js-'H —-—
V biladelpijia,
MONDAY EVENING, June 13. J*?6. |,a
Thr Prelident and family left town this morn- •
j.ig, for Mount-Vernon.
CAUT T 0 N
To Merchants and other Citizens of the United Stales >'
THE advices icceived by Captain O'Brien
from Colonel Humphrey*, at I.ifbon, (hew that
i'. f temporary otjßacles to a fulfilment of the ni-
puWions on the part of the United States with *
•the Dey and Regency of Algiers, are not yet re- ™
moved. The treaty itfelf being put in jeopardy, ' e
by these unexpected delays, the flfety of Amen- <*'
, :<n veffeU entering the Mediterranean lias become S 1
ex'rertKly precariou3. It (hould aKo he remember- V
eV-thal no»r*jty h« e»er yet been made between ir
i!i; United States and tlic governments of 7 ;?p ol ' te
,J Tunis. Merchants and other, citizens of the *
United States will hence lee the hazard to which tc
th?y will expose their property and the liberty of lr
•W fellow citizens, by engaging, in the present
(late of filings, in commerce within the Straits of J c
•Gibraltar. P
Department of State, Tivornr Pickering, (1
June 8, 1796. Secretary of State.
Copy of a letter from Caot. James Moore, of the
Ihip Harmonyv of this port, on thei"iib"e£t of a t ;
patent Machine, invented by 'Benjamin Wynkoop,
for pumping foul air otit of the holds of (flips, «
by the motion of the fiiip at fee. 1
Hamburgh, 51 h April, 179^'
" Dear Sir,
« It will no doubt be pleasing to you, and be- ri
lieve fae it is exceedingly gratifying to me, to ad "
vise yoir of my entire approbation of the Machine "
conftru£ted and fixed by you on board the (hip P
Harmony. It lias fully answered my moll sanguine P
■*pe£tatioiis, and I feel happy in herewith recom- tj
mending it to general .use, as its principle is calcu '
lated-to be benefit aiKlfVrvice to Ifcau- 11
kind. It mull be invaluable on board (hips in long c
voyages, which Have pafiTengers on board ; and •>
where there may be caigoes liable to periftt by heat, e
it's utility when more generally known, rauft be ac- '
knowledged. I would advise in your future con- v
fiiwStions, an addition of at lead fix pounds more 1
weight to the pendulum, than was affixed to mine, n
as in the worfi weather I had during my pafiage f
here, the motion was hardly fufficient, which will j
be remedied by the addition «f weight recommend- 1
•d. I
1 am with refpeft, Sir, '
Your molt obedient servant, v
JAS. MOORE. '
Benjamin Wynkoop, Esq. j
CHARLESTON, May 30. * <
Mtffi-8. Freneau & Paine, 1
Your inserting the following may be of use to 1
all purchasers of distilled fpirfts, who do not know :
ho* 1 to prove the strength of thtm ; thire are many '
modes of trying the proof, but I believe all to be
fallible and uncertain that I have fcen u'fed, except 1
one that 1 difcovoed foEitxears „agQ—which-! be.
lieve to be known to no one e!fe, as 1 have never
heard it mentioned ; it is infallible, and simple.
Take half a pint of spirits in a cup or tumbler, take
a small quantity of clean cotton, lay it as (light as
poflible on the furface of the liquor ; if your spirits
be good proof, the cot-oil will fink immediately to
the bottom ; add a little water to it, and the cotton
will tife. Thomas Singleton.
JJxtmft from the minutes of the Society for the re
lief of di fire (Ted prisoners. New-York, 6th of
June, 1796.
" Leonard Bleecker reported, that he had re
ceived 18 dollars from Thomas Nixon, being fees
of sundry petty juries of the Supreme Court in A
.ptil term.
Twelve Ciillings from Joseph Griffiths, il. lis.
from Andrew Stockholm, it. is. from Gurdon
Mutjiford, and il. 15s. from Ephraim Kart, the
whole of which are fees from different juries at the
last Mayor's Court.
Also, 51. 4s. from Robert Benfon, presented to
"him by the jury of the last Circuit Court, for ths
•use of this society.
John Murray jun. reported that he had received
>61. »58. from federal juries in the Mayor's Court,
a 6 donations to this Society ."
Published by order of the Society.
JACOB MORTON.
INDIA.
PERJURY PREPENSE.
Perjury to be made a capital crime, parti
cularly in this country, where the natives will {tick
at nothing to accoinplifh interested or malicious
purpofet. The following recent instance evinces
the truth of our observation :
On .Saturday last, a number of Lascars belong
ing to tiie grab snow Generous Friends, preferred
-a charge of murder againlt Mr. Welch, the Chiet
«)Hicer. They swore, that after beating a Lafear
to death, h* had thrown his body overboard.
Capt. Spatrow, the Commander of the grab,
however, keeping a haivke's eye on the proceedings,
-made so fuccefsful a fcarch after the supposed mur
dered man, that he found out his lurking place on
ounday, and Mr. Welch was difeharj>ed fiom cuf.
tody.
A similar circumdance, where the Faree of the
" Dead Alive" was attempted to be a&ed, hap.
j eneJ some years ago, in a battalion of nafive inf«n.
try, while on the line of match.
Juit at the officers had breakfafled, an immense
< roud of natives advanced, fhontiflg and caliin" out
i-.r ju(licc. At length the 'body of a man, appa
.cully murdered, covered with a bloody cloth, was
Lid before the entrance of the tent -The father
mother, uncles, aunts, brothers, &c. of the deceaf
attended to picve the identity of the murder-
The battr.lion was ordered out, and feveralofthe
pop h?d a quairel in the Bazar, weie fixed
'■j '• The neeetT.iry difpofitions.werc msking for
• ■•iiflg Uic wuoeffet and Sepoys down to Calcutta,
«n:.en ouc the you-g fuoalicrs (a a Hibernian, j
sar SSfb,
apfetting all .he ne.r that Hood ft. %
way, and was Toon out of fig '*• ev . t
For ths Gazette of the Unittd SrATts. ne
working ful'i a wonderful change in the mm g
the editor of the Aurora, as to induce h'.m to cc>
feft publicly, that " the private chara«#fs an, con-
dust of men have never with prepay d J
ged before the t.ibunal of the press ? F... fr
vou s«sny I trom yoi* wbo Have teen the n>
ment of flaying and flittering more paivate charac
ters than any man in the u.non ; from you who
a few weeks-fince aimed a (tab at the private charac- []
ter of the ftrft man in the nation—a stab, which
indeed was innocent, because the character was in
vulnerable, but which you would evidently have re
joiced to render mortal; from you, in a wori.,whole ]y
papei is notoriously the gibbet of reputation C
from you to have extorted such a coijfelSon as this cc
would be some cause of triumph, if it were not ne- , t h
ceflary, in order to a triumph, that an adveriary ev
(hould have more prowess and be of more impor- at
tance than mine. _ w
You (till ft rive to evade the whole fubjeft on
which I have any controveify with you. All I hi
have aflerted is that such vicious men as I have j,;
heretofore named (and it matters not whether their rc
vices belong to their private or to their public cha. ei
rafter) ought not to be received as authorities 011 c ,
' moral or religious fubjefts. To this you have made d
no reply ; but have been laboring to convince the e(
public that I have made my aiTertions wholly with b
political views. Yet of this you have not offered n ,
the lliadow of a proof and are not able to produce tl
the femblarice of a prcfutnption from any thin^
tiSve wrimrrr. —The truth is, youTuppoTed that the
character of your friends was more defenfibje on po- ti
litical, than on moral ground, and therefore have
endeavored to draw to the former of these giounds 1
the whole controversy. But what will you fay, n
when 1 tell you as I now do mith perfect truth that 0
the politicaf fentimentsof the men who have been a
mentioned (I mean as they are delivered ia their e
books) are, in general, my own feniiments: and n
that I most fineerely wi(h they may always prevail
in this country. Nevet did you miltake your man t
more than in ftippoling me the tool of a political (,
faiftion. lam not, and never will be, connected si
with party politick in any way. I have not, K
never had, any personal connection wilh, interest in, e
or partiality for, any man in power, or for any who _
have ban iu the adminiltration —I wish you could c
fay as much. If you are acquainted with any of
the vices (and I think you are with some) of the c
, men who have at any time filed placet of public trujl, \
, and if the exposing of these vices will serve as valua- e
r hie a purpose as that which I have endeavored to 1
; promote by exposing those of your friends, 1
t call upon you—l challenge you, to come forwaid t
and j(K6iofe. them. TffiitS moll rtjoicc t«r ~i
r fe-e the men, whoever they may be, receive the 1
ihaftifement they deserve . And (hould you even i
. publilh these vices (on the supposition they exist) (
5 not from any views of the public good, which I <
, believe you do not much regard, but from personal I
j lancour, by which lam sure you are much influ- (
1 enced, it ill you will touch none of my lenfibilities. 1
I (hall only beforry that propriety is violated, that I
you have added to the number of your follies and
_ misdemeanors—Believe me,it is not my misfortune, 1
f as it is your's, that a man can anger and torment-jr.e 1
by exposing the vices of my fiiends. If it were,
. I would not provoke any man to do it. I have
s now done with you forever. Better people than
Mr. Bache will, it is hoped, be led by what has
pafled between us, to diitinguifh between a politi
cian and an injidious infidel; and while they approve
n the principles whieh a man advances in the one of
e these characters, be careful not to imbibe but to de
e telt those, which he advocates in the other.
A. B.
o Erratum in the last publication of A. B.—At
s the close of the last sentence but one, instead
of—"; it is the anchor of the'foul," omit the point
d and read "as the anchor of the foul."
COMMUNICATION.
The Agents of Mifchief, the Enemies of the
Peace and Piolperity of the United State?, are not
to be checked in their career of Abufeaiid Calumtjy,
by any confideratio:.s whatever. This is confirma
tive ot an old faying, that " the Cup of Felicity,
i- pure and unmixed, is by no means a draught for
k mortal mam to drink."
is Though all our senses have borne teflimony to the
es wisdom and patriotism with which our public affairs
have been conduced, tho the people have fp»n
r. taneoufly, explicitly, and publicly awarded their
:d approbation of the adminiltration ; thoagh they
et have unequivocally declared that they prefer a (late
ar of peace to a (late of war—a (tale of tranquility,
secured by the operation of just and equal laws, to
t>, a (late of turmoil, anarchy and uncertainty-—Yet,
s, certain envious, leftlefs, and disappointed tools of
r- a foreign influence, continue to persecute the public
m patience, by reviling the administration, and traduc
f- mg the people.
1 hefe Agents of Mifchief assume the garb ""of
le patriots, while they aft in diredt opposition.to the
p- avowed fenie of the people,• as expressed by their
n- constituted authorities in their icfpe&ive Legisla
ture. 1 hey abuse those very measures of the ge
fe' neial government which the people approve, and
lit they applaud the principles of those vei y men whom
a- the people exclude from their Councils,
as
r, Extraß of a letter from Augufia—May 20.
if- \ ouis of the fourth of May I have received ;it
x- contains matter which is truly interesting, and
grateful to mv feelings. The vote of supplies for
le carrying the British Treaty into full effed, has
;d operated like a ehaim upon all the molt refpe£tab'le
ir part ot the community ; and many who were avow
a, ed enemies to the Treaty before it became the fu ■
,) prcme law of the land, were as avowed advocates
... - rr,. > ■ ftcv if liars cur
SM6W* b "" 5
for the vxpopu'h bur evcy y» > , ~e . me
hits ft-on* p.oofs to my mind, Uml vti. fcc
filing Ln artfully iVi/.e every occasion which
pref«nt| i-Mf to \njlame l'uc h ubl,c rmnd, and«»
even i» hazard the peace, welfare, a*d l.appi- rw
ness of the government, to gratify pnvnU, revenge*
ful, and ambitious purposes.—Under th.s conv
'ion, I am clear the vices of men mud he reft rained ,
;„d I fear this can only be effefled by energjr u Be
' government and Uvs. The diforgani«« ,n Georgia
are daily dec.easing, and the fr.endi to the govern- th«
ment are con^ P 1 " 0^1 an
BY THIS DAY'S MAIL. cft
NEW-YORK, Juneii. qj
[Ey the Loeds Packet, from Liverpool, arrived
i last Thursday, in 43 dajrs.] in
- PARIS, April 18.
It was while the foutll of Europe was exclusive-
■■ ly attached to the war against France, that the
- Courts of Vienna, of Peterfburgh, and London,
s concluded that famous reaty of Alliance, of which
- .the invasion of Poland was the prelude. This
' event, so important in itfelf, has not turned the
• attention of a Tingle Power of Europe from the r
war they carry on againlt France. , . is
1 It has been demanded what part Great-Britain
1 has to t:ke in the invasion of the Ottoman empire
: bv Russia. The writers clearly fee, that no tender or
r regard for th« Emprefa would lead that Power to a )|
• engage in a bufniefi from which no particular goud
> could rcfult to hevfelf; they tbetefore concluded
e that the part (he takes is positive and real. This re
e eonclufion, however, has been filled chimetical pj
1 but the chimera will bee° m:: reality, if Europe do m
not recover from the delirium of its rage against
c the Fiench Republic,and the Ottoman empire will p
{ yrrry " t ■.».L . ~T
f Austria will obtain an aggrandizement of terri
" torv near the center of ker hereditary (late:!, and
ein the neighbourhood of Hungary or Tyrol— m
8 furkifh Cra6tia, Dalmatia, would approach her ai
» nearer the Adriatic Sea, which she touches now ta
1 only in the port of Trieste ; and we know that tc
n any thing which conduits her nearer Italy, the v;
r eternal object of lier ambition, pleases her infi
d nitely. bi
il It is hiphly worthy observation, that this ambi- a j
n tious house has never yet infilled llrongly with Ruf- ri
'I fia, that her fl\are of Poland should be ttriftly de- f r
d fined. Peihaps this may be deferred by cenfcnt J
until the success of the invasion of the Ottoman rt
•i empire be known—and we have read this year back f (
0 —that by an eventual treaty of partition, the a
d court of Petei(burgh would have for its share, the k
J f Turkish provinces to the call, as far as the western
ie coaAs of the Adriatic. It is easy to fee thus how t ,
the Republic of Venici would run a rifle of being
enveloped in the mighty dtsfign of the two Impe- j
° lial Courts. ii
1 England, who probably cares little for there
d mining Coifica, and who notwithftandin2_keejJJLa_
'■v -fleeTTol (hips ot the lineTeTTfre Mediteiranean, a
ic meditates, beyond a doubt, some important obje£t ]f
in in consequence of her new treaty with the Imperial r
1) Courts. With remarkable tenacioufnefs during a „
I century, it mud be observed, she has retained Gi p
al bfaliar, which gives her the command of the Me- 0
n- diterranean. She has fuccefiively occupied Minor- a
:s. ca and Coifica, ts have in fadt her'hand always a
at stretched out to the commerce of the Levant. c
id Now sole mistress ot India and Bengal, she is
e, more than ever induced to open the (hortelt course {
r.e to her commerce with tie Ganges and Indoftas by a
e» the Red Sea, and the Iflhmus of Suez. v
ve England has therefore calculated her advantages ,
an in being able to covcr with heV ships the seas of
as Constantinople and Greece, when the vidtorious
ti- RulHans (hall be received under the protection of
ve her flag, no doubt some solid and imposing elta
t>[ blifhment, either in Candia, in Crete, or in the
le- Morea.
Such an invasion would cause so immense an al
teration in the political fyflem, that one is amazed c
at the ina£lion of the powers of Europe, and their c
id Ii 1 tie care to prevent the deftruttion of the Orto- r
nt man empire not being as speedily effected as that
of Poland. The present war nmft have annihilat- 3
ed all political forefight, that we permit an alio
nifhing revolution to be accompliflied without im- J
he pediment, and of which all Europe is to be
lot come the theatre and the »i£lim.
1 1
m! LONDON, Ap.il 23. 1
y, Colonel St. Leger is going out immediately to '
for India with a principal command.
he The redoubted M. de PuifTaye, a principal agi- 1
irs tator of the Quiberon expedition, is not dead, as (
m- has been reported to the French diredtory. It was
eir said that he fell in an engagement with the Re- '
ley publicans in La Vendee; but a gentleman, on
ite whose authority we can rely, allures us, that *he '
ty, now commands a column of Cliouans near
to res, in the department of Lisle and Vilaine ; and '
et, that there are letters ia London from him, inviting '
of several emigrants to join him, and rally once more
ilic round the standard of royalty.
lie- M. de PuifTaye was originally the servant, but
lately the friend and coadjutor of the famous Count 1
'of St. Morys, cidevant comptroller of Snanee, coun- '
the fell6r of the Patliament of Pans, and a relation of '
leir the equally famous Monf. de Calonne.
fla- PuifTaye is well known to most of the emigrants
ge- in London ; and aflifted his maftcr, St. Morys, in
ind a paper manufadory in Sloan-ftreet. For a further
001 illustration of his chara&er, we refer those who are
interested tothe French Princes, Count Metcnicht
and Marshal de Broglie, Lord Engin.
Captain Markham was preknted to the King by
;it his father, the Archbishop of York, for the fir it
ind time since his ai rival from the Weft-Indies, where
for he commanded the Hannibal of 74gonSjand was
fias very graciously received by his Majelty, who con
b'le vcrfed with him some minutes.
>w-
fu ■ LONDON, April 12.
tes It is expeSed the Bengal government would pro-
cure 15,000 tons of (hipping, for the purp,.l e 9 e
brmgiug home Rice. Snbfcriptions have been en .
tered into m India to procure grain from all quar"
;ers to fend to Europe ; and the Bombay govern"
ment w;re taking up (hips with all expedition, for "
litnilar purpose. '
From the Cape we learn that there had been 4
remaikable fine harvelt. Columbo h.ul furrend* r .
Ed, and one entire regiment had laid dawn
arms ; Ceylon is therefore intifely in onr poffcffio,,
The following is the dispersion of t!ie houft- ~c
Bourbon ot
The daughter of Louis XVI. is at Vienna, : n
the palace of her maternal ancestors.
The elded brother of Lotiis XVI. is 9 t Veroaa,
and the pnncefs his wife ai a villa nea: Turin
The second hrother of Louis XV'l. with histM
eft son, is at Edinburgh ; hit wife at Turin • ','s
second son at the head quarters of Conde'saimv
Ober-Buhl. ' " l
The prince de Conti lives at a country house : n
the fouchern part of France ; his wife is at Fribu 'r
in Switzerland.
The filler of Louis XVI. princess royal of Sar. *
dinia, is at Turin ; the Mefdame9, ladies of Frame
daughters of Lotiis XV. reside at Rome.
The Theatre of the rue Feydeau is re-opened •
with an order that no song (hall be sung thai is not
announced in the bills. The advice of Shakt>
fpeare is mr.de a decree of State—
" Let thole who play your Clowns j speak no more than
is set down for them."
STOCKHOLM, April 12 . : ?* ,
Since yesterday the mmolt expedition is u s e d
order to get the ga'lies that lay here ready forfca
all the officers belonging to the regiments of Fi,!
land have already disappeared, and thoie of the BWe.
di(h regiments are alio directed to set out for th ir
refpeftive stations. Even the garrison of the Ca
pital has received orders to be ready to march at a
moment's warning, and considerable sum* in cash
have been transmitted to the commander nichief of
' Finland.
' Ibe lollowing extra ft of a lettfr appeareJTn the
Gazette of the 9th hi If.
1 "I am furpiized to find by your letters that tu
' moursof war have spread far in the piovin.es before
any thing of that kind was fufpefted in the capi.
tal, yet this is not more furpiizmg than to feelet
-1 ters from. Italy, dated in February last, which a,!.
•' vance with confidence, that about this time Swe
• den would be embroiled in a war with her neigh
bours. However things now bear a very ftrious
' afpedt. It is known, that not without weighty
" reasons, the troops of Finland arc hastening tothe
" frontiers, and that the whole Swedilh army, ihefol
-1 diers employed on hoard the fleet excepted, are
1 reidy to march But who could refufe stepping
: forward in defence of his cbuiftiy, since we have
e already been informed that our young ind tcWd
= king will lead us on against out enemy
1 The courier arrived on tbe loth has brought in.
• telligence that hodilities have not yet commenced
I between our troops and the Ruffians, neither have
" the latter entered our frontiers which in gcnwal are
in a very refpedtable ttate of defence.
, : We hear that the negociations for an alliance bet
-3_ mean France n»<i tkc Porte at c tirdrt*u»g t-cnict lb
• a conclusion. The articles are bottomed on the
known capitulation of the sth January, 1740, and
'1 refpeft has been had therein tothe late treaty »f •
a alliance between Sweden and the Porte. It was
probably for this ieafoß, that Count Lowenhielm
our ambafTador at the Hague repaired to Paris to
' afiGH the Baton de Stael in fettling the matter as far
s as it relates tu Sweden. By this tiealy ilis intend
• ed to defeat the object of the triple alliance between
s the two Imperial courts and England. The French
c Minister Verninac has by his loyal conduct gained
y a decisive ascendancy over the Rsfis Effendi Ratib
who will certainly not fail to support ihs French m
tereft very powerfully.
IS BOSTON, June 8.
>f ■ . ■ - v.
LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS.
e Yesterday the House went into conlideration of
a bill, reported by a joint committee, and pa.Ttd
I in the Senate, providing for the choice of Eleflnu
j of Piefident and Vice President. By this report,
j each dithidt is to choose an Elector, in the fatr.e
; manner as the Reprefentatiws are chofc/V-eJ&^piy
two, who are to be elcfted by the Legislature, w'no
' are also to (ill up vacancies. A motion was mads
by Mr. Coleman, to commit this report, tor the
purpose of referring the choice of the whole r.utn»
ber of Electors to the Legiflatiire, and a confide! ■*
able debate ensued. It was argued by Mess. Co;e«
man, Codman, Cooper, and otheis, in
favorof the commitment, that the people in man>-
diflrifts had been inattentive to the town-meeting
and indifferent to this right—that the President re«
presented the Rates, and as in the event of a Uilme
in the elesion, by a major'ty ot votes, if isprovn.
Ed by the Conflitution, that the voUs in Congre.s
" (hall be given by states; the propriety of foch an
arrangement in the fittt instance wns conlcn e.» o 1 •
C " On the other hand, although the contlitutional ngh*
" of the Legifl ture to choose the whole number <*
Electors, wa6 admitted by Dr. Eufli#» Col. arne.p
and other geullemen, it was insisted upon the ground
of expedience, the report (hould be accept® • c
was then urged by Mr. Otis, that if the mo e*
opted in 1788 was revived, whereby the penp e e«
f lefted double the number of Electors, from wh.clt
the Lefiiflaiuit made the final choice-, . e 0 J',
r of gentlemen 011 both fides, the qieibou mb 1
e attained. , t
The question for commitment was loft, and tie
ts House concuried with the Senate, with ome
j n ling amendments.
er artillery commemoration*
he On Monday, the 158 th anniversary
tion of officer, of tne Ancient and rionoraUe^
3y tiflery Company, w3B the lemony of
rit military arrangemenis of the cay, _, n d.
re receiving a Standard, presented by the —d
as ing officer, quarter-mafter-jien. Davis, w„
Tb, h -"«
house, formed in open order, wlu
.h, general, Mis- Catherine Davi S ,a.drffd th
e „R^,wh o attended efcor.ed by '
■0- prelcotiiig him with the colours, as folio •