/ \ THE committee reported a draft of a petition as alorefaid—which being read and amended, was unanimously accepted. Voted, That the grand jury be requeued to for ward to each town in the county of Himpfhii'e, a copy of the petition aforefaid, together with a cir culai letter, desiring their immediate attention \o the momentous fubjedt. Voted, I liat VVm. Coleman, of Greenfield, E hen. Hunt, of Northampton, J. Woodbridge, of Worthington, George Bliss, of Springfield, Abel Whitney, of Weftfield, be a committee to receive and forward to Samuel Lyman, Esq. in Congress, the doings of the frveral towns, to be by him pi e fcnted to that body. Attest. J. E. PORTER, Clerk. CIRCULAR LET TER ( \ Of the Grand Jury to the Seledtniln of the several Towns in this County: THE grand jrtry of the county of Hampshire, convened at Northampton for the discharge of the •rdinary duties annexed to that office, having been addrelTed by the honorable the supreme court on the I present alarming afped of our public affairs, tho't ' « i|ieumbeut on them to give the fubjeft their feri <ju» and difpalfionate consideration. And it having appeared to them, that the highest interests of this country, the faith and exiltence of ourgovernment, arc suspended on the dccifton of the queltion for making appropriations to carry into effect the treaty with Great B/itain, now agitated before the House . of Reprefentativea in Congress, they are of opinion, that a critis of this solemn and important nature, demands the free and independent voice of the peo ple. And though they disapprove of the attempt to influence the minds of a legislative body on queflions of a general nature, through the medium of town-meetings, yet they consider there may be a moment of difficulty and danger, that will fully juftify such attempt. They therefore have taken the liberty of inclosing to you a copy of a petition, which has met with their approbation, "and also the approbation of a large and refpeftable number of persons collected from every part of the county, and which yoa are reqnefted to lay before your town, immediately, for their consideration. Per order of the grand jury, ... QUARTUS POMEROY, Foreman. In the courfeof the present week, it is expedted there will be a meeting of the inhabitants of the several towns in this county, on the fubjeft of the present alarming and critical situation of our nation al politics-—We conceive it by no means hazardous to anticipate an almofl unanimous vote of the inha bitants, in favour of giving full and immediate effect to the treaty with Great Britain. BY THIS DAY'S MAIL. NEW-YORK, May 10. According to tha latest account# received from France, by way of London, it appears that the insurgents in the welt, are still in confidcrablc force, though they have fuffered many defeats. Tliey have lately taken two towns, Chalons and Mayenne xT o ttC / ° f whicFlthe ) r plundered and abandoned. , De Prnfaye had been surprised,. in company with feme ladies, in the midst of a part of his army. attempted to save bimfclf by flight, but, to gether with some of his followers, was shot by the republicans. D'Autichamp, who raised a regi ment of Emigrants, taken into British pay, is said to have succeeded Stofflet as the agent of infurrcc tioinn one particular part of the country. . With regard to the internal (late of Fran- e, it was observed that Paris was tranquil. The fubje& which ef late had chiefly engaged the public attsn- Hon, was the Liberty of the Press. The <!ireso. ry, following the example of other governments, Was attempting to annihilate free discussion.because some men abuled it j they wish to deny the right of pointing out their mifcondua, becaufc thev have been accused without foundation. In other measures it was owned they were adopting the sys tem of terror. They have ilTued two milliards of a new paper money, called territorial mandates, which mull be received at par, under pain of tranf. portation. Ihe Louis d'or was at 5300 livres, and K is laid the mass of afiigaws was rapidly dimin ilhing. ' FURTHER FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE By the Jhip Vtnilit. BRUXELLES, March 16. The head-quarters of the army ef the Sambre and Meufe have been removed from Bonne to Cologne, which is » mare centrical fituafion for the military ope of'th"' Rhin- " £ ab ° Ut t0 UkC pla£C ° n the "S ht bank They left Cologne on the nth inft. and on the fame day Gen. Jourdan set out for Duffeldorff, whither up wards of »0,000 men have received orders to repair " with all possible diligence. This order appears to hTve been by the movement of the Auftrians, who have left their camp in front of the Lahn, and have advanced towards Sicgbourg. Every day large left hank rftl!?*? P er «ived, from the left bank of the Rhine, coming down from the moun tains, and collecting on the left bank of the Siee- It seems to be the intention of the Auftrians to open '" W an attack on the entrenched camps at Oberbihck and DufTeldorff. This last town, and the fortified ines eftabhlhed for its protean, form 10 front of ,t a complete accent, the two ex- . trcmnies ol Which extend to the Rhine, are m a re fpe<ftable state ot defence, and capable of making a long and effectual refiflance. It is considered as certain, that hostilities will com znence beiore the end of March. t corps of troops which were on their march ] for Coblentz and I reves, have received orders to re- I turn, and to-proceed to Crevelt. They are about to draft all the belt troops, horse and foot, from the aine new departments, in order to fend them to the Lower Rhine. Some of these have been ieledteq, and arc already on their march* PARIS, March 13*. The price of meat in Paris, for the next Decade, -has been fixed at 120 hvres per lib. The frequenters of the Pantheon have not loft all hopes of feeing their club restored. On the 4 th inft. r they circulated aming themselves, the following note: '' £ he P" r,ots °f '79Z are invited to meet, on the - 15th Ventofe, at the Bornon Coffee-houfe, on the Hou- I, levard, near the Agneffeau market, by the gate of St. - Honore, between the hours of fix sad feyen in <-hc evening, in infer to Concert plans of benefices and ea. triotjfru." • The government will certainly not be duped by such fiimiy pretexts. It is against them and agaiflft the OoLltiEution, that these wretches are conspiring.. The ill numbers of Itabeuf, of the (i Enlightener of the People," and of 44 The Journal of Free Man, have opened the eyes of all. The two firft of these papers formally demand the overthrow of the Constitution and of the Directory. Comparing the measures of the exilling government with thofc of the old court; they apply to its members the appellations of traitors and miscreants, and predict that they will die on the fcaf lold. " The Enlighrener of the People," in particu lar, declares all the members of the commifiion of Eleven to be infamous ; and stiles the constitution pre pared by them, and accepted by a great majority of the people, a code of flivery. He proclaims Ho'iefpierre, and all the monsters. who perished with him on the 9th Thermidor, to be the avengers of the kuman race.— He invokes their dear and lacred manes I—He1 —He declares that the revolution iifcarcely begun. "°!** ver Specious all our plan» of Finance may be, we frill fear, that unless they have peace for their bass, they must every one of th«m fail. The resolutions which have been adopted within these few days on the fubjed of the finances, afford a new proof that the. idea of eftablifhmg a bank is totally abandoned ; for the 800 millions of national effeds, which" were firft entrusted to the special disposition of the diredory, were to have served as a fccuritv for the notes which the bank was to ifTue. Befidesi Dubois Crance formally announced in the debate yelterday on the emission of 600 millions of mandates, that no bank would be eftablifhedl. ' March 14. A letter from Bruxellcs, mentions the arrival of a perion in that city with three millions of Rescripts > which were fold at a Jol's of 48 per cent. ftnte, that the inhabitants emigrate m gteat numbers, abandoning their houses, to take refuge in Germany, and particularly in tlu rruffian dominions. By a letter from Rennes, we are afTiired, for the th.rd or fourth time, that Pu.fsyc has been killed in an action in the commune of Medireae, in which the republicans defeated his troops. If letters from Angers may be credited, D'Auti champ has fuccteded Stofflet in the command of the rebels in that part of La Vendee. Nine pretended Generals and two girls lately dined at one of the fiiit Reifaurateurs in the PalaVßoyal, where their dinner cofi them 35,000 fivrcs, »S,oooof which wefe charged for wine. General Cou'tois, charged with having been the caule oi the difaUers which our troops experienced be fore Mentz, bas been tried by a military comrtiißian, and ftntenced to be imprd'oned ft* three monfhs. NASSAU (N. Providence) April y. Yesterday afternoon his ivujefty's fluop Swallow, Capt. Fowke, arrived here in 41 days fiom Poiti"- raoutli. The Swallow failed, wiih a large fleet forth? W. Indies, from which the parted in the latitude of Madeira about four weeks liuce; The Swallow is *nc of t|ie lately built fir brigs, carries 18 3 2 pounders, (ails well, and is sent out for the protection of the Bahamas. ROCHEFORT, Dec 29. The (livifiuN fiom the coast of Africa, composed of the Experiment man of war, the Vigilante fri gate, three - gabare, (lienor) and some prizes, entered the road of Rochefort on the ftfc inft. They are richly loaded with guld dnti, p:;if-" tres, mufliu, ivory, &c. The towel! sailor, it .is said will ha.ve to the value of 25,000 livres in fpecic. This divifiu'n has bu nt the two richcll factories belonging to the Englifli on the Coast of Stfrica, and 72 veflVls with rich cargoes. Thelofi of the Engliih, at the molt moderate calculation, ft estimated at 50 million*. LONDON, January 6. I The remains of the late Sir Henry Clinton were interred last week, in a private manner, in the fa m.ly burial vault in St. George's Chape!, in Wind sor Castle. RICHMOND, May 4. On Monday the 25th ult. the day appointsd for theele&ion of Delegates for the county of King. William, the propiiety of the freeholders expreffincr their fenle up®,i the fubjeft of providing the uecef. faiy appropriations for carrying into effect the trea ty lately negotiated and ratified by America with Great Britain was submitted to them, when upon a divifion,a very large mrjority, nay, almost the whole number of those present declared themselves in fa vor of the sentiments contained in the fubioined address, which was signed by those approving, who desired that the fame might be forthwith transmit ted to their representative in Congress. [Here follows a petition to the house of repre k-ntatives in favor of appropriations to cairy the Bntifli Treaty into effe<3.] From the Columbian Mirror. [Pub lifted at Alexandria.] Mr. Price. There are falfehoods in their nature so flagrant, that the belt answer they can receive is the univer. lal impreflion of their exigence. Mr. Bache's cor refponde.it upon the fubjeft of the Alexandria town meetng, only deserves such an answer ; he wrote to Hece.ye people at a dillance, and he may have par. - y a,,fw "fd his end. But the independent ci tizens of Alexandna know, aud deride the falfe hood. Upon a fair examination of the various in foi mations of Mr. Bache's, limilar deceptions will " o in u found > and ,he p e °ple of America wiß learn how to credit them. Theirobjeft is our political ruin, the means they use are fraud, decep tion, and the mod impudent lying. STOCKS* 4* per Cent. . . ,/„ BANK United Slates, . . . ' " l 4& Pcnnfylvama, ... J, pr ' CCUt - North America, - . . ' . .g to Insurance Comp.Nonh-Amenca, ?, Lfhrs — 1 emifyWania, Ia p!;r ct> ixcuANGg. at 60 days, ... j6 0 Mr. Tracy observed, that ihiscafe had been be fore determined upon, on a petition fiom the wi dow Butler ; that a bill had puffed that hoitfe, but had been negatived in the Senate. He doubted not therefore, die report would be agreed to It was ordored to be rcfeired to a vommiutcof ihe whole. Mr. Swanwick presented a petition from fuiidry officers in the late war, holding military warrants, praying that land might be appropriated upon which to locate their warrants in place of that ceded to the Indians by treaty. It was referred lo the committee who has the management of that bufi-] ness. ! he house rrfolved iifelf into a committee of the whole, Mr. Bourne in the chair, on the bill au thorizing EbenezerZane tolocatecertainlandsnorth weit of (he river Ohio, which after a few amend ments, wis agteed to, taken up in the house, 1 and ordered to be efigroflrd for a third leading. , 1 lie committee of the whole, to whom was re ferred the bill telaiive to military lands, was dis charged, and the bill was recommended to a select committee. Mr S. Smith wished the house to take up the res lutipn which h<r had laid upon the table on Sa turday, relative to the sale of prizes in the ports of the United States. It was accordingly tal en up. Mr, S.iiith said, his intention in bringing forward this ref<jlutioit,was to put a!! nations upon the fame footinjj with refptft to fdling of prizes in our [>orts. By our treaty with Great Britain, he said, prize's taken from that power by the French wen prohibited from being fold in our ports; and in our treaty with. France, a similar stipulation was made '*ithj*fpe<ft to French vessels taken by the Ertgli'h ijjmt in cafe a war fhoiild take place bet wixt Great Britain and Spain, there was at present no regulation to prevent Great-Britain from bring -1,18 prizes into our ports. By the law which he proposed, he meant to deny the privilege of felling prizes in our ports to all natrons, as the heft way of fleering clear of offence to any, and thereby preserve our neutrality inviolate. After some little opposition, on the ground of its being a measure not at present called For, but might be entered into when such a war as was anticipated fhotilrl take place ; that ,it was giving an advantage without reciprocity ; and that the French having heretofiire had the privilege of felling their prizes in o,lr P 0 ! 1 -** the stoppage of that privilege might give offence to them—lt palled by a large majority and a Coininiteee appointed to bring in a bill. Mr. >W. Smith, from the committee to whom was referred the amendments of the. Senate to the bill for the sale of lands north ,we'* of the river O hio, made a report, recommending the amendments to be agreed to,and proposing fomeadditional ones. They were ordered to be printed. Mr. Bourne wished the house again to resolve itfelf into a committer of the whole Upon the report of the committee of Ways and Means, for making further provision for foreign intercomfc. It was a greed to, and being a report on a confidential com munication irom the President, the galleries were cleared. 7he Ship Vemit a, Captain Adamfun, arrived at A r eiv Tori on Monday morning from Bristol, with I.on. don papers to the l6lh of March, from one oj which toe have copied the following : LONDON, March 4.6. It was yefierday repotted in the city upon what authority we know nut, that Admiral Duncan haS received certain intelligence of the defhnation and lituation of the Dutch Fleet, and was gone after it, in the hopes of bringing it to ad ion. Yesterday feeing the fact of the crucifixion, was observed with the usual solemnity. All the (hops in the metropolis, were with few exceptions, ftiut up.' A CITIZEN. v.,. Lord Macartney, it if Paid, is to be appointed governor of the Cape ofGGood-Ho e . The following sentence is exl,»a e{ ] from afpeech ps Mfitthiett Dumas, in a debate up on the fcnancej on the 16;h of March.—" Peace beco me f"rc b y our resolution to obtain it, and doubt'^ 9 near at hand, by the will of the nation to conclude it on term, honourable to all patties ; peace will re{» ole CONGRESS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuclday, May Ip. , - ■ . Petitions in favor of the BritiOi tieaey, urare pre hy McfTteurs Hejth, Ciabb and Brent.—. That presented by Mr. Parker on Saturday, was against the British tveaty, from Norfolk and Porlf mouth. " Mr. Giles also presented the proceedings of a meeting at Peterflj'.irgh, on the fame fubjetl. Mr. S. Smith reported a bill for making an ad dition to the falariesof certain public officeis for that year 1796, which was twice read and ordered to be referred t6 the committee of thewhole to-mor row. , A communication was received from the Attor ney General; inclosing a report upon the petition of sundry inhabitants of St. Clair, agaiiiil the op preflive coiiduct of Judge Turner, which tecom mended a curtain mode of profectition. The report and other papers were referred to a feled com- mittee. The bill altering the time of holding the circuit courts of Rhode Island and Vermont, was read a third tim* and palled. . Mr. Tracy, from the committee of claims, made a report upon the petition of certain Stockoridge Indians, for "compensation for services dining the war with Great. Bitain, which was againlt the pe titioners and agreed to. He also made a report on the petition of Jcha Montgomery and Thomas Sn}ith, exccutors of the late genera] Richard Built.i, who was killed in a battle with the Indians on the 4th November 17,91 and left behind him a widow and children. This report was in favor of the petitioners and recom mended the of June 7,1794, to be exteuied "to this claim. " foreign •intelligence. f _ 33d rcgiffievit, oomipanded-fcy the ho*. Col. Weft marched this day from Poole to Portfmuuth, I where they ate to embark, for the ; they a very fine body yf mcit. ' Dlltellpaprritothels.il in town.—■ ThejwontaiH a report of the p.toccfuing»of the na tional alembly to the I2ih. In the'fitting of the tith, the ptefident proposed, audit was decreed, that a flatement /lioiild be made of the debts ai:d expenditures of the republic. Tte land committee was ordered to make a report upon -»ie expeiicts of the army and fortifications ; the 100 mill I*ous dtia to France ; and the payment ps the penfiona. . Th« marine was ordered to draw up an account of the expences of the navy j artd anothrir conimlfTiyn was directed to prepare a ftiitemcnt of the expeiiccs of the convention. HARWICH, March 25. PasTed by, a fleet of (hips from the no'thward, bound to London ; several put into this port ; not-- withftaodillg, we cannot obtain any information re fpedling either admiral Duncan Or the Dutch fleet. I he ship Clement, of CharleftowJi, capt. Mof; t Smith, from North-Carolina bound to Hull, laden with rosin, and otliei goods, has 101 l her boats, and received considerable damage. FALMOUTH, March 22. This evening arrived in our harboui the ValianS Lugger, with four prizei, taken by fir J. B. War ren s squadron, and ient in. The captain fays, they fell in with a fleet of near 140 fail of French *ffcls, convoyed by four frigates and l'ome (loops of war, near Brcft. He believes several more are taken ; , and when he was ordered away, he left la Pornone, lir J. B. Warren, engaged with two French fri gates, who were got under the.guns of a fort; and both ihe captain and others declare, that they saw °1 C ibe frigates haul down her colours, while within view * but night coming on, they made the belt of their way to this port. The reft of fir John s fquudron were in pursuit of the convoy; ma |iy of which, .they believe, mud fall into their hands. The Lugjjer hath landed fifty French of ficer and men heie, part of the crews of the four prizes. As there are other cutters attending fir John, more authentic accounts-are* hourly expert- Tne Mediterranean fleet, under convoy of two frigates, arc sow off this port ; the wind not bei»«- fair to get up the channel; several vessels bejanginjr to them are come into our harbour. Yetterday a privateer of iS puns, which had done much mifchief off our coafl, was sent inta Mount s Bay by the Porcupine frigate. She wa» 'stake a loaded bug, off the land's end, in the morning Informa:ion being given to the Porcupine, (he fallen immediately in qt:ett of the privateer, and fooji tame up with her, retook the brig, ai.d loon took the privateer; both which were sent itt together. Sr. 13RIEUX, March 1 he state of the dcpaitmc.it of the Coirs du *ord, is very critical. The Cpd>uan» are commit- new ravages extending their coi.qucfl* there pieading far and near the desolation of maflae're*, Aithout our being able tooppofe to them fufficient lumbers of troop,. I„ va i„ c | o wti[k , ro frurn jovernment—in vain to our Constituted Authori ties declare, that without the fpeedielt succours, we Ml fee thu cor.ntry becpmc a new La Venose. Our claim, seem loft in the space which divides u» trora the centre of authority. "10 want " f JO or 12,000 men, in order to eft abhfh every where strong cantonment,, and we have icarcely more than between 1500 and zcoo men. When, then, will government seriously take i>ur dangers into confederation ?-*-iivcry day, we bave to groan over a murdrr, which is accompanied fly the mod atrocious cireurallances. The sworn pne..s, the known friends of the revolution, rlie purchasers of national property, are fucceflively pillaged and assassinated. The despair of the latter n lo (trong, that, in order to efeape from their murderers, they hasten to make rtiam sales, reftorin? to the pried,, to the relations of the emigrants, the states which they hu bought. The vilUges are uninhabited. The Chouans, who for a lon* tune had laid waste only the fron tiers of our dsparment, make great progreffe, t they advance to the centre, and threaten to de, "°' :r th ? who - c » as they have done with Morbi jan. This country will be annihilated, if we do not re vive speedy leiiiforcements; if, before the fine f«4- on arrives, we have not troops to prevent the prcading of the emigrants and soldiers, which Eng land will never cease attempting to throw on outs uoaft. 1 be other diftrifts, formerly called Bretons, viz." that of Lannioii, of Guingamp, and of Pontrieux, have hulierto pieferved tranquillity; thauks to the energy and the vigilance of the towns, and tho , 01 they are invaded; the <3iftria of Guingamp' has already been the theatre of different assassina tions. A gang of emigrants, commanded by a eertiin Delaiigle, have advanced as far as the dif tridt of Pontueux, and have ftript the farmers of this ci devant count, who had bought a part of hia luNVERNESI u NVERNESS ' Scotland ' March 16. We have had a winter uncommonly open, and the temperature of the air remarkably mild 5 nt» snow except on the most diflant mountains; not aa much ice as would cool the throat of a London* Blood ; but heavy gales of wind have blown fiont the S. W. with little variation for thcfc tbiee months. Our crops of all kind of corn were very plentiful, tho' not quite so abundant as those of 1794. We could certainly spare a considerable quantity; but so great has been the demand from England and the South of Scotland, and so tempting the prices, that we begin to take the alarm, and to fear that more may be taken from us than it would be prudent to \ , . -T notTCH s The undersigned has removed hi« office from Mr. Kid's in High-Street, to No, 109, South frost Greet, where liia business is tianfa&a£ed as ufuat» ly for JAMES SWAN, 3LPB ESCHMANN. / h i 1
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