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SUPPLEMENT to the Jugufta Chronicle, No. 155. A Letter from the Dead to the Living . WHEREAS it is a dispute whether the Ctlejlial world - is -interested in the welfare of the terrcftriaf: -Xfiis if therefore to inform them, that tfce arts so warmly attach ed to their present and future 'felicity, that*,.- as soon as the important intelligence of an elertion of members to art under the two new Confutations, reached . our '-realms, bf ans etherial meffengey, I was inftantaneoully di spatched with the following hints : Patriots and Citizens , ?•' Your laudable precedent of civil and reh gious liberty, on so broad a basis, has en. groflied the attention of heaven and e'aitb , millions of eyes are gazing on your future condurt. * „ • > , • .■ t If you regard liberty, property, or the memory of thousands whose lives becu facrificed in the late war, be seriously cautious in your choice of delegates; do'tfot murder ypur confidences, and fell your vote -for a drink of grog, or the flattery of a fop. I have frequently attended on your alTembltes, and from obfervatiou lhall negative three characters. 1 ft. The Drunkard —you want rational not irrational beings to govern so large and glo- ’ iious a people—give me wisdom said a wife Prince—Then surely he who murders his rea son, and levels himfclf with the brute, ought never to occupy that venerable post. id. The Gambler —he who is for ever sporting with property,, cannot be a suitable perft.-j .10 secure it; like the thief, he only shifts it from hand to hand, and must be con sidered 04 a level with him, if not beneath, as one may be apprehended by law, and the other lhamefuUy creeps tiuderr coverty and is far more mifehievous than his brother. 3d. The Speculator —who from principles of avarice, has often made large on the’ property of his weaker brethren, would from the fame principles, were it as lucrative , lpe cnlate on their liberties ; neither would lives be secure from his- avaricious disposition. Matters of greater importance call my at tention. lam Gentlemen, ’ • y >i The ghost of one who died in the defebce of your liberties. ; B. PHILANTHROPOS. **•*• • 1, . V * ♦ • V I E N.,' N A, Jum 6. We have a current report in this cify, that Marlhal Loudohn has surprised the Pacha of Travniqk, and taken him prisoner, after kil ling great part of his,.men. ..This virtory, it is said, has cost us 2900 men. Field Marshall Loudohn advises, under date the 27th of May, that on che'22da body of lixtecn or eighteen thousand Turks, in three columns, appeared near Uuacz a«d Grahovo, and entered Into the a column of about 6000 of them, with two held pieces, immediately attacked his advanced posts at Upper Giahovo, Rainen, Neiika, and Gra hovo with incredible fury, which obliged the Austrians, after making a gallant defence* to retreat, in doing which they burnt the Turktfti village of Unacz, and" all the larms * adjoing in the diftrirt, although the. Turki kept up a heavy fire during ..the time. The other two columns of Tut ks, in the interim made an attack on our posts at Ochigrie and Dabina Szitana, with such fury, that our troops, fearing to be entirely cut off, retreat ed to Dobrozello, where they took post in such manner as to prevent the enemy advanc ing farther. * A R S A W, 'June 6. TH E accounts received here of the Turkilii force in the Black Sea, make it amount to fixtecn ihips of the line, and 21 frigates; in all I*l fail, including bomb ketches, gun-boats, Sec. St* PETERS BURGH, May 15. The son of Gen* Kamenlkay, who com mands the army in Moldavia, arrived here yeflerday with the newi, that, 011 the 17th April, Gcu. Dcrfeidtu compelled the Tuiki ~..1. ■ ; - ■ ... to retreat to within 20 werds of Brailla, netar’ Mackfunene, on the river Sireth. In this artion 400 of the enemy were killed, and a considerable number drowned. A'Pacha of Two Tails, who commanded in Moldavia,' was taken prisoner, with about 100 men, one piece of cannon, and three ftandardL / ‘v A second courier arrived this dat fronf Gen. Kamenfkoy, with arf account that, on the 30th April, Gen. Derfelden had attacked the enemy in their camp near Gafatz, on the Danube, and that, after au obstinate engage ment of more than three hours, he had total 1. ly defeated them. Fifteen hundred Turks’ were killed, and a Pacha of Three Tails, and a considerable number of Officers, and above a thousand men taken pfifoners. The tamp, with the artillery, standards, &c. "fell into the hands of the conquerors, whose loss a mounted only to 60 men killed, and ico wounded/,. The Ernprefs has appointed Admiral Ti chitfschagoff to the' command 'of the fleet at* - Cronftadt, in the room of the late Admiral Greig. ' >: W . : » . % STOCKHOL M, june %! ‘ ' A corps of about 1 ico Ruffians having af ffinbled at a village called Rulkiala, 911 the borders ot the province of Carelia, waiting only for the arrival of a fufficient number of pieces of ordnance to make an. irruption in' that province, Major Gripen'bfcfg’, who was posted in she neighbourhood, with a battalion of the regiment of Tavafthcup and four can non, resolved to attack'the eneiny on the 17th, though his whole force consisted only of about 250 men. ’ On their approach the Swedes, werefo fortunately as to difniount some field pieces with which the Rufiians difpvted the entrance of the village, and soon as er, the powder magazine of the enemy blew up, by which a great number of them perilhed. The battle then commenced, and continued with great obstinacy for upwards of three hours.' Major Gripenberg computes the loss of the enemy at 400 killed, and a considerable num ber wounded. He quitted the field, how ever, though he had only 17 killed and 30 *. wounded* The Ruffians also, after the ac > lion, evacuated Rulkiala, and retreated' to Sordawalla. The Swedes fired with red hot "• ihot, being informed that the Ruffians had depoflted -their powder in one oLthe adjoin ing houfps/ Major Gripenberg lias been pro , - nroted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, ' every officer under him has been one degree, and a reward of a Swedish ducat ordered to be given to each private fuldier. : The port of Helfingfors is blocked up by a Ruffian squadron. ■ ■ . .. 'On Tuesday night last his Swedish Majesty set out for Finland. —i t GOP E N HAG E.N, June 6. At the time the post was set ting out, we re/eived news thaf the Ruffian men of war which a ftibrt time fiuce failed from hencefor the Cattegar, had given chafe to a Swedith frigate of 44 guns, which, direrting her course towards the ihores of Norwav, was overtaken by a dead calm, when the Mercury Iltiftiau brig seized her in fight of the Swednh fleet, and conduded her to Laveculn. . - We continue in 4he belief that our Court ' will remain neutral in the war betweeu the Ruffians and the. Swedes, ahd tint otrr fleet will proced into the North leas only for the puPpole of performing some evolutions, and that on its return to this port it will be dis armed. L O’ N D O N; * Jude 20. / ’ * Tiie 2d inst. died at Berlin,. in the. s year of his. Knyphaufeu, the liti fian General in America. 23. On Sunday died the Right Hon. John Dairymple, Earl of Siair, and Vilcount Dul ryrnplc. - - The master of a vessel arrived at.Newcafilfe reports, that an artion had taken place be tweeu the Ruffian and Swedith fleets, and that they continued in artiou until he was out of fight. Sir Archibald Campbell, K. B. family, and futte, are arrived in the Manthip Ealt India man, Capt. Gregorie, from Madras. 25* The little Spthifl* fquadrun which lately flfled with sealed orders, is generally undcrftood to have failed for New-Orleans, r ai the Americans, in the neighbourhood of the Floridas, ‘have fliewn a.dsfpofition to be o&snfive both by sea and land. i 26. The Emprels of Kiillia has at len~th given Vvay to the remonfl ranees of Poland i and Prussia, fuppo'rted probably by Great- Britain. Her majesty no longer alks for a free passage of her troops through the Polifti ■ territories/ and lhe has agreed' to transport 'the magazines which she had already formed - in Poland, to the ether fide of the Dniester. When Lee was manager at Ediburgh, he was determined to improve upon thunder, ' and so having procured a parcel of nine pound iliot, they were put into a wheel-oarrow, «o > which he affixed an oftagon/’wheel. Thi3 ; done, ridges werfc placed at the back of the -stage, and one of the carpenters was ordered to trundle this wheel-barrovV so filled, back wardCand forwards over theffi ridges. The play was Lear,'and really in the two firft es - forts the thunder had a good effect. At length as the King was fctaving the “ pelting of the 1 pitiless storm, tlie tluiulerer’s foot flipped, and down he came “Wheel-barrow and all. The stage being on a declivity, the balls made their Way towards the orchestra, and ineetiug with but a feeble refinance from the feene, ‘ laid it flit upon its face. 'This storm was mord difficult for Lear to ffem than the one he had before complained of. The balls tak ing every direction, he was obliged to skip about to avoid them like the man who dances the egg hornpipe. ' The fiddlers in alarm for their catgut, hurried out of the orchestra, and to crown this! feene of glorious confufion, the r sprawling thonderer lay prostrate in light of the audience, like another Salmoneus. * • * ' «/ ■ i /; P A K I S,' June 4. His R.oyal Highness the Dauphin died be tween 12 and 1 o’clock this morning, in the * eight year of his age, to the great grief of their JVfofl Christian Majesties and the Royal Family. -'1 . ± . B O S T O N, Auguji 8. ■; 'lt is a sass, mortifying as it may be, that ' Lord* Dorcheftet’s Secretary has 'adverfiled A lands within the territory of the Sovereign States of America, and in the vicinity of the v ‘ Weftern Polls, to be 'given away , in acre lots, to any Loyalists, &c. who Hull ' choose to fettle on them. ' * N E W- Y O R K, August 2*. By accounts from Philadelphia we are in formed, that the heat there lad week was so great, as oliged the Mayor to order all the meat in market to be carried away and thrown into the Delaware, at 10 o’clock, A. M. The meat in general was in a ftafe of putrification, and the Mayor had ordered the be waflied and cleaned every day,, in order to prelerve the health of the citizens'. - This has been the hottest weather known in this country for many years ; several fliop keepers have ihut op their ihopsj and retired to the country lor a few' days, in order to' five their lives. * Deaths are numerous, and it is melancholy to observe, that children in particular are dyi v* so fail at Philadelphia, that no parenf eau be a'moment happy there,' during the*'jnoiiths of July and August; fix'- infants. were 'buried there on the firft Sunday* in ; July. ;The thermometer flood at 96 for f&Veral days.’ -■ - ** ■< \ r | . | •» S A V A N N A H, Sept. 10. Friday last arrived in this river, after a p adage' of eight weeks from the towns, the . lhip Planter, Captain Grieve, in which cams* .■ patfengers Simon Munro, Esq. and" Mr. mas Netherclift, fun of Thomas Netherclifc, Elq. Yesterday a (loop arrived here from Itew- York, having onboard a detachment of con tinental troops, commanded by Capt. Bur beck ; die has brought a quantity of goods necessary for ihe treaty to be hohJcn witlvihe Creek Indian!, On the aoili ult, the President of the Un’led States approved of, and fixed his (1 mature t«»/ “An \z\ providing for the >Kpences which fa . may attend ingocUuoot and treatie# with the’ »