? •> I been confined for fedilion.* His fchool-fellows, stung by the dilhonour such a circumftarfce was likely to heap on them, firft voted him to Coventry, and then indignantly' shouted him off the premises. It was with much difficfllty they could be reftrainad from treating the object of their rage and feorn with such feveiity as might have embittered their cooler moments, and flained the goodness of their cause. I,n consequence of this, Hayward, the father, with his friend Kyd, the Counfd, yesterday waited upon the Master of Merchant Taylors School, to get him reinstated ; when the boys rose in a mass, declared they never would fit under the fame roof with him ; nay, demanded him and his friends to be given up to their fury 3s Democrats and Repub licans. The tumult was so violent, that all protec tion was at an ehd, and fcarce'y by (linking through a back way, could the Triumvirate escape ; for the moment, it was dilcovered, they were inllantly fol lowed, and by taking partial flielter in a variety of places, scarcely got of! without injury. * This boy is an tlcve of Thelwall's, and has actually held the plate at his Lettures, to collett " the gentlefolks' charity farthings." Classical Anecdote—A Student at one of the Univeridties being called upon for a definition of the Chriflian Virtues, Faith, Hope, and Cha rity, rrade his l replies in the following order;— Quid ell Fides?—Shwd non vides. Spes ?—Vana res. Qjid Charitas ?—Magna raritas. \ t: 5, fe> ■* \y r- January 14. The Duke and Duchess of York have been to visit the Bristol Hot-wells. It gratified the curio iity of the Duchess extremely. To the Duke it ■was 110 novelty—rlt is nothing to a great Generil to be in hot water ! It has at length been proved in a Court of Jus tice, that Affignats have been forged in this Coun try,and forged by authority. The meanness of re fufing to pay the man who made the plates is a mat ter of course.—Treachery is nothing if it is not uniform ! — The King of Poland, in the spring, goes to Carlf bade, a Spa, to drink the waters, and from thence to Rome* where he proposes to pass the remainder of his days. He is f>bout to ptiblifh a DcclaAtion, •ddreffed to all the Powers of Europe. No less than eight Dukedoms have become ex tinfl fincc his present Majesty's accession to the Throne, independent of those held by the Princes of the Blood Royal, viz. Cleveland, Bolton, Dover, Kinglton, Newcaltle, Chandos, Montagu, and the Scotch Dukedom of Douglas. The four following, it is very probable, will be come exrinft at the death of their present pofieffnrs, from the failure of. Heirs Male, viz. Ancaller, Bridgwater, and the Scotch Dukedoms of Qiieenf berry and Roxburgh. There have been bat two Creations to this Ho nour made by His present Majesty in the persons of fubjeas, viz. the Dukes of Northumberland and Montagu, which lad has becorfie extina. I he Titles of Lancaller, Kent, Cumberland, and Cambridge are intended for His Majelty's four Younger son». Aii ingenious new Procef« for making Potatoe Flour lias been discovered at Paisley. This Flour, by experience, has been found to answer the pur pose of drilling linen and cotten web 6, superior to either whi-aten o' Buck-wheat Flour, and with a less quantity. It gives a finer skin to the cloth, is kindly and cool in the yarn, so that the weaving may go on in the times of the greatest drought or froll. When the uses of this flour are generally known and pra&ifed, it will extend the culture of p-'atoes, and leflen the consumption of wheaten Sour through Britain and Ireland, as it has the ad vantage over other potatoe flour commonly made, viz. of not returning to moifter, but will keep years in a per fed found (late, and can be afforded at about half the price of wheaten flour. ON A LATE TRIAL. Mad France has toil'd, with doleful Pain, With blood-flain'd hands, and giddy brain. To prove this age " the Age of Reason," She s nearly right, e'en we maintain, Since all snuft own, As well as Stone, It's juflly gall'd, " The Age of Treafo»." PARIS, January y. The French and Imperral armies at present co ver all the country between' the Moselle and the Rhine. They are exa£My opposed and balanced v' n their forces and their means. " They are on equal lerms with rcfpeft to their principal support they have each the farpe fecgrity for their retreat, and «"ach finds the fame difficulty to aft on the wffen f've*—On the one fide the Imperialifls have Mentz, and the course of the Rhine. On our's we have the chain of fortified places on the Sarre, Luxemburg and the course of the Moselle. The armies beyig thus situated, it is not probable that any thing considerable will be attempted by either, until the opening of the next campaign—a circum fl nee which may poflibly produce a new afpeft of affairs. I N.'*v. t .OVIDENCE, March 28. • idaylaft were fold at tliis market, tw< one weighing 733, ,h e other 644. pounds ; ed by Cap-. Nathanniel Coggeftall, ef Brook ii, (Connetlicutt.) NEW-YORK, April 2. The lad European papers announce the approach if a llorm in the north of Europe. The idea hat the king ot Prussia will attempt to reinstate (he ftadtholder, seems to pain ground ; and there is an expedation that Russia is meditating a blow against Sweden. Gen- Suwarrow, who had been appointed to head the Ruffian forces deflined for an "Cpedition ag;iinft' the Persians on the hcTrders of * Caspian Sea, is - said to have been since ordered ke command of a body of Ruffian troops a ■i!snd. The true ground of dispute bf. j "■* and Sweden does not appear—but j 'en Ri " ' .< February 12. PEERAGE. tyrants never wait for real reafone: with them, pre tences are fufficient. I lie king of Naples has opent-d his port for the export of grain, to the allies and so neutral p.,-.vers. French receive constant supplies from that country, from the Barbary coast and from the 1- ilands of the Archipelago—and even from the her ders of the Black Sea. The grain 'is transported in (ma 1 vefTels called Idwotte, failing under letters from the Grand Signior. The pope also has opened his ports for the ex port of grain, but his holincfs takes special care to make the merchants pay well for licenses. Prepatations for war continue in Turkey. Two hundred French officers art employed in teaching the iurkifh troops Etirqpens tatties, and 40,000 men are already welltxercifed. Madame dc Sotici, the lady who attended Maria 1 herefa, daughter of Louis XVI. to Vienna, was not permitted to pay her refperts to the emperor. | As (lie entered the Presence Chamber (lie was told to retire ; that was not the place for her. She was not permitted to fee any'oftlie French emigrants— and the Princess was not willing to fee them, de claring (heconfidered them as the cause of all the misfortunes that havt befallen her family. 1 lis whole circulating specie of England was es timated, during peace at 29 millions tier ling. It is alledged on good grounds, that since the beginning of the present war, the export of bullion amounts to 19 millions. This has occasioned a scarcity of specie the bank of England h»ve lately curtailed their discounts—a million of guineas have been re cently coined, and few old ones are seen in crrcula- ion. The ditturbances in Corsica have fubfided.ineon fequence of some punirtiments, hnt more on ac count of a promise of the Parliament to diminilh the Episcopal tenths, to open the Universities, &c. T he exportation of Segars from the Havanuain foreign reflVls is limited to 4018 each. For the Gazette of the United States. i SHALL, for a while, take leave of my friend i New-Wk, to offer a few remarks on a paflW I the Present's hit message. Let me previously r.-mark, that I fever there was ends in any nation, that loudly called for moder ■ tion and temperate d::euß ij !C prc f c , t 0 ., e . "'/r^T 3 '"' for t,lc t ' XLlf ' :ic " r ' aa independent, tin nailed fpuit, is equally imperio is. The former art icceffary, to avoid tlwli ■!::c -r.is a 1 1 anirowitics to Vhich difference cf fentime.u on politics tl.o often rives birth j—the Utter, to en.-.bie us, i; .influenced >y names or prejudices, to decide accord,-, to out >elt judgment. Toe {railage on whith I wifli to comnvn', is ollows : " There is also reason to believe, that ti.w cm. ' llruclion agrees with the opinions entertained ' by til" date conventions, when they we ? deli berating on thecondi in ion ; efpeeially by those who objected to it, because there w<s not rcquir ' ed in commercial Treaties the confe-nt of tw<.- ' thirds of the whole Senate, inrtre.d of uv,>.thirds of the Senators piefent ; and hecnufe in treaties refpefling territorial limit*, the concurrence of three fourths of the wiiole number of member? « of both houses refpeCtivelv, was not made ne ' ceffary." Whatever may have been the arguments employ ed by the frieiuls of the conditution to blazon ortli its beauties, or by its enemies, to aggravate :s deformity, their opinions mud not be rei'oited o, as our rule of conduct. To the constitution we null refer. That is " the guide, which," to ule Piefident's own words, " we can never aban ion " To that we mud cling, "as the rock ol mi f dvation." We may fay of those conventional Jpinions, as Mahomet laid of the comments on t!ic Alcoran, if they arc opposite to it, they mud bt .•rronenus, and theiefore be rejected—if they ? 'tec. with it, they are fuperfluous. and may be laid aside. Nevertheless, as the Piefident recurs to this fj,e :ies of ftipport fcr his condru&ion of the conditu iton, we may, without nbfdutely admitting its va idity, examine how far he can draw from it a cor roboration of his idea. J lK 'i?e Wilson was a leading member of the fe deral convention-—he was the only member of thai body, that was likewifea members of the Pennsyl vania date convention. His labours and fn vices ir botli, are well known. To this buftnefs de devotee himfelf unremitted!}- .'or fevcral months, to the al mod entire abandonment of his orivate concerns On any dubious point,, therefore, he is as good an thorny probably as any man in America. Did In then, Mr. Fenno, contend for a eondruflion of tlx treaty.making power, which would annihilate 01 absorb the fpecific powers granted to the house o! representatives, co-ordinately with the "Senate No, fir—no such thing. He asserted a " redrain ing power" on the part of the house of Beprefen tatives. He gave that conltruflion, which tin l''n now a d°pted. But, fir, as I have givei the Pielident's woijs, ad longum, 1 shall be equal ly jud to Mi*. Wilson. " It well deserves to be remarked, that thocgl " the house ot representatives possess no ft/five par " in making Treaties ; yet their legislative autho " rity will be found to have Jlrong rUraining in " Jtuerce upon both Preftder.l and Senate. I„ Eng land, if the king and his miuilters find themfel.vs during their negoeiation, to be tmbarraffed, be " caufean exid.ng law is not repealed, or a , u „ " ,aw 13 not enafied, they give notice to the legif latlire of their littiation, and inform them, thai " it will be necessary, before the treaty can operate. " that some law be repealed, or fomc be made! " And will not-the f, m . thing take place he re * Shall " less P"'dence, less caution, less moderation take " place among those who negociate Treaties sot " the United States, than among those who nego " ciate them '/-r the other nations of the r t> ] Debates of the convention of Pennfyjvama u o 112, 113. y ' Not." exceed the limits I have preferred my. e » * ">all defer any remarks on this extrad, til my next numbei. No. r. Harrington. - i , Philadelphia, WEDNESDAY EVENiNii, APRIL 6, 1796. Captain Parker, of the Ship Georjs and Patty iVa- A'tigton, from Liverpool, arrived at Baltimore—on TrV. ' a,ul 7 th March spoke, severally, two ve els Irom bt. Übes, the Captains of which informed 1 was P art, y r " nlc h y a '> Earthquake, and that the King of Spain was in Portugal. ExtrnSs from letters of an Amcrhan gentleman in J.ondon, to his friend in ibis city, dated January " i hat Europe is on the eve of a peace is the general belief—the Emperor-is exiiaulted and is laid to have demanded a subsidy to a vary confi. triable amrrtmt-—this Great Britain cannot com ply with, 'for (he is almost drained of her {pecie, by tiie latt loan and other continent at expences ; (he wutilp fain keep the Emperor involved with the nch Republic, but it is supposed that he could not lupport another campaign- a'od if he resolves O" it, the fucorfg «f it is very doubtful in the Ne therlands, while in Italy he i« almost Aire of lofinir Lombardy, in cot.frqnenee of the late brilliant vic tory of the French in that quarter—here the de ofP«ee appears to be great and general, this country, needs it much, but fucli are her immense rdourcei, that on the return of peace fhc will not , her burdens heavy, or by any means bevond her powers. ' he PreSdeiit's fpeecli as you will find by the papers, has been received here—it has excited tra bounded admiration and applaiife— it hasraifed the American (locks, given confidence to all who have property 10 the United States, and brightened the countenance of every friend to liber-.y—into whatever company J g„,,he President isfpoken of m the highest terms, as the firit chaiaaer of the age, and the ornament of his fptcics—in the.Even ing Courier you will find (as I mean to copy it out for you or Mr. B.J a beautiful eulogium of Mr. 5. on the fp.<ech and its author; all the papers indeed arc pointed in their praise of it—thus you fee .what encomiums this excellent man meets With from foreigner*, wlule some of his own coun trymen are so 101 lto .11 feafe of propriety and era-' tttuwe, as to traduce him in the public papers— really t lie pieces vriih which a certain news-paper °t your city teems are infuffcrable, and provoke the execration of all such as are not callous to eve ry geue-ous and grateful fentimcnt. We are now on very agreeable terms with this government, they real y !h< w much more refpeft and attention. to us than to any other power—l< t us keep up this lavor.ible impreflion. 1 hope our House of Kepre lentativcs will aA a wife and dignified part, and al fome angry speeches may be made, and some impolitic refolutiotis be propolcrt, y et Imi ft Con greU w.ll cvry the Treaty into efTVct, and preserve " IC Ir, the jefpi-Aable and happv si tuation in which they are now placed." ( Jamt —dated February 2d* > am F*«ch pleased to underhand from vour .al! letter, > «d fr »m others lately received from Phi. ladc'phia, tiiat U* prelent session of Congress pro. rni[ ti to He more temperate than was apprehended lorpe time iincc. 1 lie Britilh minirtry are at tl'is time lookirg to the condufl of the House of Re pi dental it-en, as that which is to govera their con duß toward* the United States. 1 have rcafon to believe :hat the appealsare suspended until the mea lurea of tins branch of the legifiature are known : Whether afterwards they will be favorable, it is im pviublr to fiy j ! nt I rather think such an event ts to be expected I was informed by Mr Pincknev, that a gen tleman had jn(l been with him, who lias purchased. a conflderable trad of land on the Ohio in Pennfrl vßma, who this spring will takeout with him 1560 Ifcttlen, chiefly farmers, who are all engaged and ready to embark. 1 cannottelljou theeffed which the President's Ipeech has produced through this country ; I speak I think correctly when I fay, it will be toe means of pouring some millions llerling into the lap of the United States; it has excited admnation, inspired confidence, and reflected a de gree ofconfequence on every one who bears the name of an A men eon : indcud there it no national chara&er so in Europe at this time as the A merican " every one who has ever been in the U nited States seems eager to claim the rights of ci tizcnlhip and to be considered as an American. At an Eleflion held yesterday, the folbwine Gen tlemen were eliofen Aldermen of this City— ' Philip Wafer, Joleph Ball, Ro.oert Wharton/ John Barclay, Michael Hillegas, George Roberts, Matthew Clarkfon, John C. Stocker, Kilar } - Baker, James Aft, Ifaae Howell, , William Allibone, Jonathan B. Smith, John Jennings. Keynold Keen, From the Aurora, of this morning. I The extrafls publiflied in the Aurora on the 4th I m ®* w rom a pamphlet" entitled " Des interets des puillaiices continentales relativement a l'Angleterfe" are treated in the Gazette of the Unnited States, of last evening, as a,forgery. As the sentiments con tained ir. those extracts are unanswerable, it was De cenary, to promote the views of the faction, to re pj-erent them as an American fabrication. The pam phlet, however, f>om which the extradls were mad tor the mformauon of the unbeliever, may be seen at the Office of the Aurora. Its publication in Paris was »iot so early ip the year 1795, as announced at the head ot the extras v.'lnch appeared in the Aurora. It was printed before the aift of September of that year, and the preface is dated nth Thermidor of the jd year, July 30th, 1795. The date of it, is not how ever material in determining upon its merits : What I is material is, that it contains opinions refpe<Sting the I jiufilbnimo'is conduct ot our administration, written by a fubjedl ot one of the mod despotic courts of Eu -1 ro P e ' wl " ch ou F ht to call U p a bi ulh ; n ,he cheek of every public Servant in the administration not callous to impartial censure. > POS T-0 F F I C E. Philadelphia, 6th 4p>il, 1796. & I-ETT.ERS for theßriii/h PacHefCjIRTERKT, n'jr C v ' a nhfux) will le received at this Office until Friday, the Bth irjf, at 12 » clock noon. From °'' r nt Hamburg, January 26f The northern part of Germany begins to recove, from the diftreflw the war has occasioned there, tho it never was the scene thereof. Hanover is q,„'t< cisjoineo from the alliance against France ; all ih« troops returned already to their ganifons i„ t |„ country ; all comm-flaries of war and quartermafieu also difmifled, all magazines fold. The Prussians left the hue of neut.ality, or demarcation, on the lvhine, and refund to protea thpfe Prbces who Had not acceded to the peace with France. The army of the Prince of Hohenlohe went to the in leuor part of the Prufiian oountry, and left the The rumour lYPruffia intended to return to war in order to restore the Stadtholder, l» quite without foundation. Prussia has no\v qui-e turned its attention to the Fall. The entire di lution of Poland is an Unhappy truth—Poland is no more. A, far as to the V.ltula, (Weichfel river) all, even Warsaw, is ceded to Prussia. The coun try beyond that river belongs now to Russia—an immeefe extenfiou of dominion, threatening Europe, tinlefs the fpohators quarrel among!* themfclves. Au.lria has only go* a small part, includingCracovie. I 1 he inhabitants of ar.cient Prussia, especially the Si. ' are very much hurt in their trade by the new partition, as they profited very much from Po land, as a foreign country no; £u[,jed to#he fetter# of rruaian trade. 1 he new plan of French finances is not much liked by our merchants, which may be a proof that it threatens the value of affignats—The better for ■France. The advantages gained by the AMrians may be a 1 courge to Germany, especially to those unhap. py parts situated on the Rhine—They are almost a Auliria will lillen to no conditions of peace, and will force the powers of Southern Ucrmany to remain in her interest. The alliance fKufha will be a bngbear to there; for Russia w.fhes the protraction of a war which tuins her ri vals and neighbours. The troops of Russia, which were I id fliould enter into Germany to help the unperor, are tali removing into the interior part of Inland. An irruption of the Perlians into the country of the Prince Heraclius of Georgia, is tI K pretext Something of this is true ; for thePerfi ans conquered Tefflis, the capital of Georgia, killed the hereditary prince, and forced the old brave r? ,() Ay into RuiTir 1 The regiment of Rohan huffarg was, on Nov. ■7> 10 he embarked for England at the mouth of ne Wefer, after the horses had been fold ; but fe ' ' ul,l| h'e: Is <:efertcd. Three companies t-f.iled la,il ' ! . BiiJ were forced hy the officers iot without blood (hed. I he fur tender of Manheim, on the Rhine, on the :4th Nov. is an happy event for that town. It v :S -' ei tiiir<])- the molt ie;;uhr, neat ami fine:! town "'"•1 afK ' 'he (ituation commanding the river and great diltrirt. A great part of the town is tuined •Ipeeially by t!,e hot bails. Ihe Auftrians were 'revoked by the lurrender to the Frcnih, and by He inclination or the LleCtcr of Bavr.S 1 to ihc ieiitralny, and behaved with their common bruta lly towards the German countiics that are r.ot of heir party. The Ftench ate at pre lent the reverie >• v.hat they were three months ago on the Riiine. I he ftirpnfe near Mayence was complete, and as hey advanced so iar without magazines in an ex '■""■'"d country, they tnuli leave it as suddenly ?s : was conquered. Many thought it was a rust ek r nrrre, and that they intended to bring the Auftri ins over on the borders of the Mofel, (Pichegru ilways retiring) in the mean time that Jouidan fall on the enemy's rear, maintaining his jofitiorj on the East of the Rhine. Indeed Joiir -1 he latefl news fay he had only 30,000 men under lim, and Jourdan has 60,c00. The truth is, that luce the redudlion of Manheim the Auflrians do iot advance so much as before beyond the Rhine. 1 he French army was very much r.trakened thro' •vant of discipline, and very many furloughs given )r taken by the soldiers : Now all are forced back 0 the army, which is encreafing daily. Jourdan's irtny had not fuffered so much as Pichegru's, 1 lie French are faithful to theircharadter, always 'uniiingand flying fact when they arc once farprifed ind routed, but irrefiliable when en avantage Fhe interior government being now resettled, and, rom all accounts, going on in the bell way, the irmy may recover her former glory. The German uwfpapers written on the Rhine, have suddenly -hanged their tone : when the French approached 0 Franckfort there was no better, no braver heir dtfcipline and humanity was as praiseworthy as 1 her fuccefles were glonous ; now all is the contra ry. Formerly all wished for peace, now basely they breathe nothing but war. It cannot be denied that the I renchon their .etreat did not behave so well as before towards the inhabitants. That they fought well one may fee by the astonishing inceafe of Aultnan hospitals, and the rfumber of wounded in every town near the Rhine. The French maintain themlelves at Germerlheim in their lines. BY THIS DAY'S MAIL. NEW-YORK, April + . e, • xt „ Arrived at this Port. Dart jP Nan 7' S,a P les ' Nantz L Jenny Chauncy, S. V .„ Mh 9 g Col ? mb, a> Barker, Liverpool lo Harmony, flurt, St. Mark', 24. 1 woS.liers Furnal, Martinique A Schr. Hannah Deck, Wilmington ,2 Sloop Maria, Bnth, Ede « on Happy Couple, O/burn, do The Argus dates that the Ocean was taken r,„ frora the Highlands, with a Pilot on board. Our in :;"S. ,s ' was takcn threc da >- s IV A N T Ejj ONE0 NE Jo "? e yi? an Coppersmith, and ene Tour Wneyman Tin Plate Worker-to whom the hifheft W TpriU g'Ten—Enquii-cat No. IJS Arch-sfreet eodiw. 179<*- / /
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