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RICHMOND, OElohcr 22*
7he news from Europe may
he comprifed in the following
brief ftaterncnt:—The Bri.ifri
have landed in Holland, and
go* pofTWfton of the Dutch fleet
Maftena has defeated the
umbduke in all points, and taken
10000 piifon-r'—and the Vi
enna Gazette acknowledges the
French we’e fucrcfsful in their
general attack in Italy at all
points but Novi, and even there
they acknowledge the French
took 1300 piiloners and the
wounded.
24
The didrift court lately fitting
at Norriflown, is adjourned, all
its proceedings having nul
lified by the difeovery of a flaw
in 111 e notification of the remo
val of the cou t.
0 Bober 2
7he eleftion of Thomas
M*Kean, efq to the office of
governor of this (late, wa< ce
lebrated yefterday, on Ztigler's
plains, Spring Garden, by a
number of citizens.
Celder 25.
FIRE! !
About one o'clock rhis morn
ing, the city was ala med by
ihe cry of fire, which had been
di(covered in the livery (tables
of the late Mr Martin Murray,
fituated at the corne r of Mora
vian alley and Watkins court.
Before the citizens could repair
to th« fpot, the (lames had en
tirely confumed the (fables, to
gether with a la v gc number of
valuable hoiTes. carriages, har
nefs, See. and extended without
oppofition to a number of ad
joining buildings, the confined
fituation of which preclndcdthe
proper ule of the engines, Bc
foie it yielded to the exertions
of the citizen*, above 15 dwel
ling h' ufes, and (fores were
either wholly defiroyed or very
materially injured, the ffores,
we undfifland, contained pro*
pcity to a confiderableamount.
BALTIMORE, Oftobcr 79.
\cfle?day pafled through this
c i‘y * 011 his way from Virginia
to Philadelphia, Mr. Liftun,
the Hiitifh minifler,
A writer in the New-York
A -ercanlilc Advcriicr fa> s, that 1
word is felling at 12 dollars a j
cord in that city. Nor fliould
I wonder (fays he) if, in the
courfe of a month, it was up to
20 dollars a cord, from the un
feeling avarice of certain mono
poiizers in this mod nectflary
aiticlc of life.
V e are in r ormcd by a gentle
man direft from the Weft-In
dks, that—“ i ettrrs from his
grace the duke of Portland, have
been circulated throughout the
Enghfh \\ tft-India colonies,
prohibiting the expoitation of
m any other bottoms than
Hritilh.” The above took place
(lie 16th September. I
[Middletown Gazette. 2
C fiber 30.
Captain Tilton, of the flhp
Mermrid, who arrived at Sew-
York on Friday laft, from 1 ri*
nidad and Cuba, inlorms, that
all the Spamfli ports in Cuba,
were op n to American trade for
four months, from about the
10th of September laft,
German literature is now held
in fiich high efteern in England,
that an Englifh printer has had
a fet of German characters caft,
in order fo print literary produc
tions in (hat language.
SAVANNAH, November 12.
Ihe Jclloxiing rvas pohtdy bonded
us by a friend, at St. Ma>y s,Jor
fuhhcctu n.
November 2 d, 1799.
Yefterday an exprefs arrived
here in 15 days from the Spanifh
ganifon at St. Maik’s, with fit
ters Lorn Mr. Ellicott, the Ame
rican commiffioner for running
the boundary line. Mr. Ellicott
writes, that the adventurer gen.
I William Auguftus Howies, h d
again made his appearance in
that quarter, his arrival at the
Apalachee is ftaled as follows :
A Hritifh floop of war called
the Fox, commanded by lieu
tenant Wooldridge, of the navy,
mourning 16 guns, and near joo
men, took 1 owlesand his attend
ants on board at Jamaica, and
on the 18th of September (aid
veftel was wrecked on George s
1 liar d, in the bay of Apalachee,
near the mouth of Chatahoochec,
the veftel totally loft, hut the
crew and paftengeis laved* Mr,
i Ellicott about that time was
! coming down the river on bo ud
his (chooner, Bowles wrote him
| and dt fired an interview, which
he h d—it appears that his views
ate hoflile, elpecially to Spain;
he is oppofed to the runn ng of
the line. Bowles went up to
the Crtek Nation attended by
three aids, one of them an Kng
hftiman. one a Scotchman, the
other a Frenchman, all captains
in the Britifh army. It is re
ports d by them that a very large
(upply of goods are on the way
from Eng and asprefents for the
lavages, Bowles declared to
Mr. Ellicott, that, fhould he
• all in with the Spanifh commif
fioner and his attendants, he
would make prisoners of them.
Mr. Ellicott furmfhed the cap
tain and crew of the Fox with
a ronfiderable quantity of pro
vifijns. It is much to be feared
that Bowles will be kind y re
ceived by the Indians ; the pre
lent moment is favorable for
him, the Indians are in great
want of goods, many of them
are out of temper with the Uni
ted States and Spain, add tothefe
things that their oifpofition at
all limes inclines them to plun
der, &c,. 1 hat Bowles will
ftnnulate to defperate afts there
can be no doubt, as his corifi*-
quence and exiftcnce depends
thereon, for it can fcarcely be
hippo fed, that the United States
wi.ll tamely lit (till and allow a
«
i Britifh etnirr.i y fuch as Bowies
I to enter her icrritoiy and dillurb
its peace and happmefs. Ii can
not now be denied b it that
Bowles is fupported by Britain,
that common diflurber of the
peace of mankind in every quar
ter of the globe ; could fbe not
be content with what fhe has
already done, in being the aftive
mover in deluging three fourths
of the woildin blood, and fuf
fered this quarter to have re
mained in peace : but no—our
unhappy fiontier fcttlers will
have the cruel ravage let loofe
on them, while Britain's fleet is
robbing and infuUing us on the
ocean, whilfl, perhaps, a deeper
and more lerious plan is matu
ring to deflroy our independ
ence. The author of the pre
ceding infoimation and remarks
is dehrous that they fhould be
publilhed, in order that the go
vernment and frontier fettlers of
Georgia fhould be prepared for
the confequences that is to be
apprehended.
It is with pleafure we announce
the fale arrival of major Minor,
the Spanifh commiflioner, and
all his party in good health, at
Punt Peter, at the mou h of the
river St. Mary's, on the 13th of
lafl month,
1
LOUISVILLE,
TUESDAY, November 19, 1799.
——-
Chief juflice M'Kean, Governor
. elcft.
We underftand, that the re
turns from the dilFerent counties
from the ftatc of Pennfylvania,
liave been received at Lancafler;
that Mr. Kc fs had a conlidcrable
majority in the five counties wt ft
of the mountains ; and that the
total majority, by which chief
juflice M‘Kean is elefted a
inounts to leven thoufand four
hundred and upwards.
James Munroe, it is fuppofed
will be the next governor of
Virginia.
Colonel William Nicholas, bro
ther of John Nicholas, of Con
grels, is cxpe&ed to be the fe
nator for Virginia, in the room’
of the late venerated Mr. Taze- i
well.
EHzur Goodrich , efq. is elc6fed
a member of Congrcfs, for the
(fate of Connefficul, in pl.ee of
the Lon. john Allen, rehgncd.
The Virginia legiflature in the 1
next Idlion will have, behde an ,
addition of 12 republican mem-:
bers more (ban in the lafl, the
m -ft relpe6fab!e body of men of
talents and genius of any legifla
tive body in the union.
1 he alien bill accords very
badly with the language of Con
grefs in their addrelfes to foreign
ers, and other public pieces iil'u
ed during tht revolution. At
that period, a gtateiul acknow
ledgement was expiclled of the
fervices rendered to the caufe of
America by the republican emu
| grants who fleck? d together
jdcr the banne sof freedom, ; i{ \
fu’ppoited them with their b O .„J
Tl.ev were told that by t bcir
exertions, a g eat extenfive r ot .
tinent would be wrefied
i cm * , ‘torn
the power of de'potifm, an J
that it would be an afylurn t>>
which ihe poor, the perfected
and the opp.tlLd might fly f 0 f
tefuge.
The following was the con
cluding paragraph of the mani
festo of Congrcfs, in anfwcr to
the proclamation of lord Car-
Idle and his colleagues;
1 he portals of the temple
we have railed to freedom, fha!(
then be thrown wide, as an afy
lumto mankind. America fliall
receive to her bofom, and com
fort and cheer the referable and
the poor of every nation and of
every clime. The enterpnze of
extend ng commerce {hall wave
her friendly flag over the billows
of the nmoteft regions. Induf
try Shall collecf and bear to her
(bores, a!! the various produc
tions of the earth, and all by
which human life and human
manners are poliShed and adorn
ed. In becoming acquainted
with the religions, the cufloms,
md the laws, the wifdom, vir
tues and follies, and prejudices
of dillerent countries, we Shall
be taught to cheriSh the princi
ples of general benevolence,
We fliall learn to confider all
men as rur brethren, being
w P
equally children of the univer fdl
parent-—that God of the heavens
and of the eaith, whofe infinite
majeSly for providential favor
I during the late revolution, al
mighty power in our preferva
tion fiom impending ruin, and
gracious mercy in our redemp
tion from the iron Shackles of
1 defpotifm, we cannot ceafe, with
| gratitude and deep humility to
praife, to reverence and adore.”
1 hefe were the fentiments of
the patriots of that tr)ing time.
They were elevated, liberal and
philanthropise, but now every
eSTort is made to warp and pre
judice the American mind, by a
faftion which dreads the enthu-
Siafm of L uropean republicans,
and fears that thofe who may
have fled fiom oppreflion at
home, will be ready and willing
heie to oppofe all attempts to
introduce in America, the coun
terpan of a BritiSh government.
He e is the reafon why the
federaliSls a?e fo zealous in ridi
culing philanthrophy, and m
inculcating the molt Sordid, nar
row contracted and illiberal pre
judices. Curled be that patri
otism which can cxift without a
love of liberty, without the g c '
nerouswilh fo? general prcfpei 1
and happinefs. Of what ufe
can an attachment be tor inani
mate things ? Neither the clay
nor the (tones can reciprocal
eftcem. A love Sor our coun
trymen is rational and p ral e
worthy, but of what
federal pitriotifm ? It chenfh
a IIiODT haUeJ for all
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