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LONDON, May B.'
We received this morning, by express,
the Paris Journals of the 29th ult. In the
Journal des Debates, we find an official ar
ticle, dated Florence, April 12. This con
tains the important intelligence that the
Pal's of the Bochetta, termed “ the Key of
Genoa,” and which has hitherto been
deemed impregnable, has been taken by
the Austrians under Count Hohenzollcrn,
on the 9th ult. by affiault. They had to
force no less than fix lines of entrench
ments, which they did in despite of the
mofl obltinatc and desperate resistance. —
The French army under Gen. Mallena is
by thisatchievment completely enveloped,
and prefled in every direction. On the
North there is now no strong place to im
pede the advances of count Hohenzollcrn;
on the East is General Ott’s division, aid
ed by the infurgeuts of Fontana Buona ;
on the Weft is Gen. Melas, on the heights
of Savona, with an army confiding origin
ally of 40,000 men ; and to the South, in
the Gulph of Genoa, is the squadron of
Lord Keith, who according to the letters
from Leghorn of the 4th ult. failed from
thence on board the Audacious, of 74
guns, for the express purpose of co-ooera
ting with the movements of the Armrians
in the Genoefe territory. The army of
Maflena, which is thus hemmed in on all
lides, is said to consist of abont 75,000.
If the desperate attempt which the French
generals promised on the 21st ult. lhould
not succeed, and its success is beyond all
probability, there can be little doubt but
that the whole of this army will be com
pelled to a speedy furrcndcr.
In the official account abovementioned,
it is said that general Melas “ had entered
in part into Savona. By this we presume
is meant that he was master of so much of
the place as was not under the immediate
fire of the Citadel.
Letters from Strafburg of the 25th fav,
« that the army of the Rhine was then
actually engaged ; that the aftion com
menced at fix o’clock in the morning, and
at nine o’clock the advantage began to
turn on the fide of the French.” This in
telligence, though thus circumstantially
given, we totally dilbelieve. If any action
had taken place on the Rhine near Kehl
on the 25th, it is not poflible that the re
sult should be unknown at Paris on the
28th, and particularly as there is a tele
graphic communication between the capi
tal and Stralburg. Our readers will recol
lect also that the fame intelligence was giv
en in the Paris papers of the 27th and near
ly in the fame terms. In these cases we
can only suppose the faCt to be that a par
tial cannonade has been interpreted a;
some distance into a general aCtion.
The capture of the two Spanish frigates,
with eleven of their convoy, as Hated in
yesterday’s Albion, is as important as it is
valued. This flotilla was bound from
Cadiz to Lima, and the frigates had fifteen
hundred quintals of quicklilver on board,
for the use of the mines of South Ameri
ca. The loss mult be mod seriously dif
trefling to the Spanifli g »vernment, as the
mines cannot be worked without a regu
lar lupplv of this article. The value of
this capture is mod probably under-rated
at 700,000!. Three of the merchantmen
and one frigate only efeaped, but as the
Swift fore, captain Hollowel), was left in
chafe, there is every probability that they
will be brought to join their consorts in
the Bay of Gibraltar. The British (hips
which made the capture were the Levia
than, of 74 guns, capt. Carpenter, and the
Emerald frigate, capt. Waller, both under
the command of rear-admiral Duckworth.
Captain Carpenter is brother to the rel
peCtable solicitor of that name, lately of
King’s Arms-Yard, and the good fortune,
it is allowed, could not have occurred to
a more meritorious oiheer.
THE QUEF.N CHARLOTTE.
The following is mi ex bast of a Utter , received
ye fterday from Leghorn :
“ It is known that two hundred and fix
men belongs to the Queen Charlotte were
saved. Many of the tailors, who endeav
ored to extinguifli the fire, were burnt to
death. Several of ihofe unfortunate per
sons threw themleives into the fire in des
pair ; others put an end to their lives with
pistols and (words. Os twelve women
who were on board, five fupporced them
selves for four hours on a piece of wood ;
but uobody coming to their assistance, they
funk. A nou-commiffioncd officer who
law there w'as no potlibilhy of laving his
wife, snatched the child out of her arms,
and, with it, plunged in despair into the
lea; for two hours he supported himfelf
on a piece of wood with one of his arms,
and held the child all that time above wa
ter with the other ; at last, when hi:
strength had entirely failed him, he was
laved hv a boat, but the child died in the
space of two hours. Capt. Todd, who
never for a moment loft light ofhis duty,
killed himfelf by a pistol-shot. Out of
30 officers, only fix were saved. The
powder-room, in which were 916 calks of
powder, was not blown up, as at the com
mencement of the fire it was filled with
•if-jfpf*
BOSTON, June 25.
The subsequent article may fumijh our readers
until one cause of the late lack of European
arrivals and intelligence.
ROBBERS! ROBBBRS! ROBBERS!
CaprainTappan, of Newburyport; cap
tain Ingalls, of the (hip Mac, bound from
Greenock to Charleston, and captain Far
rier, of the Mermaid, of New-York, from
Calcutta, arrived here yesterday, in the
schooner Apollo, of Wifcaflett, having
been taken about twenty days fiuce, by a
French privateer of 14 guns, and 100 men,
from Guadaloupe. The firft of the(e ves
sels was taken in lat. 38 ; the others be
tween 38 and 32, long. 68 ; where the cap
tains were put on board the Apollo. The
fame privateer had taken ten other Ame
rican veflels, but the names are unknown.
The Mac was retaken by the British, and
was supposed to have been ordered for
Halifax. The day after these captains
were put on board the Wifcaflet schooner
they were overhauled by two very stout
French privateers, in about lat. 32, 30,
which they were informed were from
Cayenne, and bound farther northward.
Thus we find our enemies at our very
doors. Where are the fifteen frigatjs, and
the twenty (hips of war, armed brigs and
schooners, which compose our navy? is
a queflion in the mouth of every or*. -4Ve
do not know that we can answer jt cor
rectly—The United States of 44 gdns, is
repairing near Philadelphia ; the P«4fident
and New-York, two 44’s are fitting at
New-York ; the Congress and Conlteila
tion, 36’s, are at Norfolk ; the Infurgente,
we think, is at Baltimore ; and the George
Washington, of 32 guns, is in the Dela
ware.—The rest of the fleet, excepting the
Eftex and Portsmouth, is on the Weft-In
dia stations doing their duty; some of
them,however, accounts fay, are lounging
at St. Kitts, a la mode des Anglais.
NEW-YORK, June 30.
Extrafl of a letter from Henry Waring, late
master of the brig Delia , to Mejfrs. BeJicnt
Kimberly and Co. dated St. Bartholomews,
May 20.
“ On the 16th April, within one day’s
fail of Turk’s-Island, I was captured by a
French privateer of eight guns from Por
to-Rico, who took out my mate and four
men, but permitted myfelf and two boys
to remain on board the brig. They put
on hoard of us a prize master and four
men, and ordered us for Porto Rico, the
privateer keeping company with us lor 4
days. On the sth finding her out of light,
[ laid a plan to retake the brig, which 1
accordingly effeded ; but have fiuce seen
trouble and hardfilip in consequence of it.
The plan I formed was as follow's:—
Knowing the prize-master to be entirely
unacquainted with a veftel, I periuaded
him to set the sore-top-mast studding-sails,
and whilst they were all forward, except
one Frenchman at the helm, I went into
the cabin and brought up a pair of pistols,
which I had secreted there, and gave one
of them to one of the boys whom I (hip
ped in New-York, as cook, by the name
of Isaac Marley ; I then got pofteflion of
the Frenchman’s arms, and drove the man
from the helm. On feeing this, they all
ran aft, but when I met them with the boy
armed, they retreated and we drove them
all into the forecaftle, without anv injury,
except to the man at the helm, who made
some resistance, for which I cut him with
a sword ; he soon yielded and was not
materially hurt.—Charles Cook was the
other boy l had on board ; but, being for
ward to allift them in setting the fail, he
had no chance to give 11s any assistance,
nor did he even know what we were going
to undertake. But the misfortune of all
was, that after we bail them m confinement
fi rl3 hours, and I was endeavoring to
make the nearest port, which I judged to
he Tortola, we fell in with a Spanish arm
ed brig of 16 guns, from Bilboa, in Spain,
who immediately let the Frenchmen out
of confinement, hauled down the Ameri
can color, took me on board the Spanifli
brig, and there detained me two hours;
broke open my chest, took out fame mo
ney with conficlerable cloathing, and plun
dering the veftel, took her papers from me
and gave them to the Fench prize-master,
together with poftelfion of the brig Delia,
and the arms. They then forced me on
board the Delia again, where I was con
fined in the forecaftle, together with the
cook whoaflifted mein taking the French
men. I was there kept the moll of the
time for five days, when we arrived in St.
Euftatia. I was there kept in prison for
ten days, and was then lent over to this
place, where I have been waiting these two
weeks for a copy of condemnation, but it
has not yet arrived. I expert it in a few
days from Guadaloupe. With rtfpeft to
the Spaniards, I hope this will be made
public, as I conceive they had no right to
meddle with me, as 1 had complete pos
session of the vedel, and knowing we were
not at war with them, J hope this business
will be taken notice of.”
July i.
Tht following remarkable incurrence happened
at StocU/ale, on the 1 Oth inst.
As John M'Faden was returning from
a tavern, where he had dined and drank
freely, he met the Rev. Mr. Saunders, of
Durham, and in hopes to pass fora wit
with his companions, he cried, “ well par
ion, can you tell me whether there be
one or three Gods, for my part, I think if
they are hearty fellows, the more the mer
rier.” “ 1 suppose fir,” answered the par
son, “ you have nodtfign to enforce your
free thinking levities on persons who Ifi 11
think it their duty to persevere in the
way of their modren ancedors.” “ Not 1,
damn it, whether you think there be one
or twenty Gods, ’tis ail one’ but twill nei
ther break our legs nor pick our pockets,
to crack a joke on the fubjeft.” At this
inffant, a bird sprang from a bush near his
horse, M'Faden was thrown, and actually
broke his leg in two places.
PHILADELPHIA, June 18.
The following is a copy of the Petition of
John Fries :
To the Pref dent of the United States ,
Tut PETITION of JOHN FRIES.
Refpeftfully Shevjeth ,
That your petitioner is one of thole de
luded and unfortunate men, who at the
circuit court of this didrift, have been
convifted of treason againd the United
States, for which offence he is now under
sentence of death. In this awful situation
impreded with a jud lenle of the crime
which he has committed, and with the fin
cel ity of a penitent offender, he intreats
mercy and pardon from him on whose de
termination rests the fate of an unfortunate
man. He solicits the interference of the
President to save him from an ignonimous
death, and to refeue a large and hitherto
happy family from future misery and ruin,
if the prayer of this petition should be
granted, he will fliow by S future course
of good conduft, his gratitude to his of
fended country, by a deady and aftive
support of that excellent cOnftitution and
laws which it has been his misfortune to
violate and oppose. JOHN FRIES.
Philadelphia PriJ'on , May, i 800.
The fubferibers molt refpeftfully re
commend the petitioner to the President
of the United States. They are warmly
attached to the conditution and laws of
their country, which they will on every
occadon and at every hazard manifrd their
zeal to defend ami support. But when
they red est on the ignorance, the delusion
and the penitence of the persons involved
in the late infurreftion, their pity fuper
cedes every vindiftive sentiment, and they
sincerely think that an exercise of mercy
will have a more salutary effeft, than the
punidiment of the convifts. It is on this
ground that the fubferibers knowing the
humanity as well as the fortitude of the
President, venture to claim his attention
on the present awful occadon, in favour
of the wretched father of a numerousfamily
June 30.
To the Editor of the Aurora.
NOT contented to aflociate me as
usual, with other more refpeftable charac
ters, iu general abuse, you have in your
paper of the 18th ind. ventured to impose
upon the public, a falfe statement of fafts,
in relation to my accounts, as speaker of
the house of reprefentahves, with the hope
that as I had heretofore preserved a perfeft
silence on the fubjefts of calumny, with
which your press had teemed, I diould not
in the present indance depart from the
fame line of conduft.
After giving a detail of statements and
results, you sum up all by aderting, that
“ thus Jonathan Dayton held in his hands
“ abalance of 2,611 dollars and 60 cents
“from the 3d .aif March 1797, to the
“ month of July following, and he held in
“his hands the small balance of 90,918
“dollarsand 52 cents, from the month of
“ July 1 799, to the 22d of January 1800.
“ And so far as his accounts are fettled at
“ the Treasury, he appears dill to hold in
“ hands the sum of 18,143 dollars and 22
“ cents.”
Thispreciousfummary of your wonder
ful difeoveries, which it leems, you had
promised in some former paper to lav be
fore the public, contains three charges
each and all of which are falfe. Instead
of retaining in my hands the sum of 2,611
dollars and 60 cents, as you pofiiivelv de
clare I did, from 3d of March 1797, to the
month of July following, I gave an order
for its payment to Mr. Meredith, Treasur
er of the United States, who received it on
the 22d oi March, at the bank. Oa the ,
fourth day after mv return to my own
home, viz. on the 9th of March 1797, I
wrote to the Secretary of the Treasury, re
queuing him to forward to me, as soon as
completed, an official report of the balance
that might appear to be due, on the settle
ment of my account for the fefiion then
just ended. He accordingly enciofed to
me on the 16th, the requcfted report,
which I received on the 18th, took three
days to examine and compare it with my
checks, and, fatisfied of its correCtnefs,
drew in favor of the treasurer for the ba
lance, on the 2ift of March.
Equally untrue is the second article of
your charges, viz. that I held in mv hands,
for fix months, a balance of 90,91 7 dollars
and 52 cents.
To convince any person in a moment
that it is moll glaringly so, nothing more
is neccftary than to refer to your own ftute
inent itfelf, in which, in order to make
out the above balance (and with it a good
(lory) you charge the monies advanced
for compensations in the course of three
whole sessions of Congress, and credit in
rerurn the compensation of members for
tzuo fdhons only ! To have introduced in
to the lame account the payment to
the houl'e of Representatives from the 3d
of December 1798 to the 4th of March
1799, and the advances from the Treasury
within the fame time, to make thole pay
ments, and thus to have opyofed the' One
to the other, before any balance-was declar
ed, would certainly have been proper and
just ; —but it would not have suited your
purpose of invedtive against me, whom
you can never forgive, for having firmly
difeharged my duty in two instances af
fecting you personally, nor against the.
Officers of the Treasury, who are invulnera-f
ble to any attacks unsupported by truth. 1
I can in like manner give the lie to the <
third and last charge, by averring that I
not only do not hold in my hands the sum
of 18,000 dollars, as therein mentioned,
but that I am not indebted to the U.
States, so much as a (hilling. The books
of the Treasury will eftablifli, beyond all
doubt, the truth of this my alfertion, and
the falfehood of yours.
If you polfefs a single spark of candor, or
are desirous ofpreferving the appearance
of it, you will give this an early insertion.
I must be allowed to add, that your pa
per has become so notorious, and indeed
proverbial for its danders, and its falle
hoods, that if it had been certain that these
printers who might think proper to repub
iifli your nfifreprefentations, would at the
fame time have quoted their authority, I
fliould not have thought it neceflary to
trouble the public with this answer, con
vinced that to destroy effectually the credit
of any such publication, it would be fuf
ficient only to make known that it origi
nated in “ the Aurora."
JONA. DAYTON.
CHARLESTON, July 7.
The Hamburgh (hip Johanna, capt.
Khron, arrived yesterday, in 38 days from
Lisbon.
Capt. Khron informs, that authentic in
telligence had been received at Lisbon. of
the surrender of Genoa, with the French
armv under Maffena, to the Austrians.
The loss of the Austrians was dated to
be about 12,000 and that o( the French a
bout 20,000. Genoa was taken by storm.
The Johanna left Lisbon the 20th May ;
the day before capt. K. was informed by
the second lieutenant of the Britilh fri
gate Flora, just arrived from a cruise, that
(he had pafFed an American frigate, with a
French 44 gun frigate a prize, bound to
Falmouth : the French was reported to
have been captured off Cape Finifterre,
and the American to have been the agp
which carried out our Envoys. [If I ®®*
information of the naval engagment
any foundation, it must have been
Portsmouth frigate, capt. M‘Neil, which J
carried out dispatches to our Envoys.]
Fifty Dollars Reward.
SOME flight of hand gentleman on the
line from Augusta to Norfolk, having
made free to flop a letter from the fubferi
ber directed to John Hamilton, Esq. con
taining bank bills to the amount of 350
dollars, of the following defeription :
No. 7466 N. York branch bank of the U.
States, 6 May 1798. sodois.
6495 2 OCt. 1797. 50
404 23 June 1798. 50
1256 30 Nov. 1798. 100
1445 Baltimore 1 Dec. 1798. 100
The above reward will paid by John
Hamilton, Esq. Norfolk, or the fublcri
ber at Augusta, to any person giving infor
mationthat willleadtothedete&ion orcon
viCtion of the guilty person. In the mean
time all persons are cautioned against re
ceiving either of the said bills—as pay
ment thereof is flopped at the Bank, ex
cept to the order of said [ohn Hamilton.
SEABORN TONES.
Augujla t Georgia, Juy 15,