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L O N ' t> 6 N,
LAS 1' K * y failed from Gravefend, ofl
board me Sjmpfon, Capt. Mcrlcr, for
New-York, tkz Right Rev. Johafarf&l, *ate
bewly ‘ conliciaied Biihop of the nejvly,
erected Catholic See of Baltimore, in Mary
land. Alto in the lame velfel, the Rtrfht
Rev. Dr. Maddifon, the Pr»teflant Bithop of
Virginia, lately coulecrated by his Giacc the
Arcbbithop of Canterbury *
Not a tittle of authentic information trart
fpires refpc cling the frequent interviews be- 4
tween Sir Archibald Campbell and the Mi
lder ; but it ii the general opinion that some
expedition of the atmofl importance has been
concerted, which will shortly take place
afainfl the Spauilh fsttlements in the weftern
wot Id.
tfa n&ffenger has been feat to Mr. Fitz
herbert by otir Minider, since the last con
tumacious dispatches were received from
Madrid, wbiVh"plainly indicates a becoming
jefolntion in the BritithiCabiner, to solicit no
other ultimatum thau such as Britiih cannon,
direiled by Britiili courage, fb*U produce.
Government have very properly employed
four frigates, now that the fleet is in port,
to watch the motion of our neighbours, in
Bieft water, we learn that there are two flags
flying, with tightetn jdil of the Unit touncen
of them with fails bent, and ready for Tea ;
but it is generally believed the want of fubor- ,
dination in the inferior officers and Teamen,
which has spread itfelf through all tanks
Since the late revolution, will tender It diffi
cult for the French to put to sea wjth any ef
fective force; aud we have little doubt but
im attempt to leave the harbour would be
considered as anaCt of hollility.
Extract of a Utter from Leyden, Sept. IJ.
•* All the letters from Warsaw, Vienna
aud Brellaw, represent the counter declara
tion made by the court of Pe cifburgh, to
the Pruffiau Cabinet, as of a very leuous ua
iure, and very contrary to our hopes of a
|jeace,
“ A courier extraordinary arrived' on the
£th infl. at Vicuna, with diipurches from
Count Co' cn/.el, at Peteifourgh, which were
such importance, that Prince de Kauuitz
did not tlmik it proper to await the return of
Kmg Leopold, (who arrived at Vienna with
1 licit' Sicilian majeflies the 15th iufl.) but
l.nt them dircftly to him at Gratz, and lince
which wc have learned the firm tone adopted
17 the Ruffian cabinet, and the answer which
j isrefolved to make to the pteffing requi
f lions of the King of Prussia, who will, we
f ippiofe, be supported in his proceedings by
1 13 allies ; audit is even said, that the true
intent of the pvefent large ana aments of
I upland, is to oblige Rufiia to conclude a
peace with the Turks on the fame footing as
the King of Hungary has doue. ,,
Since the exchange of the declaration and
, counter declaration, M. de Florida Bianca
Ins delivered to the miuiflers of foreign
courts at Maniid another memorial, to the
following purport: That rn a cunveifatian
with Mr. Merry, the Britiih Charge des Af
faires, he laid! that if the b'panilh miniiter
would lign the declaration, Tie would be rea
<}y ro enter into a negociatidu, tof mutually
«!i/a ruling. The declarati -ns were signed on
vhe 23d of ju!y, after which MC de Florida
Rlanca claimed the promiie of the Britiih mi
lliners, that to mau led their dilpofi’tion to
mi amicable difeutiiou of the points at illue,
they liiould mutually disarm; “ but what,
fays M. de Florida Blanca, was my artoniih
jue’nt, when, iuftead of fulfilling this engage*
jneut, I received certaiu inform ttiou from
iErgbnd of bis Bi tannic majefly's iucreafiug
2;is at matnent wi 1: the utmofl poffiole vigour.”
T his ipemorial the Spauiih uamifter has ptib
3*.hed, to prove to Europe, that the Catholic
Ixijg has been driven by the proceedings of
England to the coiuiuuantt* of his armament.
The king of (he French fccludcs himfelf
>n a n.cLuch ly reiiicmcnt, sud appears to
lave done with politic* altogether*—The
Qt ten fines her attention to hei family,
ii..d ar to the Jicnch cabinet, it appears at
j iciei t to have no employ; hut that of re
j • riii g to the royal car the decrees of the
3s -ii"ita| A*lernl!y.
'JfeCh'tenof France I* getting a flro tg
•■"Mil any, n | erton of th: firft political an)
j iiiV'i *: p al ill ie> in hi* Ihuatiou i* her frit
l t i.d ; c»*d that pei Am is the S; auhli Ain*
1 51 V iLr—M, d< hul.l, the bwednli Autbil*
*«*(H 11 ** kliOVil. ( ks *»' his CVirl.Ualii j sit J
through their secret influence and
a different complexion has lately been given
to the politics of Europe —The Enghih tn
baft'ador has been politely kept at a dtftance,
but their intrigues have nevertheless ccn
closely watched, and in discovering a nego
tiation immediately hostile to this country,
he has julicioufly rcprefeoted his observations
and apprehenfiouß to the Bri'irti ministry, and
to such reprefcntayioi; , ‘ are to be ascribed the
picfent ttrges* preparations.
A gentleman who strived from Fane on-
Monday night last, fays, that the Marine of
ficers of that kingdom, in a.body, have .re
filled adiug in case of a war with the *mg
lifli. *' ■' ' * • '
The counter revolution plot in France has
been difeovered —The Ducbefs of Villeroy,
and Duke de Villeqmer, were at the head; of
it—The king was to have beeu conveyed to
Rouen, wheie, upon his arrival, a bed of
jufticc was to be held, to reverse the decrees
of the National Assembly. The principal
leaders of garde national and voluuteers at
Rouen, were confederated, and M. Portier,
at tl C head of 300 gentlemen, who bad sworn
never but without their lives, to fuffer the
king to cfcape, were to form the flying camp
The Duchess of Villcroy had arnafted an im
mense fuw of money for the purpose, and
iron cages, it is said, were conftiuded for
the refradory chiefs of the revolution; but .
by the indefatigable industry of the commit
tee of Relearches, the whole affair was
brought to light, and the plot was confound
ed. In the above plot the Queen was to be
brought over by the Duke de Villiquier’s
working upon her appieheufions, and avert
ing that the king would be depofsd, unless
he fled from Paris. 1
On'the Oxford Circuit a man was indided *
for dealing a lilver punch ladle. In the course
of the evideuce, the couu/el for the crown
dealt rather farcaliically upon the prisoner
being an attorney; ei Oh! (said the judge
to the counsel, ia a whisper,) don’t make
the matter worse than it is y. for if tbefeUow
bad been an at tome) , you may depend upon it be
would have tab-a ibe bowl too?’
LONDON DERR Y, Odober 5.
A molt extraordinary budge has been built
over the river Foyle, which is about poo feet
wide, and 40 feet deep at high water, to ..
join this city and county. This immense
pile was conftruded by Mr. Cox, an Ame
rican, who, with twenty of his countrymen,
and a few labourers, completed this bridge,
confitfing of 58 arches, all of American
oak, in five month#—not a log of this wood
having been imported before the ift of May
last. The river was luiveyed by the late
Mr. Milhe, last fuuimer, who declared that
a bridge there was impracticable.—The colt
ahnnt 15,0001.
N £ W- Y O R K, December 3.
We learn from Annapolis (Maryland)
that a few days ago, the Legillature now
convened at that place, have granted a sum,
equal to that voted by the state of Virginia,
towards defraying the expences of fixing the
feat of government on the Potowmack.
For the benefit of our commercial friends,
a correspondent thinks it not amiss to apprize
them, that owing to the very large emifliou
of /fF,gnats in France, exchange, at Paris,
had fallen in London, by letters from thence
of Odober 6, to 24 1-2 pence flerling per
£cu y which is little more than eight*pence
per livre Tuurnois , lower probably than ever
was knowq ,at any former period. „ .
We hear that the state of Virginia
have voted the sum of 110,000 dollars to
wards defraying the expence of eroding the
public buildings, for the use of Congtefs, on
the Potowmack.
io- Such is the intenfeneft* of the froft
that now prevails,, that hickory wood was
.yelterday fold currently in this city for 15s.
per liyd, or 3!. per cord, and the raoft indif
ferent kinds of oak at 98. per load.,
PHILADELPHIA, Du. 8.
The loaf sugar made from the maple sugar,
and now expoftfd for fate by Meft. Edward
aud Ifiiac Pennington, has been pronounced
by impartial judges to be equal to any loaf
sugar us the fame quality that ever ? wi|
made fiom the Wcftdndia sugar rant. VV f
hear that a large Hoiltrig*huuf'e, tor the pur,
I'.tt us tfdh h/g the maple fuger, mill b
e reded daring the present winter on the
Sufquebanuah, near Cooper’s town, under the
direction of William Cooper, Esq. the fa
ther-of the late noble and fucccfsful enter
prise for Juppfying the United States with
American sugar.
This day, at the levee of the President of
the United States, Ignatius Palyart, Esq. as
Consul General from her Most Faithful Ma
jesty the Queen of Portugal to the United
States of America, was prefeuted by the
Hon. Thomas jefferfon, ffq. Secretary of
State, and moil graciously received.
RICHMOND, Dec. i.
Extra ft of a letter from a gent It man m K«n~
tucks to a Member of the General rljjembly,
dated AW. 5, 6 and 7. 1790.
•« I have waited with expectation of giving
you some certain account of bur troops, but ,
nothing certain— many improbable conjedures
fill the minds of the people. A hand bill just
come to Bourbon contains an extrad of a
letter from Governor St. Clair to Gen. Wil
kinson, whichJnfojrms, that our army met
with little or no opposition. The Miami
villages were abandoned ; from thence a de
tachment was sent up the St. Joseph’s river,
which fell in with a party of Indians, and
had a severe engagement. General Harmar
made a thew of retreating,. and marched
about eight miles, from which he detached
a strong party to the field of adion, in hopes
of finding the Indians on the ground. As
they expe&ed so they found them, and an
action commerced the zid of OCtober. The
atfion was obstinate, and mauy fell on both
sides. There were fa many Indians killed
in crossing the St. Jaifeph’s river, that their
[dead bodies flopped the current of the river
for a considerable time, and formed a dam
that could very cafily have been crofted upon.
Major Fountaine of Fayette, and Gen. Scott’s
son, were killed the second fire; Capt. M*
Murtry of the militia, and 73 militia, killed ;
Major Willis, Lieutenant Forthiugbara, of
the Federal troops, and 77 privates, fell in
the aCtion.
“ Col. M‘Mil!an, of Fayette, palled by
Col. Edwards’s last night, and confirms the
greater part of the above account. General
Hat mar never sent one single man to rein
force the detachment, (confiding of 400 men,
who had to fuAain the whole Indian army)
and he had with him in camp more thaq
1100 men ; the party fuffered much. Ouf
men at last loft the ground;. Col. Harding’s
wing was beaten, and finally broke. Lieut.
Col. Hall of Bourbon, Col. M‘Millan and
Major Willis, broke the other wing of the
Indians, which Jed to the amazing slaughter
in the river Joseph. Gen. Harmar never
sent to bury (he dead nor bring off the
wouuded. Capt. David Tharpe, and hii
Lieutenant, Williamfciark, fell in the field.
The Bourbon militia has luffered very much,
nearly one third of them having fell qa the
* ground. I have given you the- belt informa
tion I have been able to collect. The urmf
is now at Licking, and is expected home
hourly. Major Jones may, before he leave's
the diftrid, (who will give you this letter)
colled the whole truth of the matter.”
AUG U$T A, Jan. 8.
On the 13d ult. arrived at Tybee, the (hip
Pjatiter, Capt. Grieve, Lorn London, which
he left the 13d of October, and the Downs
the 6th of November.
The following copy of a letter from the
Duke of Leeds to the Lord Mayor of Lon
don) was received by a merchant of Savannah
by Capt. Grieve.
My Lord t ' ; . ;
I HAVE the honor to acquaint your Lord
(hip, that the Messenger DreiEn arrived here
this morning with difpatchea from the Right
Hon. A. Fitznerbert, his Majefly’e Ambas
sador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at
the Court of Spain, dated October 24, 1799,
containing an account that a Convention, foe
terminating the differences which had arifeu
with that Court, had been agreed upon be
tween his Excellency on thl part of his Ms
jelly, and the Count Florida de Blanca on the
part of the .Catholic King { and that the
Convention waa to be figued and exchanged
by thafa Miniflsrs ou tht a;tb ot ibaj'ame
month* 1 have the honor to be, &c.
(BiyoeJ) LEEDS* I
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