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—-yjrrTT; . LONDON. ruary . The Whig Club met yebef day. The mayor was in the chair. Mr. Fox obfervcd, he continued, of opinion that re tirement was the wifefl courfe he could purfuc: His experi ence in t!v* houfc of commons the dav before in debate on Hu onnpartcs overtures had confirm ed him. All his efforts had only obtained three votes in ad lion to thofc who ufuahv con curred with him, “ No one doubts, f.ud he, if the minifler had adopted an oppofite con duft, and had opened a negoci alion with Buonaparte, the houfe of commons could have given an unanimous rote in his favor. A 1 ! a ntroul overminif ters is pore, and nothinp remains hut to * bey them. Whether they deb re war or peace. Par liamtnt h indly adepts their opinions and all efforts to it fib hf m rnufl be incffeflual ” He believed public olur. v was with him . faid he P ou d always fed for his count!y, and whenever there was a chance of his doinp any good he Ibould readily come forward !” The duke of Norfolk congra tulated the members, that the livery of London, in fpite of the efforts of the minibry, had cho- Icn tlie man of their own hearts as their mayor. Mr. F.ifkine faid the only part of the nation not tarnifhed by the war was the navy ; that he was an old Tailor, and when he went to the houfe of commons the lab night with Mr. Fox, he laid to him, like old jack, “ I’ll go any where with rny friend.” Mr. Sheridan r aid he did not yet defpond like Mr, Fox ; and for this rcafon had attended more to parliament. Mr. Sheridan wiffied the whole kingdom could have heaid the excellent argument of his ho norable friend (Mr. Fox) on Monday night, as it mu/i have convinced every impartial man ; and be could not deny that he had jufl reafen for difgub, in finding it could only perfuadc three members of 'he houfe of commons. He wifhed the public had heard that argument, which, with fo much truth, had flated this to be a new rora in the war. Mr Sheridan would not be difecu raged bv In ciilparit) of numbers in ihe houfe of commons, if fuch n Truth a,' that of his ho nor hie mem covld be heard bv ihe nation at lo'ge. The puhhc woo’d then enforce his arguments. Air She*id.n did rot wifh to difpair of the fpiriu and princi ples of ihe county, and quoted the conduO of the city of Lon don in e'cfling their prefent chief mapiftiate in jubifreation of his hopes. The public at tention fhould be drawn to the new war, in which the people were to fpend rheir blood and treafure to icflore the Bourbons and fuppoit their facred and iirrprefetiptible rights. What would he »he furpiife of the man vvhofe memory e fociety com memorates Wi'lism III.) if he could look down and fee us fighting tor the indefeafible lights of the Bombons ? To that family winch wc now fight to reft ore, we ahe obliged for ov national debt. By reference to them, we may divide that debt into two parts ; the fird hair was contra&ed to dejlroy the Bourbons the ferond half has been con tra&cd to reflore them . February to. There is no doubt that Bu onaparte intends to employ tnc talents of Carnot in planning the military operations of the enfuinp campaign, and fmm the extraordinagy abilities Of that man, aided by the (kill of the ahleft commanders in Fiance, the allies will find it very diffe rent from the lab* In ebimat ing the probabilities of fuccefs, thefc circumbancer. ought not to be overlooked. The confe derates, have no longer to con tend with imbecility and igno rance. The war department in France is now under the direc tion of men unrivalled in the knowledge of the fc'encc and details of war. Carnot. Ber thier, Bernadotte, Petite, &c -form a group of talents that no thing in Fumpe can eqnal in this line, not t” fpeak of the ge nerals who command the armies. At the beginning of the lab Campaign, there was not a man of talents employed in any branch of warlike fervice. The fucceffes of the allies, indeed are not fo wonderful, as it is that they did not gain moie decifive advantages, when they were op pofed by nothing but foilv and treachery; by armies without arms, cloathes, pay, provihons, or commanders. February 19. The ftarvation feeme appears to be one of the mob unfortu nate war expedients that can be tried. It was attempted in America, and it was attempted in France; but in both cafes it came home to the contrivers ! The Pruffian government at Warfaw, have given orders to the keeper of the royal palace to remove all the effeffs winch belonged to the ci-devant king of Poland, in fourteen days time. Warfaw, which w r as fo flourifhing in 1790, is now like a defolate city ; grafs is grow ing in all the ftreets. and it is now a rare thing tofee a coach in that city, where fo’tncily thicc hundred of the mob elegant carriages were continually diiv ing about and filling the courts of the palace of the king ; the windows of the hotels were filled with Puffian uniforms. In ge neral that city is <0 negtc&ed, that it (hould Teem as if every one was endeavouring to make people foiget it was once the capital of a gieat kingdom. The population is alfo greatly di miniflied. February 23. His royal highncls the pilnce of Wales has made application to the king and council, for leave to go to Lifbon or to Madeira, for the recovery of his health. This requeb is to be taken into the confideraticn of the council immediately, and in cafe of their allenf, a bill will be brought into parliament for the puipofe. His royal hiohnefsis dchrous of going incog, with a few comcbics, and would lake his tide cf duke of Cornwall, February 241 Though the coalefccd powfers have folemnly declared that they are to continue the war only to reltorc every one to his place, it is curious to obferve that the king of Sardinia is dill at Flo rence ; his brother the duke d’Aoll, and his uncle the duke de Chablars, on the frontiers of Piedmont; the .grand duke of Tufcany, at Vienna , the duke of Modena, in the hereditary dates of the houfe of Auliria ; the king of Naples in Sicily; and Rome without a Pope. NEW-YORK, Apnil 24. Mr. Gore and Mr. Cabot, American commifdoners for fet tling mercantile debts, arrived here in the packet from London—We are inform ed they bring out important difpatches for governrnent/and that they proceed with them this morning to Philadelphia. It is cxpe&ed that, a final and (atisfac tory adjudment of this intend ing bufinefs will Ipeedily take place. Genoa is clofely blockaded by an Englifh fquadron, under the command of Lord Keith, who had held fevnral conferences with the Auflrian commanders, who are co-operating by land— the fiege is purfued with the greated vigour. him ■ mtm iw ■— ■—%—— nm i uniMiii ■ m ■ wim n>i ■ ■—3 LOUISVILLE, TT'EZDAY, May jo, 1800. On Saturday the 19th ultimo, Thomas Cooper, who was in dialed for a libel againft the Prefident of the United States, was tiled in the circuit court of the United States, and found guilty. The indi&mcnt was founded on a publication figned bv Mr. Cooper, which appeared in hand-bills, punted in N orthum betland county, Pennfylvania. The libellous palfages mentioned were in cffe£l— id, That the President did not poflels fudicient capacity to fulfi I the duties of his office. 2d. That he had created a permanent navy. 3d. That a [landing army had been created under his immedi ate auipices—and 4th. T hat he had interfered in the judiciary of the United States, and caufed Jonathan Robbins to be deliveied over, for execution, to an unrelenting military tribunal. At the Supreme Court held in the city of New-York, the 3d ultimo, William Durell, late printer at Mount Plcafant, was tried for fedition, and fentcnced to four months iinpiifonment, and to pay a fine of 501. On the 11th ult. the trial of Mr, Charles Holt, editor of the BEK, came on at New-Haven, before the Circuit Court. The remit of whkh was, as we are informrd, that the jury found him guilty, and the court impof ed a fine of 200 dollars and three months impulonment. The crowd of people was lo great as to oblige the court to adjourn to the meeting houfe. Mr Holt prayed that his confine! mcnt might be at New. London his prayer was granted. The particular point on which the attorney general refied the caufe was that of calling the armf| (landing army inftead of a p ro , vifional army, which con(li: utcc i the libel. If the above information be true, we would be glad to fee a di&ionary containing all the terms neccffary to be applied to a body of enlifted foldrcrs otherwifc it will be impofhble to keep clear of prosecutions. It would require indeed aconnoif, feur in law terms to* tell why the word J, landing was more fe ditious and libellous than the word froviJionaL In every nation where the prefs is attacked, liberty is in danger. The difeovery of the art of priming is more clofely connected with the political pro greflion of the world, and rho definition of monarchy, than any thing that human invention has hitherto developed. Who ever will take the trouble of a recursive view of the hifiory of the four left centuries, will dif cover the ftrongeft; evidences of the truth of this affertion. Eve ry thing valuable in the charac ter of man, has been the objefl: of ferutinizing examination. Every thing ufeful in political arrangements, has received a (bare of individual and public attention through the channel of the prefs. This great inftru ment is the polar (far towards which the political pilot ought to diredlhis veffel. It is thelcurcc of his hopes, and muft even tually conftitute the completion of his wifhes. The increafe of republican fentiment, the diffusion of knowledge, and the gradual de cay of that unreafonable attach ment, that flupid adherence to monarchy, and the ultimate re novation of the chara&er of man—Thefe will be amongfi: the neceflary and unavoidable fruits of the difeovery of an art fo important in its nature, and beneficially productive in its conlequences. In vain do we boaft of the purity of ancient republics, in vain do we attempt to confer upon the improve ments of former ages, an unme rited applaufe, the fa£l is no torious, it is incontrovertible, that the mofi fubfiantial foun dation for the progrefs of liber ty, and the general amelioration ,of human fociety, i> to be re ferred to the difeovery of pdnt ing, the liberty of the prefs, ana the fcientific combination need farily refulting from this foe red and valuable refourcc. The legi flature of any country that attacks the liberty of the prci>» has already offered up upon the alter of public difgrace, the rei* pedlability of its own charadfer, it has commenced the focrifxce of general felicity, and is about to immolate the purefi; virtues the higheft improvement, and the real interefis of fociety. This country has much dread from this fource; tempts have already been made