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MUSES’ RETREAT.
A MATRIMONIAL THOUGHT.
ET MATHEW BKAMULE, ESI*.
fn tlie blithe days of honey-moon,
With Kate’s allurements fmittert,
t lov’d her late, I lov’d her soon,
And call’d dearest kitten :
But now my kitten’s grown a cat,
Andcrofs like other wives;
O, by my foul, my honed Mat,
I fear she has nine lives!
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FIVE REASONS FOR DRINKING.
BV DOCIOK ALDRICH.
Good wine; a friend ; or being dry;
Or, left we Humid be by and by ;
Or, any other reason why.
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SALEM, November 5.
Captain Putnam arrived here lafl
Friilay, in 80 days from St- Peterl
burgh. 1 he Ruffian fleet had returned
into port for vv inter.
On Friday night captain Archer
arrived fronl Cadiz, which he left the
2 ill of September. He lays, the
Span ill) fleet which had returned into
that port, on account of the great
mortality on board, was not a part of
the combined fleet, but had been
cruizing ieparately in the Mediter
ranean. Before he left Cadiz, the
mbit of the* fleer had again failed for
the Mediterranean, after having land
ed, as lie was told, seven thouland
lick men.
BOSTON, November 4.
It i reported, that governor Went
worth lias called into Halifax 6000
militia, for the defence of that town
sgainft the French fleer, lately failed
from New-York, and that proviliom
ol every kind are very icarte and high
at Halifax.
’ The referrees chosen to award on
the damage i’ultained by the (hip Pro.
fidetit, of Baltimore, captain Smith,
brouglit in here by the Marseilles
privateer, have given the sum of
5,750 dollars.
NOVEMBFR 8
The field marfiial Frey tag, of the
combined armies under ttie duke ot
York, who was defeated in the battle
near Dunkirk, by the army of the re
public of France, on the Bth of Sep
tember lafl, had under his command,,
nt the timeot his defeat, 10,000 Hano
verians,, 2000 Aullrians, 10 lquadrons
of Lnglilh,*and sos llellian cavalry.
NOVEMBER 9.
By tlie Tall dilpatchesfrom the army
of the duke of Y 01 k, it appears, that
lie had again returned to the invelt
ment of Dunk.ii k.
NOVEMBER 14.
Further advices by captain Runey.
The Prullian army had received
fevcral checks near All'ace, where the
republican army have had the greatest
success. The French patriots had
given a l'evere drubbing to the
Spaniards, towards the Pyrennees;
and tlie insurgents in La Vendee are
aluioll entirely deflroyed,
T'tie conllitution had been accepted
by all the departments; end pro
\ ‘ions of every fort were plenty
throughout the republic.
Upon the whole, the affairs of our
re; mvica'n friends anel allies appear
mu ;i brighter than at any time lince
toe revolution —their enemies appear
or-ry where flying before them—
S ’H* Ltc internal commotions seem
e.i.uvl) quelled—the recruits are
mr.irrou?, beyond their moll f.m
gu • • ey -elation—aid we have no
doubt. but a: this moment, unless peace
which we fondly antici
pate, and hope soon to announce) j
there are no lei's than a million of men
in arms in France ; and that the com
bined forces have entirely quitted that
republic.
PROVIDENCE, (R. I.) Nov. 16.
The privateer, fliip Citels, of Bour
deaux, of thirty two guns (formerly
the Flora British frigate) has captured
and carried into Baltimore a fliip from
New- Providence, w ith a valuable
cargo of cotton, coffee, See. that had
been taken out of American vessels.
The above privateer has taken three
other prizes.
NEW-YORK, November 6.
Captain lilack, in the Greyhound,
from Corunna to New-York, Octo
ber 17, in tlie long. 56. W. lat. 58.
49. spoke with tlie brig Nancy, of
Salem, captain Deverix, from Beltafl
bound to Philadelphia, with 190 pal
lengers on board, 65 days our, u.ft his
bowlprit and fore m aft, the 3d of
October.
NOVEMBER it
Citizen Bonne, quarter matter of
the national battalion of Finilterre, ar
rived this morning at the French
minifler’s from Oltend, wdiere he had
been taken pri loner, and from whence
he departed on the j 2th of Seprem
her, on board the American veiie!
tlie Young Eag ! e, which touched ai
New London the Bth inflant. This
officer brin s the confirmation of the
total rout ot the army of the duke of
Y 7 ork, whole lol’s was eltimated at
OlieiiJ at 6000 men, according to the
uioft moderate computation.
H. s eyes were blessed with tlie fight
of the French emigrants limping
along, w ho had begun the flight, and
whom the Englilh grenadiers and
dragoons were curling moll heartily.
He law prince Ernest Adolphus car
ried on a litter, dangeroofly wounded ;
three British generals fell on the field
of battle, and a\\ t\ie artillery was
abandoned to the French-
J’hisglurions fucceis mull have been
followed by another in the fame quar
ter ; 45,000 men detached from the
armies ot tne Molelle were in full
march, evidently with an intention to
block up the wreck of the combined
armies, in conjunction with the troops
encamped near Lille and Caffel.
There w as as yet no intelligence of
the other armies of the republic; but
it was general y known, that on the
fame day they had all dilplayed the
im 11 vigorous efforts to crush the bale
enemies of rise French people, ihe
rebels of La Vendee were entirely de
feated. Ihe Spaniards and IVd
montefe polirively refilled to march
againlt the French.
PHILADELPHIA, November q.
Captain Weeks, who arrived in this
port, after a lhort palfage from Oltnid,
has obliged the editor with the fol
lowing intertfting particulars of the
nnfuccefsful attack againlt Dunkirk,
by the army under the command of
the duke of \ T ork.
His army having laid before Dun
kirk, and making the necessary dis
positions for the reduction of that
place, were attacked by a powerful
lortie, from the garrilon, when a
l'evere and bloody acticTii took place ;
the trench drove the enemy out of
their entrenchments, and pursued
them upwards of ten miles : the duke
of York in his retreat left behind him
all his baggage, Sec. in the hands of
the French, who alio took pollellion of
72 pieces of cannon, which the enemy
had only time to {pike and abandon.
111 this affair, wh-.ch la lied three
iucceflive days, great flamrhter en
sued It was computed that there
were 7 or 8 thousand British, Hano
verians and Medians flam ; one Hano
verian regiment, excepting about 50,
was entire y cut to pieces; many of
their general officers were killed and
(wounded: among others that fell,
i was colonel MoncriefF, whom captain
Weeks law interred at Olleild :
what much added to the vibory of
the French, was a fuccelsful flratagen;,
bv conveying in covered waggons a
ftrong detachment ot troops from their
camp at Mount Caffel, who approach
ing the field of battle, rushed forth,
and, flailing on the flank of the enemy,
threw them into the greateftdilorder.
During the retreac ot the duxes
army, lie ordered ail the flat bot
tomed boats which were on their way
to his army (laden with an immenle
quantity of powder, bombs and other
warlike ftoies) to be emptied, and
their contents thrown into the canal.
Ihe French gun boats, which have
always kept the road (the English gun
boats not being able to approach near
er than Newport) by a well directed
and inceflant fire, did considerable
execution as long as the enemy made
a (land. The liege of Dunkirk may
therefore be fairly considered as en
tirely railed, and his royal highness is
gone to feck winter quartet’s eife
w here.
By the My or of the city of Philadelphia:
A PROCLAMATION;
City of 1 hiUuielphiafs.
The daring outrages which were
committed yeiterday and this day, on
board tlie flfip Rebecca, Benjamin
Wyatt,matter, just arrived from Cap
e by a number of Frenchmen,
who from their chefs might have been
taken for gentlemen, are lcam ly to
be paralleled. With premeditation,
they allembled to facrifice a passenger
011 board the laid lhip to their ven
geance, for crimes which they alledg
td lie had committed in tlie Aland
of St. Domingo; and with the balcit
rrfeachery, after decoying him upon
the deik of the vessel out of the cabin,
by Ipecious promises, attacked him
with fwbreis, llliks and flits, and
knocked him overboard ; and while
lu -v.iwr attempted to accompUUi
the all-affiliation, by throwing flop.es
and other things upon him, by which
he hath received many and dangerous
wounds in his head and body, and
would thereby inevitably have perilh
ed, had not a mini er of the citizens,
at the peril of their lives, come to his
relief.
i his inf It offered to our laws, by
a iet of men to whom an asylum from
fire and (word hath been so recently
oifered, indicates the baled ingrati
tude ; and not content with what had
just been perpetrated, many of them
had th luperlative audacity to afiem
bleat the city-hall, where the wound
ed person had been brought for fafety,
and there inlolently uttered threats of
their future murderous intentions.
In order therefore that the perpe
trators of thole nefarious acts may be
brought to condign punishment, the
good citizens who were witnesses to
what paffied, are requefled, for the
public honor, and the iafety of thern
telves and fellow-citizens, to point out
every person who was concerned in
the breach of tlie peace, wounding
and threatening a lore Lid ; and in the
mean time vigilantly to attend to the
conduct of per foils 16 Capable of infuit
ing the laws of ho pitaity.
M. CLARKSON, mayor.
The Fame, captain Holbrook, from
Greenock, is arrived in the Delaware,
after a palfage of eight weeks and four
days. This vessel brings thirty-five
paflengers from Scotland, viz. 30
men, 4 momen, and a child. he
men are chiefly manufacturers and
labourers— Their accounts confirm,
(could confirmation be wanting) our
intelligence, concerning the deplora
ble dellruclion of credit and bulinefs
in that blessed country. Three hun
dred persons were, not long lince,
di(charged in a Angle day, from a
cotton manufactory near Dumbarton.
It has been formerly computed, that
in Britain, an able bodied and induf-
Jtrious tradesman, was worth to the
; community, in fee Ample, three hun
idred pounds sterling—By this eitL
! mate, the 30 passengers in the Fame,
1 are equivalent to a lol's of ninety thou
sand pounds currency, to Scotland.
The natives of that country are noted
for sobriety and industry, and an ac
quisition of such citizens, mull always
be of importance to t he U ni. ed State;.
NOVEMBER u.
They inform, fronl different islands,
that the hurricanes were tremendous
this fealon. At St. Thomas’s, Augull
13, nearly 50 veffeis were on Ihore
and funk, and between twenty and
thirty which were driven to lea, had
not been heard of.
NOVEMBER 14-
We liear front Canada, that go.
vernor Ga baud, late from St. Do
mingo, was to have failed for England,
in Britifli custody, for having publicly
avowed his adherence to the pretent
fyftern of French politics..
The editor of the Fed ral Gazette
feels a peculiar fatisfaction in being
enabled to give moll fatisfa lory as
surances ot the prelent healthful flare
of the city. He is this day favoured
with the following letter from tlie
committed chamber—and from such
refpeCtable authority, hopes it will
effectually diffipare ail fear and rerhove
every doubt in the minds of every re
sident and absent citizen or well-wfib
er to the interell of this Hate.
Committee Chamber, C ty- Flail, Nov. 14.
After the long continued distress
with which our city hath long been
affiiCted, the committee have the hap
piness to congratulate their fellow
citizens upon the return of as great
a degree of health, they Unaiiimoufly
believe, as -ul’ually prevails at this
season of the year.
They have heard of no new cases
in the malignant fever for many days;
and they have great reason to sup-.
pose, that there will not remain any
veil ge of it in the city or suburbs af
ter a few days.
AppViciuions for adrotflioh in the
hofpit.il at Bush lliil have i-LviVa. ot
ninety-one patients who flail -remain
there, the physicians are not appre
henlive of loling above three or four ;
the convalelcents encreafe d-uly.
Among the great number of our
citizens who retired to the Cbuiury,
it doth not appear that one of them
hath been attacked by the dilorder
since their return; reports to the
contrary have been circulated, which
j upon invefligation have proved to be
fa He.
Purifying the houses where the
disorder ha h been, is eflemially ne
cefiary to prevent future infection.
Tlie committee think it incumbent
upon them to repeat to their fellow*
citizens, and to urge in the moll
pressing manner the performance of
this important duty.
Cloathing either for the body or
beds, v\ liich hath been made ufie of by
the lick, and more particular by thole
who have died of the disorder, fiiould
be walhed,baked,buried or deflroyed.
The lol's which would attend a total
deftruCtion, will not, it is hoped, be
put in competition with the life or
health of an individual, much lei's with
thole of the community.
The committee are of opinion, that
our fugitive brethren, as well as
others, who have bulinefs totranfact,
may fafely come to the city, without
danger from the late prevailing dil
order.
MA I. CLARKSON, president.
NORWICH, November 12.
Captain Archer, arrived at Salem,
from Cadiz, informs, that the Span:fit
fleet had returned into port, and
landed 7000 lick men. A great num
ber had died on board.
BALTIMORE, November 15.
On Monday lafl the president of
the United States arrived in the city
of Philadelphia, from Germantown.