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* NZW ran K, ‘Decent her 24. . “
THE Swiss women in a late artion toedt the fide of
the Imperialists against the. French; they fought
with arttts in fome meafuie fuxtaWe to their sex; the
French attacked a small village, where the women threw
boiling water upon them,, and before the place was taken,
the troops found it’the bottcjl action in which they had
been engaged the whole war; the number of thele hot
water warriors taken amounted to 750.
January 6. In our gazette of Saturday last we men
tioned the circumstance of the body of Juliana- Gilmore
Sands being found in a well belonging to the Manhattan
company, a little to the eastward of mr. Tyler's in Green
wich street, and as the public mind appears to be greatly
agitated with refpert to the melancholy bufmefs, and an
xious to afeertain the cause which led to her premature
death, we have endeavored to investigate the matter as far
as possible, and now lay it before our readers.
The father of the young lady, rnr. Sands, was an
eminent preacher of the society of Friends, and died fome
time ago in England. Hei mother, an aged and venerable
matron, at present resides m the vicinity of New Wind
sor, in this date, and is so infirm that, though notice has
been sent to her with refpert to her daughter’s fate, it was
not expected (be could he able to attend the funeral.
The deceased, who at the time of her death was aged
about 22 years, had for fome time resided in the house of
mr. Ring, millwright, the hufhand of her aunt, and had
universally maintained an amiable and irreproachable eba
rarter. For fome months previous to this unhappy cata-j 1
strophe mr. Levi Weeks, house carpenter, had, as is ge-’
nerally reported, paid his addresses to her. On the day of
litr disappearance she had told her aunt that (he was that
evening to be privately married to mr. Weeks, who had,
however, previously enjoined her to keep the matter as
secret as poflihle, particularly from the aunt and uncle,
but that, as (he thought the concealing a matter of so
great importance would be ungenerous, Ihe had thought
proper to divulge it to her.
8 o’clock in the evening the young lady was dressed
as a bride; but alas! little did Ihe expert that the arrange
ments fiie had been making with so much care, inftcad of
conveying -her to the tempfc ot Hymen, would dirert her
to pass that bourne from which no traveller returns.”
About the time flic was ready her lover appeared, and
they were in the entry together, and it is probable they
left the house in company.
As Ihe did not return as soon as was expedited her aunt
began to feel uneasy, but thinking fiie might have gone to
lodge for that night in the house of a friend who resided in
a different part of the city fiie composed herfelf. Next
morning the concern of the family increased, as mils Sands
did not appear. Pains were taken to find lver out, but to
nopurpofe
On T-uefclay last fome boys, on looking clown into the
well aboye mentioned, difeovered a muff, which they took
up, and which was found to belong to the deceased. 1 his
circumfiance ltd to a diicovery of the place where the
body was to be found. It was accordingly taken up on
Thursday, and carried to the house of mr. Ring, where it
still remained yesterday at one o’clock.
That (he was murdered is the verdirt of the coroner’s
inquest, and, from the blows on her brow, chin, and
bread, no doubt seemed to remain in tire minds of the
numerous visitants with refpert to the fubjeft.
To detail the different evidences brought before the in
quest on this fad occasion would be improper, as it might
tend to bias the public mind, which in a matter that might
assert the life-of a fellow citizen ought never to be the
case.
Mr. Weeks, the fufperted person, is now in custody.
If he is innocent may he be lpeeuily and honorably ac
quitted by t.lic laws of his country. We feel moll sensibly
asserted for this young man, as bis situation, whether
guilty or not, mull be dreadful. Our minds are no less
asserted for the family and friends of the late miss Sands.
January 7. The captain of the Liverpool Packet,
who arrived this morning, iailed the 15th of November
from Liverpool, and gives the following information:
That new victories ill favor of the French had taken
place in Italv: That Rome and Civita Vecchia had sur
rendered to the allies: That- the archduke has movpd to
turn the army of Maffena: That Buonaparte was to set
out immediately for Berlin: That fome of the firft lioufes
in London and Liverpool had lately failed.
January 8. The Liverpool Packet failed in company
with a number of vessels for different parts ot Europe on
the 12th of November. In the afternoon of the fame day
they experienced a mod tremendous gale from the north
west, and was obliged to put back to repair. In this gale
1; vessels were wrecked, fome of them full of passengers
for Ireland and Scotland; and fever a! hundred dead bodies
were taken up that and the next day, having floated on
there. The fi.ip Friendfiiip, from Norfolk for Liverpool,
cut away her marts and drove afliore; fome of her hands
perished.
The jpolumbia, from London to this port, is taken and
carried into Calais.
Ship Friendfiiip of Boston, from Norfolk, bound to
Liverpool, was stranded on a bar near Liverpool and
wrecked when capt. Beebe left that port.
Ship St. Tammany is loft on Fair Head, in Ireland.
The fiiip Nestor, in company, got rto Newry.
Philadelphia , January 2. Reports have been circu
lated here for the last few days that the plague had been
communicated to the town of Boston by a late arrival there
from one of the Barbary dates, and that it was making
gn,2t ravages. We are not quite lure that there has not
* be-n an arrival at Boston from Barbary, but we are certain
th.it the plague aid not rage there on the 25th ult. Os
this we have unquestionable authority, and, if we may
credit the new (papers, Boston has never been more healthy,
th-j only late instance of mortality there, which we have
noticed, being Plato Whipple, “ one of God’s images in
ebony,” at the moderate age of an hundred and three!
’ January Don Jofepli Ignatius de Viar, hie Catho
lic majefiw’s consul general, has received from the intend
um at the Havana'the following lift of articles now probi-
bited at that port: Vermillion; owns caps, silk, thread,
and Cotton; (locking web patterns, worsted; cearfe {hires,
sieves, brass locks and nails; coverlets', wool and cotton;
dimities, thread and cotton; oil flowered and plain;
paper hangings, eilerlings, tinsel laces, fealingwax; (lock
ings, worsted and cotton; Marseilles quilting; handker
chiefs, linen; hatSJ- caftor excepted; flioes, calicoes and
printed linens; plain and ornamented dresses for both sexes,
of wbat luanufarture soever.
Further information from the intendant of the Havana.
All (Uppers of goods or merchandise from the United
States to the above port (hall be qualified before a notary
public refperting the property fpecified in the invoices; the
fame fliall be attested by his tnajefty’s eonful general, or
by someone of his majesty’s consuls or vice consuls, or
otherwise such goods will not be admitted to entry. ”. ~
Whereas it has been found that numbers of merchants
and others trading from the United States to Fhe Havana,
regardless of the foregoing publication, inferred fome time
since in the several papers of the Union, have prosecuted
their voyages without soliciting the atteftalion mentioned
therein, and on arrival there have alleged ignorance re
fperting the fame, Now', therefore, his Catholic majesty’s
eonful general, in compliance with his inftrurtions received
latterly on. this head, doth hereby make .kWown to all
whom it doth concern, that from and after the publication
hereof any vessel or vessels trading to the above port or
ports in the iflnnd of Cuba shall be provided with the above
mentioned attestation, otherwise they will not be permitted
to entry.
’ January 9.
The following letters were lent to congress by the president.
of the United States on the Bth inffant:
Gentlemen of (be senate , and
Gentlemen of the boufe of representatives, vga
In compliance with the request in one of
of cong'-efs of the 21 ft of December lafl I tranfrnitted a
copy of those resolutions bv my secretary, mr. Shaw, to
mrs. tier of the profound refpert
congress will ever bear to her person and cnararter, of their
condolence in the late afflicting difpehfaticn ‘of Provi
dence, and entreating her assent to the interment of .the
remains cf gen. George Walliington, in the mamcrex
preffed in the firft resolution. As of that
virtuous lady, not less beloved by this nation tir -n (lie is at
present greatly afflirted, can b< xfo well expretied as
in her own words, I transmit to confrefs her original let
ter.
It would be an attempt of too much delicacy to make
any comments upon it, but there can be no doubt that the
nation at large, as well as all the branches of the gevern
ment, will be highly gratified by any arrangement which
may dimiiiilli tlte facrifiee Ihe makes of her individual feel
ings. John Adams.
United States, January 8, 1800.
Mrs. Wpjhington's letter .
Sin, Mount Vernon, December 31, 1797.
While I feel with keenest anguilh the. late difpenlation
of Divine Providence, I cannot be infenllble to the mourn
ful tributes of relpert and veneration which are paid to the
memory of my dear deceased hulband; and as his heft Cer
vices and moll anxious wiflics were alwavs devoted to the
welfare and happiness of his country, to know that they
were truly appreciated and gratetully remembered affords
no inconsiderable consolation.
Taught by the great example which I have so long had
before me, never to oppose my private willies to the ..pub
lic will, I mull conftnt to the request ni3cle by congress,
which you have had the gooclnefs to transmit to me, and in
doing this I need not, I cannot fay what a facrifiee of in
dividual feeling I make to a .fenft- of public duty.
With grateful acknowledgment and unfeigned-thfnks
for the personal refpert and evidences of condolence ex
pressed by congress and yourfclf, I remain, very refpert
fully, fir, your mod obedient and humble servant,
Martha Washington.
The president cf the United States.
Wilmington , (Delaware) January 1. Died on
Wednesday 18th of December, 1799, in the poorhouse
near this city, Mingo, a black, aged 107 years. He had
served (he said) under different mailers of the fame family
(Vandykes) for a century, after which he thought his
change of reiidence to the poorhouse rather a hardlhip.
Feterjburg, January 17. It is asserted with ciedibi
lity that the legacy of gen. Walliington to his nephew,
judge Walliington, is a history of the American revolution
written by himfelf. To his bondmen he has not only
given liberty, but bequeathed a l'ufficiency of land to
maintain them.
Cbarlejlon , January 18. There is a letter in-town
from London, dated the 23d of Ortober, received by way
of Baltimore, which fays that cotton will not be less in
England this year than 3s. />i. and that rice was then at
375. per hundred. •
January 21. Died in. Philadelphia, on the 19th day
of November last, in the 86th year of her age, mrs. Zip
porah Jacobs, wife of mr. Israel Jacobs, and daughter of ’
the late dr. Nunes, who, with his family, (in which Hie
was included) arrived amongst the firft settlers of Savannah
in Georgia, as physician to governor Qglethorpe. She
was a ladv of extraordinary good sense and an excellent
undeiftanding, greatly improved by an accompli (Ltd edu
cation, in the course of which (he acquired and retained,
the use of fix different languages. Her manners were mild,
courteous, and so-exceedingly engaging, that they ensured
the effeem and refpert of her numerous acquaintances, both
young and old; and her benevolence* and charily were un
biaffed by national or feftarian prejudices. In the'domeftic
lhade of life her virtues flione conspicuously bright, as wife,
parent, and 111 iff refs, in- all which Rations (lie difchargtd
her duty cheerfully and faithfully, convinced that these
who happiness bellow reflerted happiness will blcfs. She
bore her lad illness, though exceflively painful, with that
pious fortitude which can be acquired only by a well spent
life, and firm hope of an immortal and better Rate of cxft
ence.
January 24. Yefterdav arrived the brig Farny, Or
mond, Havana, 17 days.
The brig Tanner’s,Delight, and the (loops Martha and
Friendship, failed from the Havana for this port the day
that capt. Ormcnd itft it. ‘
Capt. Ormond brought in w ith him from the Havana
capt. Weyman and the crew of the schooner Venus of this
port, which was* cad away on the Isle of Pines on her
way from Jamaica home.
Severe gales of wind have prevailed amongst the Weft
India illands for several weeks part, which have done great
injury to commerce; many vessels have been call away,
and others coniiderably damaged.
Two French privateers are entiling off the Metanzas,
which capture every American vessel they fall in with.
LONDON, ORober 27.
“Downing street, Ortober 26.
LIEUT, col. Clinton, aid de camp to his royal high
ness the’ duke of Yoik, arrived this morning at the
office of the right lion. Henry Dundas with dilpatches, of
which the following are copies.
Headquarters, Scb?gen Brag, Ortober 20.
Sir,— ln mv 1 iff communications I have represented to
you the circunillances under which I found it expedient to
withdraw the army from its forward polition, in front of
Alkmaer, within that in which it is at present occupied,
and which I trust will have appeared to his majeftySuffici
ent to warrant tiie measure. The season et the year,
which has already assumed here the nfpert of winter, gave
me from day to day additional rtafon to apprehend that
any attempt tow.rds a grofecution of the campaign in this
country Could not be attended with deciiive advantages,
• whjjft the inipoffibiiity of covering the troops in the nar
row dillricl of the country in our poffelfion during the
winter, and the precarious Hate cl - supplies to be experted
y, in that season, added to tl;e conviction I felt that the moft
advtfalne measure to’ be purfutd was to remove w ith the
army to England; an operation which, although it might
have exposed the army to feme loss in its execution, I
judged in my mind preferable to any other which could be
i adopted.
Under this impression, and coiffitlering I.-fs
might ensue from delay, I have been induced to conduce
an armistice, in with vice ‘admiral Mitchell,
with gen. BTune, commandiflg the French and Batavian
armies, of whjch the conditions are enclosed, and which,
although they provide, for delivering up a large number of
prisoners of war-now in our hands, yet I trulLwifi n6t be
thought by.lns majesty an inadequate for
many valuable lives which muff have been loft after the
objert which has hitherto diredted them no longer pro
miled ludeeis, and when the only means which pftfented •
thetnfejves cf ensuring a.fure retreat were those of resort
ing to tlie deftrartivt meaiure of inundation from the sea,
which, as it would have invoked the inhabitants, of tlie
northern part of this province in ruin for a series of years,
nmft have been highly repugnant to the feelings, as well
as contrary to the charartef and prartice, of the Britilh
nation.
I rest confident that the motives which I have here de
tailed will txcu fe'me to lib majesty for having a died with
out wilting for previous iriftrudiens from home, and that
1 ihall have the latisfartion of knowing that my conJurt
in this re(pqrt has met with his majesty’s gracious approba
tion.
I am, See.
* 1 % (Signed) Frederick.
Right bon. Henry Dundas , Ssfo
[TRANSLATION.]
Articles agreed upon between major gen. KnoXj, duly
authorized by bis royal bigbtrefs tbe duke of Tork,
■ commander in chief of tbe combined Er.giifb and Ruf
fian army , and citizen Rojlcllant, gemral cf brigade
and adjutant general, duly authorized by citizen
Brune, general and commander in chief of tbe French
and Batavian army.
Article I. Frojn the date of this convention all lioftili
ties lhall cease between the two armies.
, Art. 11. Ihe line ot demarcation between the said armiti
lhall be the line of their reipertive out polls as they now
exist.
Art. 111. The continuation cf all works, cffinfve and
defenlive, fliall be fufpqnded on both lides, and no new
ones lhall be undertaken.
Art. IV. The mounted batteries taken poffcffion of at
the Holder, or at other politions in the line now occupied
by the combined Englifli and Ruffian army, frail be re
llored in the state in which they were taken, or (in case
of improvement) in their present state, and all the Dutch
artillery taken therein fliall be preserved.
Art. V. Ihe combined Englifti and Ruffian army lhall
emoark as soon as polfible, and lhall evacuate the territory,
coasts, iflunds, and internal navigation of the Dutch re
public, by the 30th of November, 1799, ’without com
mitting any devastation, by inundations, cutting the dikes,
or otherwise injuring the lburces of navigation.
At t. \ I. Any (Lips of war, or ether vessels which may
arrive with reinforcements for the combined Britilh and
Ruffian army, fliall not land the fame, and fliall be sent
away as soon as polfible.
Ait. VII. Gen. Brane lhall be at liberty to fend an offi
cer within the lines of die Zuyp, and to the Helder, to*
repoTt to him the state of the batteries, and the progress
of the embarkation. His royal highness tbe duke of York
(null be equally at liberty to fend an officer within the
French and Batavian lines, to fatisfy himfelf that no new
worksite earned on on their fide. An officer of rank and
diffinrtion hall .be sent from each army refpertively to
guaiantee the execution of this convention.
Art. \ 111. Eight thousand prisoners of war, French
and BatavKm, taken before the present campaign, and now
detained in England, fliall be restored, without conditions,,
to their reipertive countries. The proportion and the choice
ot iuch prisoners, for each, to be determined between the
two republics. Majoi: gen. Knox lhall remain with the
French army to guarantee the execution of this article.
11. IX. Ihe cartel agreed upon between the two ar
mies lor the exchange of the prisoners taken during the
prclcnt campaigu fliall continue in full force till it fliall be