/ # NEW THE ATRE. ~~ fy' The Public are refpeflfolly inforro«d» that the Doors of the Theatre will open at half an hour after FIVE, and the Curtain rife precisely at half past SIX o'clock, for the remainder of the Season. On MONDAY EVENING, April ij, Sc Will be presented, rat A celebrated Play, interspersed with Songs, in 3 An ed. We underdand that 7000 French 'prisoners remain dill confined in the different English ports, I for whose exchange the most efficacious means are ] to be adopted. < The Jury of the department of the Seine has ; declared, that there-are grounds for accusation a gaind the famous Richer Serizy, on account of his i as condu&on the 13th Vendemtaire ; but notwith- 1 danding this declaration, he has published two frefh 1 numbers of his " Public Accuser." _ March 1. Goupilleau, member of the Coutcil of Five Hundred, has addrefled a letter to General Hoche, whereirv he charges him with proceedings, tending to rekindle the war in La Vandee by the military government he has edablifhed in the 13 depart- S° meats ; by his continual quarrels with the Admin illrative bodies, and by the devastations committed by his troops, which proceedings had greatly en - creased the army of Charette, and enabled him to defeat our troops," and intercept our convoys. March 2. he Riou, representatives of the people at Bred, has informed the Dire&or'y, that the of sri- pates, conimrinded by Capt. Montrfonne, has set to fail 10 cuiuinue its cmize ; during the last, it took th< four prizes of considerable value. La Renominc bil privateer has taken two Englifli veflels, valued at 360,000 livres in specie ; the artizans, belonging jlift to the port of Brest, have for a second time refufed Tvr ' aflignats in payment of th»ir wages, but this in- hai furre&icjn has been quelled. wa March 3. P° General Hoche has addrefled a memoir to the it 1 mimfter for the home department, tending to jufti- pu fjr his coridu£t in the war of La ; wh*re- adi in he mentions the d Htulty of disarming a whole people, inured to war by three years bloody con- no l flifts, and driven to despair by the loss of their tio property, and the burnings and drownings of Car- fla rier. He observes, that fix hundred thousand Frenchmen have perHhed in La Vendee. From mc motives of prudence, he forbears divulging some ve ry advantageous confequertces of his operations ; mc but he fays that this war is drawing fall to its con clusion. 1 Stofflet was taken with two of his aides-de-camp* two of his couriers, and a servant, in the farm of an- Saugreniere, in the Canton of Jullais, and diltridi to of Chollet. It is to the vigorous measures of general Hoche, T1 ' and the great.a&ivity in which he kept the troops to in the former kingdom of Stofflet, that we owe the ms capture of this perjured chief, who could not in- ch; 1 duce the inhabitants of, the country to rife, and pri 1 who is going to receive the jiift icward of his per- be • fid-y.. ho '• The value of a Louis d'or in aflignats is this ms day 7700 livresj and the rescripts lately iflued by a ( ' the executive dire&ory, lose 50 per cent and up- Br wards. * ani The Legiflatnre is still employed upon the si- its nances. The meflage of the dkeftory relative 'to pa the (hutting up of the clubs, occasioned a warm to debate in the Council ot Five Hundred. La- to marque, one of the deputies exchanged for the mi ■ daughter of Louis XVI. disapproved of the mea ' sure. The Council, however, appointed a commif- rej fion to examine and report upon the meflage. on _4 an I LONDON, March,9. be general fast. —Holiday at all the Public Offices. Pr s The gentleman alluded to in our, paper of yes- bi' f terdayas having arrived at Lord Greenville's of- of r sice from Paris, with letters to his lordJhip, is one : among many others who now almoll daily pass be- tit tween the two countries, without having any often- fr< I fible connexion with public business. We believe nc : that both governments are «»xious for peace, if • - they could only arrange the terms of it ; and there of is no way so likely to bring about this desirable e- de f vent, as not to reltrain the mode of general commu- ex .nication. Whether any thing will result from this \\ 1 frequent pdflage of foreigners between Paris and in e London, is a -.matter which time alone must afcer- pr - tain; but in the inflance of this gentleman, weare of persuaded that nothing important has arisen. so The intelligence of the death of Charette is not T believed at Paris. m A letter from Cork, dated Feb. 27, fays, " On w; Thursday about five P. M. the fleet of the Weft bx a Indies were clear of the harbor, with a Fair wind H i at N. E. Previous to their failing they wercjoin- w f ed by some frigates and a fleet from England," re ! The Dutch fleet which failed from the Texel, la r consisted of the following ftiips : ■' ■■XT- " f Piet Hdin - Admiral Braak. o] Dordrecht • Captain Lucas. al j De Revolutie - Captain Cyneinde. ) Admiral Tromp - Captain Walkenberg. es The frigates are, • ai Pellux Sirene Snelheld e Castor Bellona Mug 01 [. Braavc Venus Zwaliew F |. Jajon Havick Iris ai Jager d: e March 10. - )j Tuesday morning died, at his house in Norton- f ;8 street, Sir Wm. Chambers, Knight of the Polar ,9 Star, Surveyor-General of his Majesty's Board of ,f Works, Treasurer of the Royal Academy, and i S Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies. . s Tuefda/a Court of Aldermen was held at Guild- f c >. hall. The Coui t ordered the price of bread to re- n main at is. 3d. the quartern loaf. BRITISH PARLIAMENT. c ie — I HOUSE OF COMMONS, n it March 7. n is SLAVE TRADE. I The order of the day being read for a committee e ie of the whole House on the bill for abolishing- the p re Slave Trade at a limited time, a Mr. Wilberforce, after Rating that it would be e ig necessary to make some alterations & amendments v -in different clauses of bill, moved, " that the g Speaker do now leave the chair." es General Smith said, that as the hoa. gentleman f had not, particularly noticed the alterations which r were intended to be introduced, he Would oppose a id the motion. { n- Mr. Montague spoke in favor of the motion. 1 rs General Tarlton was of opinion that the bill, if \ s, fuffered to pass, would materially affect a class of t r« people who were already too much diftrefled—that 1 class consisted of mechanics, manufa&urers, and t as artificers, who depended very much on the Slave t a- Trade, as the articles which they made were used ! lis in Africa and the Weft-Indies. The merchants ; h- who were engaged in the trade, particularly those 1 :(h of Liverpool, would be considerably injured, as the i veflels employed by them were of a particular con- 1 ftruftion, and coald not be easily converted to other ; v.e purposes of commerce. The Weft-India planters ie, would necessarily fuffer great loss by the bill, as a ng vast number of pegroes had beeir lately attached to ' iry the army a*d navy ; black regiments had alLbeen rt- raised, and those men could not at the conclusion in- of the war be employed in the fame ed way, but would be emancipated. It therefore fol :n- lowed, that all future improvements wwuld be ne to gle&ed, and the cedcd islands, in which elates had been purchased by fubjeds of this country, would be abandoned. las Mr. Dent wiihed to suggest whether it wotild no* fn- be proper to introduce a clause of indemnification I , to the Weft-India merchants, for the immense l 0 f ( tlirfir property must t'uffei from the passing ot <|, e bill into a hw ? > Mr. Braham thought that the bill, far from abo- Jifhing the slave trade, would, on the contrary, render the abolition more difficult. The discussion had already excited rebellion in the islands, and he was somewhat ffcrprized, that not one of the pro. posers and fuppcrters of the bill had ever thought it neceflary to visit the Weft.lndia islands, for the putpofe of ascertaining the fadti which had been adduced a's the consequences of the traffic. Mr. W, Smith replied, and contended that it was not necessary '.o go to the Weft-Indies for informa tion to eflablifh a balis for the abolition of the slave trade. ' Mr. Bouverie ~and Mr. Milbank supported the motion, and Mr. Aldington opposed it. The Heufe then divided on Mr. Wilberforcc's motion e Ayes, 76 $oes, , 31 —Majority, 4.5. The House accordingly wer.t into the committee, : and Mr. Wilberforce proposed in one of the clauses to'limit the time-to the tft of March, 1797. Mr. Dent laid that the limitation was too short. , The and imports of these islands amounted to 10,000,000}; annually ; and property of that magnitude ought not to be trifled vtith. The mer chaats, he contended, ought to have more time to prepare. In every view, he said, this bill would be an infringement of right and property; and however gentlemen might be impressed by decla i mations, he thought the passing this bill would be a disgrace to the British House of Commons. The British Constitution Was built 011 Magna Charta, and this bill would'b* a direct violation of one of its fundamental maxims. It was exprefled in that palladium of our liberties, that " Right ought not to be fold, delayed, nor denied." He need not urge to the House, that this bill would be/an infringe ment of that maxim in all its parts. 1 Mr. Serjeant Adair had read Magna Chaita, • repeatedly and attentively, and could not recol!e& one word in it favoiable to flavet;y ; the merchants and jjlajiters complain of prfccip:tat'»cn T because they in fad) had the be, of 4 seven years' , neither could they pietend that this ■ bill was unexpected, unless they tliought-thc Honfe ■ of Commons faithlefs to its own refutations. : Mr. Dent infilled, that the passage he had men tioned was in Magna Charta. He then read it ■ from an extract, and the words-were, " Right (ha!l : not be fold, delayed nor denied f Mr. Serjeant Adair ihfifted, that by the abolition : of this trade, right was neither fold, delated nor denied. Where had it been proved that the right • existed ? nay, what right hid the planters in the > Weft-Indies to dominion over their fellcjw- creature* 1 in Africa ? Such a property was repagnant to the • principles of natural justice—and highly as he tho't : of the power of the British Parliament, he must forever deny that it could bestow any such right, t The bill was, on the contrary, cenfon&nt to the,. maxim Magna Charta. Right, he cotfiended, 1 was sola so long as Waft-Indians purchased the li t berties of the Africans: it xvat'delayed until that 1 House carried its resolution into effect, and it - would be denied if the British Parliament did not relieve the oppressions under which the Negroes , laboured. _ ' Getierar Smith dectirel} it to be his confirmed opinion, thit this bill would never pass into a law j although it might pass the House of Commons. Mil Dent opposed aclaufe, for punishing offenc es against this adl with 14 years transportation, as. an unnecessary extension of the ctiminal code. The several clauses being gone through, on every one of which Gen. Smith put his negative, the House was resumed. The report was brought up, and ordered to betaken into confideratiou on Mon day next. Adjourned. FfR the Gazette or the United States* •f ALARM! ALARM! , d _ Sons of Liberty ! join me in a fervent prayer I- for our falling cause ; that " falls, like Lucifer, * never to hope again." Great, Spirit of Democracy ! whose head to-wers among the and whose arm would extend over" the universe ! assist thy votaries now. If our exertions in thy cause have deserved ought now let it be made manifeft—now the trying moment—now the crisis ps thy fate and ours.— Have we vilified virtue in vain—have we prostrated :e every patriotic, every facial, every worthy princi le pie, and shall we not meet the reward ? Have we affunjed the garb of humility, while empire was our >e object—have we worshipped the filly people that t* we may oppress them—have we clamoured of their le glory, while we would lead them to deftru&ion— have we called on their honour, jvhile we would in fink them to treachery and disgrace—and shall the :h reward of these faithful services be difappointmenc fe and infamy in this world, and the comfortlefi as surance of damnation in the next ? Great Spi rit ! thunder with thy thousand tongues, scribble if with thy thousand hands—Damn the Treaty, and" of the paper on which it is written, and the paper, at maker—damn the ship that brought it over, and ad the owner, and the crew—damn the negociator, ve that arch fiend, Jay ; and O ! sweet, benignant ed Spirit ! damn, O ! doubly damn, the President its Nor ye, children of democracy, be >fe ye idle—Come forward and sign petitions against he this aceurfed instrument—sign them with your own in- names—the names of your children, your servant?, ler and all the names you have ever known or heard of. trs Firfl and principally, s a Frenchmen ! lit me,addrefs you.—Whether to ye be the inestimable portions of free will, erfianat :en ing from the vast mass that now rolls over your on country, or the refpe&ahle tenants of giols thrown >us down by the levelling arm of equality; whether ye ol- be the blefTtd emiflaries of anarchy, the humane je- disciples of Robespierre, or the devout adorers of lad the Heaven-descended guillotine ; in a word, M. be true, .noble, magnanimous Frenchmen, who, in defiance of Heaven and of humanity, have dared ta no* assist the cause of liberty and justice by tossing the ion ariftocraticinfanl to your dogs, and piercing with