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PIT “ 91MLTN, November *9. THE celebrated Bt&boftwerder, tlie favorite of the | AIM VWi4IIK.V4 atuiiimun* The Baron Kleift, named to announceat Peterftairgh the advancement of our young King to the throne, has already departed. This haste is remarkable in the present i lrcumftances of things. We are endeavoring to discover what political march our Cabinet will follow since the peace between the Republic of France and tlie House of Austria; and we have been able to guess at the condition; oar Court has cultivated with particular care the frieatUhip of, the Emperor of Raffia, who on his fide has shewn himfelf very anxious to attach us to his fyffim, and to take part with us in tlie affairs of the German Empire, under pretext of preferviug its integrity, but in fa& to oppose the designs of France. Paris, November it. Tlie Directory lias named the Vice Admiral Lacrosse Commandant of a division in the road of Brest. They fay he is as brave a soldier as he is an able fail or. In 1792 he made, with afingle frigate, a defeent on one of the Windward Islands. where he again planned the three colored flag. Ia the expedition to Ireland he commanded the veflel Droits de FHoiniie* On his re turn he sustained a battle of 1 2 hours aganft a fliip of the line and a frigate of the Englifii. London , December 14. We are cmcerned ftate the death of Capt. Parker of the Intrepid He was fitting in his cabin, when upon a sudden heel of the fliip, and his chair giving way, he fell against the fnf.i window of one of the port holes, which he went through into tlie fca. It blew fb flrong that, before any affiftanre could lie given by backing the fails, he unhappily disappeared. Capt. Parker was brother to Vice Admiral Sir William Parker, at Lisbon. , The Captains of Admiral Duncan’s fleet will share 2090!. prize money, capture, and head money, by the gallant aft ion of the I tth of October. A great part of the lading of fome of the flfips arrived under convoy of the Intrepid and Van Trompe men of war from India consists of fpiccs, particularly cinnamon, of which the importation is to great as to supply all the European markets for seven years. These are the product of the settlements taken from the Dutch this war. December 31. Lard Moira isftatcdto expend 10,cool, annually in the relief of the unfortunate French Emigrants. A Common Hall wifi be held on Tuesday next for the eleftion of a Chamberlain of the City of London, in the room of John Wijkes, Esq. deceased. Every person in Holland refilling to pay an eighth of his income towards riftoring the Dutch navy is to fuffer an immediate diftraintlof property* In consequence graving published the English account of the aftion of the n mi of Oftober, M. Mornewkk, the Editor of the Grureflte de Bruxelles, has been arrested, and* is on his way to the Temple at Paris, previous to his being transported with the other French Joumalifts. Tiie Cifalpine Republic, and that of Holland, are each to maintain and pay 25,000 French troops, and an equal number of their own, who will be not left than the others under the control of France. So much for Dutch and Ita lian Liberty! Copy of a letter from Capt. Robert Barlow, Comman der cf bis M tjefty's Jhip Pbebe, to Evan Nepean, Esq . dated in Can find Bay , the 26 th infant. Silt,—Be pleased to inform their Lordships, that on the 21st instant, at 10 a. m. being with his Majeft) ’s fliip under my command in latitude 48 degrees minutes north, lon gitude 10 degrees weft, we diicovtred one of the enemy’s frigates, which about 9 o’clock the fame evening we had the good fortune to come up with and capture, after an aftion which lulled upwards of two hours. To account to their Lordships for its continuing so long it will be necessary to trouble them with fome detail. The difference in point of failing between the two fliips being inconfiderablc, flic damaged our mails, fails, and rigging, very much, with her stern chafe guns, and at the moment wlien we were nearly in a situation to commence our attack Ihe put in Hays,,tlie Phebe being at this time un der a crowd of fail; and as, from the darkness of the night, the cnejny’s disposition for tacking could not be diicovtred, a fevnninutes necessarily elapsed before we could tack to follow her, after exchanging broadfidcs on palling. This manoeuvre increased her uiftance, and fubjefted us a ftcond time to the fire of her stern chafes, with which they were but too fuccefsful in cutting up our fails and rigging* At length, about 10 o’clock, we got fairly afongfiue of her, when, after a handfbme resistance of three quarters of an hour, Hie struck. _ She proves to be La Nereide, of 36 guns, viz. 26 twelve pounders on her main deck, 8 fix pounders and 2 thirty-two pounder carronades on the quarter-deck, manned with 330 men, commanded by Capt. Canon; failed from Rochefort Is~days before, and viftualled for four months. It is with the highest fatisfaftion I have to report the de gree of ardor and zeal manjfcfted by my officers and flap's company on thisoccaiion, which in iny judgment could not be exceeded. From ray First Lieutenant, Hallklav, I experienced all the support which I with confidence expefted from so gallant and fkrlfitl an officer, which, amidst the difficulties to be contended with in a night aftion, was an incalculable ad vantage; and the Lieuts. Holland and Vaillant, Lieut. Stewart of tlie marines, and Mr. Cole the Master, were no left active apd distinguished at their ieveral stations. Our loss in killed and wounded is, 1 seaman, 2 marines, lulled; 5 lea men, 5 marines, wounded. That of the en emy amounts to 20 men killed, and 55 men wounded. I am, Sir, &c. &c. Robert Baßlow. HALIFAX, (Nova Scotia) January 11. ExtraSl cf a letter from JVilniont, dated the 2 d inf. to a gentleman in this town. ‘X7'OUR frienos Mr. Patrick M‘Mafter and Mr. “Wll- X Ham Harris have lately perilbed by (hipwreck in the neighborhood. On the Friday following Chriffmas a report was brought of a wreck and fome dcadbodies being found on the. fbore of the Bay of Fundv, near to the fcttie ment of Dr. Halliburton’s land; on which Mcffrs. Wood berry, Mcretor, and fome others, crofied over the Ntrth Mountain to thp fla*re, wliere tliey law the n> ifi and p*rt of ti e buß of a fmJ! feigner near the feank, and at 1 -fdrtie confideraLle diftanee three mutilatedTdcad bodies, , . , , t *- - 1 XX\ y —a mam. > Y'T Tvmuuuiu uccu nauieu nil anu r w r^ thcfe unhappy perfens proves to M >*. Patrick M Mafier. “The bodies of the oilier two persons found near Mr. Patnc>; M‘Mafter are unknown. Fearing fo™e of the people near the settlement might have been too attentive in picking up the booty, and remiss in other things, occafione. - r. Moreton, with -a large company of young men, to Larch the Bay ffiore an! the adjacent woods; in doing which yesterday found in tlie woods, at the dtftance o* many miles from the wre- k, and at fome diftanee from each other, three dead bodies frozen to death, one of Amen y his pocketbook proves to be Mr. William Hams; tie others unknown. After the usual formalities the bodies of these poor fufiferers will be brought to this Settlement and decently interred. Their papers, Bcc. will be kept in fafr ty till persons properly authorized appear to claim them.” Boson, February T 2. Arrived flop Polly, Jones, from Bencoolen, fiom whence he failed September 8. On the paffige to the tape of Good Hope Capt. Delano, who went out Master of the fliip, died, and was committee*, to the deep. Richard Lambert, who entered on board the Polly at the Cape of Good Hope as Mate, died soon after failing. Three seamen have also deceased. from the (hip during this voy age. Left at Bencoolen, tlie Olive Branch, Lambert, cf Salem, for Batavia, ft he Sally, (Her, laded from Bencoolen for Bengal August 25. Left at the Gape of Good Hope November 9, the Minerva*- Loving, of Boston, a prize ; and fldp Betfey*, Orne, of Salem, Irom Bengal, who arrived November 8, and informed that the Englifli had a fleet of • l nit 10 fail at the mouth of the river for an expedition, iiippofed againfl; Manilla. February 17. We are informed by a gentleman from Marblehead cf the arrival there yefterdav morning of Capt. Hooper in 45 days from Bilboa, who fays it was reported at Bilboa before he failed that an American veffcl, com manded by Capt. Dixey of Marblehead, had been taken and font into Bayonne, notwithflanding (he had the so much boasted amulet, a role d’equipage. Capt. Hopkins, from Malaga, informs, that the Abigail of Rofton, a g'izc, had been (hid and fitted out as a priva teer. Anew Consul had arrived at Curihagena from France, and the further file of prizes had been flopped, ft'he Pomona and Telemachus cf Boflon had not been fold, but were ruined bv the ignorance of thole who had the care of them. Tlie French finding the Judges of Aix just and favorably disposed towards the American property had removed them, and appointed anew set—-their own crea tures. Portland, January 27. b Extract of a letter from Capt. : 1 bontas Waite, of the Jhip Fame of this port, dated St. Pierre, Martinico, December 22, 1797. —“ We arrived Itere in great distress. - The t 6th of No vember, in 37. 30. n. ive were struck by a water spout, which upset and filled the snip with water, so that we were obliged to get on the bottom to five ourselves. ft'he sea made a fair breach five and aft, and waflied every thing out of the cabin. Our only place of fafety then was in the bows, expefting every moment to be waflied from the wreck, ft’he 21st of November we got. her pumped out, and for five days we were without water or provisions, when we got at fome beef and bread that vr.ts soaked in water, ft he 27th we were gener r.ilv relieved by Capt. Stone, in the (iii]3 Phebe of Ktnnebunk.” Augufa, (Maine) February 6. Last Sunday night the dwellinghoufe of Mr. Joseph Murch, of Wale’s Plan tation, adjoining tlie town of Monmouth, was consumed by fire, together with all his house hold furniture, and, me lancholy to add, three children were burnt to death. New London, February 10. In cur last we mention ed the arrival of Capt. Samuel Lathrop, late Mafterof the fliip Columbia of Norwich; Capt. Lathrop fays: u I wish to state facts as they have occurred to me and others of our countrymen that ha’ e been sent into the port of Nantz and other places in France. Can it be possible to suppose that a nation is a friend to America, or her com merce, that is continually taking her vefiels in the moft illegal manner, and for the moft frivolous pretexts; carry them into their ports, keep them there, fome four and o thers fix months before trhl; turn the officers and Ciilcrs afliore, and unload tlie (hip without trial, and plunder men of their clothes and quadrants ; and are not content with the fliips and cargoes, fome of which are worth ico.oeo dollars ? They will not even allow tlie officers and fiilors, after turning them from their vefleis, any thing to subsist on, but fuller them to starve in the loathsome (beets of Nantz and Pambceuf, or enter on board their privateers to take and plunder their own,countrymen, which many have been obliged to do or starve. ~ “ Tills conduft is not entirely confined to the Americans; other neutral nations (Danes and Swedes) are treated nearly in tlie fame manner. “ My blood boils to think of the treatment that myfelf and crew received from the savage brute that captured me. His name is Le Brctton; the privateer L’Oifean, owned by Felix Coffin, of Nantz. After heaving to for him, (it blowing a gale) he made me hoist out my boat, when every lea would break over my fliip. When on board the pri vateer I (hewed him my papers, which were the register, sea letter, clearance, Mediterranean oafs, freight lift, and all the papers cleared by afts of the United States have, but all to no purpose; they told me that 1 had not got the role of equipage; a paper that I ( was entirely ig norant of. After much ill treatment the fliip was oniered for France and there condemned.” New Fork, January 31. We are informed that the house of Grenville Temple, at Richmond Hill, a fi. .v miles from this city, was yesterday morning entered by ten dis guised villains, who tied the servants, and plundered the house of a variety of valuables. * February 8. A machine was tried lately on board his Britannic Majefty’* (hip Centaur, which bids fair to be of the greatest utility to the marine of that kingdom : it is a new capstan, invented by William Balton, Esq. Comman der in his Maj-sty’s navy. Four men aftually weighed the Centaurs (Vet anchor. Had all the powers been ap plied it was allowed that two men wculd have done it. Indeed, from many caufc:, there is little doubt but one man would raise a “V s anchor. • This machine po^nß both power and velocity, as the powers can be applied® detached with wonderful facility; and used a* V capftafi it is much faperior to any common one. February 13. Since the eftablilhinent of tlie Uni J Insurance Company in this city they have sustained tJ following losses: , I By Spanish captures, 1,609 dollars. I By British captures, 9'937 ditto. 1 By Sea rifles, 111,902 ditto. I By French captures, 178,766 J 302,214 dollars. I February 23. I Liberty Poles!—No Scamp ABt! I A liberty pole was last week erefted at SheedlboroagJ in the centre of the blockhouse. About 400 persons w t J present. lt lcems thole sons of liberty are much opposed t| a revenue being railed from ft amp duties. A land tax o| a poll tax 1110 ft probably would be the tax they wouil prefer. February 26. The copper bottomed schooner FiyinJ Filh of New York was captured on the 18th inst. off t'J Delaware Capes by a French pickaroon, and ordered for Guadaloupe. ] Philadelphia , February 24* Extract of a letter from Bojlon , dated February 14. “ I have spoken to the Captain of the brig just arrived from Malaga in 28 days; he informs me that he failed from Cadiz for Malaga on then sth January, and that, on the day previous to his departure from Cadiz, he visited the Spamfh fleet, that it was in complete order, well equipped, in the moft perfeft difeipline, and ready for sea at an hour’s notice; that the blockade had entirely ceased, not a ship in fight except a frigate, which came off the bay with i white flag, and that in confluence a barge was immedi ately lent off to confer with her; nothing had, however, transpired respecting the conforenre.” Baltimore , February 1.5. By a gentleman juftfrom ■ the Sulquehannah we are informed t'nat, on Sunday ■ ioch instant, fome malicious person wilfully set fire to ari ■ burnt a house near the canal, wherein were fixperfons, ail ■ of whom were consumed. The particulars, as far as we V can understand, are, that fome people belonging to the I canal lodged with the people of t;,e house, who disagreed, I and the party of the house having proved too flrong for the 1 others they went eff; but returning fome time after with I fevered others entered the house by violence) killed two I children, and threw them behjnd the'fire; then fafiening the others in set fine to the house and burnt it, with all its contents. The above gentleman further adds, that he saw the body of one person not wholly consumed, and that five of the perpetrators of this villanous deed were taken, and are in confinement. February 1 7. Agreeably, to a statement made by Her cules Courtenay, Preiident of the Maryland Ini trance Company, of payments made for losses from captures, it is flared, that by the British there has been proved, between the id June 1795 an d the 27th December 1797, to the amount of Dollars 83,639 12 By the Frertch, Ditto 106,735 12 Norfolk , February 13. On Sunday arrived in Hamp ton Road, the brig Verandetang, Frederick C. Meyer late Mailer, bound to Baltimore from Hamburgh, out ‘3l weeks, had loft her anchors, and totally destitute of provi fiens. Three weeks before her arrival the Captain died; three were sick in bed; one had been ft irved to death, one drowned, and one made his efeape onboard a schooner at lea; they had only the Mate, one seaman, and a boy, that were able to Handy and thoie so weak they could not let the reefs out of the topsails. February 17. Yesterday and l ift night we had the greatest f ,11 of snow ever experienced here; it is now in many places upwards of fix feet deep. ■Knoxville, ‘January 17. On the 3d instant arrived at this place from Virginia, part of a company of Federal troops, commanded by Capt* “V 7 illiam Preston. We are informed that on the 26th ult. a duel took place between Ca rt. Ilofs B.rd and Ensign Larkin J. Dickenfort, officers of the 4th regiment, in which the latter fell. Cbarhjion, March 7. Yesterday arrived the ship Wil liam, Doc kray, St. Übes, 41 days* March 8. YefterJay arrived the brig Ann, Koper, Liverpool. Cant. Koper left Liverpool on the 7th of January. He brought no papers of a later date than were before received. Pie fays that a great number of fiddlers and hones were going from Liverpool to Ireland, and that affairs in that iiland were faiJ to be very alarming. March 9. Yeftcrday arrived the brig Mary, Hallibur ton, Cadiz, 46 days. Cadiz was still blockaded by fix or seven fail of the line ofi the British when Capt. Halliburton failed. March 13. Yeftert’ay arrived schooner Plawk, Cath cart, Turks liland, 16 days. * The Hawk belongs to Philadelphia, and was bound from that port for Cape Francois. On the 22d February was brought to bv the Er.gfilh privateer brig Princess Royal, Capt. Hutchins, of Martinique, who put two prize masters and four hands on board, taking out all the crew of die Hawk, except the Captain, Supercargo, and the cook; fi*s was then ordered for Turks liland, where she remained until tlx; 3d inst. when the prize master received orders to carry her to Tortola* —During the time -of their lying at l urks liland Capt. Cathcart, by a promise of pecuniary reward, brought over one of the prize masters to aff.ft > n retaking the veiled* In a little time after leaving that place the other prize master was alio induced to coincide m the attempt; and having the foie management of the veiiel they persuaded the remaining four Englifii sailors that they were on their courle to Bermuda; these men were thus kept in ignorance of her destination till within this harbor, when Capt. Cathcart bid them welcome to Charleston. The plea alleged for her capture was, that Ihe was bound to C-ape Francois, with intent to be fold for a pri vateer, and for having a Frenchman as Supercargo. ALMANACS For fide at the Printing Office in Broughton ftreet*