hundred families arc. reduced, by this difaner, is f easier to be conceived than described, or how nnm- I bers of them will be able to obtain places to ihelter thcmlelves from the vieifliuide of the seasons, is hard to fay. Still it is to be hoped that the citi zens whose houses have ef vped the flames, will cx ertthemfelves as they havehere oforedone when like csflamities have visited the city, in providing for them such accommodations as may be in their pow er to afford. Whether this misfortune is the effe£t of design cr accident is not yet, and perhaps never will be known ; from the examination made on the spot, where it was said to have firlt began, by the In tendant, there is reason fnppnfe it was the woik of some incendiary, but no proof is yet offered that will fix the erime 011 any person. Capt. ConoTly infoims, that the Engli<h cruifcrs have fafcen sixteen fail of American vessels coming ' from French ports, among which is the (loop Polly, belonging to Mr. Trar.holm of this city. The pretext now used for condemnation, is that every American resident in the Fiencii lflacids is a citi zen of France ; of eourfe, any pro.iuce shipped by them is a legal prize. The following intelligence is furniilied by capt. Pelftr, from Gibraltar: About the middle of April positive accounts were received at Gibraltar, from different parts of the Mediterranean, that theDey of Algiers had de clared war against the king of Denmark; that his ' crtnfers wire out, and had uken and sent to Al giers eight fail of Danish merchantmen. The Schooner Eliza, Capt. Graves, of Boston, wss boarded in the Mediterranean, on the French coast, by a vessel under national colors, which ' plundered her of a number of articles, and the fpe- | cie which her outward cargo -fold for, and which was to purchase a cargo of Brandy in Cette ; capt. c Graves was wounded in attempting to defend the 1 property ; a Mr. Rand who was also on board V and wrote an account of the tranfattion to Mr. * Simpfon, the Am rican consul at Gibraltar, receiv- . ed no personal injury. The American captives in Algiers were not re- 3 v leafed when capt. Pclor left Gibraltar ; the money 3 to redeem them had not yet been paid. The following is a lift of the Britilh fleet lying off Cadiz : Windlor Castle, Admiral Mann, 58 guns. Terrible, Captain Campbell 74 Cumberland Rowley 74 Defiance, Wells 74 Saturn, Douglas 74 Audacious, Gould 74 Blonde, Remport 32 Terpfichorej Bowen 32 Dido, Northern 32 " Castor, Bait ull 32 A sloop of war of 18 guns, and a cutter of 16 gtins. The following American vessels lay at Gibraltar when capt. Pelor left it : g Brig Rover, Smith, Baltimore ; brig Rebecca, Bruce, New-York ; brig Commerce, Downes, New-Y .rk; brig Mary Anne, Neil, New-York ; g (hip Polly and Hariiet, Abrahams, * Boston ; fchooiler Eliza, Arnold, Philadelphia. June 16. Yesterday arrived the brig Essex, Fulford, Mon tego Bay The sloop WafTiington, Clarke, from Kingston, Jamaica, arrived yetterday at Fort Johnson. j Capt. C«nnoly, from Jjrtwica, on the grh inft. spoke the brig Sally, Capt. Bradford, ofWafliing- y ton, from the Bay of Honduras.—Capt. Bradford informed he left at the Bay, Capt- Brvwn, of g Charleston, to fail for Hamburgh on the sth ; and the (hip Hopewell, of Charleftctn, loading. Yelterdiy, in fpeaknig of the fire, we mentioned * t | that upward of two hundred families, were diftreffrd thereby ; a gentleman h<s iince informed us, that lie has enumerated 253 lots, from which the build ings were Iburnt ; and as many of the lots were cov j t ' ered by tiioie than one tenantable dwelling, it is q probable uhat at least three hundied families were r rendered fcioufeleis. T P ! June 17. r Yefterilay arrived fchooncr Industry, Todd, Sa- r> vannah ; sloop William, Lufeomb, do. sloop Dove, 1. Brown, 'do. sloop Camden Packet, Simkins, St. Mary's ; brig Chritliana, Gardner, Montcgo Bay. /j By thr late arrivals we learn, that a drought has n prevailed in the island of Jamaica for fix months p ilt ; foene partial Ihowerg yad fallen, but they did not afford moiflure fufficient to revive the herbage, w ich was a; effectually deilroyed as if it had been s: burnt with tire ; the sheep and cattle, in the neigh- :j ---bmlrhood of Kingston, were supported by gtafg j; brought at a great expence from the moumains; 4, the croj> of canes, owing to this circumstance, to all D rppeaiance, would be very unproductive. Indian B corn and other grain from these states was in de- ~ mand. ~ The yellow fever still continued to be fatal to for tigners at Jamaica, particultilarly Europeans; ma oy offipers lately arrived from England had been car- _ ried ofl by it ; and the havoc made by it among the crews of the (hips equalled anything of ths kind that had been known before. J, Yetterday a benevolent citizen sent four sheep to £ the orphan house for the use of the unfortunate :8 citizens who have found an asylum in ihat building. mi In the eourfe of yetterday forenoon, attempts °, n were made to set fire to a house in Tradd ftrect, and an out budding in aichdale (Ireet ; in consequence of which the Intendant issued the proclamation CUI appears in this day's paper. Happily in t!ie each in:lance the difcoveiy was made before any ; «!amage pas dene. In the afternoon another alarm «i fire ups given. From the information of feve *°l gejiilnnen who examined the premises, and a 1. view of the building, we are fully fatisfied that there T" was nothing intentional in the latter cafe, a baker A who had been burnt out on Monday, obtained leave 10 occupy an oven in Queen street ; the oven had ™ o ° c been umjiiployed for some time ;as soon as the 1 fiie was kindled in the oven, the flue or chimney, which wai foul, took fire also, but commuiiicatea to c, ' n jgpthing t ,J.; before it wns extinguiflied. ,fa ( srjrk of south Carolina. >m- City of Chavleiton. Iter By JOHN EDWA RDS,- Intendant of the city . is CharMtoii. iti- PROCLAMATION. ex- Whereas there have been fevernl attempts made ike to set fire to the city in different placet, during the for la ft night and this tm>rnin;r; to bring the perpc )w- trators of such dreadful n£ls to speedy punishment, and to prevent a repetition of such attempt!, I do ign hereby, with the qonfent of the city council, of. be fer a reward of one thousand dollars to any person iot, who willgive information of any person or persons In that may have been concerned in any such attempt : of to be paid on conviction of the person or persons. bfat And it is hereby earnestly recommended to the in habitants, that they be watchful in their yards -and era out houses, that any future attempts may be fruf ng trated. ly, Given under mv hand and the seal of the corpo he ration, nt Charleton, this fixtcenth day of ■!y June,-in the yrar of our Lord one thousand iti- seven hundred and ninety lix,and in the twen ty tieth year of the *S >vereij> nty and Indepen dence of the United States of America, pt. JOHN EDWARDS, Intendant. By order of Council, us P. RONNETHEAU, C. C. of Jnne 18. Ie- STATE OF SOU 1 H CAROLINA. lis By his excellency Arnoldus Vandei hortt, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the State aforefaid, , n A PROCL A M \TIOM. ch Whereas sundry attempts have been made lately ch to rc t0 l ' ie ciryofCharJefton, in consequence |e _ whsreof the Intendant and Wardens of the City of Charlcfton hav-» offered a considerable reward for the y detection of the parties concerned therein ; Ido I therefore as a fu-|tier encouragement for this difco r£j very, and in order to bring the perpetrators of such r r atrocions offences to condign punifhment,hereby of •v fer a FULL and FREE PARDON to any per son or persons concerned in the commiflion of the aforefaid crimes, who shall give any information j and tettimony against any other person or persons who were accomplices, or any way concerned in making the above attempts, so that the person or peefons be convi<£led thereof by due eourfe of law. Given under my hand and seal of the State, in |S the city of .Charlcfton, this feventcenth day of June, in the year of our lord one thousand se ven hundred and ninety-fix, and of the Inde pendence of the United States of America the twentieth. ARNOLDUS, (\. M . s.) VANDERHORST. By the governor's command. Stephkn Ravfnal, Secretary. —^a——w—wa—«—aw—,l mu w->cra«Mr<Tr-=c -***** Philadelphia, June 29. —— k arrivals at this port. ar . Pays Ship Eliza, Beffom Kingston 28 a ' Fair American, Welsh Botton 8 s ' Ship Raven, Caffin, Cadiz j6 ' Sloop Polly, Gladding R. lilar.d CLEARED. Brig Harriet, Buike Trinidad Sloop Planterj Hammond N- Providence Harriet, Navarro N. Yoik Ranger, Rogers do. '' Arrived at Fort Mifflin, Brig Sufannah,Maxwell, Jamaica, 26 iaysconfigd ed to Sam. Lehart and Co Sch'r Virginia Packet, Rush, N. Providen.e, 10 days ; P'nrrfted and M'Call. ' Sloop New York and Philadelphia Packet, Hunt Demarara, 31 ; Pratt & Kintzing. | * Capt. Beffom of the ship Eliza, inform?, that on the 23d inlt. he was boarded by the Spencer Britilh u (loop of war, and treated politely. The Spencer j 1 afterwards (leered for the Capesof Virpinia. The captain lent two men on board the Eliza, belong ing to the flopp Polly of C arlefton, from Aux ls Caves, which he captured the 6th inlt. and sent e for Bermudas. The Eliza being very leaky, was on that account permitted to pass the'fort. Capt. Caffin failed the 2d May, left at Cadiz the Brig , Capt. Smith of New-York, from Ire laud, June IJ, spoke a brig from Baltimore to Bar bad.ies, name unknown. June 19. L,at. 31,32, was r " boarded by a Briiifh Frigate, and treated politely. The frigate was from Bermuda, on a cruifc, but capt, C. could not lear.i her name. STOCKS. Six per Cent. 17/6 . >* Three per Cent, ------ - 10/6 / '"a Is perCent lib ( j ; 4 s per Cent. T^4 _) 5 ]j Deferred Sis per Cent. .... 13/7 to 8 n BANK United States, - - - 27 pr. cent. •. 1 P«nnfylvariia, - 30 ' ' ■ — North \merica, - - - - 48 to 50 fnfurance Comp. North-America, 55 Pennsylvania, I a Exchange, at 60 days, ... i6jt»T66l-3 j 1 wenty Doliars Reward. RAN away from the Subscriber, living near Hartijfburgh, countv of Dauphin, and State of Pcnnfylvania, on Sun da Y» 5 1 ' 11 A NEGRO M N, nsmrd SAM, about 17 or * *8 years ftf'agt, 5 fee;t, 7or 8 inches high; has no particular \ mark, but apt to look down when <»harged with a fault. Had ( s on and took away, a home-made cloth coat, and ovqalis oi the fame, striped jean jacket, felt hai, almoin new, calf {kin 1 ihoes, and white shirt. ( : The above reward will be paid to any person who will fe- c , cure said in any goal, so that his master may hear of v the lame, and tealonable charges pair!, if brought home to RICHAKD DKARMOND. x June *eodjw c i; — { t ifty Dollars Reward. « LOST, c THE last evening, between 5 and 7 o'clock, a larged Red t MOROCCO POCKET-BOOK, containing 20 or Hand (inclosed in a Parchment) to a confid«rable a- 1 mount. Also, sundry papers, Certificates "of 6 per cent. 1 liock, a deed of a houfeand lot in Middletown, Ac. See.See. Ihe above reward will be paid on delivering the fame t® k the l'i inter hereof. Asiiisol confcqucnce lo the owu ei, it Mhoped it will not be withheld. 'l he paymciit oi the Note* i&Aopped. June ?9 ■ GLEANINGS y From late Hamburgh pnptrt. TranJlateJfor the Gaz ETTEofthe United States * BORDERS of the MEIN, April 4. Gen. Jourdar, being hurt hy a fa!! from his horse , keeps his room at Cologne, but holds frequent con r> terences with the other commander*. The officers of the War Department at Cologne are occupied 11 even to late hours, ar night. The faci ifices which s the inhabitants between the Meufe and Rhine were ; obliged to comply with since they were conqnered . by the French, are calculated in a late publication at 257 millions 5*7,000 livres specie. ] Several mercantile hotifes at Cologne have to con tribute 1000 crowns to the late requisition imposed on that city. . FJiOM THE UPPER RHINE. f April 5. J We learn by letters from Laufanre that madame . Stahl there displays democratical principles, keep . ing no interoourfe with the ariffocratical party, but on good terms with the cunftinuionalilts, partieu larly with Alexander Lameth and Adrian Duport, who at once appeared again in Switzerland. Nec ker lives in the ftri&eft retirement at Capet in a me lancholy humour, deliv?ringmonologuesfor an houis time to his deceased wife. And so little is he con r cerned about politics that he even negle&j reading : newspapers. BRUSSELS, April t 4 . The cities Brussels, Aloft, and Dendermonde are to be declared in a (fare of (iege. • It was published to the troops In garrison here, that they in future (hall receive their pay at a fixed i value, to wit, in mardats or afilgnats at 30 livres 1 for one. 1 he (hip Tofcana loaded foraccount of Antwerp -1 en city, has arrived from the Elbe River at Flush ing ; some members of the Council at Antwerpen have already ;fet*>ff for Flufhirig to procure a free passage for that vefFt'T. This instance will form a precedent, whether thf navigation of the Scheldt is free or not. From the ntrny ofthe Sambre and Meufe 1 z men of the fmalled liz?are discharged from each compa ny and allowed to go home. Our clergy are prohibited to carry sacrament to sick people with the solemnities ufunl before this. HAGUE, Apiil 16. Yeflerday citizen Bicker of Amllerdam was e ledfed President of the National Convention. He is a member of the committee of fore-inn affairs, CCOPERSTOWN, June t6. ~ Unhappy accident. On Monday fc'nnight :s two men were falling timber for Mr. Gideon Chambcrl;:in of Uuadilla, a tree-in its fall unfortunately Hiuck a ion of Mr. Chamberlain (beiween 7 and 8 years of agr) on his head, which figured his scull in a (hacking manner—nlmoll the wliole of I lie parietal bor.e was lo much frafttired as io.be entirely detached from the furrou«diag bones, and confequentjy was oblig ed to be extracted—an exteiifivc&aflure of c s fron tis, extending quite to the orbit of the eye. The -coronal future divided from the point where it ig met by the. lagutal to the os temporis, which lad mentioned bone was much fractured. The right parietal bone was lo much fractured that it was iiccciTary to remaie nearly all thefagittal future— In order to remove the different detached pieces of bones, nii e applications of the trepan became ne cessary. 1 Inee large pieces of bone were extract ed, which together measured fomeihing moie than 3 inches in length, ai.d nearly 3 in breadth ; to gether with several finaller piects. Several frag meiUsot the bone were forced quite through the dura arid pia mater, into the ftibliance of the brain. 1 l.e unhappy patient remained in t\iiimangled can dition from Monday till ihe iollowing Thursday, without any surgical nffiltance, when Dr. White, of Cherry Valiey, 50 miles ddlant ariived, who peifoimed the above described operation with so fkillful a hand as entitles him to great honor. Af ter the operation the boy appeared comfortable, called for food, ate well, and had his fenlts perfect ly. The Editor has seen the different pieces of the scull which were extracted, together with the nine 1 circular pieces, which were cut out by as many perforations of the trepan. Exit us in dubit ejt. 1 WASHINGTON (Penn.) June 14. ' Extra£l of a letter from a gentleman 011 the Mo- ' nongaihela, to his friend in this town. 1 The bagatelle which yop fay Mr. your member of assembly has brought up, and fpiead ' through the ,couutry, that the 1 debts due to Bri- ' tifh merchants, assumed by the Comgrefs, will a- ' mount to five dollars per poll, is laughable enough. If the Congress have affuincd lb pay to British cre ditors, yet the Virgii ia debtors are to pay to the 1 .Congress; and it is only the deficiency the dates ' are to make up, perhaps this may be 50,000 dol- c lar», or as many pounds, The wcflern country 1 will pay but a final! part of this inm ; and it will ' receive much of the advantages. Wi h regard to ® the assessment of this debt, five dollars a man, was 1 1 disposed to be merry, 1 would aflc, will it be a c poll tax, or rather a podiie or a pode-tax, and be laid on the article of breeches ? Five dollars with ' many of the poorer class will amount to a prohibi- ' tion of covering certain paits of the human body 1 altogether, and who can tell but that this fylfemof e taxation may be adopted as a burlesque 011 the fans culotifm of theFierich nation j and this the ffftd e of Britilh influence, 0 ! temporal 01 mores! u who would have thought that in so fhoit a time it would have come to this iu the councils of Ameri- a ca ? our corHu:o)scometo be taxed off our back- '' fides : It will be well forthoie that have not sign- 0 ed the petitions, for when French gold begins to ' e circulate here they may get a louis d'or to reclothe themfelvcs, But to be serious : I am told he is doing what he can fey letters to one & another in Weftmoieland J to render them more diffatitfitd with the part ta- ( ken. He tt-lls, it fubjedUd him do flouts below, \ as we might have seen in the papers. Tom the tinker, turn'J about To make another rout. ~ fiat need he to have regarded what fools and black-guards would fay, or di-figning men who would have addrefTed themfrlves to a fnlfe piide of the people, like a rogniih hoy at school putting a more simple out of conceit with a new coat,that he may be ashamed to wear it. A great deal could be said for Tom the Tinker* He was under a llrmgury, the Indians wera tug" Siing at his lcslp. No wonder he roared rut ani j began to curse and swear, and to lay about him ; but now that his wafer is no longer Hopped (th< Miflj fippi) or the Indian tomahawk ftt'ikinj i» h'l | j neaii, it would he the cooduti, nut of a man in 4 ion P s^nn ' b" 1 a 'unatic to he defeating his inter. 1 eft to spite the government ; it .vt.uld bf, accor ding to the prorerb, " biting off the nose to affront the face." >ied From the CoLy m b lAn Mjrror. ime From a Correfp nd;ut. t A recent instance of French fraternitji has put the Auroia to its trumps. Thee was no doubt a disposition to let the affair of the Mount Vernon rr * blow over ; the bed defence w uld make but an atikward appearance, and to jullify the ail was out " of thequeilion : however, after so much bicktr ing at BritiiTi freebooting, there would seem a lack of vigjjance to permit it to pass entirely un ,nk noticed ;it was direflly under tiie conductor' 3 nose, something of course mud he said, and if we are to j U( 'g e from what has been prcfented us, the F.ditor is either a chimfy apologifl or his taU ents in that way have been put in a (late of re ' qtiifition. After repeating the burthen of the old ditty, that the British had captured, libelled and condemned bur veflels, the Aurora goes on to tell us, that " it remains yet to be determined on what principles the capture was made, or whether the vessel and cargo would be condemned.'* The principle is piratical, let the authority of Citizen L Pans come from what source it will, and thosgh we have not yet heaid of the condemnation of L 13 the vfffel or cargo, there is little doubt but that (jurftion will be speedily determined—the lefi lcn principle in this cafe the better. That "we fiave 3a " not much lenity or generosity to expect ftom the French" is very clear ; for M. Paris, has another . 0 vessel cruising to the eatlward to intercept such " s " (hips as may fail trom New-York, or Boston, and there is every expectation that the adventurers wiil soon be numerous in so profitable a trade ; it would he well for the owners of the Mount Vernon — if the fecuri y of) their property rested upon as sure grounds as the probability of future inte;rup. tion in our commcrci;.l concerns, though this apes. tie of jacobinifin fays it is fafe, if founded in ji f. n K tice. •' At any rate, why (hould alarm prcrria > a turely prevail ?—wait the ifTue of the capture." Ir. Very consolatory truly. As w<ll might you tell on a man t<» remain eai'y while his houi'e was in n g flames—and wait the issue of the conflagration, as Alexandria, June 23. >m ■ g" From the Maryland Journal. n hc The English papers complain that the French ; g executive diie<2oiy have sent an address to their jH atrriesina (lile of boinbafi, suited to their exorb.- ht tant pretentions. a 9 What is this exorbitancy ? Would they be so — mad as to give back to Aullria the provinces of of Flandeis, 10 the Empire, Liege, and their o'.her c . conquells on the French fide of the Rhine ?Is the king of Sardinia to get back Nice and Savoy. an The crowned heads iTiould have remembered a wife o- adage, let fleepii.g dogs lye. As they did not n. thoofe to do so, they must abide by the confe |ie quences. 1 n . It is not yet four years, since the duke of Biunf wick was going to burn Paris, and deliver up its y t inhabitants to military execution. This was fell, ing the skin, on the bear's back. ltl The Fiench have killed the bear They have f u torn his flcin from his (houlders. They have car s. lied it off ; and infill on keeping it. This is not | c> a pretence, but a mod fubliantial fa£>. Nor is } it exorbitant,'for the demand is reasonable, and all [, a the force-of all the enemies of France will not ba rlc able to shake it. 1 y In April laft,ihe duke d'Angouleme, son to the count d'Artois, visited the. playhouse at Edin. burgh. He was received with all the cuflomarjr formalities attendant on royalty. When he en 0. entered the stage box, he was received with the moll rapturous plaudits. Jr When James Stuart, in 1688, fled to France, lt ] the courtiers made no such noise about him. When he entered a public afTerably, a Roman catholic a . dignitary whispered aloud there comet the man -who Injl three kingdoms for a mast. e . The printer of the Auroia has lately put a fing ,e ular quefiion. We had ventured a fuimife, but cs not an afTertioH, that the Mount Veinon and her cargo were American property, without fufpeift ■y ing any danger of giviog offence. Mr. JJache I|l takes the matter up, and fays, -who told the editor :o of the Maryland Journal that the Mount Vernon Jg was American property ? From the printed ac a counts, Mr. Bache will fee that the master of the ie ship said (he was American, and that as being such, h the captain of the Flying Fifli declared and exerted his right of seizing her. What more proof would y this editor have ? He cannot suppose that a print ,f er at so great a diflance is to dive into the compt ing house of the owners. We spoke only on gen. } eral report, nor does the editor of the Aurora j undertake to fay thai the report was unfounded. t Two (peculators in flour in England [had, for . a long time past, refufed four pounds ten (hillings . the sack, for a large quantity 5 when behold! It — spoiled by keeping, and has been fold in Bristol to 9 feed pigs for twenty Jive Jhillings I e j The First Floor and Cellar, OF a three-(lory Brick Houfc to be LET, iituate on Dwk-fireet, between Second and Walnut street Very suitable for an Office or Wholesale Store. Enquire of JAMES ICEEGAN, No. 61 Dock Street. June 18 eo3t
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