diflinguifhed themselves.
It cannot yet be stated with any degree cf cer
tainty how the fire hrtt biokeoul ; feme fay by a
copper of tar boiling over ; others fay it has been
done on purpose ; but Inch reports are not to be
warranted. The fire has already raged thirty
hours.
Second Postscript. Tin's moment, as the m. il
is going the progress of the fire lias been flopped.
LIVERPOOL, June it
Extrafl vf a letter from Santa Cruz, Tcntrffi, dfril
" We arrived hereafter a paflage of nine days
from Spithead, in company with his Majefly's ftyips
Monarch, Admiral Elphir.ftone, Arrogant, Sphinx
and Rattlefiiake, with the Ainifton Indiaaait; We
are only to (lop here 24 hours, and then to piocee<j
againlt the Caps of Good Hope with all fpeea ; but
it is feared that a squadron of nine French hue of
battle fltips will be there before us. However, if we
are lucky in taking the Cape, we are to proceed a -
gainll the Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, and all
other Dutch and French fettltrpents thereabouts.
Commodore Blanket, with twofixty fours, h*ve
just joined 11s, and we are getting under for
the Cape."
LO\ T DON, June io.
The Ambassadors from the Dutch Repnbl.'c h'.ve
been presented to the Convention, and received'with
great honor 3
The Funeral of Ferrand, who was ■ ILflinated,
was celebrated on the 2(1 inft. with pomp ; all the
deputies were dressed in iheir an i the Fo
reign AmbafTadors alliilcd at trie ceremony ii: deep
mourning
GRAVEUNES,June 13.
erterday at P. M. we had tlie fad profpe£i of
the loss of an American veflcl. loaded with corn
Her name was the PalUsof Pl.il. Jrlphia, Robert
Crawford mailer* She had failed irora Alcona the
sth of Jn;ie bound for L-ifbou, tun aground on a
bank oil Dunkirk, and from t hat moment ' o I lie t 2th
in the evening, Hie made 12 feet of waler. The
crew rfcaped with great diffi ulty. She went down
lail flight off Vsnpoult's farm, ha'fa league E ift
of this port. It is thought the istjnite loft.
FrCfUt the /Ikcus.
C A T O—No. VI
HAYINO hail oecafion to fhev>-, iti eonfidorir.g tlie
treaty in a mere cominerrial view, that ii . orfuined
an expreis ,f!inq:!::l
placed the Weft-Iniii.in commerce upon l'u diljuvjv
tageous a fcotingas 10 render foreign ita cur car
riers,not only in.tliat trade, but in the exp-;r ation of
many articles (as sugar, cotton, coffee, cocoa) that we
might impoit from .he Weft Indies, or railc among
ourselves. 1 proceed now to Jhew, that our velfel*
will become equally nfelefs in the' European trade, if
the treaty goes into effect. By the fimole operation
of her navigation laws. Britain had poire cd herfclf
of almolt the whole of the carrying trade between the
United States and her dominion?. Oilobcr
1789 to September 1790, both inclusive, the amount
I of our expoits to Britain and her dominions werebf
the value of nine millions three hundred and f.xty-threc
dollars, and our imports fioin tlienct, upwards of sis
! teen millions two hutidred thoufa.id dollar., iriak nj
together, upwards of twenty four millions five hun
dred thousand dollars, 011 which commerce we paid
Britain a balance of near fix millions, while We trailed
.rom hence- a balance of more t ian two millions and
one half; yet this immense trade with Britain only
employed 43,; So tens of American veflels, wh le the
trade I'rance emp.oyed 11 410 tons, thought o"iir
w ith ner was less jn one tirrh ot our trade with
Britain. The extreme injury the EJnited States sus
tained by thus lufFermg a foreign nation to run away
with their cariying trade, and of coi.rfe cutting the
sinews of their commerce; and maritime Itiength
was urged as the bell argument for the formation of
the federal government, as by that meant we ftouid
acquire the means of making reftrßflive laws upon t+.e
commerce of nations thafoppreffed ours. \\ e accord
ingly find that very early after the formation (.f our
government, tonnage duties were imposed upon, fo
reign veflcls, and the immediare-effe<sl of them was to
add new vigour to our own navigation ; it will appear
by the present state of our tonnage, coinpard with
tnat I have given, that under the operation of this
law, we were progrefling so fact to a confnlerabU de
gree of rank among maritime nations, as to incur the
jealousy of that ambitions and felfilb people, who fan*
ey themselves the lords of the ocean, and conhder eve
ry other that attempts to navigate it, as intruders upon
their rights. To this cause we must attribute, in part,
the various attacks that they have from time to
time iriade on our commerce ; it remained, however,
to give it a fatal and final blow, which fhouid put it
out of o\jr power to carry for ourselves or others : and
the honoi ot effeifling this was reserved for onr envoy
extraordinary, and a majority of that bodv to whom
the States had confided our dearest rights. ' 1 have al
ready observed that the nth article, taken together
with the inftrudlions of the Sth of January (at this
moment m forw) effectually precludes us, not only
from the carrying trade of Bntifh or French Islands,
even though lrance has generously admitted us to car
ry from hers on the most favourable terms, but has
a (finally cut oft the carriage of our own commodities
anu certain others of foreign and domestic growth
from our riwn States. That'the trade of Indian goods
is so managed also, as r.ecelTarily to fall to the share of
oritain, to the exclusion of ourselves. Let u? ftcw
lee 011 what footing our European trade will ltand :
lit, In time of peace, and next, when Britain .'hall he
at war. By our tonage and revenue laws, our ships
had an advantage in the trade to Britain of 44 cunts
the ton and the discriminating duty of near 10 r>ir eerjt
operated as a premium upon our own fhippinp, yet c
ven this by no means countervailed the efieil us the na
vigation law, and other reftramts upon qui commerce,
but full under the operation of thel'e i!a' utes of the 0»
nited States, our trade and navigation fitourifbtd
was increasing, ana as we tefcr.ld a right in our - «'!i
Iwnds, jit cale of new burdens to impofc further d«ri«»
■ipou thole that jnjuicU us, we had the nloit pcrfed '.c
'3- '795
!» tra<ie ; .that it