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Yy the Schooner Nymph , Capt.
liill, arrived at Char left on,
from New-Tork , in f days.
NEW-YORK, Oftober 17 *
Ey captain Conkling, of the ship
lames, in 2 9 da y s from London > we
y, a ve accounts from thence to the 13th
■ f September, (17 days later than our
from which we have given fome of
the moft important articles in this day’s
advertiser.
LETTER FROM Mr. KING.
fj )e following-it frt> m the London Tele
graphy of the 1 yh September :
A letter, of which the following is a
copy, containing commercial informa
tion of much importance, was on Satur
day transmitted by the American am
bafiador, Mr. King, to the American
consul, Mr, J ohnfon.
“ 18, Baker-Street, Sept. 10.
“ Dear Sir,
“ I have just received a letter from
Mr. Monroe, dated Paris, August 28,
jn which he informs me, that in conse
quence of the publication in the gazettes,
of the letter from the minister of foreign
affairs to M. Barthelemi, the ambalia
uor at Balls, he had applied for informa
tion, whether orders were iliued for the
seizure of neutral veflels, and had been
informed that no such order was iliued ;
and further, that none such would be
iliued, in case the Britilh government
did not authorize the seizure of our
veflels.
“ Suppofmg that this information
might be ufeful to thole concerned in
cur commerce, I have not delayed com
municating it to you, and with you to
he so obliging as to let it be known to
such of our countrymen concerned in
commerce as you may meet with.
I am, &c.
” RUFUS KING,
jclhua J ohnfon, cfq. consul
to the U. S. A.”
Extract of a letter from J. M. Tznardi
Consul of the United States at Cadiz , i 0
the Secretary of State, dated Aug. 25.
” consequence of orders from
court, all the JEnglifh velfcls in this
harocr have been embargoed ; the rud
uers taken off and conveyed up to Pun
tales, the inward port or the bay. Si
milar orders have of courle been sent to
ah the otuer sea port towns in Spain.
‘1 his unexpected event has greatly dam
ped the spirits of the people ; all nas
rceti coniulion. Not a tingle negocia
tion has been made in this great com
mercial city, and government notes,
which on the 20th were at 11 per cent,
kfs, have risen up to 18 pier cent, loss.”
By a letter from London, dated Au
gust 27, 1796,it appears that the Com
missioners on the fubjeCt of spoliations
on the commerce cf the United States,
not agreeing in the choice of the fifth
Pommifiioner, the fame was decided bv
lot • when the name of John Trumbull,
Pfq. of Connecticut, was drawn as the
fifth Commissioner. Mr. Trumbull
vtas in London, and accepted the ap
pointment. On the 26th, all the Com
missioners were sworn before the Lord
Mayor.
Seizure of Spanilh veflels. A gen
tlemen who came paflenger in the James,
fawat Deal, a London paper of the 17 th
September, (but which he could not
procure to bring with him) which fated
tr.at an order has been iliued by govern
ment, for leizing the Spanilh veflels in
England ; and also convcrfed with a
cultom-houfe officer, who mentioned that
f l la d been actually engaged in the bu
siness.
A peace with the Emperor, so fre
♦juently spoken of, is again placed at a
distance. The English papers speak of
thc . Gazette account of an action, in
‘VntchGen. Jourdan, after fevcral pre-
J ll ) Ui partial actions with Gen. Warten
‘;e -en, had been defeated by thecombin
ri°^ eS ’ undcr the Archduke Charles
r ‘d Gen. Wartenfteben, with the loss
7 rt y pieces of cannon, and seven
‘°u.and men. Os the previous aCtions
r°Ren of we have the details, in which
l en ‘ Jourdan was in general fuccefsful:
t. .J!® 1 * he P a P er which contains the
W 8 • Gazette account of his defeat.
J give his own letter of the 24th Aug.
bv; eVer * m - whicl b though he mentions
fl ar r ? ceived this ebeck, he docs not
Gppofedto this loss arc the
J** 0 * ° Cn ’ Mcreau Hauffman,
lair P j nCIn S an important victory ob
j.’ ov f r the Austrians on the 23d,
j. e r i Ve r Lech, in which they took
pieces ofartillery and 2000 men pri
fs, From the late renewed actions^
xr.i the accounts trom Vienna, it np
pcars that the emperor is determined to
defend himfelf to the last extremity.
L tween Spain and England, war ap
pears at length inevitable. The treaty
offeniive and aefenfive between the form
er and the Repbulic of France, the En
glish papers state, as having at last ap
peared, and been agreed to by the Coun
cil of Five Hundred. The 18th arti
cle imports, that it is particularly against
the English the united forces of the con
trading parties are to ad. This un
doubtedly amounts to a declaration of
war ; and appears to have been so con
fidcred by the Lnglilh. Ihe Spanilh
minister had obtained his Pafloort for
quitting England.
‘1 he Invasion of Portugal being a
greed to in the French councils/ the
torces and their commanders to act u
gainft them announced, opens anew field
for the dettrudive ravages of war.
r l his is wc presume, only one of thc ob
jects contemplated in the new alliance,
and for which the Spaniards have preten
tended juftificatory reaions traced to
ancient and musty records,no doubt care
fully preserved for fome fit occalion of
aggreflion.
The invasion of England appears to
be looked to both in France and Eng
land ; preparations making in both for
the attack and defence. Throughout
the latter, particularly on the sea coast,
every exertion is made. The caille and
works at Driver are undergoing great
additions and repairs; and in the coun
ty of Eflex alone a body of eleven thous
and men is stationed. Large drafts from
the regular forces are made, to be cm
barked for Ireland j and thc internal
preparations in that kingdom are no
less vigilant. The fort refs of London
derry, in the north, is alone to be mount
ed with 100 pieces of cannon—other
places in proportion.
A ncgociation for peace, amidst these
hostile preparations, is Hated to be de
termined on the part of England, with
thc intention of dispatching Air. Jack
foil to Paris at the minister tor that
purpose, with inftruttions for, among
other matters, acknowledging the French
republic. This resolution is mentioned
to have taken place on the account re
ceived of the check experienced by gen
eral Jourdan, and orher circumllances,
which appeared to afford a favorable
opportunity for the purpose. Should
this have been attually the case, the new
obie&s contemplated by France, we
fltould suppose, would at that time have
created cbdaeles to pacific overtures.
A licet from Brcft harbour it was as
certained had got out, and it was sup
posed to join a Spanilh fleet. Admiral
Gardner’s squadron then cruising off
] ranee was in consequence to be rein
forced by fevcral ftiips from England.
Richery's squadron it was imagined
had gone to the Weft-Indies ; an u it is
not improbable is the one which is re
ported to have appeared off Halifax.
The Ruffian fleet was adually leaving
England. r I he cause of their departure
is nor stated and does not appear to ex
cite furprize.
The Britifli parliament was not to
meet till the 27th September.
PARIS, Sept. 6.
General Scherer, has been appointed
to the command of the army which is to
enter Portugal, and to reunite the Eng
lish kingdom with the Spanilh territo
ry. ‘J his army is to consist of 25,000
men, and has already received its orders
of departure.
Thus Spain is about to resume her
ancient limits. The queen of Portugal
will partake ol the late of the pretender,
or, it lhe is wife, accept ol a handsome
pension, and a lodging in the Efcurtal.
LONDON, Septembers.
We received this morning from our
regular correspondent at Portsmouth
the following letter :
Portsmouth , September 7.
“ Arrived last evening, the Aurora,
of New-York, from Dieppe* Bv this
vcflel we learn, that the French paper,,
which arrived on the 3d intf. at Diep
pe, contained an account of the demands
made by the French,as the conditions of
peace, viz. the ceflion of Gibraltar and
Jamaica to the Spaniards, and feverai
fail of the line to them, and to reduce
the Navy and army immediately to thc
peace eftablilhment.”
A report was in circulation at Ply
mouth the day before yesterday, that
‘the Spanilh and French fleets, to the
number of 34 fail of the line, were in
the Bay, and that Mr. J. B. Warren’s
squadron has chafed a frigate in fight of
the said fleet.
Two of the morning papers diferedit
the intelligence in yelterday’s Courier,
refpefting the application of thc Span-
Columbian iHttfeum, &c.
Bh . ambassador for a pallport. We
again aftert that such an application has
actually been made, and that an embar
go has been ordered to be laid upon Span
ilh (hips in our ports.
S,pt ember 12.
Letters of intelligence were read on
Saturday, at the office of the secretary
ot the admiralty, Whitehall, from vice
admiral Macbride, then on the coast of
Holland: from whence he is expected
to come to Yarmouth roads very Ihortly
with part of the squadron.
A letter has been received in town
from Admiral Gardner’s fleet, of so late
a date as the ill init. dated from on
board the Royal Cieorge, at sea, b>
which we learn that accounts had been
received of a French convoy having es
caped irom Brelt, bound to the Y\ est-
Indies : the force which goes with this
joined to the iuppofed fleet of Richery,
and a third squadron from I, ’Orient, is
ellimated at 21 fail of the line ; admiral
Gardner s fleet on the ill was 11 fail
of thc line, four frigates and a lire
ship, expecting reinforcements. A cut
ter had brought dispatches, and it was
imagined that the admiral had orders
to go in pursuit of tie enemy. The
letter writer, however, does not pretend
to speak with confidence cither as to the
strength of the enemy, or of thc exact
deflination or the Britilh fleet.
A report prevailed on Saturday, that
fome French flaps of war from (/Ori
ent and Brelt, had put to sea, and found
means to join citizen Richery s fleet, u
long blockaded at Cadiz, which nov*
make a very formidable armament.
I.’Eclair ol August 20 contains vari
ous official accounts. Moreau, on 26'.
Thermidor, August 12, at Amiens,
writes, that he repulled the enemy at
Nereiheim, August 8 ; that on the loti,
he attacked and repulied the advanced
guaro, beat them and took 450 priton
ers; a terrible tempest prevented fol
lowing them up : that on the 11 th prince
Charles, having received ail his rein
forcements from Galiicia and interior of
Austria, attacked the whole line : the
I tench right flankers were repulled, and
the enemy came quite to Heydcnheim,
where the gen. officers were who had
returned iiom Kenilbron, so that the
enemy were 4 leagues in his rear, but it
did not (iifconcert his arm/. His ad
vanced guard was alio repulsed, but the
reserve coming up re-eftabiilhed them.
1 he greatest effort of the prince was on
tne rignt, but St. Cp’r defended it with
bravery, ihe right ol the left wing
was aiio attacked, but Defaix rcpuilcd
it, and took 200 prisoners. The reserve
cavalry prevented their prelfing between
the tw'o wings of thc French army. The
two armies, after 17 hours obstinate
battle, relied on their arms (bivouaguej
upon the field ol battle, and that
day break the enemy effected a retreat.
Moreau would have attacked again on
the 13th, but the enemy had retired be
hind Nemitz, and are about puffing the
Danube, tiicy are already it Norlingen :
the army will follow. The Austrians
count their loss at 7000 killed and ta
ken.
IIIILA DELPHI A, October 12.
Upon counting the votes lafteveing,
tncre appeared a majority for John
Swamvick, as member of Congress.
NEW- Y OK, October 1 1
Extract oj a letter from a commercial house
vi London to their correspondent in this
City , dated izih Augifl.
“ Ihe I rench Directory has issued an
order to capture all neutral veflels bound
to or irom this country, which has rai
led the premium of American property
out Irom hence from 2} guineas, to 4
guineas per cent. They are so intoxi
cated with success, that they confider
the property ot the whole world as
their prey ; and though this measure is
probably levelled at the neutral pow
erv in thc .Mediterranean, it may ex
tend to American vellels, and ’till this
is understood, theie will be confiaera
ble alaun,”
irom ihefame, on the 10th A'l^njl.
“ Mr. Ai unroe, has p rote fled against
the order lor thc capture ot neutral ves
sels, and has received an unfalisfa&ory
answer ; and thc order, it is understood,
will be eniorced.”
Ext ratios a letter from a Mcrthant in
Halifax, to bis friend m this city.
An express has just arrived from St.
John's (Newfoundland) which fays, that
dee fail ol the line and four frigates have
arrived at Bull’s Bay, next one to St. I
John s, and have deft t oyed and burnt
7 that let dement. God knows where
they are bound next—l hope not for us.
T he Britilh ministry have given or
ders lor the equipment of every ship in
the navy, that is fit for service. ‘Phi
order is doubtless in consequence of the
present alarming crilis generally ; but
elpecially in consequence of thc orders
cl the French lor the seizure of neutral
veflels.
As the French proceed in their ca
reer oi uiccels, John Bull’s alarms arc
excited, and thc old story of a French
invasion is revived.
October 15.
Last Evening, the ship Diana, Capt.
Rofleter, 40 days Irom Bourdeaux ar
rived at this port.
Capt. R. informs, that 70,000 nvert
were embodied at Brelt, supposed to go
against Portugal; that a French frigate
had been driven on (hor#, on the coast of
France, by a Britilh squadron ; that no
naval action had taken place ; that no
declaration of a Spanilh war had trans
pired.
It js reported by afehooner from Gree
nock, tflat lhe spoke a ihip that ef
elcaped from Newfoundland, bound to
London, who informed that the French
had taken the torts at i\e.vt jundland by
Bonn, anti put the F.ughlh to uic iword,
and had got jioliciliun ol ail the Engliih
in the harbour.
SAVANNA! I, October 25.
Married in Chaiiefton, last Tuefdav,
J Y b- I*. Ga'iaher, minister of thc
Catholic Church, Mr. Job i Lap fie
Coupy, merchant 01 this City, to Mils
Marguerite, lately from France.
A letter Irom an eminent mercantile
K Ule m Bqfton, dated OHober 2, 10 a
gentleman in Philadelphia fays — u Wc
I ha ve just learned that the squadron un
>r the command of Richery, b:n lan
ded a body of troop -and destroyed the
English town of St. John’s, in’ New
foundland.
From the S u N, a London Paper.
On Sunday morning a duel wag
fought in Hyde Park/ between Mr
VCilliam Carpenter and Mr. John Pride
both Americans. The meeting took
place in consequence of the alfoirs of
America becoming thc fubjett of con
versation, at the Virginia coffee-houfe
on f riday last. Mr. Carpenter gave it
as his opinion, that Mr. Giles, i mem
ber of thc Congrels of the Looted States
w r as not so able a man as many luppjjled
him to be, and tiiat he did not confider
him as politically honest. At this o’b
fervation Mr. Pride took fire and gave
Mr. Carpenter the lie—A challenge
emued, the parties met on Sunday morn
ing at half palt five, in Hyde Park,
i he Seconds used every means in their
power to bring the affair to an amicable
adjuftrnent, but in vain. The diitance
being mealurecl, they fired exactly at the
lame instant, when Mr. Carpenter re
ceived his antage.fill's ball in the fide,
which penetrated nearly through hisjboi
dy; it was immedi
atelyextraUeu, he breathed his last ye f*
terday at twelve o’clock, at Richard
son’s Covent Garden.
No animolity whatever had previously
subsisted between them. Mr Carpenter
was about twenty-one years old and was
brought up tn Essex Country, i n the
State ol Virginia his father was a Gen
tleman ol Dcvonlhire, in England. Mr.
Pride is a rativC of Amelia Country ini
Virginia, twenty-five years of age. ’
Measures have been taken a t the pub
lic offices to apprehend the other princi
pal and his leeond, but hitherto with*
out effecT.
The Coroner’s Inquest were to fit on
the body this day .
Marine Kegttfer.
entered inward.
Oftober 19, to 25. Days
schooner Putty, Fume, reported for Charlefton*
Petit Guavc. 21
savannah Packet, Keen, Charlcfton, i-
Fortitude, stubbi, repolted for Charlefton>
Acquin, 3a 1
Hitty, Mason, Philadelphia, 4-
Brig Boston Packet, Prentis, Demarara, 25’
Mary, Coffin, Boston, g.
Amazon, Rhoes, New-York, 4.
CLEARED OUT.
Brig Bellona, Crooker, New-York
Schooner Industry, Ross, Charleston.
Fair Play, Quigin, Wilmington, N. C.
sloop Rebecca, Muntoe, sunbury.
Bachelor Packet, Bemifs, st. Mary.
Harriot, Taylor, Jo
Betsy, Morrison, Well-Indies.
Iff I TAKE the liberty of mentioning tony
FA’ on) Citizens, that lama Candidate as one of the
Electors to vote in this State, for Prelidcnt Ant,’
Vice-Prelident oj the United States—
i • Glascock.
October j, 1796. c ?3t .*
THE creditors of thc
late JAMES GREtNHOW, rre requrfted to
at tne Merchants and Planters Coffer’
Hoide, on Thudday the 2 7 tij inilant.
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