BENNINGTON,- January 3 Copy of a letter from Stephen Thor 1, Esq. to the editor of the Vermont Gazette. » London, Sept. 13th, x 79>— " Dear Sir, " I have fojourncd from Paris hence, where I {hall tarry only a few days, and return to I*ranee again. This country, as well as the reft of the co alitioned ones, experience it conliderablc scourge from the war-—1 believe they are heartily tiied of it. The admiiUftration indicates a continuation, though vigorous exertions arc always m;.de to pro cure an honourable peace. ihe L.onvention in France are aftumingthe tone of Robespierre, whom history wi'l p."n as a warm republican, and the one who made France a republic; without him (he would never been deprived, of a king ; l.e, by his abilities and uniform perfeverancr, laid the foundation of the republic, and like most reformers, has fell a ft'-rifiee to the ambition of a fe,w indivi duals. I feel iiap"V to think that Bartere, Collot d'Heibois, and Biilaud, have f.d'.cn for their per fidy, and UJiien",- I thiuk, from many circumltan ccs, i not of'onj* duration. They areperfecting the pritfts ! They* in every country ought to be ; they are the blood-fuckers of the people, and prey 011 them as an eagle upon a filh-haWiC. ine new order of time, wnich is eltabliftied, I think is much easier than the old calendar. They pay but little attention to uwifs on the sabbath. The revo lutio;i has made the people the moll-liberal of any in the wsnld : and what is exiraoidinary, it has not corrupted their morals : they'as usual are ge nerous and humane, glowing with philanthropy— I mean the gieat mais. -Their piinciples of equa lity I like much : a poor peaiaot, if he is opprefied by any officer of government, applies to the head •f department, arrd finds himfelf immediately re dressed : 'f he has bufmefs of ever so (mall confe. quence, lie can call on the President of this surpriz ing nation, w i.liout any monarchical and aiifto cratic forms. Levees, &c. he has none : all time is applied to his private and public bufrnefs : he is not.gaudily taken up in receiving formal visits for the fake of being seen, as is the cafe in some other countries. The Dutch Republic are in a good way to establish an excellent government, and you may reft aflured that thsy.will never re-instate th» lladt holder. Poor Poland, alas! is dismembered, and no quarrel will take place at '-"efent which will make a diversion in her favour : (hould the Tuiks attack the Empress, Prufiia and Auflria wonld tend her their interefl. I was in hopes, a few days since that Prussia and RufTia would be at war— this would be an excellent diversion—their dispute is fettled, as we hear. Serious commotion prevails in Ireland—They appear on the eve of a civil war. " This country is not altogether quiet. John Bull Spain is not peaceable : lorr.e riif turbances have appeared in that kingdom: a gene ral hatred of prieils prevails: I hope it will conti nue, and the French motto there be aJopted— " iVar to the chateau and peace to the cottage." In France they have converted the piincipal part of the whole number of churches-through the repub lic, into hospital, magazines of various lunJs, and public ftorehotifes." " Every American, nay, every patriot I have seen, decry Mr. Jay and -his Treaty, he would, was he here, not escape unhurt, so displeased are the people with his perfidy : I think he has done mure harm to the Americans than Benedict Ar nold, and more to the French than Dumourier, he ought to be proscribed, as they are ; though I hear, as a reward for his labors, the aristocracy o: New-York, I mean thafe in the interest and poli tic? ef this country, in copjun&ion with the nabob of the weft, have promoted him to the dignified office of governor ; the court party in this country are overjoyed at the appointment, and the republicans here, as well as in France, much cha grined." T R O Y,' January 12 How plea Ting mult it be to the scholar, the pa triot, and the philanthropic, to fie learning life with our tiling republic Ito fee-the wealth extract ed from the earth, by the toils of the husbandman, and collected from every quarter of the globe, by the enterprize of the merchant; not fqaandered in injurious luxury and idle fhevv, to preserve the sons of America in inglorious eale ; but much of it is devoted to the edu ationof our youth. While we are enabled to contemplate our country, b il liantly illuminated by the lays of science, We fliould not pafe unnoticed the riling village of Troy.— iAbout seven years ago its fcite was covered with flocks and herds, and the very spot en which a Tchool is now ellablilhed, was then possibly occupied as a fheep-fo!d. The school consists of upwards of t 60 scholars, by three uiafters, that do ho nour to their pro fe Hi on. Here is feeu the child of poverty as well as those on whom fortune has shed her kinder influence. The man that has no chil dren of his own to educate, adopts those of indi gent neighbours. The bachelor devotes a small part of his fo-1 une to the refining of society, which otherwise Hifghi be spent in corrupting it : He is here feeij in his proper eharafler, " Thi protestor of the daughters of America." Money thus tifed is like the water taken from the ca'araiiJ, and taught to wander thro' the verdant field, its banks covered with flowers to decorate the Us, and iis glebe with gtafs to gladden the heart of the swain. ALBANY, Jan. n Official letlera have been riceivfd, by the PreS den?, that the British m.iniltry have {riven orders to Xord Dorchetler, t« furrendtr the We(lern P;»(lg, to the American government, agreeably to, and at the time llipulated by the treaty. It is worthy of .ematk, that on the evening of the Bth-of Jan. the river Hudson was entirely free front ice. A petition is handing about in this city, addreiT ed to the Legiflatnre, and praying them to ere& in this city', a house of eorrefiion, on the plan of that eltablifhed at Philadelphia, where criminals may be confined ; and praying that confinement at hard tibor, &c. may be fubflituted inftcad of capital pnnifhinjnr, in certain cases. NEW-VORK, J aimaiy 19. 'Married] by the Rev. Mr. MllldolLit*, Ml, Abraham, dk S.'jrr, to Mijt Magdalen Eagles. Capt. Rpflctcr, of'the brig Mary Ann, in 65 days from Malaga, who touched at Gibraltar, in forms, that 6 (hips of the line and three frigates were fitting out there, 011 purpose to fight a pitch ed battle, with an equal number of French (hips fitting out in Cadiz Bay. The Ship Apollo, Capt. Foster. from Ham burgh, to New York, is call away, about 45 miles south of Sandy Hook, the (hip loft, part of her cargo is expetled to be saved. The Ship Catherine, Starbuck, Alhermarle and May Flower, arrived fafe at Hamburgh, 21 ft of October. Arrived at if/is Par!. days. Ship Henry, Chantlcy, Middletown 4 Barque Leonora, Robinson, / Liverpool 63 Brig Metomkii", Thompson, Richmond 19 Jemima and Fanny, Conklin, N. Orleans 2 Mary Ann, Rofetter, Malaga 6 William, Shedden, Schr. Two Brothers, Clay, Sloop Geoege, Chafe, Riling Sun, Watson, Minerva, —, CHARLESTON, January 1. PORT OF CHARLESTON. ARRIVED, Brig Union, Grant Marblehead 14 days Schr. Betfev,M'llhenny,Wilmington,N.C. 4 Maiv-.-inthouy, Wade do - 4 Hannah, Hammond Rhode-Island, 12 Ship Druid, Gardner, Bermuda, 16 Ophir, Stevens, Bolton, 16 Harmony, White, Havere-de Grace, 1 10 in distress, found to Bolton After having met with 14 fucceflive heavy gales of wind, which compelled Captain White to heave the (hip to as many times ; from the violence bf the weather, the (hip was f.i ftra'ned and weakened as to oblige Capt. White, for the preservation of the lives of bis paffengeis, crew and (hip, in lat. 43, long. 61, to alter her couMe and steer her fouth wardiy, after having been , Strongly urged thereto,by all perfo.'.s on board. Falling in with the Trades afterwards, and theet ing with more favorable weather,Capt. White tho't it more advifeab'e to (leer foi this port for repair, in preference to the Well Indies, his firft inten tion. On Sunday, the 27th Sept. spoke the ship Mer cury of Boftorij and bound there, 18 days from London, all ;ve!l. 2yth Sept. {hip Fricndfliip of Biiflol, bound theie 35 dnys from Jamaica. ©cli jci. Ship Elizabeth, Conk, 30 (Hays, from this part, in lat. 43, 53. long. 23, 30. W, Elizabeth was in a very dangerous and diftrefiing situation, being vci.y leaky, keeping both pumus coullaqtly going, 50 drakes an hour ar.d inorcr.f ing ; the pumps choake , frum iirpro per iiotage of the corn round the'pumps, and i»c was iearlui of being obliged to throw it overboard. Oft. 5. A brig from Liverpool, 13 days out, bound to Portfmeuth, N. H. in lai. 44. Kmc; 30 Odh 8. Brig Catharine of New York, fcoiui there, , in lat. 44, Oct. 31. Ship Margaret, Harrington, in bit. 43. long, 36, I 8 days from New-Yolk, bound to Europe, who informed that on the 29th he {hip ped a sea, vvh ch carried away his,head, fpiuig hi? cut water, and (battered his Hero, which made her leak so much, that he with difficulty kept men to the pump, and despaired making land. Dec. 9. In !at. 26 35, Ion;;. 55, brig Polly, Capt. White, from Neiv-Yoik, out 13 days bound to Dcmreara. Dec. 12. In Ist 27. long. 56. brig Ly — of Bolton, that your piper is deservedly la-Id in the ilrlt. tflimation, I am amtitiaus of obtaining the honour of your correfpondence'. I now take the liberty of fending you a set of the Afiatio Mirrcr for the last twelvi months, and (hall .continue to transmit, by eve>y opportunity, the fubfe querit numbers of that paper, as they are publilhed. In retun>, I request the favour of yau to fend me by eve ry Ship from Philadelphia bound to Beagal, the latelt numbers of the Gazette of the United St'ates. Any private intelligence, 01 new publications, that you can occasionally favor me with, will be molt acceptable : and it wilt give me much plfafure to receive and exe cute your commands here. It cannot be expelled that the quicquidl agunt homines of India are of so much general, importance as the tranfadtions of a great and free nation like yoarV But still thev mutt excite the ouriofity, altho' in a fmallcr degree, of, the Citizens of America ; who, risen superior to loeai prejudices, feel an interelt'in the affairs of mankind a. large. In the persuasion that, from an interchange of cor respondence, we (hall dcri»e a mutual benefit and fatUfadlion, Jamaica 3 Leogaae 50 Calcutta, 24th April, .1795 Martinico 27 Mr. Dund.as, in the English House of Commons, On the 4th of November last, brought up copies of the Treaty of Defenfive Alliance between Great- Britain and tl.e Empress of Russia ; of theTieaty of Defenfive Alliance between Great-Britain and Austria ; and of the Treaty of Amity and Conv merce between Great Britain and the United States of America, signed in Noveqibev, 1794. They were oidered to lie @n the table. St. Thomas's 16 Turk's Island 11 At a dated meeting of the American Philoso phical society held on the I It inft. tor the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year, the following gentlemen were duly chosen, viz. David Kittenhoufe, L 'L. D. Prefidcnt. Rev. Dr. Nicholas Coilih,") Kev. Dr. William Smith, > Vice-Prefidents. Dr» Catper Wiftar, J Mr. Chartei W. Peale, "1 Dr. Be:;j. Smith, Barton, > Curators. Dr. Thomas Parke, J Rev. Dr. Robert B!ackwell,~l Thomas M'Kean, L. L. D. ( Councilors for Mr Jumes Davidfon, f 3 Years. Dr. Adam Kiihn, _) Rev. Dr. Samuel iviagaw, T , William Batton, Esq. ( c , John Bleakley, Esq. >oeciys. Mr. Robert Patterfon, J Mr. John Vaujhan, 'i'reafurer. At a dated meeting of the feciety, held on Fri day tIK 15th inft. the following gentlemen were duly eleiuj. members of the society, viz. La Rochct\»Ucault Liancuur of the Society of Agiicuhui* in Paris, now of Philadelphia. The Dortor G.r.flel, Site of Bum-.ltaux, now of Phi ladclphia, Doctor Jean Deveze, phyllc wn of die late hot pital Bufh'Hill, Doctor Bedford of Pittsburgh. Mr. Isaac Briggs of Montgomery county Ma rylaud. Mr Jacques Marie le Fjflier de Grandpre. '1 eiich Co.\e, Elq, of Poiiadelphia. Mr. Richard P. Smith, of Philadelphia. M. F. H. Le Comte of I^ns. James Edward Smiih M. D. F. R. S. and Prelidwit of tlie Lint.m Society. Citizen \det, Nfiiiifter Plenipotentiary from the French Republic, to the United States. William DandriJge Peck, Esq. of Kittery in Nevvhamplhire. John F. Mifflin, Esq. of Philadelphia. James Woodlieufe, M. D. profeflbr of chemidry in the university of Pennsylvania. Doctor Hugh Hodge, of Philadelphia. Extratl from the minutes, R. PATTERSON, Sec'rv. What can he the rcafnn that Congress have never conlidered the Poll Roads of their Country, but Hill leave them to the management of the State govainhaeots ? This circumflance has been and will he the eaufe of much confuiion. To the general Government belongs the Pott-Office, and of course the Poll ltoads upon which the M.-il is to be car ried, or there refiilts the greatell ahfurdity in that clause of the Conil-itution whi h veils in the general Government the right of eftabliflimgf Port Offices and Poll Roads. The State of Jcrfey so patriotic upon other occasions, lays a tax upon all public carriages passing" through the' great public Roads, which the then owners of carriages acquiesced in, or perhaps solicited, because they thought it would secure them an exclnfive privilege ; thus the Le gislature and these owners colifpiicd againlt the general interest of the citizens. > The Legiflatiire of Maryland some few years ago, inveded one of tlirir own citizens witli the exclusive privilege of running public carriages thro' their S::itc; and such may be the cafe yet, for ought 1 know to the contrary. —Thus two State« have given each a proof of the violation of the ConHitutioii, and cf equal liberty arid national so vereignty. Would a qiicftion of that fort (land the test of examination before the Federal Court ? When one Printer adopts the falfehood and ve nom of another, does he not make t!i.- falfehood and venom hio own ? Bilt h'-w reprehensible is ttie conduct of the Editor of a ctriain' rancorous daily paper,""Who, convinced that lVhat he a falfe'and infamous calumny, dares mallei; .1y ;o ascribe to, a gentleman ofhigh rank and irrq.-roach able chara&er a publication which the ptinter well knows flowed from another pen. It is no secret who Peter Paragraph is-—the au thor of all the wit;y and iriterefting publications beginning with the O'bfervations on the Emigrati on of Do&or PrielUy and endirig with the N«w Years Gift to the Democrats. He is a great friend of the Members of the Democratic Club, and they I his vavmelt panegyriits and difinteretted patrons. S I R, I remain, Sir, your molt obedt, Servr. Says a Cot r.-fbonJent, From a Corrifpondent, An old l-i'.v writer, dcfcribing-the rigkte of the people of England, fays, the king, lords, and caramons, hr.ve titrte leparati voices, the coifftiion* being disposed to speak the sense of the people out of doors j tint if once the peop] e conceive '.' it thole who. ounht to guard their privileges them, they claim the liijht of b fourth voice, \;hitii is sometimes so loud as to drown errry thing thqt is or can he said by the other three eflates. Ricketis New Amphitheatre, CHESNCr- STREET. THIS PRESENT EVENING, January gi, Will be exhibited, Surprising Feats of Hotfcmanjh>p, On one, two, and three HorG.-s, By Mr, RicxEfts and Compakt. MR. RICKETTS will, this evening, ride two Horses, in full speed, and Dart ihrough a Blazing Sun, a Feat never j.triormed here. Mr. Ricketts will alio perform the Manual Exerrife in the dlefs of a Roman JVarfiur. Mr. Langley w it!,,fot thefecond time, exhibit the SLACK ROPS Mrs. Spinacuta will perform her pleafmg Feats ON HOKStBACK. " Mr. Ricketts will, for the firft time, ride a Gngls Horse in full fpetd, , Iflta iILATM jjtTEitJiß to HIS FKKt. Mn Sully will go thro' his Comic Feats on Foot and i liorfemanihip. Mr. F. Ricketts will ri.ie on one and two Horses, ,in. full speed, and take ftvrral aftonithine Leaps over a FIVE BAR GATE, ' in the charadler of a Sportsman. A Leap from two ITorfes, ten feet high, through a BLAZING SUN—by Mr. Ricketts. ' \*\ The Doors in future tc be opei:ed at FIVE and the Entertainmeat to begin at SIX o'clock. There are a- number of Stoves placed in the Amphi theatre which render it pi;rfeillv comfortable. %* Boxes, ene dollar—Pit, half a dollar. Thai- Gentlemen who intend to take places for ths Boxes, are desired' to fend in time. \ NEW THEATRE. On FRIDAY EVENING, January 23, Will be prefciited, A'TRAGEDY, called, ROMEO and JULIET. Romeo, Efcalus, Paris, Mouvague, Capulet, j v iei cUtio, Bcnvolicf, Tibalt, Friar X;ai|rance, Balthj zar, Apothecary, Peter, Pjge, Jiriief, La-iy CapUlet, Mr'> XoloMcn, ?. T rs. In A& I. A MASQUKRA !,£, In wl.kh will be iruroctucLc!, JS'url'e, A Mrnv<■ t and Gavqr, By Mr. Francis & Iv" 1 is Gitajpi-, (Pupil :o Mr. Francis) IN ACT V The f vnerai Pr;.c?Pian, and Sohmn Dirge. The-vocal parts by M'efirs* Mar Sail, Darky, War fell* Rowfon, 1- • icis. Rohbjns, ]. Waire 11, T. Warrell, Mitcheiij and Solomon. Mrs OldirJ von, Mrs* Worrell, Mrs Bates, fylrs. Harvey,*- rs. Gi iingham, Mrs. i)e Marque, Mils W"il- Icms, and'Miis Milboume. c') which will be added, A Ct)jM£DY> >i three A.od thj; freties. Goo.! Hay, for Sale, Enquire at No. 71, R.aci;-llreet. - janfcary 151 Fifty, Dollars Reward. B&OKE Ge.ll, is the city of Albany, on TtiU'fd7y evening last, two pnfaners, who call thcmfelvcJ M-ittie,™ Maintain, and Janes Eli/an, Plaintain is a native oi Frjnep, and (peaks broken EnglifVj ia shout $ feet C :if. ties h.gh, ltour huilt, dark complexion, black iiair and marked with th,fm?.ll-pox» liadoa a blue lurtuit coat and boots. James Kllifon ia abnut 5 feet S inches high, light coinpiexionjioiig sandy hair, and it a native of Simtbury, in Coniiefiautt.-l The .iboye re»ard will be jSaid to any pc-foB, or per fohn who ihall fecufe the fa id prifo'ners in any g;>al m the ■ United States, or 30 dollars for Plaintain, amiio dol lars for KlHi'on, and reaforwblc cXpdneea,by WILLIAM GILLILAND, fterrf of Reniielaer county^ Troy, nth December, 1595. L jir.t. D. Adv.~\ Mr. Morctan, Mr. Beete, Mr. Darky, jns Mr. Tamil, Mr,' Morri s, Mr. tV"gaell, Mr. Green, -V r. Hai !jocd t Mr. fin Mi. Wbitlcck, Mr. H'arr-tU, juii, Mr. Fan-is, Mr, Biijptt. Mrs. Mir/hatl, Mrs. Francis. Mrs. Bates, Mrs. Whitlock* \ VIVAT RES PUB IJCA: 2 aw.