Philadelphia,
FRIDAY EVENING, June 3, 1796.
La Gazette Francais of New York, announces'
(June I,) by information of passengers and letters
from the French islands, that the fleet aCtually ar
rived at the Cape was of 5 (hip* of the line, 2 fri
gates, and 3,000 men—others fay 2 of the line, 3
frigates, 2,000 men. 40,000 muskets, and a con
siderable quantity of powdet and ball—That gene
ral Rochambeau, who also arrived in the fleet, is to
command the Spanilh part ot Hifpaniola, and that
General Laveaux will continue to command the
French part. That II Brjtifh transports, bound
to Jamaica, were taken by the fleet. That letters
from Martinico, of May 15, announce, that of 25
Britilh transports, detached from the last flett, 23
had been taken by some French frigates.
The total loss of the English, in the late unfuc
cefsful attack on Leogane, is, 8 fergeaots, I drum
mer, 41 rank and file killed ; I major, 2 captains,
10 subalterns, 87 rank and file wounded ; 19 fer
jeants, 1 drummer, 180 rank and file miffing.
A morning paper (Claypoole's) fays, The brig
Vulcan, taken 011 the sth of May, by the Spancer
Hoop of war of 18 twelve pounders, mounted 12
three and four pounders, and had 70 men. She
engaged her unequal adversary an hour and a half,
and had 21 men killed and wounded. The Spencer
had one man killed and one wounded.
Extra ft of a letter from Havre, dated April 8, 1796.
" There is fines my last, large quantities of flour
arrived here, and in our different ports: there is
near 14,000 barrels of American flour for sale here,
but fpec.ie is so v»ry scarce in this country, that
there is no buyers but government, to whom it is
offered at 90 livres per bbl. for quick payment.—
There are several cargoes of coffee lately arrived
here from Bolton and Baltimore : about 6110,000
cwt. was fold this week at 335. 6d. per cwt. paid
on delivery; this market is glutted with oil, and
no sale whatever. In consequence of a late law,
there is another paper money named mandates,
which are to replace one against thirty, of the aflig
rats in circulation, though said law gives the fame
value to mandates as to cash, and no difference can
be made but even impowers those who have con
tracted in calfc to pay in mandates. In future no
contraCt or agreement, government excepted, can
be made but payable in mandates ; this has put a
total (top to business. I presume foreigners in ge
neral mult fuffer considerably by it."
Extraß of a Letter from Augujla, May 17, 1796.
<" Your favor of the 4th iultant, announcing
the carrying the appropriation for the British treaty
though the Representative house, is a piece'ibf 'in-
telligence which affords very general fatisfaCtion ; —
were I to fay transport, the extravagancies of some
of our molt violent and molt refpe&able Demos on
healing the information, would warrant ma in the
cxpreflion :—it is Icarcely to be credited with what
pleasing avidity all ranks, nay, I may fay, all pat
ties, receive the news ; I am certain naif the money
exDeiuhd ou another occalumJL JuriniililLvear. in
ton place, would have procured a general lllumir.a
tion throughout the town of \ug jfta this evening :
in fait, I am convinced, there is nothing but the
weather, the timidity of our foreigners, and
theremrmbrance of the pa ft fins of our patriots that
prevents the thing. It is either a very foolilh pro
verb that "the voice of the people is the voice of
1 God/' or else truth and consistency have of late
been discarded from among th« attributes of Deity.
It rains like a November day in England, but no
man thinks of catting his own or his neighbour's
throat ;—we forget for a little, our public infamy
as a (late, and even the authors of it, to partici
pate of the generaljoy."
*. Effigy Burning.
natural history
The worthy Di\ Lettsom, still attentive to the
great objeCt of promoting Natural History among
us, especially mineralogy, has sent by the last (hip
from London, an hundred more fine specimens of
Ores from the Spanilh mines so- the Cabinet at
Cambridge. Although this Cabinet does not con
tain the diamond, ruby, hyacinth, topaz, ehryfo
lite, emerald, berill, sapphire, amethyst, opal, or
tourmalin, which are but fictitious wealth, the
mere playthings of Princes, it nevertheless contains
the more ufeful productions of nature, and except
ing what are called the precious (tones, there are ve
ry few fubltances yet discovered in the mineral king
dom, but what may be found in the cabinet of mi
nerals at Cambridge.
It is very pleasing to the curious traveller, to fee
at one view a collection of the animals inhabiting
the country he visits. The recent art of preserving
beads and birds, owes its origin to this curiosity ;
and in order to excite us Americans, to our
birds and beads, for the gratification of naturalists,
Mr. Lettsom, has sent the Museum at Cambridge
between twenty and thirty samples of birds and
small quadrupeds, so nicely preserved, as to emulate
the life. These ohjeCts while they delight the eye,
instruct the American NatUralist to do so likewise.
— ( Col. Centinel.)
ExtraCt of a letter from a refpeftable merchant in
England largely'concerned in thecotton manufac
tory to his friend in Charleston, (S. G.) dated
the 12th of Jaouary, 1796.
" I pow reply to your letter of OCtober last, so
far as relates to Georgia Cotton. We have lately
samples of a hundred bags ofi: sent us from a house
in Glafgsw for our inflection. We have closely
examined it, and ate sorry to fay, it appears as if
it had undergone some severe operation, so much so
that its staple is nearly deliroyed. lam apprchen
live that this cotton may have passed through that
new ipventod Gin which you speak of. If so, it
would have been much J>ettcr,for the planters had
they never fecn such a thing unongthem, asfit has
reduced the value of their cotton, from 2*. 3d. to
18J. and igd. per pound. The Georgia cotton
is of a very fine and fact will not bear
such violence to be done-to it. If the planteri had
an opportunity of cleaning by hand, inlteadofany
machine at all, I fliould think it the ball mode ;
for, although it might not be made quite so clean*
yet the nature of it and its fine fibres would be pre
served, which would at all times ciimmand a price
superior to any thing from the Weft-Indies. The
planters ought to know this as fopn as poflible, for
their own benefit, as well as for the benefit of all
concerned in it.
I am, &c.
" N. B. The staple or fibres of good Georgia
cotton is near one and an half inches long. That"
which appears to have been spoiled by the gin is
little above one half an inch, and is mattejd toge
ther very much to its injustice."
From the New Tori Diary.
CRITIQUE.
Cumberland's First Fove, like his Wheel of For
tune, seems to have loft its popularity, by eroding
the Atlantic- The travelled critic may impute
this disrelish of favorite English entertainments to
our want ,of taste, or our prejudice ag?inft produc
tions of foreign growth :,but weafcribe it to other
causes. Americans feel very little of that prejudice
for the characters, and that peculiar interest in the
fortunes of the French emigrant, which it is the
policy, of the Britilh ministry to encourage, and
which this comedy is calculated to generate and to
nourish. To this local interest we impute the suc
cess of First Love at Drary Lane. The story of
the emigrant, we acknowledge, is fufeeptible of
being dramatised with great effeCt : The idea of a
young, beautiful and accompliftied womin, whose
childhood has been nurtured with anxious care, and
whose youth bloomed in the fun ftiine of fortune,
by an unforefeen event, at the moment of her life
when pleasure is fwesteft, and hope mod sanguine,
banished from her country, beggared in fortune,
and bereft of friends—meeting in her exile a sedu
cer, in the guise of love, on whom (he leans with
unsuspeCting confidence, and who after exchang
ing with her at the altar the most solemn vows, in
humanely betrays and defeits her,if jultly pourtray
ed, mult form a plot highly interesting. Yet in
the comedy befoieuswe fee this tender tale per
fonified, and still we feel very little interest in the
story. And whence ourapathy ?Is it that the for
lorn abandoned Sabina is represented too cool and |
(jolleCted, too contented and serene ? Is it that we !
lose the friendlefs fugitive in the protected emi
grant ; the deserted wife in the favored mistress ?
Is it that our attention is divided, or is it that the
plot is too soon djfclofed, and futurity concealed
with toothin a veil ? Or is it rather owing to the
combined influence of all these causes, that we fol
low the wayward fortunes of the emigrant with so
littlecaneern, and fee her lelloied to the a;ms of
her repentant hulband with so much indifference ?
The dramatis pcrfonae appear in this ntifinifhed
piece a gtoupe of (keletons, indistinCtly marked,
and several of them scarcely capablc ot discrimi
nating from each other Lady Ruby and Freder
ick Mowbray are the moil natural and jult, and
the belt finifhed characters in the groupe : the
reft are all imperfeCt, and fproe of them mere
(ketches wiit.out colaring or 'ex|Heflion. The'
jarrtnya of Mr. and Mis. Wrangle,, her petulance
-«4_his hypocrtiyv are rißiculous e?iuirgTT fr>
selves, but succeeded as they are by a teconciliation
as ill timed as their quarrel, and by a fudderi yet
mutua' affeCtion as warm as their pad indifference
had been cold, the motley pait become absurd and
unnatural, they meet our disgust. Lord Sensitive
is an unattempered compound of virtues, and wenk
ueffes, and David Mowbray, a feeble attempt at the
open generous nature and manly humor of the ho
nest tar. if Sabina Rofnv had been moredelica'e
in the choice of her expreflions, and less perfeCt in
her pronunciation, (he would have appeared more
like the French Eipigrant who had just acquired
the knowledge of the English language under the
auspices of the polished Frederick. In a word, to
give a character to the comedy, ehafle in language
and moral in sentiment, yet barren of incident, im
perfeCt in plot, and unfinidied in its characters—
First Love, in oar opinion, ranks in the scale of
dramatic merit- at the point of mediocrity. It e
scapes our contempt, but it wins not our applause.
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA
Cleared.
Ship William Penn, Jofiah, London
Schooner Betsey, Pendleton, New-Orleans
Maria, Hardy, Hifpaniola
Weymouth, Stevens, New-York
Tryall, Hand, Alexandria
Speedwell, Gallop, Edenton
Three Frsends, Spencer, Newbern
Dove, Church, Currituck
Hazard, Bray, do.
Sloop Hope, Foster, Hifpaniola
HANOVER (N. H.) May 16.
The following Toads were drank at the entertairi
ment given in Honor of Mr. BUCK at Graves'
Hall ■
J. The late Treaty, of Amity and Commerce
with Great-Britain ; may its fruits exceed our an
ticipations,
2. John Jay—our able negociator and politician.
3. C'onftifion to the usurping demagogues, who
opposed the treaty —may their latecontelt with the
friends of peace and order prove the dying (trug
gles of a diforganmng faCtion.
4. The Treaty with Spain, and its fuccefsful ne
gociator —Thomas Pinckney.
5. Tfie Flag of American Commerce—may it
wave in triumph round the globe.
6. Public Faith—may it never be (hocked by
feuds and faction.
7. Daniel Buck.
8. The ftauch patiiots, who have supported the
constitution.
9. Governor Gilman. and the Federal L-gifla
ture of New-Hampshire.
10. Anthony Wayne, and his fuccefsful nego
ciations with the" Indian Tribes, may peace dwell
on out frontiers, and the wilderness, late the field
of carnage, now blossom like the rt>fe.
1 r. Tennessee—the sixteenth star in the Ameri
can constellation.
12. Washington—the polar Star of Columbia.
13; Oar magnanimous allies—the French Re
public.
14 Kof,.iu(ko—the brave, though unfortunate
disciple, of our immortal patriot and hero.
15. Confufion to the foreign combination of
despots, againfl the reign of liberty and laws
-16. The fair daughters of America! may their
freeborn offspring fill the eaith as the waters cover
the f as.
A volunteer. May no treaties whether amicable,
commercial, or matrimonial, ever want fuffieient
means and appreciations to carry them into com
plete and fruitful effe&.
PETERSBURG, May 27.
Mr. Prentis,
In pour paper of the 20th inft. I observe an ad
dress of THOMAS CLAIBORNE, Esq. Re
prefentati»oll» Congress for Bt unfwick Diftrift,
which is introduced in the following manner: " It
is not without the liveliest sensations of pleasure,
that I read in the public prints the polite exprefiion
of pour approbation of my conduct on a late occa
sion in Congress, refpefting the treaty lately nego
ciated with Great Britain." As I have not seen
those ''prints,', and altho'a freeholder of the dif
trift, havs beard nothing like an approbation of Mr.
Claiborne's condu& on that important occasion, I
would be glad to know from whence he has gather
ed this information 5 for, I am confident, thefaft
is, a great part of the independent freeholders of
his diftHft will difappreve of his vote, and that for
obvious reasons.
ANTI-CASCA.
Brunfwick, May 22, 1796.
RICHMOND, May 28.
The following letter was written in anfwrr to th«
proceedings and address of the citizens of Willi
amfbutg pubhfhed in this Gazette on the 7th
instant.
Philadelphia, Miij 7, 1796.
Dear Silt,
I have to acknowledge the receipt of a letter by
this day's poll, from you as chairman of a meeting
of the citizens of -WilKanafbiirgh addtefTed to Mr.
J. Clopron and myfelf as Repinrfentatives of those
| ciciieris in the Congress of the Ur.ited States. I
i have fheSvn'to that gentleman your letter and the
\ resolution, and conkquent address to us of our con
llituents, wliofe fignattires are thereto fubferibed ;
and had I received them before thi*-final decifioo of
the house on the important fubjed to v/hich they re
lated ; or, even before that decifioci had been carried
into eft ft by the Prefident'6 appr >bation of the a£t
" appropn'ating the money nceffary to carry- the
Britilh treaty into execution, ' I Ihonld have laid
them before the House.
All that I can fay at present, is,' that I jeceiv
e 1 tiiem with due refpeft ; that I acknowledge
the right of inftruiiing representatives ; that
1 am well pleased with the exercise of that right by
my condiments ; «ven when they may differ from
my own sentiments ; that whenever a majority of
them lhall think proper to inftruft ire, I shall o
bey their inltru&iens, except in a cafe, in whieh I
may think my oath to support the constitution of
the United States would be violated ; or the dear
est rights of the United States at large would be ma
terially injured ; or, when 1 may be certain, that
i£.my e<intUt««tit# knew all tHs circumstances ref
pedting \he cafe, they would cither leave me to the
exercise of my own judgment, or would inftruft me
to vote in the very manner I intended. And I
can add with fineerity, that 1 am glad that the de
cifionofthe House of Representatives was agreea
ble to the wifhesof such of my ennftituents as have
aridteffedme ; because 1 believe lels itieonveniirn
cies will be the confequenee of the adoption of the
Britilh treaty than a reje&ion of it, all circumftan
fiances considered 5 and 'principally the impatience
and irritability of the minds of many of its advo
cates ; and because I think it willfurnilh a proof
that its oppoferswere not enemies to the constituti
on, or of peace and order and good government.—
I chearfully submit to the decision of the majority,
and pray that the good effects which they have pre
dicted from the treaty, may be evident to our fel
low citizcns, and that 1 may have reason to confefs
that my fears were but the phantoms of a democra
tic imagination. lam with every sentiment of r«f
pc£t and affection for my conftitucnts and fellow*
citizens.
Dear Sir, their and
Your most obedient servant,
JOHN PAGE.
Totheßev. John Bracken,!
Williamlburg. J
BY THIS DAY'S MAIL.
NEW-YORK, June 2.
Arrived at this port.
DAYS.
Brig Mary, Blackford, Savannah
' Elfa, King, St. Mary's (G) 7
Dolphin, Morris, Falmouth, J. 19
Friendftiip, Tracey, St. Croix
Union, Smith, Jeremie
Schooner John, Rice, Gonaives
Friendlhip, , Montferrat
Return, Morca, Kingston (J.J 18
C l EARED.
Snow Minerva, Boudgt, Amfterd;:m
Betsey, More, Weft-Indies
The ship Otfego, Clarke, of New-York, was
spoke March 20, lat. 35, S. long. 15, for Dc-laeo
Bay. (j ,
Brig Eliza, Wood, of this port, was spoke with
May 1 j, lair. 38, long. 64, bound to Demarara.
Brig Nancy, Capt. Cotton, arrived »t Jamaica,
j May all well, from New-London.
Brig Daphne, Capt. Savage, also arrived at
Kingston, Jamaica, from New London ; also, the
ichooner Comet, Butler, from ditto.
Brig Hannah, Capt. Seymour, was fafe at Ber
muda the 16th of May, bound to Barbadoes.
BOSTON, May 28.
A correspondent who narrowly obfertrd the com
mencement and progress of the late revolution, can
not help remarking the ftrikiag Gmilatity betweeD
the predictions of evil to arise from the treaty with
Great-Britain, made in the Chronicle, at the pre
sent day, and the denunciations of ruin, misery and
distress which were poured out in the tory papers
before the war. If we would not submit to a fo
reign influence, if we would not forfake the Con
gress which arose from the people theinielves, and
in short, give ourselves up to the diredtion and go.
vernment of these people and their party,we were to
be miferahlc and wretched. Every evil from Pan
dim's box was to be emptied upon us. Wlien they
found that all their arts had no effeti to disunite the
people, they then contented themfrlves with la
menting over the distress and ruin which was loon
to come upon us. Is not this a perfect refemblanoe
of the present language of the Chronicle ? The
tories were disappointed in their expectations j the
supporters of will be disappointed in
theirs ; and this country will (land free and inde
pendent, without regarding any foreign influence.
In the meantime your correspondent pities those
men who must fee ruin aud distress come upon their
country, or clfe be deeply mortified by the failure
of their predictions.
Thjs Cadets,
Wp before mentioned, did the military duty of
Eli&ion Day. They diaed together; and the
following elegant and patriotic Toasts were cordi
ally drank.
The day—-May it annually purify the bodies it
renovates.
George IVafbington— a Name beyond Eulogy.
The Vice President of the United Siatea—When
Wajlington reeedes from upholding the How World,
may this Atlas balance our sphere.
The Governor of this Commonwealth—May
hie age be refpeitablc as his youth was ufeful.
TbsCongrefs of the United States—An eternal
Session to its Wisdom and Viitue.
The People of the United States—May their
Love of good Government continue commensurate
with their Love of Liberty.
Our glorious Ally, the Republic of France-
May an energetic operation of her present Consti
tution evince, that a nation, having thrown off a
Tyranny of ages, is capable of Happiness under a
Government of the People.
American Commerce—A free importation of
the Wealth of Europe; but perpetual interdiction
to her Politics.
The memory of the late Governor Bo<wdrin, the
Patron and Parent of the Cadet Company.
Fayette—May Liberty speedily visit her favorite
Son.
Capt.,Harris, from Tndia, mentions, that he was
informed from two prows, that reached North-Is
land, from Batavia, while he lay there, that the
French had taken the Cape of Good Hope. This
News appears extraordinary when compared with
other recent information, from that place.
Eight English country (hips had been captured
by the French in the Streights of Malacca. Ohe
only was retaken.
A gentleman from Oftend, informs us, that Ci
tizen Barney's privateer lately captured two colliers
and a transport with Highlander* on board. Ci»
her return from the cruize (he was attacked by tine
English cutters, mounting in the whole 32 guns;
and notwithstanding her being weakened by nan.
ning the prizes, after a fhoi t fojjagement (he beat
them off, and arrived fafe prizes.
Capt. Barney, is appointed to the command of a
French 64 gun (hip.
The Decius Corvette of the French Republic
has captured 7 or 8 British veflels, one of them was
a 10 gun schooner, from Halifax, which had ort
board an aid-de-camp of Prince Edward's, son of
the king of England.
Yesterday afiernoon, John Coffin Jones, Efq
in a polite letter to the Prelident of the Senate, de
clined serving as Senator ; not wishing, as he 013-
served, to hold an office independent of the fuffra
ges of the People.
Yesterday failed for London, the Minerva, Capt.
Turner. PafTengers, Christopher Gore, Esq. Com
miffioncr from the United States to fettle the Ami
rican claims for British spoliations.—Mrs. Gore,'
his lady, William Tudor, Esq. MefTrs. Thomas
Brewer, Levi Pearce, Edward Blake, William
Skinner, and James Carter.
Arrived schooner Nabby, Allen, Bourdeaux, 46
days. Spoke' May 7, long. 45, brig Fly, 14 days
from hence. May 13, long. 55, spoke a ship 12
days from hence for France.
Schooner Fanny, Waters, Point-Petrc,
Guadaloupe. Spoke, lat. 40, 30, long. 68, schoo
ner Polly, Perkins, 2 days from Kennebec for Do
miniqne.
Ship India Packet, Manfize, Canton, 130
days. March 29, lat. 35, 34, S.long. 15, 38, E.
spoke (hip Otfwego, Clark, from New-Yoik for
Delago bay, eut 3 months. < '
Schouner Betsey, Low, Gambia, 42 days.
Sailed in co. schooner Delight, Gibbs, of Provi
dence, with 30 (laves on boatd, bound down the
coast. May 4, lat. 25, 39,'10ng, jt, 18, spoke
brig Riling Sun, Noble, 37 days from Portfmoutl*
for Demarara. May 15, lat. 38, 10, long. 64, 25,
spoke brig Eliza, Woed, 5 days from New York
for Demaiara. May 16, lat. 39, 35, long. 66, 30,
spoke schooner Diligent, Spoouer, 8 days frora
Bolton for Martinique.
Arrived schooner Active, Pote, Mastiniquc, 21
days.
Ship Wifcaflet, Stetson, Liverpool jo days
April 23, lat. 44, 48, and long. 32, 30, spoke (hip
Margaret, Wm. Henderfon, matter, 5 months and
[r. 2 days from Bombay to London. Aptil 29,
lat. 44, 28, long. 32, 30, spoke brig Margaret,
from Lisbon to Befton, 17 days out. May 12,
lat. 42, 26, N. long. 52, 00 W. spoke a (hip
from Piovidence, J. Brown} sr.after, bound ta
Bre(t.
May 29. x
Arrived, Ship Hancock, Goodwin, 36 days
from St. Übes. Left there (hip Harmony, Winch,
for Bolton. Capt. Winch spoke a dismasted trarrf
port of the Wett-India with troops, previ«
ous to his arrival, and towed her into St. Übes.
Brig Verus, Fields, failed 11 days bejore capt. G.
for this port ; and capt. Towns 3 days, also for
Bolton. Spoke Biig Industry, from Philadelphia,
bound te Cadiz.