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PAR IS, February 6« The journey of of Rufiia to Cher . -), and the imeaded interview between that So •-' eitf'i an I thofc of Get many and Poland, open a w Id field for the fpeculatiou of our r. ho look upon it as a fettled matter, that as a for : id able alliance ie going to be formed in the North ; ml the Ottoman crcfcent, it is become necef ta. y for the Southern powers to enter into a league .1 order to preserve a proper equilibrium; and as f . ance and England are by their commerce moll uicerefled in preventing the ruin of the Ottoman empire, cur politicians will have it that arrange ments are taking in the cabinets of Paris and Lon d )o to counterbalance any league between the Em -1 ;ror and Etnprcfs j but those chimerical ccm jrdlures are not much to be depended upon. It is j.r more rational to suppose that France have adopted a fyftein of general pacification, and is in /art wanting to aggrandize herfelf } and the ErtipeS - or foems much more taken up iaextirbating abuses •Mid cflabliihing wife laws for the good of his fub than with any ideas of extending his domi nions ; thus we have every reason to hope that the , cacc of Europe will not be disturbed. The different camps which the Empress will find on her way to the Cherfon, contain an army of ivO,ooc men, besides the light troops. UTRECHT, March r. Extras! of a Utter front St. Mure , the French Con- Jul in Alexandria, December 7. “ The fame of the Captain Pacha, and the con viction which the Beys had that he brought an im mense army into the country, induced them to re tire for lafety to Upper Egypt. Eut as soon zs they learned tlie weakness of his troops, they took courage, role against the Pachas who were sent to fobdue them, and purfuod them as far as the gates of Cairo. The Captain Pacha collected all his forces into this place, and fought affiftancc from every quarter, but he has uot dared to attack the B« ys in the open field, as their cavalry is far Aiperior to his. From these circumstances it appears, that the troubles in Egypt are likely to he of loug_du ration.” LONDON, March 7. They write from Paris, that the following mo tion has been made by Monsieur Robert de St. Vincent, member of the Paris Parliament, and re ferred to the firlt Preiident to be laid before the King, viz. That an address be drawn up and pre sented to h;s Majefly, requerting that the Pro teffauts be made partakers of all immunities and privileges granted to the other fubjefts in the king dom. The motion was heartily seconded, and palled without a (ingle dissenting voice. The Emperor of Germany has granted the Pro testants liberty to have their letters poll free. He has also enacted, that in future no person lhall he presented to a benefice, merely as the (on of a Fiielt, but that youth who are didinguifhed for talents and learning, thall be admitted, let them he born of what family soever in his kingdom. Advices from Civita-Vecchia fay, that one of the Pope’s gallics, withfome persons of diftinguilh ed ecclcfiafiical rank on board, has beeu lately taken by a corsair, and carried off to the coal! of Barbary. The Marquis de Montmoriu, who succeeds the late Comte de Vergenues, is the lame who was formerly Atnbatfador at Madrid, and is looked ti;on as one of the mod able negotiators. Whe ther he will equally lhine in the cabinet, time alone can dilcover ; lie is now in the 4ath year of his aud son to the Governor ot Fontainbleau, aged above 80. He was immediately recommend ed to his preient lituation by Moulieur dc Vergen- nes, in whole politics and views he has been inti mate for fume years part. Os course, the com mercial treaty will go on as before, on the part of the French, At the time the Comte de Guignes came over as Ambaflador to this country, M. Montmorin was then talked of for that embafly. Perlonnally he is a great favourite with the present King, and well spoken of by the French Court. An Italian, named Magotti, has invented a cu rious carabine at Paris, which discharges fix balls aft one time, without any more powder, than what the common carabine used by the troops, require for one ball. Although the length and mouth are of the fame dimensions as the latter, it is only strengthened where the balls are deposited, and the touch hole made rather larger; it has effeft at the didance of 150 paces. He has also invented pistols on the fame principle ; and it is proposed to sup ply the French cavalry with them, as one man will have the effefl of fifc, besides the vast saving of time and powder when on service. The Swallow Packet, Anderson (with Lord Cornwallis) from London, arrived at Bengal the loth of September. The Severn Packet, from Bengal, is loft in Ben gal river, and the whole of the paflengers and crew (except the second mate) drowned ; there were feverai officers and their ladies on board. The Union, Capt. Semple, a large brig from Boston, for Dublin, is wrecked at the entrance of Lochfpealve, His Excellency the Portuguese Ambaflador has, .it isfaid, delivered an aflentfrom his Court to the most material articles of the new commercial arrangements between the kingdoms. We hear with infinite concern that Lord North is at this time so much indisposed by an infirmity in his eyes, that it is feared his Lordship will ir recoverably lose his fight. The French King rtiake3 a rapid progress in his office of lJnivtrfal Mediator \ to the Dutch, &c. &c. is now added, the Emperor of Cohin China. re e tv dXT i\ Y~U K "x , April 18. Last Saturday evening came to this town a Mr. Stewart, formerly mate of a brig belonging to Savannah, Captain Clark, commander, who in forms, that they took in a cargo of Tobacco at Alexandria in Virginia, 1111784, bound therewith into the Mediterranean. Soon after they had pafled Gibraltar, they were surrounded by three Algerine Corsairs, who took poffeflion of their veflel and cargo, ft ripped the Mailer, mate and seamen of every article of cloathing and effects, and gave them in lieu thereof, a frock and pair of trowfers. They were soon landed at Algiers, and immediately conducted to the Castle and put to hard labour, without diflintiion, and upon a pitiful allowance of only half pint of rice per day—no bread nor meat, unless when they were allowed to take the inwards of creatures which were killed. After having remained feverai months at hard labour in the Castle, they were brought forth to a public faie, when their purchasers, besides otherwise treating them in the nioft brutal manner, (lit open an ear of each man, at the fame time continuing. the ftruke across the cheek. Being thus marked, they were put on board the galleys and chained to the oars, were they remain ed until relieved by their generous and humane owners, who remitted a sum of money to Leghorn, equal to their purchase, being 300 Louis d*ors J 9! r the Captain, 60 for the mate, and 30 for.each seaman. The labour and fatigue, with their scanty allow ance and feveie usage, were so much as to make them with for death, rather than life. A cowfkin was freely exercised upon them without diferimi nation, and often without provocation, by their renegadoes, who served also as interpreters for . the Algerines, but would not deign to look on them.—Mr. Stewart left the crews of r»„ . vessels behind him, whole only hope of reje ? reffs on the exertions of Congress. H e i^l!° a that the Captains of those crews were mor- f QB tunate than Captain Clark, owing to the hnxn'nhr of the French and Britilh Consuls, who have hit \ them from slavery and hard labour, and taken th into their own families. He also inform , that t "h» Algerines were very adive in building and equip 6 ping vessels of war, though few or none crude without the Streights ; and that he was informed that the Malthefe had a considerable force united with the Portuguese, who were to rendezvous at Madeira, in order to take such velTels under theic convoy as may be bound to the Streights. N E W-P O R T, April i 9. His Excellency John Adams, Esq. MinilW Plenipotentiary from the United States at the Court of Great-Britain, has lately ptibiilhed a very Va . luable book, entitled, “A Defence of the Con! Hifutions of Government of the United States of America.” In the preface is the following para, graph—well worthy of the attention of every Ame rican at this important crisis of our public affairs :-. “ The people in America have now the bell oppor tunity, and the greatell trull, in their hands, th- t Providence ever committed to so final! a number lince the tranfgreflion of the firft pair :~if thev betray their trull, their guilt will merit even grC a. ter puniffunent than other nations have fuffererl • and the indignation of Hoaven.— If there is one certain truth to be collefted from the hiltory of all ages, it is this—that the peoples rights and liber ties, and the democratieal mixture in a constitu tion, can never be preserved without a strong exe cutive, or, in other words, without feparating the executive power from the legislative. If the ex ecutive power, or any conliderable part of it, is left in the hands either of an arillocratical ora de. mocratical assembly, it will corrupt the legiflaturj as necessarily as ruff corrupts iron, or as arsenic IT^dr^^’arrun^' •*"* A hint has, jn the southern papers, been ed to the deputies to the federal convention, on the propriety of recommending a dissolution of the confederation, and a division of the ff&t«« imortnir republics—the firft to contain the Hates of New Hampjbire , Mafachu/etts , Rhode-ijland and Con nefiuut, to which Vermont might be added. The feebnd to contain New-York, New-Jer/ey, Dela ware, Pennsylvania and Maryland . ‘ The third, Virginia , the two Carolina and Georgia. And the fourth to cumain, the Hate of Franklin, Ken tucky, and the lands lying on the Ohio. This di vilion seems to be pointed out by climate, whole effect no positive law ever could surpass.—The re ligion, manners, cuffoms, exports, imports, and general intereil of each, being then the fame, no oppolition, arising from difference in these (as at prefeat) would any longer divide their councils— unanimity would render us secure at home, and refpeCted abroad, and promote agriculture, manu' failures and commerce Not long since t fubfeription was opened in a certain tavern, for a room for Prayers, and ano« ther for Play; the close of the fubfeription acca lioned< the following impromptu : THE church and rooms the other day, Open’d their books for Pray’r and Play; The Prieff got Twelve, Hoyl Sixty Seven- How great the odds for hell againfl heav’n i N E W-Y O R K, April ly It has leaked out, from the Hall of the honourable the Continental Ccngrejt, that on Monday last it was resolved, in that auguH body, to diiband all the late ncwvoted additions to the federal legion, except only two companies of artillery, who arc to do duty at Springfield, Maflachufctte.