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, ,„, n3 n distress :we claim their re
fleftions only on this concluding ob
” disclaims with Jetefla-
lhare in the unheard of perfecti
on of I.a Fayette ; ail affirm that the
emperor is utterly ignorant of it; and
,hat his heart, (the heart of a young
0..,) would ffiudder at the display of
fuchbafe cruelty. M. de Staremberg,
the Aullrian ambaflador in England, de
clared to the American envoy that M.
i a Fayette was not ill used firce he was
in his recess at Olmutz j (M. La Fay
ette n'ejipoint mal tra'ite , depu s epu il e fl
dunsJa r'traite a Olmutz.) A t length,
when Madame La Fayette Hew, as was
io feelingly expreiied by Mr. Fox, on
the wings ofafteftion and duty to Vien
na, to solicit the emperor for per million
at leal! to give to her huiband the con
lolation of her attentions in his prison,
the young prince anfwe red with tears in
hi; eyes,l pity you ; the liberation of
your huiband does not depend upon me
alone ; that matter is very complicated ;
my hands are bound ; (je vans plains ;
U iberte de voire epoux ne depend pas moi
fetil; cette affaire cjl bcitt compltque ; j’ai
Is mams lues.)
Englishmen, what is that invifiblc
hand which thus murders defeacelefs
innocence in the dark ?
T. I. M. Gl LI. ET,
Aid dc camp of gen. La Fayette.
PARIS, ‘vlay iS.
A Courier has arrived and brought the news
ot the taking of Milan.
HEAD-QUARTERS AT PLAISANCE,
20th FLOREAL, MAY 9, 1796.
Buonaparte, Commander in Chief of the army oj
Italy, to the Executive Directory'.
I have informed you, Citizen D!re£iors, by
my last, of the retreat of the Austrian army,
which had repaffed the Po at Valence. They
■vfre entrenched along by Logons, Terdoppio,
jnd TV fin, with a view to defend the entrance
of the Milanese.
After different marches and movements,
military and diplomatic, to induce a belief
that I intended to pals the river at Valence, I
pushed by a forced march to Caiiel St. Gioamer,
■with 3000 grenadiers and rooo horse. At n
o’clock at night, the chief of battalion of artil
krv, AdreofTy and adjutant-genmal Fontin,
advancing with a hundred cavalry, along the
bank of the Po to Plaifance, took 5 boats lad
fn wJi ru*, fome officers, 500 lick men, and
all the holpital (fores of the army.
At nine in the morning we arrived at the
L>. op polite to Plaifance; two squadrons of
liiffars attempted to dispute our paifage—we
threw ourfelvcs into L he boats and landed on
the other fide—after a few niuiket fliots, the
cavalry withdrew..
The chief of brigad", d? Lafne, as brave as
intelligent, was the firft to step his foot on
fniire Trie diviiions of the army, which v/er*
tiltrib;A'd at different distances, hastened their
marr b, the moment the movement was un
tnsikcd, ar.d paiTed in the course of the day.
In the mean time Beaulieu, informed of
our march, was convinced, but too late, that
he fortifications of Teflein and the redoubts of
Pavia, were ulelefs ; that the French Republi
cans were not as weak as Francis I. He or
•ued (000 men. and 2000 cavalry to march to
us to oppose our landing, or attack us.
. or y wp had time to form—he failed in his
calcinations. At noon I learnt that a division
t'fth- enemy was near us—we marched—the
Paemy had 20 pieces of cannon, and were en
trenched in the village of Fombio. The Gen
eral of brigade, Dallemagne, with the grena
lr'rs, attacked on the right; th* adjutant-gen
fra! Lannus, on the bank, and the chief o!
bf'ipdr. I.afne, on the left. After a fever*
cannonade ar.d a well sustained refinance, the
“r-Ptny. founded a retreat.—We pursued them
1 Acida. They loft a part of th-ir bagga
330 horses, and 500 men killed or priibntrs,
Vtth many ofhe-rs.
During th* night, another body of 5000
•“yftrians, which was at Cazel, depart-d at 4
’ ’ ‘° c h to fuccour the troops at Fombio.
having arrived n*ar Codogno, the headquar
!“r J of Gen. I.eharpe, at two o’clock in the
rooming, they s en t forward fome men who
“, ’) s he centinels. Gen. Leharpe, mourn
s his horse to l*arn wlrat was taking place—
°i d-'rd a half brigade to advance—the*ne
ro/ was bea *n and dispersed—-but by an ir
reparable misfortune for the army, Gen. Le
"rpp was killed by a cannon (hot. Tiie Re
?-n ic has loft a man much attached to her
f ft\ |!’ e srm y one of their best Generals, and
a comrade as brave as rigid in dif
f’ ‘ne. Gen. Berthirr repaired to Codigno
—he pursued the enemy—took
iff , HT1( ! a . “ r< ’ at quantity of baggage, The
’ (■ a * t brigade and Gen. Menars, behaved
pptleftly well.
and,!” “ ■ IJCC “* S at Fombio is, in a gr*at measure,
1 j f "* bravery ol the chief of brigade, Laf
qp r "commend to the Directory the son of
(f n -harpe, for the place of Lieutenant of
T
y rn rr^ l be confirmation of adjutant-general
p *h° f not included in the labors of
T L , 13 ‘ has n°ver ceased to serve with courage,
poo. a^e P° ! ’s one of the moft im
*hat w". rat i*° nS ' — ! '^ cre had been bets laid
e mould not pass it within two months.
( s, ded) BUONAPARTE.
From the New-York MINERVA.
bate a number of the latefl Paris {sabers, from
The f„ii - is transited.
of i,^ T In s f ' xtr att ofa letter from a citizen
Rn /; to the Editor of the
in V. n ’ n Fiord,” appeared in Paris
Gazette Francais of 27th May.
very j,, ‘ government has received a
cr ron, America, by the
from'o L 5 ’ 5' 3 P t - Carifbrook arrived in 21
President It is a nirlfag; from
•Aatitiv., i a,! '' m ßton to the houfc of reure.
’ -’nded as he pretend*, or. the Con,
Columbian ilXufeum, uv.
ftitution ; he refufes tb comply with a dmnand
of the houie, to lay before them a copy of the
inllruftions to minister Jay to negociate a
treaty with his Britannic Majesty—also the
corr ipondeitce and ail other papers relative to
the said treaty. This was badly re
ceived by the house, and was immediately re
ferred to a committee of the whole. Our
Cabinet waits wuh consternation the r-fult of
this great event, knowing the general lute ot
the people’s minds in America and rhe triumph
)f the Democratic party in the house of repre
sentatives. Another event no less important
at the present moment and which will not fail
to accelerßi” the rupture, is a battle which has
just taken place oft the heights of Cape Jerc
mie in the Antilles, between an American and
Engliih veff-l in which a considerable number
of men wmre killed on both sides, the Engliih
ittemp'fd to board the American to linprefs
fome of the faiiors.
A rupture between the President and House
of Representatives app-arrd inevitable; and j n
tV,at case, that iaiam jus treaty, which Thomas
Pa.ne and you and ail the true republicans of
the United States cannot read without mdi<r.
nation, and whose mysteries seem not designed
tor profane eyes, v/ill fail for want of execu
tion. Washington ! (O Waftiington, thou an
dear, but liberty is d-arerj—will at least be
confttxuned to resign—Adams aud the Endifh
party will be crulhed ; J“fferfon and Maddi
fon will aiipear again upon the flag-, and
Munro. giving full scope to his democratic
principles, will appear at Paristhe true Reprc
lentative of his nation, the friend and red/ally
of the French Republic.”
■ ■ ■
SALE M, July 22.
Extract of a letter, to the Editor of th
SaEm Gazette, dated\ Newbury-fort,
7ty 7.1.
“ y c Her Jay captain Seward arrived
here in 9 days from Bermuda, who in
lorms that the bulinefs of privateerin
is ahnoit over—-only three cruisers weic
out, they were all gone for Halifax.
1 he inhabitants were determined that
no American property Ihould he fold,
as they were afraid their private estates
would be attached for indemnification.
A cargo belonging to this town, now
there, was prevented from being fold.”
SCHENECTADY, July 19.
Ex trad of a letter from Niagara , lft
July, 1796.
We have been buly for fome time
making preparations for giving up the
Garrilon to the Americans, every thing
is now ready for them, and the last Di
vision of the yth Regiment leave thL
to-morrow, except a Captain’s Guard oi
50 men wno remain at their own request,
to take care of the works and public
buildings, ’till the troops of the United
States make their appearance, which we
look for daily.
NEWBURV-PORf, July ig.
On Saturday errived, brig Valeria, captain
Stover. 23 days from Gaudaloupe. Fifteen
ni a ti of war and irigates beinlrs privateers, have
been cruifingJoft Gaudaloupe, since the capture
oi St. Lucie. Gapt. Stover was detained by
t-.vo', but permitted to proceed. One of them
i.at* (topped to Americans bound in, and en
dorsed their registers. She also captured a three
decker prize (hip, called the Marseilles, which
had been purchaUd by an American, and was
bound from Bailetere to America.
NEW-YORK, July 20.
Extradl oj a letter from Cape- Francois,
dated 9 *h M/jfidor, June 27.
The sth of this month (23d June)
a division or fleet (une divif.on) making
up that compliment, with thole that ac?
comjjanied the commillaries, arrived at
the port of the Cape. The news from
b ranee is good—the enemies are defeat
ed on every fide.
“ The internal troubles of this colo
ny, are finally at an end, as it refpedfs
serious atarms ; the chief ot the revol
ted are sent to France ; Vilate is efthe
number ; and what is very happy for
us is, that wc have been obliged to fpiil
no more blood; Pardon on one fide, to
thole who lay down their arms, and a
formidable army, well organized, and
ready to go again!! those who rclufe to
do it, on the other ; these arc mealures
which have happily Jucceeded.
“ The Engliih in turn will now feel
the impetuolity of the republican bayo
nets, which had been diverted from their
true objects by the interior commotions.
Our attention will now foldy be fixed
again!! the Engliih, who have them
selves come t 6 awaken and unite us, by
attacking fort Bompard, which guarded
by a small national corps, was obliged
to surrender after four hours refiltance.
The attention of general Touflant was
immediately drawn to this noint, and
precautions arc taken to prevent this
little advantage being of any eonfe
quencc to the enemy, hy cutting off all
communication. On the third we at
tacked and took fort Plefis, which com
municated with fort Bombard ar.d the
Mole : in which affair 102 Engliih and
impious emigrants who] defended it,and
refufiig to sur render, were killed : we
loft 30 men.
“ ‘Hie culture of the plantations oi
St. Dimingo already recommence • and
if rhe enemies of our prelent public af
fair.- do no* create new every
circumstance inspires r.ew hopes of fu
ture prosperity.
** I forget an anecdote whi'ch appear
ed Angular to me : 15 of the Engliih
cavalry, in a sortie from the Mole, bound
to fort Bombard, fell in with one of our
ambufeades (not knowing thc^ commu
nication was cut off) and lcven of them
were ieit dead on the field of battle ; a
mong whom was found a woman with a
mufkc: on her shoulder.”
July sfi.
Extrail of a letter from Port-au-Prince, doted
July 179 -
“ Upwards ol nine thou land troops have
arrived here and at Cap? Nichola Mole within
the two last months ; general Abercrombie
himfclt is evpetUd m left than three weeks
Irom the Windward I (lands, witli (even or
eight thouland more (oldicrs. A paridt, next
to the Mole, has been taken by general Forbes,
but we think he will n >t proceed any further
before gen-ral Abercrombie’s arrival.
“ We are informed, by way of St. Tho
mas’s, that general marquis Bouillc has taken
potfeliion ot the Iftand ot St. l.ultatia, with a
regiment of emigrants, in the name oi the kin 6
ol Great-Britain.
PHILADELPHIA, July 28.
Captain Dillingham, of the lchooner Indus
try, in 18 days troni St. Bartholomews, in
forms that flour rated at 17 dollars per barrel
.here, and at St. Vincent’s 22 He learned
that 7 Fail ol K - line direct from France had
arrived at Go .pe.
BALTIMORE, July ig
By a gentleman who laiied from Cape Fran
cois the 23d ot June, wc arc informed that,a
veflel belonging to Admiral Richcry’s lleei
arrived at the Cape the fame day, which an
nounced that the fleets might be hourly expec
ted, being but a few hour’s fail behind, with
15DOO troops— l' hat general Rochambeau, will
1 j,oqo men hud inarched against the Mole, aud
; hat the black general Rigaud, with
nenhard mirehed against Port-au-Prince, th ir
ucceis had not transpired and that St.
Mark, not being well tonified was evacuated
tay the Englifli.
The report yellerday of Port-au-Prince hav
ing been taken by the French, teems to haw
originated from a le.tcr received by a lady in
town, from her huiband at that place, bui on
turlhcr enquiry, it appears, (lor reasons b-'ll
known to her(elf) she will not communicate
any of its contents.
CHARLESTON, August 13.
Extrail of a letter from a gentleman in Najftiu,
Neut-Providence, to Itisjrund in this city, dated
Ja(y 14, 1790.
“ About ten days ago there was a fl-et of
merchantmen failed from this port for Lon
don, convoyed by the Narcissus of thirty-four
guns, and Swallow ot twenty-eight; the firit
fleet that ever was entirely loaded wuh the
produce ot thefp islands, conlifting chiefly of
cotton, eftimai.ed to be worth gO,oool. Previ
ous to their failing, the m-rchants gave a moft
elegant entertainment to the 01-hcrrs of the navy,
&c. On Sunday att-rnoon, July 3d. an ac
count was brought to town by a Negro who
had etcaped in an open boat, that fix veflels,
carrying from fifty to on- hundred and twenty
tons, which faded on Friday from Nalfau har
bor tor the out rflands to bring down cotton,
were all taken by a French privateer. The in
habitants immediately b"at up volunteers ; 11
was then four o’clock : by nine the lame ev
ening they manned and victualled a fuow, two
galleys, and a lchooner, and went off in quest
ot the enemy to retake the vessels. On Mon
day the schooner fell in with a cartel Hoop
trim Cape Nichola Mole, who from her ap
pearance she judged hofttlely inclined ; board
ed and brought her in. She again put to sea
in quest of the veifels, when, after three day's
fail, tell in with the privateer ; the captain
perceiving he could not efcapc, quitted the
privateer and got on board the fafteit tailor of
ttiofe veflels he had capiured, taking about two
thoufanu dollars wuh him. The schooner
capiured the privateer, and re-captured five of
the fix fail. I here eighteen prisoners on
board he privateer when taken. The Swal
low gave chace to the other vessel, which it
was luppofed she would soon come up with.
Ihe lalvage on th<- re-capture of those veifeis,
togeher with the privateer, will be above twelve
hundred pounds to the adventurers.”
KINGSTON, (Jamaica) June xfi.
A gcruleman arrived yesterday in the fleet,
v/ho was at St. Lucia at the time of its surren
der, reports, that the wole of the garrilon iur
rendered at dilcretion, and were lent to old
France in cartels—the army under Gen. Aber
crombie, 15000 men strong, were to go against
Gaudaioupe.
I n/1 omt ■ ■-i WaiaMWIM WNMMIUMWSMMiMVWMaMi
SAVANNAH, Augufl i^.
Last Vl'ednefday morning a Negro Wench
with two children, was drowned in a well in
this city. From circumlbmces. it apoears that
the wench who was mo.her of the children,
was the perpetrator of this horrid deed, and
| firft threw her children in the well and th'-n
followed them herfelf. They were early dis
covered and taken out; medical assistance wa
given, but to nb purpose. What could indue.”
her to commit this violence on herfelf and chil
dren, is not known.
DIED, Y fWday morning, Mr William
Allen, the much celebrated Race Rider ; hr
ram* paTeng-r in the Sloop Dove, Capt. Brow.,
from Charleston.
Death challeng'd him in his last heats,
And ran Ivm damn and toon the ftak*s
ikagrin'dhy Death, on this vain turf,
He ll ut ir Jlart to win another purse.
Marine Hrgifler.
entered inward.
August 17. Days
Ship Juno. Collins, New-Port, R. Island,
Schooner Polly, Rogers, Tobago, iy
Sloop Rainbow, Harding, Chariefton, 1
Dove, Brown, do. 1
CLEARED OUT.
Snow Whem, Arnbrof*, Ncw-Port, R. Idand.
Shipjnac. Collin*; Junr. St Thomas’?
Mrjfrs. Powers (J Seymour,
Gentlemen ,
mo t° reply to a publication of the Intendant
ot the City oi Charlrfton, accompanied with a
communication of the Medical Society of that
uy, deciai-intr that no malignant or contagious
~a x :: prevalent amongst them, (or the
pre.3 purpose of inducing our Council to take?
L K fiuaiantine, as well as to prevent other
p.accs iroiii laying on one. There can he no.
doubt of the truth of the affection, apparently
Irom Councils publication ; but the hew (pa
pers announces the death of numbers of peo
ple indeed. That there mull be so me thine
more malignant than common, I have no doubt *
‘or it appears clearly to me, that the medical
emeu of that city, (whose reputation Hand*
lugh m the medical world) loose a great num
ber of patients indeed ; and were it noihinr
more than the- fever common to that climate, I
1,11 convinced, that the practitioners are two
well acquainted with those difeales, to let it
prove io fatal. Besides, gentlemen, policy
ak. no doubt have great eltett in difta.ime
t.ieu reports. What would be theconfequence
it it were not so strongly denied ? Why, no
provisions would be brought to market, a scar-
City ot which would be truly dreadful. We
•mow that when our filler (late compelled at
tn ip from Philadelphia to proceed to fe* that
many phyticians in that c*.y denied the rxitl
<*nce of a contagious dileafe ; (HU it proved
mortal to many hundreds. I hope therefore
our Council will not re„ loV e the quarantine
order juit now : But, I think it is also very
opprdnve to people to be obliged to lay at
Cociclpur, without being p-rmimd to g,, on
norc, or getting any medical ailiftance, or be
ing I urnilhed with proviiions.
ought to be done.—We ought not from an id •£
hat they may be mle&ed with a malignant
unease, canle them to lay below in crouds, in,
mall veil -is, and aband- n them to comm..,* .
hance. No, gentlemen, Come provision IhouidL
vv hereby medical and other affiiU.ee
may be obtained. Such dole contin mimt,
wNi lhe turtups Irom the flings of mulqueme*
nd lane, fr.es, are iufFicient to bring on difea—
ICS, .Old W ill ncglctt, th~ community 1 >f e
many valual le members of society. M.
To be Codli e is to perform Godlike afdions. 1
I NEVER was d'fpof-d to prevent another,
from doing that service which myfelf was in
apabieto perform.
in i falmody, evefy Individual in a cone-re—
ration, hasarigh'to unite in the piaif sos God,
nor can a urof.ui- leader of the rnufic, deli'e the
inoft fauftifi-d followers.—-T > rrflram at a Gnat
‘nd iwallow a Camel, is an-rror of the pr-ju
dic.-d and uninformed.—Proud men swell
wilt power, and the envious burlt with malice ;
but he is fk for a ruler, who ha h wisdom.
I would not prohibit a man from that per
formance in public, which I had Ir-queiitly so
licited him to do in niv own family, and I
pray God, that envy and prejudice may never
make me so void of reason, as to err by such in
coniiltences. JULIUS.
The Courier Francois, printed at Philadelphia,
contains the following important intelligence.
AUTHENTIC NEWS FROM ST. DOMINCO,
Cape-t rancors, June
“ Difpatche* from Rnume, dated a-jd, an
nounce the arrival of the fl-t of Admiral Ri
chery, compof-d of nine fail of the l.ne, tea
frigates, four corvettes, four traufports carry
ing troops, and fve millions of money.
llit fleet has taken on its paifage 22 prizes
among which aie an EnglifH irigatc and a cor
vette.
*• Ihe army marched tinder the orders of
Rochambeau, Pageot, and Touifaint, is compo
ied of 300 troops of the line, and 5,000 Afri
cans, was dr {lined for the Mole. It has alrea
dy taken Bommrde, where it surrounded and!
took a body of 300 English cavalry. It con
tinued its route, and took an advanced poit
near th- Mole, defended by two pieces of c, n
non, after having cut in pieces the troops which,
were in it.
ri.ere is no doubt of their soon having the
Mole ; and all that part conquered by the En
glish w ill soon fall into the hands of the Re
publicans.”
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