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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*