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BOSTON, Nov. 2 .
Arrived, the Ichooner Favorite, Pour
jand, from Madeira and Tenneriffe, 38
Od. 24, lat. 36 44. long. 76 x 6.
fell in with the Spaniih tngate Juno, cf
34 guns, Don Juan ignatio Bulliilos,
commander, in great dill refs, making so
much water, that the greatest exertions
could barely keep her free. The Spaniih
ja irain reauefted capt. P. to flay by him
B • 'ting the frigate to the near
‘ .and, at the fame time pur
-13 r hrec offleers and four ma-
B, vilions—eapr. P. accompa
■ed in . three days; on the fount,
E a very neavy gale from the n. w. he
Eferved signals of greater dillrefs, and
Br abandoning the trigare, and run an-
Br her lee as near as poflihle. The un-
Brtunate Spaniards waved their handker.
Biefs, and fee,tied almost in dcfpair, and
Be (hip* 'led as if nearly full of water,
flt 9 a v.fher mainmast went over her
Be— 1 her foremaH fell alternately
Bom fu to Tide. Every effort was made
B atFora her alliilance, but in vain. A
Br occ ioned capt. P. to lose fight of her.
■n half an hour it cleared away ; but the
Bip was no more to he fecn. 413 per-
Ens, •'’eluding several women and chil-
Bren, vere on board. She was bound
Bom forto Rico to Cadiz, and had too,
Bo dollars on board.
NEW-YORK, November 3.
DREADFUL FIRE.
I One of the molt alarming Fires that had
Ber happened in this city, within our re
■olleChon, broke out bit evening, be-
Bveen eight and nine o’clock, in a liable,
In Bridge-ltreet, between White-hall and
Bioad-ltreers, almost surrounded with
■vooden buildings. The wind blowing
■mill from the Couth-weft, the devouring
■lei»»'nt made its way through Bridge,
■treei into StonMlreet with uncontrolable
■ury; and in less than an hour and a half
■he whole block, confuting of about 50
lailaings, tnoftly dwelling houses, were
■fiber burnt, pulled down or gutted,
■’ic of ftxingle in a light blaze, were
|r lin every direction by the wind,
I ntly lodging on the roofs of houses
. liftance of half a mile from the feene
01 r iigration, and threatened deftrue
lio > a great part of the city.
Another Account .
V evening about eight o’clock, this
•; .r- as again alarmed by Fire—lt ori-
U ed in a (table occupied by Mr,
Thus. Evans, in Bridge-street—the wind
was from S, W. and in a few minutes the
flames aflumed an awful and threatning as
pert— But, from the unparalleled exerti.-
ons of the firemen, aided by the citizens,
its progress was arrested with less damage
than was apprehended.
Besides the very great deftruftion oc
efioned by the removal of property from
tuc vicinity of the fire, the following
buildings were deltroyed.
In Bridge-street, the liable occupied by
Mr. Evans ; the two story frame house,
brick front, occupied by Mr. Cheetham,
editor of the Citizen, and owned by B.S.
Judah ; the liable occupied by Mr. So
laerindyke; the two-story brick front
house, occupied by Mr. Myers, baker,
and a small dwelling, occupied by Mr.
Thomas Evans.
The fire progrefled through to Stone,
flreet, levelling in its way the intervening
out houses—and deltroyed the large three
story brick front house of the late Gov,
jay, occupied by the widow Ludlow;
the two adjoining houses belonging to Mr,
Rynier Suydam, one a three-story frame,
and the other a large, handsome brick
house, the former occupied by the owner,
and the other by Mr. Peter Mefier; ad.
joining the latter, a wooden (table was
’’d down ; as also, on the oppolite fide,
,/■ meft.-ie, occupied by Mr, Lent, In.
T” 0. pot alius. Here its progress
1 unexpectedly terminated,
n dreadful conflagration, we
-.c painful neceflity of Hating
‘'. Mott, a refpcdtable dealer in lea.
-nkfort-ftreet; Mr. Knapp, one
- ..men, and a black boy, were
dangcroufl/ injured by a fall of a part of
*‘ iC tuins; and it is said, that one or two
men were killed; but the truth of which
w e were unable to obtain, though we de
fined the profs till late this morning.
November 8.
The faft failing (hip Swift, capt. Gil
mer, arrived at this port yelterday, in
33 days frow Bourdeaux. We are in.
de’oted to the politeness of capt. Speyer,
came paflengcr in this veflcl, for I
. e °f Paris papers to the 26th September,
ttclufwe. They are almost wholly deftx-
T f»te of filtered. The only prominent a* - -
tide relates to the troubles in Switzr 1 ;-
lap.d, which have risen to a very feriotis
c n£s. To this fubjeft our tranflatiens
arc principally confined.
*^ c are happy to announce that the rc-
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pert of the death of M. La Fayette is
without foundation. A Paris paper of
September 23d mentions chat the Englilh
Domefthenes, Mr. Charles Fox, was a
bout fetiing out trom Paris to spend a fort
night with him at his country feat.
Extra 3 of a letter from a refpeSabie
house in Paris , under date isth Sep.
tember.
“ There is every appearance of Ameri
can claims being fettled one way or another;
and that before a long time elapses. lam
allured that To ne for the years 5, 4 and
£ have been offered 50 per cent for, by
{peculators—-and enquiry has been made
of myfelf if I had any to fell. On these
conditions, I have given to be liquidat
ed all I had in this way, and expert to
be funded at 5 per cent per year, I have
about 100,000 livres worth of general
Le Clerc’s bills on this government. I
am promised payment in a mod pofitivc
manner ; they fall due the day after to
morrow.
Letters received in town yesterday from
the American agent at theHavanna, con
firm the account refperting the exclusive
privilege granted by the King of Spain to v
the count Jaruco, fur the in.rodurtion of
140,000 barrels of flour. It is further
permitted, to be imported from the Unit
cd States but under Spanilh colours. The
house of Hermandez Sc Co. of the Havan
na, are the count’s agents in this business,
and had advanced him a loan of 140,000
dollars and too negroes in anticipation of
the exported profits—-Flour was at 14
dollars, and not expected to be lower, al
though there was aoout 2:,ooo barrels in
port.
Some that had been introduced from
Vera Cruz, had cofl: there 2
The Tupreme council of the island had
recommended the introduction of Lumber
from the United .States ; but the govern
or and Intendant had not given their fi
naFcgmlent,} it was, however, confident
ly expected to take place in a few days.
-WASHINGTON CITY, Nov. 5.
We confider it complimentary to the
understandings of our readers to address
them frequently on points fundamentally
connected with the firlt principles of the
government under which we live, instead
of enlilting their passions on topics of a
personal nature.
The right of fufFrage Is the grand pillar
of all our political institutions. While it
remains firm, we have nothing to fear.
The llratagem of treason, or the fvvord of
usurpation, will prove equally harmless,
in opposition to the will ot the people tru
ly expressed. While, therefore, others
are engaged in depreciating this right,
in obstructing its exercise, and in ridicul
ing its efficacy, it (hall be our pride, on all
fit occafiuns, to impress a convirtion of its
importance, and to inspire an ardent de
votion to it.
To the endless fophlfiry that is urged
against it, we lhall oppose farts; we lhall
appeal to the exilling Itate of things, and
invite a comparison between the turbu
knee and misery of the monarchies of the
old world, and the tranquility and happi.
nefs of our republic. In the former the
will of one or of a few confiitutes the law.
Here the law is the will of the whole na
tion. There the will of the nation is in
perpetual collision with that of the go
vernment. Here the one is the legiti
mate offspring of the other. There, there
is constant Itrife and frequent warfare ;
here there is steady concord, and perma
nent peace.
A change In Europe is ever accompa
nied with a convuifion ; while with us it
is uniformly, from the dilferent ftrurtlire
of oar governments, the precursor of aug
mented harmony.
With us there is often, it Is true, a
mighty war of words. But what is this
compared to conflagrated towns, and de
flated plains—the daughter of thousands,
and the misery ot tens ot thousands ?
These remarks are peculiarly appropri
ate to the prefeat season, Within a short
period ten sovereign Hates have chufen
their reprefentalives, and invested them
with the lughefi political duties, without
the lead exhibition of violence. Not a
moo, that we learn, has sullied the exer
cise of this important political funrtion.
Yet, on no occaiion, perhaps, have great
er efforts been made to excite pamon and
kindle resentment.
Citizens of America ! while you value
freedom, refpert and cling to this great
right, that the bayonet may never be fab
ftitu.ed in the room of the ballot.
November 10*
THOMAS PAINE has arrived in this
city, and has received a cordial reception
from the whigs of seventy-six, and the
republicans of 1800, who have the mde
pendence to feel and avow a fentirnent of
gratitude for, his eminent revolutionary
krvices.
[OFFICIAL.]
His Catholic Majesty’s Conl'ul General,
Chevalier de Feranda, received, a few
days ago, official information from the go
vernor of St. Augustine, that the ports in
that province are closed again it ail neutral
veffcls—at the fame time permitting the
Citizens of the United States to trade in
Spanilh bottoms, agreeable to the Royal
Orders rs the 9 h June, 1793.
-NORFOLK, November' 16.
By a gentleman who came passenger in
the schooner Nautilus, of Baltimore 16
days from Port Republic, wc learn, that
the greated conlternation prevails through
out the Bight of Leoganc. The negroes
have burnt the towns of Lcogane, Grand
Guave, Petit Guave, L’Archahaye, and
St. Marcs j they have also destroyed fort
Bifljton ; it was ex petted they would in
a few days become matters of Port Repub
lie. The French troops were very sickly.
AUGUSTA, Nov. 27.
' 1
From the National Intell genccr.
Massachusetts Election, •
For Reprrfentati’ves in Congress,
On the ill intt. seventeen representa
tives were chosen. The following di
ftritts are heard from : V
Suffolk) includlf£ Bojlon,
Dr. Eullis, republican, 1899
J. Adams, federal, 1840
Eultis cletted by a majority of $g
Essex South Dftrift.
Jicob Crowninlhield, repuo, 1400
Timothy Pickering, federal, 1293
Crowninlhield eletted by a maj. of 107
Partial returns have been received from
the following diltritts ;
Norfolk) from 7 towns*
Seaver, republican, 371
Hitchborn, republican, 59
Everett, federal, 166
Plymouth, from 10 out of If towns,
Mitchell, federal, 974
Warren, republican, 817
Essex north) from f towns.
Cutler, federal, 706
Kitteridge, republican, 318
Woraftcr fouth , for I 4 towns.
Hastings, federal, 881
Bangs, republican, 626
War after north , for 5 towns.
Steedman, federal, 283
Whitney, republican, 141
Thus does it appear that the lust hope
of federalfm is biaded. Its maily pil
lar is (haken; it totters, and the period
of its downfad is at hand ; and one of
greater Ifrength and beauty, the pillar of
rep.iblicariifui, rises on its ruins. John
Quincy Adams and Timothy Pickering,
bo.h mighty men of the Ead, have been
declared unworthy of the public confi
dence. Thcfe men excluded, in vain will
the opponents of the adminidration look
for talent in the remaining federal mem
bers that may be chosen. However dili
gent the search, it will not be found.
11 no quarter of the union have more
unworthy attempts been made to spread
misrepresentation, to blacken the charac
ters of the administrators of the general
government, to impeach the purity of
their motives, to vilify their measures,
and to inflame personal and local jealoulics.
By these arts thousands have been deceiv
ed and milled. The public prints, for the
mod part federal, have rejected fair ilate
ments of the measures of the government,
while they have perfevcringly dillorted
them.
Cut all these unworthy efforts have
pro.ed unavailing. In many diltritts ihe
friends of freedom have been vigilant, and
their enlightened 2eal has given wings to
truth.
la Bolton, two prints have made a firm
and fucccfsful stand againlt a misnamed
Palladium and a treacherous Centmtl;
and in Worceiler and Salem, spirit and
intelligence have preflded over the prints.
Tne whiggifm ol 7 6 has been awaken,
ed, and its dfetts in this Hate, as in eve
ry other, have been mod powerful.
Samuel J. Potter, the present lieute
nant-governor of Rhode-llland, a firm
republican, is elected senator in the con
gress of the United States for fix years
preceding the 3. 1 of March next, in the
room of Theonorc Fodcr, who declined a
nomination.
During the session of the general as
sembly ot Rhode-llland, a committee was
appointed to count the votes for represen
tatives to the Bth congrcfs. They re
ported the number to be, for
Stanton, 2604; Knight, 2598; Pot
ter, 1633; Tillmghad, 1636.
Confcquently, gen. Jofcph Stanton was
eletted by a majority of 971 votes, and
Nehemiah Knight, Esq. by a majority of
962* Thus rcpublicanifin has triumphed
by 971 majority.
On Saturday the General Assembly ad-
journcd to tW" 4ih Monday in’February
next, then tq meet at Brillol.
V | it • i
MaJJach'.’fifts Eleflion, for Refrefenfa- 1
lives to Gongrr/s,
We can fpcak with certainty of the
choice of Dr. William Euilis, the hon,
Jacob Crowninfhield, the hon. J. B.
Varnum, Ebenezcr Seaver, Esq the hon.
Phannel Bishop, and the hon. T. J. Skin
ner. The'probability also, is, that
Mefllrs. Cutts, Kin (ley, and Green, arc
undeviating republicans .
Bojhn hid. Chronicle .
John F. Mercer is re-clc£lcd, by the
Legiflaturc of Maryland, Governor of
that (late, bv a great majority.
James Htllhmfe is re-elected, by the
Legislature of Connecticut, a Senator of
the United States.
Prices Current at London, September 2 1 .
Flouri American, fine, bbl. il 6s a il ios
fuperfine, i! Ss a il 15s
Tobacco, Maryland, yellow, ft. gd al2 \-
Middling brown, $ 1-2 a 8d
Long leaf, 3d a 5 i-zd
Virg. York river, 3* a 6£d
James river, 3d a j]d
Stript leaf, 4 1-2 a 6 f-zd
Rappahannock, 2 2-3 a
Carolina, 2 1-2/14 i-2d
S. Potomac, 2 1-2/74
Georgia, 2 i-a a 4 1.2 d.
Prices Current at Buurdea’u'x, 30th Sept .
Flour, American, 40!’ to 41! in demand
for Spain,
Tobacco, Virginia, zof to 3perewf*
Carolina and Georgia 3of - Heady
Marry land, 3of to6of J price.'#'*'
C 3T A QUARTERLY MEETING
will be held on Saturday and Sunday the
27th and 28th of November, at the Me
thodist Meeting-House in Augusta
—the Rev. Nicholas Sue then will preach *
on Sunday. The Sacrament will be ad
miniltered after morning preaching, and
a collciVion will be made for the support
of the Gafpel, and to pay what we (till
owe for the Church, and we hope as our
friends have hitherto been liberal, they
will Hill favor us with their afUllance—
“ Every man according as he purpo/eth
in his hearty so let him give, not grudg
ingly or of neccjfty, for God loveth a
cheerful giver”—id Cor. 9. 7,
JEREMIAH RUSSELL,
DIED on Tuefday evening last, aged
20 years, Mr. Wm. M‘Kean, a native of
Scotland.--being a member of the volun
teer Artillery Company, of this place,
his remains were on the subsequent even
ing interred with military honors,
On the 17th inftanr, at the
plantation of John Course, Esq. Jack
Wright, a negro, and African born.—
From his own account, of which there is
no reason to entertain a doubt, he was a
bour 109 years old. He was servant to
captain, afterwards lord Anson, when he
was stationed off Charleston, previous to
his voyage round the world. Jack fomc
rime after ,this period, became the proper
ty of gentlemen largely concerned in the
Indian trade at this place. In this situ
ation, the molt implicit confidence was
reposed in him, and many thousand ster
ling in value, patted through his hands
with unimpeachable integrity.
In person he was about 6 feet 2 inches
high, was well made, and walked re
markably ered. To the last week of his
life, he retained, unimpaired, his hear
ing and recolledive faculties; and though
he had loft, some years ago, one of his
eyes by an accident, was always ena
bled, by the ufc of fpedaclos, to read and
write.
This small tribute of refpeft Is thought
juflly due to one, who, although labour
ing under the disadvantages of slavery,
and but little education, died, as he had
lived, an honefl man.
(F3T For three fucccffive Wcdnefdays
the Poll-Rider has arrived without the
Northern M.iiL
FOR SAL E,
THE P antatiun whereon the fubferi
ber lives, near Augusta, confiding
of fifty acres, thirty of which are clear*
ed, and under good fence and ditch.
ALSO,
HU Houf? and Lot, the upper end of
Brcad-ftreet. For terms ap Ay to , I
M VERDERY. I
Mechanic’s Society.
THE Membens^of the Me
chanic’s Soc 1 etoT arc rrquelled to au
tend a Quarterly Meeting, this Evening
at 6 o’clock, 00 particular bufinefi.
By ardtr of the President,
CHA*. JOHNSON, Secretary.