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166 HAGUE, March 28. Our minitler at Paris made a formal notification to the French direftory of the opening of our national convention, through the French miniftcr of foreign affairs. The following are the copies *f those STATE PAPERS. Liberty—Equality—Fra- ternity. The miniftcr plenipott ntiary of the Bata vian Re public t to Charles Delacroix , mtnft-r of foreign affairs . Citizen M,after, THE undersigned ministers plenipo tentiary of the Batavian republic have the honor officially to inform the French government, that after a number of dif ficulties happily overcome, their nation al convention opened its public fittings on the firft of March, old stile, and that from that day the states general have no longer an exigence. The diplomatic body are in conference not to treat on political fobjefts, but with the new go vernment, which that convention is a bout to organize. This day, citizen minister, will be accounted one of the mod happy for the Dutch nation. His tory will transmit ittopofterity as form ing the second epoch of the deliverance of that country which seems called on for the destiny to overturn the thrones of tyrants. William V. on imitating Philip 11. found amongst the true Ba tavians the fame impatience under the yoke, and the fame eagerness to break the chains. Why (hould the natural foil of liberty reckon ft ill fome Haves a mongst the number of her children ? f Under the auspices of a great nation, tvhich liberty has conducted for four vears from viftory to viftory, and which has made the proudest tyrants to trem ble—guided by that raafs of light that has majestically arisen at every period of the French revolution, the Batavian convention cannot but appear great in its labors, and the result to the pi ole whom it has the honor to represent an not be otherwise than happy. It will answer, you may rely, citizen minliler, to the hopes of our deliverers, and will aft upon the models which they have furnifhed. It will never swerve from those great principles of justice, whicjfct the French people have (matched from oblivion, to mark the line which they have prdcribed to themselves. BLAUW. MEYER. The min ‘ Jler of foreign affairs to the citi zens Blau<iv and Myer, ministers pleni potentiary of the Batavian republic , at Baris, I HAVE communicated, citizens, to the directory the note which you have transmit red to me. They have learned with the mod lively fatisfaftion, the opening of your national convention. Convinced that the formation of such a central authority can alone unite the Batavian people—extinguish that spirit ©t fedcralifm which paralyfed its ener gies, and its means of refilling oppres sion—and give a vigorous government, the foul guarantee of the rights of the people ; the direftory have seconded, as far as could be done without injury to your independence, the efforts of the true friends of liberty. This faiutary end is accomplished. Your convention has opened its fittings. May this tute lar authority protect the cradle of Ba tavian liberty ! May this new Hercules ftifie in its nervous arms the ferpentsof royalifin and anarchy which endeavour to wrap it in their folds, and ‘to embar fafs its proceedings. May it give you a wife eonftitution, protective of liberty and equality, a-government powerful for g >od and weak for evil. May you at tain the proper gaol which the French nation are now about to reach, without purchasing it by those long convulsions, those. painful exercises, and those acute agonies, which with us have aggravated its price. The executive direftory, faithful ro the fricid(hip which united the two re publics, and to the principles of good faith which form the rule of its conduft,. will defend your independence without and will support your conflituted autho rities within, with all the influence of a friendlhip founded on a common interest. It is plcafant for me, citizens,, to be under such circtimftances the interpre ter of their sentiments. I partake of them with fineerity. 1 fliall endeavour to realize them with zeal, and shall- re gard as the happielt days of my life those on*which I (hall contribute to grave on the lilt of freedom, the name otan inter efttng peopfo; who formerly atchieved their own independence, and who owe every thing to themselves, even the foil which they inhabit, and which they have ravished from the ocean. Health and fraternity. DELACROIX, Columbian JHufeum, £&♦ CADIZ, April 7. PROCLAMATIONS. R 1 che ry , commander in chief of the naval forces of the French Republic in the Bay of Cadiz. The mutinies which appear daily on board pf different veflels of the fleet, and the outrages of the law, and contempt of the oath to be faithful to it, ought not remain unpunilhed. It is time at least to prove to the instigators, and to the chiefs of the rebels, that the days of par doning are pafled, and that those of na tional vengence are arrived. A grand measure is taken. The French republic, though in a foreign country, (hall cause its laws to be respec ted. The Spanilh government is inter ested in the maintenance of good order and subordination. In confcqueiice, orders are given to each captain on the police to be ohferveu on board the veflels of this division ; and in the name of the law, all good citizens are commanded to obey his orders, and not to involve themselves in the i .evi table misfortunes which mull result from their disobedience. (Signed,) RICHERY, Commander. Andfealed with thefeal of the republic. Richery, commander in chief of the naval forces of the F reach Republic in the Bay of Cadiz. In confequcncc of the information which has been given me of the revolt of the frigate Fnpponne, I hereby, in the name pf the law, declare to the whole republic, and all good citizens that the crew of the>Fripponne is in a Hate of revolt againfl the lav/s. Therefore all the individuals who compose that crew, are, from this mo ment, proclaimed rebels.—The captain and etat major of the said frigate are commanded to give no fafther orders to the crew, and to confider them no long er 39 French republicans. But the wretches tremble, and the national thun der, which always punilhes the criminal, is ready to fall on their heads. (Signed) RICHERY. Cadiz, 19th Ventofe, March 19. Richery, Commander in chief of the naval forces of the French republic in the Bay of Cadiz. I r >m the account which citizen Bour reau, commander of the trigate Ffio ponne, has rendered to me 01 the return ro order of the crew of the said frigate, who were declared rebels to the kvv of the republic, by a proclamation of yes terday, at three o'clock in the.evening. It is ordered, that citizen Bourreau, lieutenat of the fleet, ihad resume the command of the Fripponne,ademble im mediately his crew on the quarter deck, and announce to them that they lhaii no longer be considered as rebels, it the principal chiefs and iniligators of the mutiny are inilantly arretted, put into a boat and conducted on shore, to be guard ed in a place of security, until they ihall be lent to France to be tried. All the crew of the Frippone are held responsible for any obltruftion which may be given to the measure, which can alone save them from the rigour of the law. (Signed) RICHERY. -4, LONDON, April 26. Madame Pethion, who went three years ago to ride in the Bois de Boulon ur, near Paris, every morning, in order to out face the queen of France, has lately petitioned for 1000 livres to pre vent herfelf from Hal ving. The fame lady got about half a million by procur ing paflports for those persons whom the infamies of her husband obliged to quit France. Spain and France have agreed that all contifcated property in confequenee of the war (hall be restored to the respec tive owners. Status quoante Bellum here’ attaches to individuals, what a condcfcenfion in those two great nations! Right shall take place, and a man is to have the property that belongs to him! Spain didnotaft on such principles with this country in refpeft to the Mannilla Ranfoin, To lofeher honor was noth ing but to have her monarchy in danger was matter of serious consideration in deed. May 6. Arrangements are now making for importing from Great Britain the whole of the Copper tobe used in the Copper Coinage of the United States. It is to be completely prepared here, and only . to receive the stroke of the dye in Ame i rica. May 13. A letter from Laval, of the 26th ult. slates the Uhouans to be in force, and more daring than ever. A body of 4or 3000 of them lately attacked and captu red a convoy of provifians, &c. on the bridge of Le Corbinere ; the next day they surrounded a body of republican troops, of whom they killed near 00 grenadiers, and took the relf. In tne neighbourhood of Graves they also cut in pieces a foraging party of b 6 men. DILLENBURG, April 20. A message arrived here yeiterday from Vienna, with orders from the prince of Orange tocolleft the Dutch troops em igrated from Holland, at NalTau to form a regular legion of them, and to carry on the recruiting for that purpose with the utmoll activity. The prince is expefted to arrive here ihortiy in per son. AMSTERDAM, April 28. Letters from Smyrna, advise, that on the 20th of March, a fire broke out there, the consequences of which were so dreadful, that in spite of all attempts to extinguifn it, 4000 shops, two great Mosques, two public baths, and all the magazines of provisions, were reduced toadies. The loss occasioned by this dreadful conflagration, is eilimated at ten millions of crowns. PARIS, May 9. A letter from the directory to the min iller of the interior, confirms the report of the re-eflabiifhment of peace in La Vendee. DUBLIN, April 30. The speculations on linen, for the Spanilh and American markets this year, exceeds any iimilar inftaace since the com mencement of the war. The proprietors of the Wexford bridge, at a late meeting, unanimously agreed to pay Mr. Lemuel Cox (of Maf fachufctts, America) 10001. and made him a present of 100 guineas, and a piece of plate, value 20 guineas. CALCUTTA, June 10. A:i American Ihip, commanded by Capt. Derby, arrived from the Isle of France at Trjiquebar, on ifc current. The colony of the lile of France was quiet and in good order : ahhou 41 the cUiappointmeht in the arrival of tac pri zes, captured fome time ago in the Straits, one only having reached the island, at the time of captain Derby’s departure, had occaiioncd fome mar mu rs. Provisions of all forts were in abun dance, as several American veiiels had arrived at the island, laden with ail ivinds of supplies. Two veflels also, un der Italian colours, had arrived from Bourdeaux at the isle of France, two or three days previous to Derby's miiing ; but He did not afeertain when they had left Europe ; or that they had brought any public Intelligence oi conse quence. MONTEGO-BAY, June 18. Tharfiiay arrived at Falmouth, the American lhip Augulla, Callahan, from Charlciton and Cape Nichoia Moie, and left the latter place lail Saturday. An attack has been made upon Bom bard, apparently with success by our troops, the enemy having Lamed down the colours and opened the gates as a sur render ; but by the vilest treachery that can be conceived upon the admiiiion ct our troops, many of them were maifa crcd, and General Churchill, is mining. This bale perfidy it was expefted would be amply revenged, as General Howe, by the fall accounts, had surrounded Bom bard with 2000 troops. From the A U R O R A. A Word to Truth.* TO war which it has never been my pursuit ; but when malevolent folfehood alfumes the garb, ’t is an aft of justice to detest the counterfeit. Comments on the,meafures of government by an anony mous writer, who declares himfeif un known to all, and probably might have added unnoticed, until he is uled as an inftruinent in the Aurora, would be dig nified by remark and lifted above that infigniftcancc which the good sense of even Mr. Bache's admirers would other wise condemn it to. But the moment he abandoned his the • ory, and touches the reputation of a vete ran, vvhofe life has been (pent in his 1 country's service, and whole military name (lands as high on the roll of well earned reputation as moil who have lived before him ; the weak attempt, like the : diilant murmurs of unpleasing found, is loft in idle air. His laurels breath a higher freftmefs (hewn by the glimmer ings of timid calumny. I was a witness 011 the spot of general Wayne's conduft, whilst he commanded the weflern armv. ‘ ‘ and pronounce the reprefen tationTLb lifhed by this counterfeit Truth to I*l set of abominable lalfehoods, and* th# au thor a poltroon. | BENJ. STROTHERJ Lieut, of the 4th Sub-LegiJ^ From the Gazette of the United St/ates Mr. Fen no, I fend you the substance of a fetter from a man in public office under the. I rench Republic at the Cape, to anoth er frenchman in this country, which was read by a confidential friend of his and the particulars from memory com municated to me. It is very material that our merchants (hould be general! v> apprized of the plan, and as I have if doubt ol the authenticity of the inteli? gence, I think it my duty to publish ii thro’ the channel of the preis. The manner in which it come: to me, dees not permit me to disclose the fourc**— but you who know your a aihor will not I am fore, scruple to vouciifor the ?cod nefs of the authority. ‘ A CITIZEN. . His determined to feme and bring mall American veflels laden withpr J viflons which shall be met with bound to any English port, These will un dergo a severe examination, and when the property appears to be Brittle, it wili be conlifcared • where it is clearly and without fufpiclon American it will be detained, but paid for, according as the means in our power furnifh. For this conduft we have several motives to keep the supplies from our enemies, to obtain them ourfeives. The embar raflhd Hate of the finances of the repub lic has much narrowed the means of pav ing for what is wanted from abroad, and after what has happened, we cannot expeft much future iuccour from cur credit with the American merchants. Besides we have feme political reasons. It is well ti e merchants who have so zealot'.l/ supported the treaty with Greal-Britain should fee that there are Iwo sides to the queftioa, and that by temporizing with our enemy, they wili not enjoy that foil exemption from the inconveniences of war which they have promiied themselves. It is also eflen ttai that we should support our friends in America, by fulfilling their predic tions of evil from the treaty. Perhaps you may ftiortly fee a French fleet ca your coast. But do not imagine that there wili be war with America. This will not hap pen The republic has no diipofitioa to a final rupture with that country, and we have no fears that it will come to an open breach with us. Notwithstanding the coalition between Pitt Sc Wash in g to n, we are well aflured by our confidential friends that the attachment of the American people to the French nation will oblige the government tobe palfive, and that if its folly should prompt it to a rupture with us, there will be more to put on the tri-coloured cockade, that to join die ftandaid ol the hypocritical Walhington.” PORTSMOUTH, (N.H.)June 11. Capt. James S harley, ofChcf ter, (N.H.) departed this life on the 29th of May lalt. And as fome singu lar circurnftances refpefting him have excited the curiosity of many, it may not be unacceptable to give the public agene rallketch of his char after. He origina ted from Ireland, and arrived in this country at an early period of life. At that age, he is laid to have difeovereda remarkable gravity in his countenance and manner of behaviour. In the course of his life he manifeflei an unusual firmnefsand deliberation, con nefted with a degree of checrfulncfs and vivacity of mind ; which together with his uniform temperance, and regular cx ercife, united with a strong bodily con stitution, served to protraft his life by the best information, to the term of about: ninpty-feven years. What rendered him more particular, was, the circumstance of his being a sev enth son, in a direst line of fucceilion ; which gave occasion to his firft attempt ing, and afterwards pursuing the practice of what is termed the king’s evil. His praftice extended to this com plaint in particular, in diftinftion from every other bodily humour, or cutaneous eruption whatsoever. The operation itfelf was simple, and he was ready t!> mention every part of it himfeif, when desired, u-pon any occasion. His custom was to stroke the patient’s diforJer wi his hand, at evening, and then early ou the morning following, t requefttng, each time, the divine bieijing on the u of the means. However infufEcieqH the ope rati * may appear in itfelf, the faiutary conic* No. 42.