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rjj le/JfS. R ANDOLPH & Bunci,
AN opinion has heretofore been
P entertained even in polite and highly po
t idled societies, that in finding—particu
larly in church inufic, the four parts of a
tune, to wit, the Base, Tenor, Treble and
Counter were neceflfary to rendcmlhe ma
fic perfett; and under thisimprediop, these
parts have all been taught in the singing
School lately efiabliflied here, and such has
been the application of the scholars, and
the exertions of the teacher, that many
tunes were lung with great propriety and
elegance, and as some persons conceived,
in a manner adding very much to the so-
Icmuity of public worfliip. But ’tis said,
very recently to have been difeovered, that
to sing one part only of a tune makes bet
ter music, and of course is to be prefered
to that ol singing four parts; arid this dis
covery has occasioned a request, that one
part only might in future be lung in church.
[The effett which this request appears cal
fdilated to produce is, a decline of the
school, which was before in a flouriftiing
way, or if that effett ftiould not result—the
scholars not being disposed to give offence
to the m«(l delicate eat) will not probably
be disposed to sing in church, and there
fore, one object in view in the tftablifh
nient of the school will be defeated. In
fait from the request made, it would be
improper for them to ling, that is I mean
if the request is to be considered as the
voice of the whole community: For as the
scholars do not ail sing one part, if a bass
and a Tenor were both to ling they would
break in upon the wilhed for arrangement,
and .if tl ereto the Treble lhotild be added
the harmony of the tune under the new
difeovery would be destroyed. It is how
ever to be hoped that the teacher of the
school will not be difeouraged, his indus
try and musical talents will no doubt be
patronized by the friends of polite accom
plifliments.
It is not however hereby intended todif
p a rage the merit of the new difeovery—its
utility is obvious to those who can only
fmg one part of a tune, and not that, if the
other parts are fuiig at the fame time; and
probably it might be prudent in the difeo
verer to apply for a patent Jo secure the
benefits of his ingenuity to himfelf—there
is little doubt but his principles apply e
qually to inftrumcntal as well as vocal mu
lie, and we may therefore ftiortly expert
violins with only one firing, and organs
with only one key. In many churches
the uiajcft'c and l'olemn notes of the organ,
aid the vocal powers of the fingers and are
fkrmed to add much to the sublime har
mony of sacred music, but these organsjare
all conrtrufted on the old principle; and
are ufualiy an expenlive article of church
furniture; but from the new difeovery,
they may be made by almost any carpen
ter, in fatt a hollow reed might be made,
w ith tiie aftiftance of a pair of hand bel
lows, to convey a lound of such folemni-.
t\ as to render it a ufeful musical inftru
ment —and as one p...’t is found p"*ferable
to lour, who knows but a continuation of
the lame found, maybe found preferable
to a variation, and in that event, the reed
I have mentioned, may become extensive
ly ufeful. Or at a less expence, a few boys
each with the stalk of a pumpkin leaf or a
willow whittle might answer all the pur
poteSof an organ, bv blowing one or the
other as the Bass or Treble should happen
to be prefered. But till these things are
prepared, it might be well for the Tenor
•ml Bass to join with and sing Treble, and
then the Tieble to join with and sing Bass
alternating withedch other; which though
it may be a little troablefome will be over
balanced by the superiority of the music
in having only one part of a tune lung at a
time. SOLO.
BOSTON, August 28.
Great men will sometimes disagree on
In jacobins swear
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id congref of the
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of five hundred,
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n this town, has
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dipped for the
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11 .JIB 1 repair. It is
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exceed 140,000
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r came pailcagcr in the
from bt. Themis's, fays
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he was mate of afhipoutof Boston, which j
was taken by a French letter of marque,
and sent into Gaudaloupe; that he with
five of the crew was taken on board the
French vessel, which ran under the fortand
anchored ; that while the Captain of the
French vessel was on shore, Moftier pro
posed to join and rife on the crew, sixteen
in number ; that two of the five agreed ;
that Mofiicr and these two armed them
fclvrs with handspikes, and drove ten of |
the Frenchmen overboard, killed and disa
bled the rest; that they then cut herca
blifc and got under way, the fort firing on
them the whole time, and that they carried
her into Antigua, where flic fold for two
thousand three hundred pounds.
HARTFORD, August 29.
Notwithstanding the various and con
tradictory reports which are now prevail
ing, in the towns around us refpetting the
malignant fever, with which we have lately
been afflitted, the public may rest adored
that no new case has occurred since last
week on Tuefday, that but one case of
danger exists, and that all except this one,
who have been ill, and are still alive, are
slowly andfurely convalescing.—Since our
last there have been four deaths. Molt
of the inhabitants have removed from that
part of the town where the fever has pre
vailed, and from whatever cause it may
have existed, we cannot tell but flatter our
selves with hopes that its ravages are pad.
NEW-YORK, September 2.
Tranflatedfor the Commercial Advertiser.
The following letters were firft publiflied
in the “ Augfburg Gazette.” We re
ceived a French copy by the fliip Or
lando, capt. Smith, from St. Sebaftians,
of which we have obtained the follow
ing tranfiations :
AUDI ALTERAM FARTEM.
AUSTRIAN ACCOUNT
OF TRE
AFFAIR NEAR RASTADT.
Letter from M. De Barhaczy, colonel of the
hussars of S heckler, to his royal highness the
Archduke Charles , field-marjhal general of
the troops of his Imperial majesty.
Head-quarters of the etat major,
Gernfback, April 30, ’99.
I AM to detail to your royal highness
the particulars of an event, unexampled
perhaps in the hittory of human depravity,
and which will still more astonish those
who best know the attrocious actions of
which our enemy is capable.
The three French plenipotentiaries at
the congref's of Raftadt, having received
from their government positive orders not
to leave it till the last extremity, determin
ed at all hazards to prolong their flay, in
spite of the repeated instances made them
to quit a place where their presence was
obviously useless, and where their person
al fafety might be endangered by the move
ment of the armies—and particularly on
account of the hatred manifefted against
them by the country people. Nothing
could overcome their obstinacy, and they
continued to tire us by notes and protests
full of insolence and calumny against his
majesty the emperor and king, until the
28th of the present month, when I caused
to be fignified to them, agreeably to orders
from your royal highness, that they were
to leave the territoiy of the army in the space of
twenty four hours. My letter was sent them
at 7 o’clock in the evening—they were
ready, and wilhed to go at 9. The gates
of the town were already lhut. They
were begged to stay till next morning; and
it was represented to them that it would be
dangerous to travel at midnight on a road
covered with armed peasants, and in a
country where the cruelties committed by
the French were still too recent to be for
gotten ; They perfitted. I then offered an
eicort. Two others of them, Roberjot
and Bonnier, thought it best to accept the
offer; but the third, Jean Debry, opposed
it violently. He pretended they would
ftiow the greatest cowardice in not rejett
ing such an offer : He even pushed his in
solence so far as to fay, in his republican
jargon, that the ambalfadors of liberty were
not made to be protetted by the soldiers of
defpotii'm; and he ended by declaring,
that an Aufiian escort would infpirt him with
greater fear tLin confilence. Supported by
the secretary of the French legation, Ro
fenfteil, who appeared to under (land him
prrfettly, Jean Debry finally decided his
colleagues to cotemu our advice, to ne
glett every precaution, and depart imme
diately. Yielding to tl. tir impatience, the I
gates were opened about 10 o’clock at
night: They let out with their secretaries,
their wives, and a confnlerable number of
domellics, the whole filling five carriages;
and the route was lighted bv several flam
beaux, carried by their people, as if they
wi{lied that every body should be apprize’d
o( their departure. About half an hour
after, a detachment of mv hussars stationed
near tow n, heard the molt lamentable cries.
" hh h seemed to come from the banks of
the Murgj a; a quarter of a ic*gnet dis
j tance. They repaired to the place, and
! found the five carriages flopped about fif
ty yards from the canal, and the bodies of
the two French minilters Roberjot and
Bonnier, stretched on the highway, and
horribly mutilated ; one had his head quite
flruck off-—the other had his body open
ed. The women and domestics were in
the most (hocking consternation. —The
third minifterand the secretary of the lega
tion had disappeared. The aflaffins had
fled. The carriages and persons within
them, were taken back to Raffadt, and ev
ry assistance was given these unfortunates,
that the liyelieft compaflion could inspire.
None of them were wounded, but their
> terror and grief were excessive. About
midnight the secretary of the legation Ro
fenfteil, of whom no one had received in
telligence, and who was thought dead, re
turned to town on foot. He had not been
wounded , and seemed very tranquil ! He was
interrogated. His answers were vague and
embarrassed. He declared he could not
underftaud or conceive how he came to
escape the aflaffins, and did not know what
was become of the minister John Debry ,
who had not yet made his appearance. —
The servants of Roberjot and Bonnier
were also questioned—all that could be
learned from them was, that on approach
ing the Murg, they suddenly saw thirty
well armed brigands start from ambulh,
who levelling their pieces at the poftil
lions, forced them to flop—that immedi
ately John Debry , who was in the firft car
riage, got out of it with the most perfect
,composure, and went forward towards
them, crying, lam John Debry , plenipoten
tiary of the French republic , which he repeat
ed several times, and in particular his
name Jean Debry , with great emphafis—
that the brigands then seized him, and
pretended to give him a few blows, after
which they loft fight of him in the dark !
that his secretary, Berlin, was also seized,
but not hurt in the least—that these men
who allfpoke French , asked Rofenfteil , calling
him by name , for the papers of the legation
which he delivered to them, and that he
afterwards pafled through, them, without
the least appearance of a wilh on their part
to flop him ! —-that after throwing these
papers into the Murg, the villains went up
to the carriages in which were the two oth
er plenipotentiaries, whom they alked in
a loud voice, and in French —one if he was
Bonnier —the other, if he was Roberjot ; and
that on their answer in the affirmative,
they hewed them down with their fabres,
and did not leave them till well allured
they breathed no more—that finally, the
monsters had just disappeared when my
huflars came up. This was the uniform
tefiimony of these people. All Raftadt was
in uproar; there was no one that did not
Ihudder with horror; and all loft them
selves in conjectures on an event that did
not appear lels inexplicable than tragical.
Next day, the 29th, at 7 o’clock in the
morning, we learned that Jean Debry was
returned. An immense number of people
went to meet him, both from motives of
humanity, and the curiosity natural to the
multitude. He was overcome with fa
tigue having strayed about all night—his
face and hands were covered with blood,
His clothes were also bloody and in rags
He complained much, pretended he had
received twenty wounds, and wanted to
rest. The count de Goertz took him to
his house and called his own surgeon to
take care of him. John Debry made ob
jections to being examined by a number of
the faculty, and refilled a considerable time,
alledging that he Hood in need only of
sleep, and would have his wounds drefled
at Stralburg. But, at the prefling instan
ces of count de Goertz, he at length yield
ed, though with great reluCtance.
When they undrefled him, they found
he had on—firft, a coat and watch coat,
the cloth and lining of which were of an
uncommon thickness: under them, he
wore too thick veils, and two waistcoats
equally thick ; so that, not one of the for
ty or fifty blows, with which his great coat
was penetrated, had reached his body—his
only wounds were a few bruises on the
back and lhoulders, and a flight scratch on
one of his wrills, which seemed to have
been made with great precaution, and ra
ther with some other pointed inllrument,
and not a l'word. Besides, he had no fever.
Theledetails had scarcely spread abroad,
but they were compared by the people
with circumllances already known, and
the ftrongell fuipicions were conceived
John Debry and Rofenftiel , were the very
persons who the preceding evening had so
loudly rejected the el'cort, who infilled that
the departure ihould take place at night,
and they alone of the legation were spread.
The eagerness of John Debry, to name
himfelf to the murderers and to repeat his
name—the confidence with which he had
throw n himielt into their arms—the cau
tion with which they had llruck him with
out doing any harm, while his colleagues
were cut to pieces—the precautions he
had taken beforehand to fortify himfelf
with so inany clothes—all seemed to au
thor! fe conjectures— to the lupport of
" *wch several other previous circumftan
ces occurred:—lt was recoll e ft ec i ~
fore the arrival of Jean Deb>y } at , e '
Bonnier and Roberjot were much adm"* H
there—that their pacific disp 0 f lt ; If' *
difpieafed the direftory, who i n CQ
quence had joined Jean Debry t 0 then^ 1 C *
a spy upon their conduft—thatsi nce *.* s
time the latter , with thefecretary Ro/ tn /?-f
alone poflefled the confidence of their *
vernment, imperiously dictated every tn^ <> "
sure of the two other plenipotentiaries C3 T
compelled them to sign all those irritat;
notes which exprefled such
pretenfious, and finally brought on a re 6
newal of the war. Above all it w .' ?
known that within a few months Robe r .
jot and Bonnier no longer diflembled their
indignation at the part they were forced to
aft, and that they complained very f re .
quently that the French government was
resolved to make the conclusion of a peace
impoffible—lt is likewise particularly
known that about a fortnight before their
departure, they had told Rofenftiel, in a
moment of resentment, that they only
wanted their return into France, to de
nounce to the leg illative body, theextrava.
gant politics of the direftory, its reluftance
to all conciliation, and those inftrtiftions
by which it direfted them, on every new
communication to the imperial deputies,
to exaft something more than they knew
would be granted, in order to force a
rupture.
This last intention appeared to every
one to have been the cause which decided
the death of those two unfortunate men;
and no other reason could be thought of
for explaining why the aflaffins attached
themselves to those two only, without
touching any of the rest; why, for fear of
being deceived, they made them repeat
their names and why they had taken such
particular pains to throw into the Murg
the papers of the legation, among which
were undoubtedly the secret inftruftions
of the French direftory.
This comparrifon of circumstances,
left no person in doubt as to the true au
thors of the plot. The compassion at firft
infpiredby Jean Debry, while they viewed
him as a viftim escaped from the hands of
aflaffins, was turned into fury against him
and his accomplices, since this horrid af
fair had begun to be more fully lifted.
The cries of horror and indignation be
came general Jean Debry knew it, and
exprefled a desire of going away immediate
ly. He now asked/oc an escort , which
was granted him without delay, and my
hussars conducted him that very evening
to the French polls, with his wife, his
daughters, his secretary, and those
who had accompanied him at his former
departure, except his two unhappy col
leagues, whose remains we collected and
interred in an honorable manner.
It is not for me to make refleftions or
draw conclusions from what I have related
to your royal highness; but if one mull
express what cannot but be felt, what
fliould not be said of a government as for
midable to those who serve, as those who
refill it, and which murders its own agents
by means of one another, as soon as its
crooked policy seems to require thqt lacri
fied ? it would be impossible to express in
adequate terms, the sensation caused in
this country by so attrocious an aft.
None of the murderers have yet been
taken by my patrols, akho’ I have given
orders to make the moll diligent search for
them.
I am, See.
BARBACZY, Colonol.
PHILADELPHIA, Augull 23.
The following flatement of the number and va
lue of dwelling houses and Jlaves , together
with the number of acres of land , its value y
and the Jum to be ajfejfed on each, to complete
the quota which New-Jersey is to r aise, a
greeably to the aft of Congress for raising the
Jum of two millions of dollar /, we believe to
be nearly cone ft, but cannot give it as offi
cial.
The number of dweling houses valu
ed above 100 dols. is 19,625, which with
7,123 out houses appurtenant thereto, are
valued at 9,153,343 dols. and 54 cents,
producing, according to the rate of taxati
on, the sum of 26,626 dols. 7 cents and 8
mills.
The whole number of taxable Haves is
2430, which, at 50 cents per head, raise
the sum of 1215 dollars, and added to the
sum produced by the dwelling houses
gives 27,841 dollars 7 cents 8 mills, leav!
ing to be raised on land, to complete the
sum of 70,546 dollars 25 cents and 3
mills, (quota of New-Jersey) the sum of
70,536 dollars 17 cents 5 mills; to pro
duce which, a tax nearly equal to 2 mills
and one twelfth of a mill on each dollar, on
the valuation of land will be neceffarv.
The total number of taxable acres of
land in the state, is 2,789,480 and a frac
son, which, with the dwelling houses va
lued under 100 dollars, (being in number
11,707) are estimated at twenty-seven mil- -
lion, three hundred and fixtv-feven thou
sand and eighty-one dollars 44 cents and :
hulls. T J