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r; ve;y farming;-- D vrr.il ink-gnc pcrfons, pr n cip ally children, had fallen vic tim- coi ; - in the ftrects cf Cork. Notv/idiftanding this great Icar citv, provifions were daily ex porting to England, where a higher price could be obtained for the m. Greatmurmu rs h ad confcquently broken forth a n\ong the lower dalles, and the day before captl M. failed a mob of io or izco had gone in r. clamorous body to the mayor, to prevent the exportation of provifions. No ferioUs confe quenccs had, however, follow ed tlicd’ popular difcontcncs. April 16. DANISH AMBASSADOR. Late French papers mention, that M. Olfen, the Danifh Am bafiador, was to embark at Bour deaux for the United States; and the objedt of his mifTion was re ported to be a new commercial arrangement between the two countries. FROM LlSBON— late. Letters from a refpeftable merchant at Liibon, received at Salem, inform, that the contro verfy between Portugal, Spain and France had been fatisfado rily fettled. WASHINGTON, April 6. Orders have been given by government to fufpend for the prd enf, all further progrefs in tufting the arfenal arid milita ry ftores in the vicinity of Phi ladelphia, and the fortifications in Rhode-Hand. Thefe objefts have already, without being completed, involved very hea vy expenditures of money : and we under (land the Executive has thought it prudent, previous to authorifing any further expen ditures, to make a full enquiry into thofe already incurred, and the additional Turns required. In the ere 61 ion of the arfenal and military {lores near Phila delphia, a fum of between one and two hundred thoufand dol lars has been expended. For tins large expenditure, it is be lieved, that no fpccific appro priation by law has been made. Arrangements have been made, in conformity to the aft, paffed during the laft feffiion of of congrefs, for a naval peace eft ahl: foment, which contem plate the continuance in aftual Jervice of 4 frigates of 44 guns, and 2 frigates of 32 guns. All other frigates, dire died by that act to be retained, will be laid up in the docks at the City of Wafhington. Ihe place ielefted for this pur pole appears to have been chofen with great wildom j as it is the feat of government, and will place the vdfels, and thofe vbo are appointed to take care of them, under the immediate eye of the public functionaries. PHILADELPHIA, April 6. “ A fquac.ron of {hips of war, is now fitting out under the command of commodore Truxton, to confifl of the Pre fident, EiTex, Philadelphia, and Knterprize. They are to ren dezvous and fail from Hampton Reads, deftination unknown.— The above information is given by an officer of the Philadel phia.” 1 - * i-u.t . rf a lei ter v. tie cl Fa is, - -d l\k*jc y 3 1 !h January, to a. 'gevtlenfan in this City . tc Peace with the Empire ap pears certain ; if God pieferves the life of Buonaparte, we may hope lb on to have it With Eng land. This is the general opi nion, but the ex Hence of the Firfl Con fid is threatened by the laft ions of Jacobins he has crufhcd, and who arc daily con fpiring again ft him and every hor.cft man in France. We all tremble—he alone remains calm and Ready amid ft his foes, more dangerous to France than her foreign enemies. A new confpiracy againft the life of that good man, has juft been attempted, and happily difeovered. Two days ago (the 20th inft.) as he was coming in his apartment heobferved on the mantle piece, a fnuff box exaclly fimilar to the one heu lually carries—he was going to lay his hand upon it, when chance or refleftlon made him feel his pocket, where he found his own box—Sufpicion inftantly arcfe, and his phyfician happening to come in, an experiment was made cn a dog, who expired in ftantly. It was not enough of the Infernal Machine of the Rue St. Nicaife , of which you have doubtlefs heard.—The fame di abolical fpirit Teems unceafinelv i 1 • / employed in contriving new means to deftroy a man whole genius, whole courage and un paialleled abilities have refeued France from the moftabjeft Di rectorial fiavery, and whole on ly aim Teems to be the reftorati on of univerfal peace to the world, and folid and rational go vernment to his own country.” April 15. By the arrival of the brig E liza, from Gibraltar, we learn that the George Wafhington fri gate, capt. Bainbridge, upon her arrival at Algiers, from Con ftantinople, took on board the French Conful at that place, and landed him at Alicant.—He was obliged to quit Algiers in confcquence of the Dey having declared w’ar againft France, at the inftigation of the Ottoman Porte. Capt. Davis, of the brig James Stewart, of this port, pre vious to his arrival at Gibraltar, (poke the French fleet from Bieft, under the command of admiral Gantheaume, and was informed they were bound to Naples j it was however, gene rally believed at Gibraltar, that they were going to Toulon, where two (hips of the line had been ready for Tea Tome time, and were to proceed finally to Egypt. A Britifti fleet under the com *mand of Sir John Borlafe War ren, from before Cadiz, con fiding of four fail of the line and lour frigates, pafied the gut fix days after, having previouf ly difpatchcd a faft failing frigate to watch their motions. NORFOLK, April 16. Extraß of a letter from Baltimore, dated Saturday la ft. “ I have feen a letter of a late cate from Dublin, which repre -1 nmts that city to be in a deplo- I t able fuuation, not only on ac j count of ihe darcity cf prcvifi ons, but from the ravages of an epidemic fever which carries cf}' numbers daily. “ The fame letter dates, that fifteen ihiufand Frenchmen had made good a landing in Bantry Ba), Near Cork.” PETERSBURG!!, Ap'd 14. Upwards of 3000 barrels of flour, and 200 hogfbeads of to bacco, arrived from the back country through the canal, in the baion, at Richmond, in one day—the 6th inft. A Spar.ifh frigate, with two millions, of dollars onboard, has been call away on the coafl of r'cri'i—fifty of the crew were drowned, and the money loft. CHARLESTON, April 24. Yeflerday arrived the 11 oop four Cozens, Goodbee, St. Kitts, 12 days. Capt. Goodbee brings the im portant information of the cap ture of the Danifh iflands of St. Croix, St. Thomas’s, St. Bar tholomew’s and St. Martin’s, by the Englilh. Admiral Caldcr, who was fuppofed to have gone up the Mediterranean, in pur fuit of the French fleet, under admiral Gantheaume, it appears had arrived on the ftation with his fquadron, and affifted in the expedition. A force was aifo ccllefting, faid to be deflined again it St. Euftatia. Reports prevailed at St. Kitt’s, that 3 French line of battle fhips, with troops on board, had arrived at Gaudaloupe, from France; and fears were entertained that an attack on the Englifh iflands was contemplated, which would probably become an eafy con queft, having been (tripped of all their military forces to aid in the capture of the Danifh ifl ands. The Ganges was the only U. States vefTel at St. Kict’s.— The depredations on American vefTels by the privateers from Gaudaloupe, had entirely ceaf cd. Capt. Goodbee brought Baf feterre papers to the 7th inftant, from which the following parti culars are extracted: BASSETERRE, Apil 7. V»T are happy, in addition to the capture of St. Bartholo mew’s and St. Martin’s, men tioned in our lad, to announce that of St. Thomas, which fur rendered this day ie’night.— Three French vcfTds, with troops, had gone thither to aflid in the defence of the iiland ; one of which (it is faid) is captur ed hut the others unfortunately made their efcape. The fleet failed from the i'fland on Mon day laff, for the purpofe of fum moning St. Croix to furrender; among them are laid to be the following men of war, menti oned in our lad to have jud ar rived from Europe : Prince of Wales 98 Ta Jude 84 Le Pompe 80 Courage 11 x 74 Spencer 74' Cumberland 74 and the Thames frigate, under the command of rear-admiral Sir Robert Calder, bai t. It is with much plcafure we announce in addition to our r cent Valuable coroueft«" .I',. capture of theDanifh iflands of St. 1 horn as and St. Croix ; t h* former was firft attacked ’ and furrendered without rcfifhnce - the capture of the latterwag accomplifhed by ourforces with out lofs, the i fiend having fur rendered after the difchaigc of one round of cannon, and re ceiving in return the fire of the Engliih troops. A gentleman who arrived here lafl night from Sr. Martin’s, informs us that an eyprefs beat, bound to wind ward with difpatchcs, had ar rived there on Sunday brought a confirmation of the above intelligence. By the capture of thefe iflands the trade of the Danes and Swedes in the We ft-Indies, is totally annihilated ; and the fup, plies of the French at Cauda loupe rendered very precari ous. louisvilleT SATURDAY , May ?, s ßoi. A letter from Scotland ton* tains the following interefting matter, in reply to the letter of a friend in Philadelphia. “ The pamphlet which you fent me entitled the ct Britifh Conftitution” is confidercd here as of the firft merit by all who have had the perufal of it; and I think the more of it, becaufe I find on a re-perufal, new caufe to admire. Before I faw t his pamphlet, I could find the Erg lifli conftitution in every body’s mouth, (but in no body’s know ledge) as the wonder of the world, a talilmanic thing, which fuperftition accepted without knowledge what it meant, or craft impofed without difeover ing its purpofe ; in Ihort this book was wanted, though here it dare not be publicly ufed : it has “given to airy nothing a habitation and a name,” and ren dered it intelligible by reducing it to an objeft of fenfe—to be fecn, felt, and under flood. <f Of the pradical excellencies of the Bi itiila Conflitution, we have not been fo completely de ficient for feven years pafi, and between the theory and the prac tice we are now arrived at a point where probably both will be put to the tell of a new ex periment. A more finking fi milarlty perhaps never exified between any two nations, than there does between France in 1789 and Great-Britain at this moment, with only this differ ence that Britain is engaged in a war of aggrelTion againft all the powers of Europe at this mo ment, whereas France commen ced her revolution in profound peace, and was herfelfthe injured party in the fubfequent war. —■ Many there are among us who think the focial ccmpaft is on the verge of difToludon ; bi* there are others, who becawfe we are at peace within, perf.lt in it that all goes well ! Wc ar s indeed at peace wdthin, as ref pecls all foreign armies, for 1 count nothing on a petty meal mob here and there. But ma ny think they can difeern in this ordy chat profound and deceit*
