J
this important question,—but art firmly persuaded
that the faith, honor, interest, and happing of the
people of the United States, will not be endanger
ed by withholding the appropriations required to
carry the treaty intd cffe£t.
Signed on behalf of a meeting of the citizens of
Norfolk and Portsmouth, held thi» z(sth day
of April, 1796, at the Town-Hall, in the
Borough of Norfolk, agreeable to a r»folution
of the said meeting, direSi»g the fame to be
(igned by us, President and Secretary to the
said meeting, on their behalf.
SETH FOSTER, Prefiitnt,
JOHN COVOTER, Secretary.
BY THIS DAY'S MAIL.
NEW-YORK, May 4.
. . V*. V* '
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated the
3d instant.
" We hate thi« mom nt pafled the bill appro
priating monies for carrying into effe£t the Bi itifh
Treaty—fifty two rifwig in favor of it—which wai
a majority of all present—the opposite opinion wai
• not called for. Varnum of Maflachufett*, and
Heatli and Brent of Virginia, I noticed roted with
us, but great obflinacy, and even anger, was shown
by many. The bill, totally unshackled by pream
bles, or any prefatoiy nonfeofe has pafled our
bouse and gone to the Senate.
I congratulate you and our fricudt on thii great
event.
The subscriber begs leave to inform the ptlblic,
That on Monday lad, he rceeived a pat dan on the
fentcnee of DEATH, pronounced by the Hon.
the Jail ices of the Supreme Court, in Jan. last, in
eonfequonce of a previous conviction for uttering
National Promifory Notes.
A fenfihility of the clemeocy of hi* Excellency
Governor JAY, on this occasion, justly claims the
highest expressions of gratitude, by the relieved
party; whole grateful acknowledgment it is humbly
requefUd, may b« accepted by the rcfpeftable in
habitant's in his place of nativity, in the county of
Bcrkfhire, state of M»(Tachufeits, the citizens of
New-York, and all those who have manifefted good
will by the spirited exertion*, and administrations
for the relief of one whose alleviation depended on
the pcrfcverance of those who were endued with
the true spirit of liberality.
May the GOD of peace perpetuate the happi
ness of him who has relieved a wife and children
from despair ! And afluaged the grief of aged and
deljponding parents, much prefs'd with care.
JOSIAH STILES.
New-York, May 3, 1796.
Continuation *f
LATE FOREfGN NEWS,
By the Jbip /IJfiflance, Captain Mo a- at, from
Port/mouth.
FRANCE.
PARIS, February 17.
Particulars given te General Hocbe by an agen
of the Republic, who lately took refuge at Au
Chouans.
Since the Pacification concluded at Mabilais
the Head quarter* of the Chouana are efUblilhec
at the cattle of Bourmaat, in the commune o;
Freigne, one league and a half from Conde, in th<
Department of Maine and Loire. The Chief» are
the Count de Chatillon, President of a Superior
Council established on the plan of that in La Ven
dee, which aflembles at Chatillon fur-Sevre, and it
composed of feferal returned Emigrants, among
whom are the Vifcouot de Scepeauz, the Count de
Bourmoat, the Chevalier de Turpin-Griflc, kc.
&c. The members of this Council have a guard
for their protection, of from 20 to 30 men, all de
serters from the Emigrant Carpi which landed at
Quiberon. Three hundred of the mod determin
ated Chouans, from the diftrift Chateauneuf, are
quartered at the Convent of the Auguftias, in the
Commune of Cande; their business is to prated
the members of the Council, who are stationed at
Jngrande, Varade, and Ancenis.
Cande is converted into a military station. The
Commandant is de Mariani, a Piedmontefe, who
was taken at Quiberon, but escaped from Vannes.
He was one of the men who were principally con
cerned in the farrender of Toulon to the Entrlilh,
ia 1793.
The Commandant-en-second, it also an Emi
grant of the name of Bodard, a native of Craon,
in the Department ps Mayeane. The third in
Command is Delauni, formerly an Officer in the
Republican armies.
Bodard, formerly attorney-general at Angfri,
and D'Avoine, fen. foimerly a Nobleman, who
nfnally resides at his own man (ion, in the Commune
of Combrce, two leagues and • half fr jm Segrc ;
tire the principal members of the Superior Council.
There are conflantly at the Caflle of Bourmont
thirty Noble Emigrants, many of them young men,
between twenty and thirty, who wear a poniard on
•ne fide, and a piflol on th« other.
The different Camps established p.ll round Cande,
and ip the different Comrouuesof the ci-devant dtf
tridt of the Legre, Ancenis, Chateau Briant, Cra
on, &c. are under the command of Emigrants.
In ail the Communes fubjeft to the Chouans,
there are regular companies, whose numbers depend
On the population of-the different places in which
they arc raised. These are commanded by a Cap-,
tain, a Serjeant Major, and fcveral Corporals. The
Chouans repair every day to their refpe&ive camps,
when their names are regularly called over.
The mom .nt the Republicans advance, the alarm
tell and the horn refotmd thro' all the Communes,
and at every point. Those who do not obey this
general summons, pay a fina of fix livres.
A considerable part of them will only mafch when
forced to it 5 the Chiefs therefore, have taken care
to place some brutal foreigners in each Company,
who are alnjoft jtU corporals, and are very severe in
correction of men the consequence of this ar
rangement is, that molt of them run away at the
firfl Sre T and induce the raft to follow.
1. .1... i- .1 r.i
in the Department of La Sarthf. Font Ciiouan*
lodged in my house, who had just tv , ' cen a quantity
of powder, ball, &c. to the Headqai rters at Bear
mount. They acknowledged to me, ti at the Count
de Bourmont had purchased this ami ntrmtion al
Mans, where he even ran great rifle of difcr
veret*
J,
It also appears, that Angers supplies thv Chou
ans with a quantity of ammunition.
The Louis this day was at 7450*
LONDON, March 19.
THE HON. ADM. JOHN FORBES,
Admiral of the fleet, and General of Marine*
This officcr (at we announeedin our lad) died
at his house, in Saville Row,onThurfday laft,March
the 10th, aged 82.
He was remarkable, above all othyr men, for,
hi* extensive and universal knowledge of naval as-;
fairs, having Itudied ihem in aIL their branches,
with a perseverance, and observed upon them with
an acutenefs and judgment altogether unparalleled.
His msndjst* capable of embracing the greatefl
andTJKilt complicatedobicfts ; ana, having bent it
towards the study of that profeffion,ofwhich he
was allowed by the universal voice of his cotempo
raries to be a principal ornament, htsattain«d such
a fnmmit of nautical /kill as rendered orna
ment of all who were mod eminent, whether--in the
direction of the fleets of the nation, or in the equal
ly arduous talk of superintending the civil depart
ment* of the different branche* of the marine.
In the earlier part of his life, he wa* peculiarly
noticed as an able,eaterprifing, and intridid officer.
He served with much reputatiou under Sir John
Norrit ; and was no less diftinguifked as captain of
the Norfolk, of 80 gun*, in theaftion of Mathews
and Leftock with the combined fleet* of Fiance
and Spain, when hi* gajlantry contributed in a high
degree to save hi* brave friend, admiral Mathews,
whose second he wa* in that engagement. So
bright was his honor, and so clear hi* reputation in
those turbulent days, that though hi* evidence on
the trial of the admirals went wholly agaiaft admi
ral Leftock, yet that officer was often heard to de
clare, that Mr. Forbe'* testimony wa* given like an
officer and a gentleman.
In Lord Chatham'* glorious war, admiral Forbe*
wa* feleded a* the ablest afliftant the firft Lord
could have in the management of the admiralty
and condu&ed himfelf in a manner highly credita
ble to hi* abilities, and eminently serviceable to hi*
country,
When the warrant for executing the unfortunate
Admiral Byng was offered for signature at the ad
miralty board, Admiral Forbes refufed to sign it,
at the fame time humbly laying at his Majefly's
feet his obje&ions. A copy of the paper given by
the Admiral to his Majesty oa that occasion, may
be hen in Smollet'g Hiltory of England } it is well
worthy the attention of all men of honour, at it
contains, perhaps, the best fperimen of an upright
and independent mind, and honest and benevolent
heart, that is to be found in any language.
To detail the meritorious deed* of the venerable
character before us would lead to a difciiflion too
extensive ; but the writer of this tribute to depart
ed greataef* cannot cohclude it without inferring
an anecdote well known in the naval and political
circles, and which, it is believed, even majesty it
felf will recoiled, with such feelings as arc excited
in benevolent mindi by a£ts of genuine spirit. and
difintereftednef*.
Daring a late administration, it was thought ex
pedient to offer a noble Lord, very high in the na
val profcffioD, and very deservedly a favorite of his
sovereign and his country, the office of General of
Marines, held by admiial Forbes, and spontaneously
conferred upon him by his Majesty, as a reward for
hit many and long services. A mcfTage was sent
by the minister*, to fay it would forwaid the King's
service if he would resign, and that he (hould be
no Infer by his accommodating the government, as
they proposed recommending it to the King to give
him a penfioa in Ireland of 30001. pei annum, and
a Peerage, to defccnd to his daughter. To this
admiral Forbes sent an iminedate answer ; he told
the miniflers the Generalship of the Marines was a
military employment, given by his Majesty as a re
ward for his service*—that he thanked God he had
never beeli a burthen to his country, which he had
served during a leng life to the bell of his ability—
and that he would hot condescend to accept of a
pension or bargain for a peerage.
He concluded by laying his GeneraUhip ef the ma
' ruies, together with his rank in the Navy, at the king's
feet, entreating him to take both away, if they could
forward his fcrvice f and at the fame time, allured his
Majesty, he would never prove himfrlf unworthy of
the former honors he had received, by ending the rem
nant of a long life, as a pensioner, or accepting of a
peerage, obtained by political arrangement —As gra
cious Matter applauded his manly after con
tinued him in his high military and to the day
of his death continued to lhow him strong marks of his
regard.
Such are the outlines of the public eharadler of Ad
miral Forbes. Infirmity deprived him of exerting his
great talents in hia latter days pnblicly for the service
of his country ; but all who had the happiness of h)i ac
quaintance will agree that in private life he continued,
to his last breath, an example of the highest virtues that
can adorn the human character—patience in long and
painiul filtering—charity—benevolencc—humanity
public spirit—good breeding—firmnefs and dirmtereli
ednefs in friendftiip ; tenderness and feeling for all his
dependants and frienda, and an abhorrence of all fejfifti
iwfs and illiberally, w*re displayed by him intheinmoft
lively and ftrikiug colours.
Tilt Hamburgh mail arrircd 4n town yesterday.
Tht account* from Germany state, in the mod de
cifivc terms, that the Emperor it making every pos
sible exertion for.carrying on the war with vigour,
as well in Italy as On the Rhine. Troops ate dai
ly marching to thtir defined Rations, and the re
inforcements received by the Imperial armies are
most formidably as well from their numbers as from
their difeipline and mode of equipment. It is the
grand object of the emperor to increase, in mere
than a proportionate degree, the number of his ca
valry, in which the enemy is more particularly de
ficient, and which are so efientially nectfTary to the
success of that plan ofoffc-nfiveoperations which has
certainly been adopted. The Arch duke who is to
have the chief command of the army on the Rhine.
- i- it: —; ... .1 i • ,i , . *
»fter !iis at iival as circumfUr.ces would atJmrt of".
No less th?n 90,003 recruits, of which Bohemia
is alone to fupprly une third, arc to be immediately
taifed in order to replace the veteran tioops who
marched to the fceoe of a&iom
Meanvrhjle the French,on their fide, are making
all the exertions in their power to maintain, at kilt
if not to extend their conqnefts. All the requisi
tion men have been lent to the armies and the mod
formidable entrenchments have been thrown up in
the different polls which they Hill occupy in the vi
cinity of the Rhine.
PITTSBURGH, April 30.
We hear by the way of the Illinois that the in
habitants within the United States territory, near
Detroit, have moved off, or are preparing to move
J& ti ,e Canada fide of tlje lake, aitd Detroit river j
«lfo» with+ii the fit • two daye; frtim Prefqu'iflt
we £> e».tr that the inhabitants at the garrison of Nia
gara at\' preparing to move ; all much chagrined at
the Treaty with the United States.
BOSTON, April 30.
It was {aid in town meeting aa Monday, that
the French were growing very cold towards this
country, and that the tteaty was the cause. We
deny it. Faitchet may have scribbled in a Paris
peper about the treaty, for what we know j but
only official notice lately taken of the United
States, J sl fiance, has been in a meflage from the
Executive Dire Story the Legislature, wherein
they speak of the gre«? x^ lc "cial advantages the
United States have the eftablifhmeot
of the National Bank and the tending Syltem ! !
The fubferiptions to the memories hare been
made in different modes in different places. In
some, town meetings haVir been called; in" othere,
the memorials have been handed to the citizens' fc-p
---arately ; in others the clergy, as the minilters iff
peace, have been desired Jo (top their societies after
service, to have the'memorials fubferibed; This
lalt mode seems peculiarly convenient in the coun
try, at this busy season of the year,' It will save
time ( and make the fubferiptions mure general.
Works of " ueccflity and mercy," are not ooly
lawful but proper, 011 any day ; and the bufineis
alluded to partakes flrongly of both.
The voice of the people, will new be emphati
cally the voice of God.
- ' /
KNOXVILLE, April 1.
On Monday hit, the hrlt general afTembly ele<£ted
wider the conflitution of the State of Tenaeffee,
mjt in this town.
Gen. James Winchellfr of Sumner, is chofets
speaker ofthe Senate, and James Stuart, esq. of
Jonefborough speaker of the Houfc of Reprefen
l«tivCß.
On Wednesday last, at is o'clock, the Senate
and House of Reprefrntatives being affcmbled in the
Rcprefentatiives Chamber,citizen JOHN SEVIER
the Governor elr£l, was introduced, and the feve
ral oaths of office administered to him by the hen.
Joseph Andeifon ; aftefr- which the Governor" ad
drefled the two houses as follows t
'. OoUirmn tf thi Sinai*, - y
and Houfc of Rcprtfmiah vct.
The high and honorable appointment conferred
upon me, by the free fuffrage of my countrymen,
hills my heart with gratitude, which I trull my fu
ture life will manifeit. 1 take this early opportuni
ty to express through you my thanks, in the llrong
elt terms of acknowledgment.
I ihSttiahor to discharge with fidelity the confi
dence reposed in me, and if fnch my exertions should
prove fatisfa&ory, the firft -wish of my heart will
be gratified.
Gentlemen, accept of my best wilhes for your in
dividual and public happiness; and relying upon
your wifdora and patriot ism 1 have no doubt, but
the refnlt of your deliberations will give permanen
cy and success to our new fyflera of government,
fa wifely calculated to fccurc the liberty and ad
vance the happiness and ptofperity of our fellow
citizena. JOHN SEVIER.
Yeflerday the legiflatore of this state elected Wil
liam Blount and William Cocke, Esquires, to re
present this state in the Senate of the United
States.
William Maclin, Esq. is ele&ed secretary of state.
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
ARM FED. DATS.
Schooner Hope, Foster, 26
Boston, Clark, Cape Francois to
Three Sifters, Duncan, Beaufort 9
! '■ Lovely Lafo, BertholJ, Liibon 48
Arrival at New Tori.
Brig' Thomas, -—, Liverpool 45
Schooner Little Betsey, ——Richmond —
Eljzaheth, ■ , Ditto —
Whim,. , Gonaives 7
Sloop Nancy, ——, Alexandria 14
John, Lee, Wilmington 8
Fanny, Cogfwell, - Charklton 7
Sloop Sally, B. Green, fact arrived at Chiriefton
from Petit Guave.
The Affijlance on herpaffage, took the French pri
vateer Le Chafleur, Captain Derrjbeau, carrying 4
guns and 75 men, which fhefentitor Bei-mud». The
crew were given tip to the Freneh'Conful rrficling here.
ST 0 C K S.
Six per Cefit." - - - - - Y7/4 to' 6") infi
Three.per Cent. - - - - lc/4 j off.
Deferred Six per Cent. .... lj/5 to p
"J* per Cent. - - - - ' 14,8
41 per Cent. - - - 1 4/6
BANK United States, - . - - aj pr. cent.
Pcnnfylvania, ... - 97
■■1. - North America, - - -48 to 50
Insurance Comp. North-America, Ij dollars
Pcnnfylvania, 17, per ct.
ExCbanoi, at 60 days, ... 160
Miniature Painting.
\ Foreign Artist refpeSfully informs the Public, that
/~V he paints Likcnenes, and warrants thera. A few
.Stffeamens of his abilities may be seen it his Room J4o.
tsttxtrurs
PETER PORCUPIKE.
After his wrhings have been unirerfaHy perWsd m»
America, we take occasion to Jay before oar rra-
dcrs the opinion eateitafncd of thetrv by the
most approved aw! accarate neviewes of Utcra.
tL. c fa Great Britain. fMinervi.
Art. IV. A little plain Engjcih.; addrvifed to tVe
peoplc ps the Ufiittfd Statci, on the treaty witb
hit Britannic Majrfly, and «m the condod of'
• the Pcefhlcnt' relative thereto, t» arfwer to th*
(otters of. FrmkKfi. With a Sapplement con*
taining io of- the turbuleat jißd ta&icu*
of the vppoferV, of the treaty
By Pc'Ct PorcupiiTfi autboi'uf obfeTvation on#
Dr. PriilUtyV tii Amiefica, a Bone
to Cjutt' /<>!" the Democrats, See. See. &v«.
it. 6J. tfhiUdclplsia. Jbsndou i«-printed, Ri
vingtons, 179?.
The acute a:id humorous author of the obfer
vationsou the emigration of Dr. Pri.e.ftley, contin
ues to prove himfelf",on all occaGons,.the determined
adversary of the Democratic party in America. —
Relyiug on information which we had every reafont
to believe infallible, as well as on inrernal evidence,
we announced his former publication as of Ameii
can origin ; but quickly found ourfelvts aflailed,
both in public and pri.\ate, for our supposed credu
lity. It was boldly aflerted, that the obfervation#
were ma-nufadtured in this coilntry j an J they were
even ascribed to a particular author, with little cer
emony or reserve. Mr. Cobbet, in the mean time,
whose name a little inquiry discovered to us, con
tinued at Philadelphia to produce frelh proofs of
Ins abilities ; and a tract in two parts, entitled,
A Bone to Gnaw for the Democrats, is so full of
that peculiar humor and spirit which mark his wri
tings, that, if we can procure a copy, though it
has not yet been repuHifhed here, we certainly (hall
bring it forward for the amusement of oyr reader*.
Tfepprefent tract was publiftied later, though it
iVappCTJ® to be firft produced in England We
thifck thl», at we thought the firft pamphlet from,
the fafme perf,4'ftingiiiftied by ftroiig fenie and pow
erful argument ; .and the great importance of the
fubjetfr it difcufles, induces us to give it a conspicu
ous fituatioa in our renew. There is, it seems in
America, as well as in this country, a party too
evidently contaminated by Frcnch principles. Nor
do those principles more excite our abhorrence,
than the confidcratioo tbat, in defiance not only of
common sense, but of pnfitivc experience, such a
party {hould exist any where, moves our aftonjHt
ment. Yet certain it is that a number of individ
uals were lately found in America, whose wi/h and
whose obje<S it was to precipitate that country into
hoftilitits with Great Britain ; who vehemently
exclaimed against the injury, the iqdignity, nay,
the total ruin which mull inevitably ensue if such a
treaty as the present took piece ? who held a pub
lic meeting which almolt tirawicnoufly went to such
lengths as to pass an unqualified vote of ce«fure oil
General Washington ? who talked
him •> and who, arrogating all. virtue and all wisdom
tothemfelves, afTumcd |he deceitful appellation of
patriots, and paffiH 00 their adverf<tt<ies every epi
thet of degradation, menace, and ahjioirence.
The author of this pampfilrf places the'freaty in
quellion before him, and examining each article fep
aratefy, incomeftibly demonstrate* that die whole is
alike honorable and advantageous to both nations.
He points out perspicuously and forcibly the folly,
and very questionable integrity, of those who re
commend to the Americans an alliance yith Fiance
in preference to one with Gteat Britain 5 and he
clearly (hows that at the very period when the par
tizans of the Convention clamorously urged the ne
cefiity of a war with us, and of makiiig what they
called one common catife, tltey were a&ually reap
ing benefits from England far more numeious, and
far more important than it wa* either in the power
or inclination of France to communicate.
We (hall dismiss this performance, after praifing
its good sense, manly stile, and powerful argument,
by observing to those who are so anxious to quote
America as an example to other nations, both of
happißefs and wisdom, that such a decision seems,
■t lealt, premature. America, like other countries,
is greatly diftra&ed by intefline animosities, produ
ced by opposite ana contending fafHens, and like
other wife »nd d, and ufeful citizens, General
Walhington has lived to fee his well earned reputa
tion aspersed by Calumny, his motives questioned,.
and his integrity arraigned. Happy would it be
if such lessons produced a suitable effect, if they
curbed the wild spirit .of innovation, if they in
culcated a love of order and of virtue, by (bowing
the mifchiefs of discontent, if they, taught fub
milTton to a government found by experience to be
wife, in oppofitiorv to the speculations of a vain
and chimerical philofopfiy. N
NEW theatre:
The Public are informed, that
Mrs. Morris's Night is postponed.
On FRlDsir EVENING, May 6,
Will he presented,
A celebrated COM&DY, in 5 ifli, (never perform*
ed here but once} called
The Deserted Daughter.
[Written by the author of the Road to Ruin,&e. &c."f
A, pcrftrming at tbt. Thtrntre in Ct+ht GarJi*, ttitb umverfal
afplmfe.
Mordent, Mr. Grm,
. . Mr. Moreton,
■ Lennox, -Mr.' Marfi.lt,
•t™. Mr. frmh,
Grime, lv B,ete,
CWfnent, Mr ITarrtH, jun.
Donald, Mr. Batt,.
JoaaHa, Mrs. MarJUU,
Mrs. Sarfnet, Mrs. Pr*nct,\
Mrs. Enfield, Mn. Solomon, ' :
Betty, M rs . DoSor,
■ Lady Ann, Mrs. IVtMoct.
To which will be added an enter of xnufic, dia*
logue and l'pe&acle, called
The Jubilee.
Written by the late David Garrick, In ionor of Shal -
fpeare. . ,
,fT On Monday, a Tragedy, (nev.r performed here.)
called ALEX AMBER THE GREAT ; with a grand U
rions Pantomine, (nererperformed here,) called the Dli