Gazette of the United States. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1795-1796, November 23, 1795, Image 2
to the Public. = MINIATURE PAINTING. & \ Limner from Paris refpewtfully informs the public, jl\. that he paints Likenelfes in Miniature, in fach striking and ploafinga manner, as will, he hopes, fatisfy those wha may employ him. His LikeneiTes arc war- » ranted, his fittings (hort, and his terms easy. His Room is at No. 2,north Fifth-ureet. November 11. §I9t. P. S. As he ihortly intends returning to France, he t irtvites such I .adies and Gentlemen as may be desirous of a having their Portraits <frawn, to take advantage of the << prefenx time. — , _ r , Stockholder* of the Bank of the United States A are hereby informed that according to the Statute of ii Incorporation, a general Eie&ion for twenty five Direc- f] tors w ill be held at t .eßank of the United States in the city of Philadelphia on Monday the 4th day of January next,at 10 o'alock iu the forenoon. c And purfuantto the Eleventh fe&ionof th«6yc Laws, the Stojkholders of the laid Bank are hereby notified to ii affembls in general meeting at the fame pfacc 011 Tuesday a thejth day of January n«xt at 5 o'clock ia the Evening. By order of the board of dire&ors, G. SIMPSON, Cashier. 1 ad fundamental Article, " Not more than three fourths of the Directors in offic« a •xclufive of the Prefidcnt shall be eligible for the-next foe- f< ceeding year,but the drre&or who fliall be prefidcnt at the time of an .election may al ways be re-ele&ed Philadelphia, Nov. 19 1795. iwteT f ( —— , it THE Jvfurancc Company of North- America INFORM the PUBLIC, that they make Infuranee againlt f ( Firo, on Furniture, Mcrchandife, and Houses, at the j 8 rate of Two Shillings and I hrea-Ptnce for One Hun ' dred DolLrs for Hazards of the firft clals, and for Hazatd- 11 ous articles, at an advance proportioned to the rifle. November iq. ti _ si DEE Kt.l SEME :\7. 5 FRGTvI the fcrft of Docciiibcr next, the annual fubferip- t; tion ior this Gazette will be EIGHT DOLLARS. . Subforibers out of the City will pay One Dollar a year in c , addition, for in lofiug and dh'etfling their Papers. Remote ftubfcribers are requested to jxay up arrearages ri to the above period; also the half year's advance from t< :hat time-—thole v/ho do npt, will be qonfwlered de- it elinin? a continuance of tjieir fubfeription. e . Advancements ot a fcjut.re, or less, are published in this Gazette opee, for half a doli-irj and continued at one quarter oT v dollar for each fubieqyent infntion. TiYe Editor aekho-wl&fges, with gratitude, the favors n cf his advertiling patrons —He assures them, that the en treated, number of his fubl'cnbers, is con- C{ tinuallv extending the circulation in tht city—lts distant r circulation is now equal to that of any other publication. L Philadelphia, November* 3, 1795. ai — _—.— 1 b; Le Breton, » v = 5 (JR. GEO X-D E NT ;s T, dl Pupil of tie celebrated Mr. Dubois, late Dentijl to the King and & Royal Family of France, member of tbo College and Ac a- p; deny of $urgeons at Paris, Keeps a complete aiTortment of everr thing neeefiary to 1 be used fcr the * e Preservation of the Mouth and T?eth. Patent mineral Teeth, and human and ivory Teath ; Den- CC trifice in powder.; Opiate; excellent Elixir lor sweetening c€ the mouth, and the teeth. He aifo furniflies e * Brushes and foft Sponges. b) He lives in Chefnu'-flreet, 135, above Fourth- de fcft. 19. eod. Mr. Walter Robertfon p ? BEGS leave to a .quaint the Gentlemen, fubferibers to be the print Portrait of George Washington, Prefidsnt t j ( of the United Statesof America, engraved by Mr. Field, v from all original piiture painted by W. Robertfon, that 5? 1 , the l'rorfs are ready for delivery to the seVeral fubferib- * a ; ers at John James. Burialtt's, No. 19 1101 t!i N;nth-lU"cct; hi sr at J. OrmrodV, booktjeller, No. 41, Chefnut-ftreet, m where thei'ubfciibers are requelled to i'end their address. jj, o<9:cibcf27 eod. _! tic ALL persons 4ndcbted to the Eflate of WILLIAM an WOOD WOIKINS, Esq. dec;afed, ire requested „„ to make payment, to " ISAAC MICKLE, Ef^. , New- JOS. BRINGHURST.jun.f A(Jm "• p], No 29, Unhn-Jlreet t J 12 Philadelphia, Nov. „eodim. w j A fmail Catalogue of Law Bboks belonging to the above Eilate, for sale. at low prices—apply to Charles B. Brawn, tOl No. 117, south Second-flreet. g e ' — ift CAUTION. P n THE LOT of ground 39.feet 3 inches front on Fifth- be street, and 114 feet deep on Gafkill-ftreet, took pof- gle session of by Timothy Hurst, as Attorney to William ou , Hurfi» is fubjedt to a ground rent, for ever, of twenty- - four pounds ten shillings and feven-pcnce half penny per annum—Also, to arrears of rent due fir-ft of January, ffl) 1796, ninety eight pounds two Ihillings and fix pence to i»n tht fbbferiber. Sifannab Rodney. ift, Phila!. Nov., 21. *3t. Un To be Sold, |«b'« THAT handfeme feat near Princeton, the property of ] R r:l the b.te Rev. Doctor John Witherlpoon, known by • the name of TUSCULVM'. It cons.3 s of a neat well : the finilhed Hone Huufe, two stories high, with lour rooms j mol 011 cadh floof, and, a cellar under the whole There are 1 attached to it one hundred ajiil fifty aeves rf I.and, more j or left, ainl chieS-/ incloftd with good and dufablc stone fences. Of taefe about eiglu acres are nsituial. meadow, j fix acres artificial sown with, red clover, and from twenty j the to thi.ty acids wco'Jlan>. On the premifts there is a J ten valuable orchard of yonng aftd thrifty apple trees, a fra- j . arisd barn ami fljilt.;, two com houses, a grain loft, and catriiige iiouft quite new, a ntW ftom u-,ik houft, and ,l: near it a well," and a conllant spring of water. For an( ' terms apply to r l homas V.Johnston, El<v. or the Rev. aci S.mo h, i» P.riacet(>n ; or to the fubft.nber at J,j n Tufculum. t( j Ann Witherfpoon. I;^^, r*feu!uhi, Nov. ir. *daw 4W - pea Andover Iron Works 'w-. TO KE spij), OR LET ON. LEASE. pari "T~HEY are lltuiite in the comities os-Sussex alid Morris,, enr I "I the State, of New-Terfey : Ihe ore liy<. within a tre; , "•ile of the Fnrnace, i" t ; rt&h'red.of the firft quality of any ArnerKa.'anrt pi rVica'arly adapt--cITor making Steel, j I"'" Tfc. . urrace apd Forgq," to .wivwfj belongbctweejTl l and j ' -,©oo.acrL rol Land, wi;l be fu' iWj or U fj- and ther fcptfitoly or together: thcr are _:Uttant about lWveii {lirrl iniL's fc-om eaei\ other, and are an obi' dl well worth the fjj attention ci Iron Masters. The buildings. &c. ire in eve- , ry refpeet commodif.ns For further jv-rtlculai» apply te ° lisnj miu Chew, or JohnLardner, PiiilaJtlpnia. j. — OS. 2- ;,taw I its t • — g ()vt Five Dollars Reward. j of p Q TRaS £p, oh the oi' Oijlober, fffrhi Terith'- ! dtrrv 3 Street, near Mulbcrry-Strc^t; a"roan HORSE,abiftrt ?By seven years, old, ka ; a'whitefpot on Ji:s forehead, white, j iect And rut %il. .Any pcrfo.i whocau information of the ia«ae, will rcccivtthe above rewa'rd.,ana expeiice6, P ar),r ,by applying to UiLLON & Co, No, la, south '1 hircl- Street. Nsvtniber 14- §tw. geftc STRICTURES on a publication, entitled " Fea ;,;ic, turns of Mr. Jay 1 ! Treaty, from aS. C. paper. fa ell I CONTINUtD.J tisfy The writer of the diilortions proceeds to alarm war " the citizens of the United a thousand chimeras : " What with the eftabli/hment of Bxi lt ti(h colonies and Britilh wirehoufes, the naturaliza ,he tioii of Britilh land holders, and the unqualified is of admission of British fubjefts," he aflures us that the « aa American will hardly be able to find elbow _ room for fiimfelf and family : our merchants will tates dwindie to clerks, our huibandmen will degenerate ;te of into the condition of the feudal rillenage, and in a tree- (hurt courfc of years America will probably exhib c"y it the astonishing fpeftacle of a countiy, pofleffed, ' cultivated and (tpjoytd by aliens." A'i this won awSi derful operation is to be brought about, by fufier :d to ing a few Canadian settlers to reside near the potts, Miy and permitting those British fubjedts only who now ,in S- hold lands in the United States to continue to hold them ! Is it possible that this alarmilt could have had so contemptible an idea of our citizens, as to ffict address foch trash to their underflandings ? He sue- seems to think that the epithet Britilh, which he ' t ' lc so liberally employs, carries along with it at on«e •j. terror and conviction. It is surprising he omitted, — in his enumeration, the British manufa&urcs with which we are cloathed ; it is equally furprifing,that ICa in expressing, his terrors about the Mifiilippi, he unil fofjjot that the j#int right of navigating that river i» secured by the former treaty of 1783; and that ar( i. in trembling at the confrquence of peimitting only those Biitilh fubjefts who now hold lands to cob n. tinue to hold them, he forgot the right which the French have by treaty to hold iands, without limi rip- tation. The feudal villenage he so feelingly deprecates rm exists already,but fortunatciyjonly in a part of Amc- ' iges r ' ea ' to " s lh!iine,to which that alarmilt is supposed rom t-o be warmly attached : in a state which boatts of ' de- its pre-eminent love for liberty, and of its alm.lt ( exclusive title to patriotism, we (till tind the degra- ' jne ding relictsof the feudal fyltem, an exemption of ' land from the payment of debts, and the exciulive rors rights of citizenlhip vefied in landholders, en- Th's writer betrays too plainly, his views and ' ; on " connedians, by his sympathy for the felt" created J societies, (now abolished even in France) and his 1 aversion to what he calls city cohorts and prastorian ' bands: thus vainly attempting to ftigmaiize thof* ' valuable associations of worthy citizens, who have ' done so much honor to true republicanism by their « and fuppert tto their government and laws againit the J parricidal attacks of the fjftious. ' The treaty, he tells us, is "to rejudge the so- 1 'to lemn judgements of our courts of justice." Can ; he have read the treaty ?It expressly confines the r •n. eomm '''' oners to cases, to which the ordinary ' ; nj? coorfe of judicial proceedings cannot extend :it is f [hes expressly limited to cases of insolvency, occasioned 1 by legislative a<Ss, and has no reference to judicial ! •th- determinatie-i. I _ " It condemns, he tells us, individuals to the 1 payment of debts from which they had previouflj a to been discharged by i«w v" glaring dirt or- 1 ® nt tion- The United States are to pay, and not in- f dividuals, in cases of individual insolvency : but as 3,. falfehood generally refutes itfelf, so, we are told by " et; him, in the very next sentence, that "the treaty " set, makes the government of the union responsible for 1 ds - the contrails of private citizens, and the defalca- n — tions of bankrupts in one sentence, individuals v M are to pay ; in the next, the government of the 1 ted t,j.; o n. Does he mean the fame debts? The trca- 0 ty prescribes but one rule. ri The treaty, he fays, restrains the use of our fta- 11 pie commodities: what is meant by this? The 1 2th at tide is the only patt to which he can refer, whick was never intended to include American cot ton ; and that clause is not ratified ! Jumblingto- 1 gethei his fan ago of fanciful moifters, the alarm- - — ill exclaims that "the mind is (hocked with an ap. prehension that the ratification of the treaty may p :h- be the death warrant of the union thus former if- gloomy croakers foreboded the death warrant of ra our liberties in the adoption of the federal conftitu l'e tion, in the pafiing the exeife law, and other adts, T> which, in spite of malignant predictions, our un to ien and oitr liberties have yet survived. But the great and strong argument of the Alarm ist, is, that the treaty and the conltitution of the tr United States are at war with each other; now tii — f this circumllance, one wmtkl instead of 1;, ! alarming, ought to convey to him the highell th of ; gratification, for, in that cafe, the treaty must ed ;be null and void : whatever is at war with lei -11 | the confiitution mult yield to it, that being para- of ns j mount. It is however curious to follow the llrange ro : contradictions between this writer and himfelf, and tti ' ; ! between himfelf arid other writer* of the fame rit x, . Hamp. It the treaty be so clearly repngnant to si c ty J the conftitntion frorti beginning to end, a^he pre- T | tends to demojiltiate, what Beceflity was there for pa 'j his endless catalogue «f abomination* contained in tr. •id 't: he had only to prove its unconftitutionality, th , r and the bulincfs was done : his afling otherwise is an v. a contiadiclion of his own doftiine. Other alarm- th " iits, in 'oppolition to this writer, have exclaimed, tal •' the impending treaty, for it is not TI like a cfimmon aft of legislation which can be re- ve pealed at our will ; when ratified it is the supreme fflii) of the land, by the Conflitutiou, and cannot he !»e altered but by war, or the cor.sent of the other G. party to it." This writer asserts, confidently, that to a, enrgtel's alone can, •' by the constitution, make a 3 treaty, lecaufe it is a legflati-ve aft." Other oppofi- f OI f_! iron writers complain of the caiftitutiwn, for hav- thi d j ing I'ficJ the treaty-making p<nv C r in the Pre/,dent Sii i- , mid Senate. They cannot all be right. A very am » flight examination of the ftibjeft will exhibit the wa e fallacy of this writer's doflrine and the fophiftrv of * of bis dedu&ions. - g t | . A sovei"nment,5 ov ei"nment, he fays, " may be changed m wh i"* c l ence without being subverted fn its forms : A — . governments have too generally proved to be a kind the j of political chrysalis, pafiing from the grub of pure it . democracy to the butterfly of abfoluce monarchy." c l e < : . By the terms of the simile, one might conclude pat ; ,hat llr mcal,t 8 fat if' "II pure democracy, and a , on monarchy, though it is more pro- til bable that his habits and connexions may have fug- of i gefted an ofrrjjion, which is as infukhg t0 demo- inti ——— cracy as the simile itfclf is J aixi inapplicable P to these (Ute3 :aa infuhing to th« wwiti i>*«tling« and cbarafter of Americans is ii, to compare t>is ignorant and enslaved valla's o> Polwid to the fict I |rm and enlightened citizensof this country, w I*o know sand 'brir rights, and have capacity to discern t;iat their j!,;. true interests lie between the extremes ot 'icentiauf jj z!l _ ness and a govei ninent unconlrouled by coiiiiitution ified a ' rellriftiens. tj la t After a vevbofe exordium on the chacafter of a b ovv limited government, he Hates a cafe, which proves w ;[j at once an ignorance of the federal canftitution. ■rate endeavour to (hew that the treaty making a power, as he terms it, cannot be paramount to a [lib- legislative - aft, he ailcs the fol'lswinjr ridiculous queltion : " Can tile Senate and President propose ~o n' an amendment, by way of treaty, to the conllitu fj- er . tion ? And if they can,'in this way, original:, □ Its might they not ejffi-ctuate alterations iu the funda nmy mental points of our government, and make in tact t)o ij a new eonftitution V It is almost incredible that lave such absurdities (hould escape the pen of a man, sto who profeffes to write giavely on constitutional points. What connexion is there between the pow j | cr »f making treaties and that of proposing arnend >ntc ments to the eonftitution ? The one is expressly ta l veiled in the President and two thirds of Ihe Senate ; v j ( jj the ether, as expressly, in two thirds of both hou ,|iat fe« of Congress: In the one cafe, the House of j )e Reprefeiitativcs has no ageucy ;in the other, the _ j ver President has npne :In the former, the is fi nal ; in the other, it only recommends to other ' )n ]„ authorities, who are to decide. What opinion must , on this writer have entertained of the i»tellefts of his : readers, when Ve afited this question ? And what 1 j m ;_ opinion mull they entertain of his designs, when ! they read it ? 1 ltc . s He proceeds to inform us that, by the conftitu- Te _ tion, congress is empowered to boirow money— >fed " Suppose," fays he, "it wis deemed expedient | 0 f to fublidize Portugal, instead of building frigates, ' could two thirds of the Senate and the President 1 rra . either borrow or guarap.tee a loan for that purpofc < "of h ,reat y ?" In anfwaring in the affirmative, I 1 live w '" <l llot e him an authority which I know he will t alTert to without difficulty. When the proposal 1 ailc j for building the frigates was made in Congress, « ted r " Madison, who objected to it, as an inefficient j,; s measure, recommended that the President and Se- r ian nate Should negociatc with Poi tsgal and subsidize r iof« ® ser or protection of our trade from the Alge- ; ave rines, which could only be done by borrowing or j 3 , e ; r guaranteeing a loan for that purpose, as there was c the at 'bat time so little money in the treasury that a j loan was rteeeflary to carry on the ardinary opera- c f O . tiens of the government £ an Proceeding in his ftippofitions, he makes another c the more extravagant, if possible, than the foregoing, t ary " l ' le eonftitution the importation of certain J tis P er sons shall not be prohibited by Congress prior t nC( j to the year 1808 : But suppose Mr. Wilberforce c cial aci ncgocisted, instead of Lord Grenville, and ), h«d made the prohibition of such importation in t the l ' ie y car I "o8 a fine qua non, could the President t and Senate admit the llipulation Th> t or- Is > tlfey admit by treaty what is expressly c in- f°rbid fey th« eonftitution ? Their power of mak- ' 0 tas !n S treaties being derived alone from that inftru- ], (jy ment, how could they aft in direst opposition to t 3t y it? A treaty, like a law, must be confarmable to ji for eonftitution to be binding ; every part repug- f ca- na:l ' to it, is a dead fetter. As well might he aflc, f ials whether the President and Senate can regulate by u ;^e treaty that the citizens of America shall eat but a ca- one mea ' a day ? reasoning may suit the me ridian of Pittjlurgh, but it mull excite the con- & la- ,em P l or derision of every rational citiren. c b« ('To be continued.) I «r, „ a ut- . ~ -7 } to- Philadelphia, November 23, 1795. v 'P- foreign intelligence. > *1 the Ann & Mary, Captain F.ggar, from Lendon, 'j we have been favored with a series of Papers in u- September, from which the following articles (not j] !s, publiftied here) are copied : n September 15. g r>- In a matter which so nrarly reg al ds the public >e tranquility, we think it our particular duty tQ no- Cl 'w tice th« reports which have been so generally circu- ir «slated through the country bv difaffefted persons, P rrt that thefeveral regiments which have lately appear- J lit ed in a llateof mutiny on being ordered on Foreign j ll th lerv.ee, were «..lifted under an express stipulation a i a- of not ferv.ng abroad. w ?e \Ve have made very particular enquiry into the fa id t.uth of this report, which, if true, would have mr ie rited the molt severe animadverfinns affainft the of- B 1 to ficers who could enlist men under falfc"pretences d: e- 1 ~ elate mutiny at Cork has been mentioned as a >r particular inftanceof th« soldiers having been thus ■ n tr.panned ; but we Hate fr„m the fir ft authority q> y, that in the letters of service for railing the .octh th 13 a . nd . n 3'h.regnr.ents, it is expressly stipulated, that •»« l '' e . lr recruits should be engaged without any h'mi- 6r ' !p!' 0 " , aSt f. thc P eriod °r place of their ftrvice.— P< >t Ine h« llipulation has been made in ret-ard -to e e- very other corps which has been draughted. a r >te Alter this public declaration, we trust we fiiall vi, >t hear no move animadverfioa, of this nature ti. ;r Government, as they can have no other view\han a it to promote difefFeftion andconfufion. j; t ) forThifw' ,^°°' roops -'«« now under orders T - for the Weft Indies, are not more than fufficfent for of j Si R-Il Ah' " lo'I o ' . xvhiehthc, y a « intended, ne ' b,r . Abercrombie ,s to rcfide at Martinique, th > and have the affairs of the Wind' pi vTr 7l'' ,o° re-cap,„re R y of Guadalonpe and St. Lucia; the can quell of F. n ?°nr g A f W bC ° ng 10 a fepnrate command, wholly d.ft.nft from that of Sir K. Abercrombies! wi A ifiucli large, farce must now be apportioned to an 1 he i nter lervice.than was at firft ibought of • f or be « . may be depended on as a fact, that our Court i to deeded not o peemit the Spaniards to fulfil that ess e partoftfow late tjeaty with the French, which fti- bu r T ,IU ,rpor!io " ° fSt " D <><*i«™, un- e!f • of it Tl" C S l are U , f,taat; ° n >'pcfielHon te, - int «ft ?\P. r ha , vin K tocede their fm ,n the lt3nnd !be French, it nattily sol- th, We lows, accenting to every principle of tl, v . ; 3iv t - £' ngs ilous, that at the expiragun of-the term ii>vj r"' the the cession, it becomes an enemy's count; y "'i'"' ic« we have a mod undoubted right to attack ' V "" ul ow It was intended that Gen. O'Hara Ihc'uld 1,- . ieir the command at St. Domingo; but as he us- yet regularly exchanged, he cannot be I 3 n- It was yetterday reported that f, x o fthe „ w : neers at Cork, who were tried by a Court risW f a have been lentenced to be ihot. ves The Captain of an American vessel, arrived at — Clyie, from Liflwn, informs, thst on his torn ■ • "g he was brought to by two, French frigates, co.Vo,' i , a »ng three large Brazilian merchantmen, richly ! 0 J' ius ed, ftseiing for the port of Biril. jfe According toauthentic lcttcisfrom Vannes writ u ■ tcu'by Gentlemen who were made prisoners at Qvi. heroi-, it seems certain, that the slaughter of ....I^ la- unfortunate men has not been so general aswasfni* ,a announced in the Paris Paper,. The unfortunate lat Sombreuil, and 13 or 14 of his principal officers" in, and the Btfhop of Dol and abVit the fame nun,' ial ber of pneits, are the only prisoners who have iv- been (hot ; and these murders were permitted pur- £j d- fuant to the orders given by Tall.cn before he le ily but for Paris. But these assassinations made so tt.oU ; ; an imprrffion upon the inhabitants of Vaanes, thatE u- the Convention did not dare to fheot any more.—. of Several prisoners have efcaped"from their keeper* and he joined the Chouans, and the reft remain confined si- at Vannes, but are very kindly treated by the inha er bitants. ift It is certain that M. de Puifaye, with four of lis five other officers, has re-enttred' Morbihan, and at conveyed succours to the Chouans. As he lus to •n atone for great faults, some great effort maybe expe&ed from him. u- Paris, which has hitherto been the certreofthe _ Revolution, and whose motions, it has been im:" nt gined, have in general determined that of tin whole 8, nation—l ans declaies agaiuit the Conventioners .* nt all communication is cut off hetween the Citizens fa and the armies polled round thtm as a guard, atul I who as yet remaia firm to their matters by whom ill they are fed ; but v jr.i they may, in a moment al hurl to their tv iftine nifigniiicaiicc, or bting to their ' Sj deserved punithmei ti II Th« " Gazette Fransciie" makes the following e - remarks on the renew.il of the decree againtt emi grants : " Could it be possibly expeded that a eon e" : ftitution deltined to become one day the Gospel of sr ! Frenchmen and the universal pledge of mutual re 's ! conciliation, should be (tain<;d by so barbarous, f<» a immoral, and so unjust a measure ? liuhe reeords of all civilized nations we seek, in vain, after an in llance, that the proscription of a part-oftheir fellow rr eitizens has ever been made a fundamental law of ?• the llate. We shall not attempt to jufrify such 111 Frenchmen as have emigrated since the 2d of Sep tember, j the unanimous voice pi ail Frene^fi : <j citizens, whafe minds are not deranged, net their hearts dried up by tyranny, call tbem back iuto 11 their native land. It has been proved, that thefi ,l unfortunate people can neJtherbt- more guilty than * 'he pretended Fcderalifls, so justly recalled", nor more y criminal than we are, who so cowardly have bent our necks under the yoke ofdefpotirni, anddefcrvc >- less reproaches thanthofe whoappioved and decreed 0 the oppression of France, or fuffered this outrage 0 to be committed. Let therefore this article, which >" evidently clashes with all true principles, be eia fed from the Constitution, and if we perln't to lie y unjust, let us at leafk tor decency's fake assume the lt; appearance, as if we did not know it." Berg belongs to the Eledos Palatine. Duffel -1 dei it is the capital which has lately been considerably ftrengthenid and fortified. It is 2d English miles from Cologne, and the only aonfidc,- „ able place on the right bank of the Rhine, from Holland to Manheim. The river is about the . width of the Thames at Chelfea, bHt not very deep, . especially in summer. An hi dorian speaking- of Neufs, which isexaftly opposite to Duffelderf^no. tices an extraordinary fhallownefs cf the Rhine in ' that neighborhood. n The following officers are appointed ta attend 11 the expedition to the Weil-Indies, under the com mand of Sir Ralph Abeicrombie : Major-General* Hunter, Campbell, F. Dundas, Graham, H.Pig gott, and Morfhed. c The late King of Prussia used to express his . contempt of the Philofophets of his time, by fay - i'lg, that if he wifiied to inffifl some extraordinary , plague upon any province, he would place it tin .. der the government of Philosophers. This fevcre judgment, however, Frederick principally aimed again ft Voltaire and other Writers, with whose principles the unbelieving Prince was more 3 familiarly conversant, than with true philcfophy. The grand match of Ciicket, for one thousand . guineas, between Kent and All England, was some . ''ays since terminated at Dandelion, in faveur of } K«nt. A twig- of the law, lately, in Cornwall, left the > quill for an inftrumewt sometimes less offen/ive—. the gun. In a word, he became a feneible ; when, t being incorporated in tht ranks on a field-day, and 6"dered to c!)urge y he inflantly whipped out his . pocket-book, and put down 6s. Bd. On comparing the report made by Rober jof', and infcTtcd in this day's Paper, with the late ad vice cf the German Empire, touching the negocic tions for Peace with France, it feeras evident, that a Peace between Germany and the French Repub- H. lie is obllrudied by almost insurmountable ohftac lts. 1 i The Advice of the Empire infills 011 the integrality « V of the Empire being made the basis of the intended negcciations ; and the above report-, on the con trary, proposes, that that part of the Gemian Em pire, which is fitnafed on the left banks of the Rhine, fliall be tern from it, and incorporated with ' France. To conciliate this ambitious projedl of France with the honour of the Empire is an arduous talk, and in all probability the chance ef war will alone be able to decide this momentous point. In order to bring it to an issue, the French have at length effected the long announced passage of the Rhine ; but the Auflrians will, no doubt, exert their utmoll efforts to make them repent of their hazardous en terprise, which success alone can juflify; and I lie fmal.eft ciieck trui.t render it highly pernicious to the Republicans.