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*The followihg tnterejling In
telligence is copied from the
Philadelphia Gazette, extra,
of the 12th infant .
PEACE.
from the Boston Centinel, jfune 7,
Ydlerday afternoon arrived here the
lhip Telemachus, captain Prentis, in 30
days from Liverpool) by whom we have
lecetved London | apers to May 4th,
Which contain Paris news to April 28th
---much later than before received.
These papers abound with events of the
greatest magnitude.
. The article most interesting to Ame
rica, contains well corroborated accounts)
that Pa iliminaries OF PEACE had
been signed between the emperor and the
French republic) having been concluded
by the archduke Charles and general
Buonaparte.
The events which led to this measure,
Were an unexampled series of vi&ories by
the French army in Italy) over the Au
strians, in which the latter 101 l between
15 and 20)000 men y in killed) woundrd
and prisoners; great quantities of am
munition) military (lores, provisions,
See, and two millions worth ol qinckfil
ver from the mines of Idria. Our cor-
roboiationa of this intelligence are-—*
firfti Mr, Fox in the British house of
commons, the id of May, announced
.the event, and Mr. Pitt did not contra
it—-second, the French executive
directory, on the 26th April, in a mes-
Sage to the council of five hundred, fays,
j| dispatch from general Moreau, is ter
minated by the following postscript:
•* A courier which I received this
-morning from general Buonaparte, an
nounces to me, the signing of the preli
minaries of peace with the emperor."
Thia meflage created the liveliest emotion
of joy, as the harbinger of peace—third,
the directory in another meflage on the
fame day, to the council of five hundred,
refpeding the French colonies, fays,
the constitution ought not to be put in
suthority until after peace; but every
thing announces chat this peace will be
concluded in less than a month.£3” It
may be neceiTary here to state, that the
tcafon why A* -
ceive a courier from Buonaparte, an
nouncing the above events, as early as
general Moreau, was that general Boo
naparte in order to flop the useless ettu
fion of blood, direrted the courier he
sent with the intelligence to proceed to
Moreau’s and Hoche's armies on the
Hhine, before he went to Pans----fourth,
general Vernier, governor of Stialburgh
Ton the Rhine) announced by found ot
, trumpet on the 24th of April, a letter
from general Ragnio to general Van
damma, aa follows, “ 1 have the pleasure
to inform yon, general, that the prelt
- minaries of peace have just been signed by
the army of Italy; and an armifttce has
lust been proclaimed between the Au-
irian army and that of the Rhine and
Mofclle, and in consequence you will
Ceafc all boftilities, and the advanced
polls will remain in the fame pofmon.
This event caused unusual demonstra
tions of joy at Stralburgh, which was
ttrilliantly illuminated. At Pans nume
voot discharges of artillery announced the
peace—bufinefe was suspended- and the
freets and gardens resounded the shouts
©f Vive la Paix! Vive la Republic
fifth, general Leclere arrived at Paris
from the army, left the two generals
fettling the preliminary terms of peace. 1
General Buonaparte required, that the
formal acknowledgement of the French
jepoblic, by the emperor, {hould bee*,
ponged from the treaty, as the republic
Hood not in need of it* for its existence.
A number of left prominent occurrences
convince us, that peace now exists be
tween the French republic and the em
peror of Germany.
It will be asked, does the peace in
clude Grent-Britain ? We can give no
decisive nnfwer on this head—a Paris pa
per of April *6, (ays, “the direftory
ilfo reckon on a peace with England
And on the ad of May, the Britilh par
liament voted i,580,0001. loan to the
emperor—likewise provision for guaran
teeing jicooioool. to be raised on ac
count of the emperor. This was on the
day the news arrived of the empetor’s
having made peace} the officiality of
whids Mr* Pitt seemed unfatisfied with;
bntudd * WM acccllaiy to
flop the loan) it could be done in any
stage of the bill.
The conditions of the peace are va
riously Hated. Some fay that “ Auilria
consents to the boundaties of the Rhine
and the Alps, and the liberty of Lom
bardy and Mantua.'* Others Hate the
conditions to be, « ill. the indepen
dence of Italy, 2d. the cession of Upper
Austria to the prince of Orange, 3d. the
expcnces of the war to be (/aid by the
emperor."——Thefe terms are only edi
torial conjedlures.
The French armies of the Upper and
Lower Rhine, both palfed that tWer
about the 19th of April. General Mo
reau's attacked and carried at noon day,
the strong poll of Kehl, and before 7 o'
clock, planted the tti-coloured flag on
the battlements of that very Kehl, which
they had defended for fifty-two day?, a
gainst prince Charles and all the vigour
of his veteran army. General Hoche
eftablilhed his polition on the right fide
of the Rhine, after a pitched battle, and
three actions, in which he took 7000
prisoners, 27 cannon, 7 tlandards, and
60 waggons.
A Serious Mutiny
Broke out in the whole Britifli chan
nel fleet, the 15th April. On that day,
when admiral Bridport ordered the fleet
to prepare for fra, instead of weighing
anchor, the crew of the Queen Charlotte
gave three cheers as the iignal of difaf
fedfion—-as the plan had been premedi
tated, the rest of the crews followed r
The officers thunder (truck could do
nothing. They were soon all confined,
and ropes hung from the foreyard arm
in terrorism to the unpopular of the fleet.
Deputies from each (hip repaired on
board the Queen Charlotte, a firft rate;
and the muriny in consequence of an in
temperate procedure of admiral Gardner,
aflumed the mod alarming afpeft. The
demands of the Teamen were an advance
of pay to 30s. per month ; a due allow,
ance of provisions; a more equal distri
bution of prize money; and thedifplace
ment of several obnoxious officers. These
demands created the moll alarming ap
prehensions in the British ministry; but
they were complied with in the fullefl
extent. Admiral Bridport communi
cated to the crews the conceflion of the
government, and a pardon from the
king; on which they ail returned. tf^»lrgn
every poTt in England ; but at the fail
ing of the Telemachus, order had been
restored.
A new loan for j 8>o0O)O~ol. was car
ried in the house of commons, May 2,
jo* against 50. .
No intelligence had been received
from Mr. Hammond, who had been sent
to Vienna on a pacific embafly.
Twenty-one counties, cities and towns,
have petitioned for peace and the dif
miflion of Pitt. Other counties, See .
were aflembling.
May 4th, 3 percent, confol, 48 I*2.
PETERSBURG, June 20.
Congress.
Mr. Smith’s resolution authoring mer
chants to arm their veffela, was rejefied
in the honfe of representatives the Bth
instant. ,
On the 9th instant, Mr. Blount offered
resolutions to the following effeft :
Rtfolved , That provision ought to be
made by law to place 80-000 of the mi
litia of the United States, in equal pro
portion from the several states, in requi
sition. _ , .
Rtfolved, That provision be made to
authorife the purchase of thousand
stand of arms, to be deposited in the se
veral states, in proportion to the number
I of white inhabitants in each.
Mr. Blount thought that a well orga
| nized system of internal defence, was all
that was required at the present crisis.
He was against those means of defence,
which hazarded our peace, and might be
I a bar in the way of an accommodation.
Mr. Smith (S. C.) said he {hould not
©ppofe Mr. Blunt’s resolutions, but they
appeared to him calculated to do little or
I no good. The principal objeft of the
cull of congrefe he conceived to be to take
I rneafures for the protection of our com
-1 merce, and of course of our revenue,
which depended on it; this could not be
effected by those resolutions.
Mr. Thatcher objefted to the phrase
I requisition. However fond that gentle-
I man (meaning Mr. Blount) might be of
1 the French phrases, he did not with to
1 imitate them in theix expteffions in out
legjflative afls. He had no objeAion to
the holding foch a number of men in rea
diness. He hoped the sentiment would
be exprefled in American language.
Mr. Blount supposed he ihould be told,
because he used the word requisition in his
resolutions, that he was one of the factious.
He believed if the gentleman looked over
the old congrelßonal proceedings, he
would find that the demands made upon
the dates, were called requijitions, He
had however, no obje&ion to any other
word which had the fame meaning. He
thought the objection a trifling one, and
such as the gentleman ought to be alham*
ed of making.
Mr. Thatcher replied, that he did not
often fay any thing ol which he was a
shamed; that he said nothing about French
faftions : but, it was an old faying, ««that
a guilty con/cience needs no accufcr,'*
Mr. Blount said with warmth, that no
man, in no place Ihould call upon him
such an insinuation with impunity.
[We understand that Mr. Blount has
ftnee challenged Mr. Thatcher—but the
latter refufed to receive itj
Mr. Blount agreed to modify his reso
lution as follows—
Resolved , That the president of the U
nited States be authorifed to call on the
executives of the several dates, to take
measures to organize and hold in readiness
80,000 militia, including officers and
private?, to be apportioned among the
several dates in proportion to their num
ber of white inhabitants, viz.
The resolution was then adopted. The
second resolution offered by Mr. Blount,
after fo;ne consideration, was withdrawn.
Mr. Smith (S. C.) observed that he had
waved a consideration of the 3d and 4th
resolutions [introduced by him on the 3d
indant] in order to pass to the yth—but
as the committee had decided againd arm
ing merchants vessels, he (houtd propose
another resolution to the committee. It
was well known that the three frigates
which had been agreed to be manned,
would not be ready for sea for several
months; in the mean time there might
be occasion for some armed vessels; he
fliould therefore submit to them the fol-
lowing resolution;
Refolixd, That it is the opinion of this
committee, that the President of the U
nitsd States /«,<*»** v * , —7 “* ,urce »
wnenever, in nis opinion, the circumdao
cesof the country (hall require thriame ;
and that dollars be appropriated
for that purpose. ,
Several members having mentioned
that they had no objeftion to the resolu
tion, provided it was so modified as to go
no further than to protest our vessels with
in the jurifdi&ion of the United States---
and Mr. Smith having declared that he
had no other objeft in view—the refo u
tion was adopted by the committee m
substance as follows:
Resolved , That provision be made by
law to authorife the president of the Ti
nned States, should circumstances hereaf
ter make it neceflary, to porchafe
galleys or other vessels, for the defence
of the United States.
HALIFAX, June 19.
Extratl of a Utter jrom a member 0} Con
gress to a gentleman in this town > dated
Philadelphia , June 8.
«• In the house of representatives, on
Saturday last, the Present's speech be
ing under consideration, Mr. Wm. Smith
of Charleston, offered the enclosed refo
lutions,* with a motion that the galleries
should be closed, and the difeuffion should
be under the seal of secrecy—but after a
bout three hours debate, the question was
put and determined in the negative, as I
hope all questions of the kind will be in
future, and the doors were again opened.
1 mention this proceeding, left a report
of the (hutting the doors should have lea
ched you, and created an improper alarm,
or occasioned a fall in the prices of pro
duce by countenancing an expe&ation that
there would be an embargo— a measure
that has not even been proposed.
« These resolutions may ferveto (hew
you the outlines of all the bufiuefs that
has been brought into the view of Con
gress as proper to be conGdered this fef
fiou. The house of reptefentatives have
ordered bills to he brought in conforma
bly to the firft and fccond ; and the senate
have passed bills agreeable to the princi
ples of the 3d, 6th and 10th.—On the
others no quetfion has been a3 yet taken,
and of course I can give no opinion of the
probability of their adoption or rejection,
t —I would for my own part, on the
> grounds of inutility and expence, if they
r were not. otherwise objectionable, reject
all of tfcefli except tfce Bth, q th 2n >
-.and, in place of them, re? 0 lv e i k
vide, by porchafe or otherwise i'
stand of arms, with accoutiemenu 005
plete; and order into a state of rrm/r
80,000 of the militia, in equal
tionsfrom the several Hates. Th P 0?t
form a complete internal defence 5 *,?
is, in my opinion theworft of folly t
tempr, at this time, to create an
nal defence or naval force; becanf.*’ 6
ting (hips of war to sea would only?
tiply the chances of getting d,awn i
the war, an event which it i s OUf i ni ,
and ftould be onr study to avoid, !
which we know it has been tL- J
both England and France to accomnl*
Theft Refutations were p u
our laft,\ J 11
S T R AYS.
FOR some time the foliowL
A fir ay cattle have used with my JI C A
my mills; the owners can get tlim l
proving their property and paying tki,,
cejfary charges,
An unmarked pale red cow ; a d (( p rt i
cow with a calf, some white about \
marked with a/wallow fork in the left e J
and a/wallow fork and an underkit m i
right ; a red and white bull not marked
a black cow and calf marked with e/U
low fork in the right ear, and ajlopefn
the under fart of the left : a red cow uitk
•*?~f murAvJ wit*, a crop and ui net r.
bit in the right ear and an underbit in tin
left ; and a red cow with a calf , branitl
thus marked with a flit in the rightist
and a crop in the left .
' THOMAS GLASCOCK.
_June 23, 1797.
Four Dollars Reward.
O UN AWAY form the sub.
feriber about three weeks age , au>
gro woman named ELSEY, between jj
and 40 years of age, jke is a tall slim w 5
country born wench, well known in A
gujta, Savannah and Charleflon M
persons are forbid to harbour or carry ho
away, and whoever will return her Jnd
receive the above reward,
„ MARY HUNTER.
fr MOT j C~E. "
warriecTfrom taking 6.1 njjigmem
of a note given by thefubftribers to Zach*
riah Cox or his heirs, on or about the ifift
day of November, 1794, for four hundred
pounds jterling, as they mean not to fsi
the fame untiLa good title is made to the
Property for which the said note was etvn,
e BIRD HAMP.
Shoals ofO%echee,
June 9, 1797. ....
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THE colleflors of taxes for the ccdd*
ties of Wafoington and Greene’*
hereby notified, that John Y. Noe!,
is authorifed by the subscribers to
taxes on the lands in said counties, 1
property of Pierce Butler and the
of Roger P. Saunders.
PIERCE BUTLER,
Jas. LOWNDS, Attorney r
the admr, of R. P*
Savannah, April 21, 179*7* >
d —RROUGHT*
thegwlrfje**}
May'bft. » " £ £ TO t.
named Sam* a b° ut
,y ot fo.ty fi« yS
age, who fays he belongs to a Nt* *
Greene, on M‘Bean creek. ine 4 ;f j
is hereby recjuefted to come forwa.t*
prove his property, pay charges an
him awav by _ « r
JOHN MACKEY, G. /•
June'!, T 797*
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