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LONDON, September 5.
The London corresponding lociety
for effecting a reformation in parlia
ment, were to have met yesterday at
the Globe Tavern, in i leet-flrect,
but iir James Sanderson, the lord
mayor, lent a letter to the house that
the meeting should hot be fullered.
In consequence of this disappointment,
the committee adjourned to Lewis’s
autflion-room, in Oxford-road, where
800 members attended. I. Noble,
elq. was called to the chair, from
which he delivered a speech, congra
tulating his country upon the very
refpe(liable appearance of the friends
to rational liberty. A member pro
duced an address to his majesty, stat
ing the grievances under which the
bulk of the kingdom laboured, and
tracing the cause of them to the un
equal representation of the peopie,
and the corrupted flute of the bo
roughs. In terms equally flrong the
petition reprobated the war with
France, as being inconsistent with the
policy, the humanity, and the com
mercial interdls of the country. It
therefore prayed his majesty to ft p
the tffbfion of human blood, and to
aflilt in the restoration of the confti
tutiou, upon the principles of the glo
rious revolution. Upon the second
reading, the principles of the petition
were unanimously approved of, and
it was referred to the feleCt commit
tee, to take proper advice and pre
pare it for lignattires. ihe lord
mayor has forbid tire further meetings
of the London corresponding society,
ar any house within his lordfliip’s ju-
Tifdidion.
- ‘ SEPTEMBER 18.
Yesterday evening, at seven o’clock,
mr. Silvester, the king’s mefi’enger,
arrived at the secretary of flute’s uf
fice, with letters from the duke of
York, dated camp before Thorout,
September 15. Ihe troops under
liis royal highnels’s command were
collected there, and in condition to
repel any attack that the trench
might attempt ; but before any offen
livc operations could be resumed, re
inforcements and ammunition were
waited for. These were hourly eSt
pedted.
The French had taken, up our
ground at Furnes, which the dt:ke of
York had left ; and every exertion
had been made by the French, since
our retreat, before Dunkirk, in draw
ng all their troops together from the
ramp at Caflell, from the neiglihour
hoocl of Ypres, and from the Rhine ;
and the French were To much enebu
raged under liouchard, as the de
serters lay, that they are determined
to give 11s battle, and were pufliing
on rapidly when the nieffenger came
away, to take pofftffion of feme fa
vourable ground near Dsxtnude. The
report of the English officers was, that
there was great likelihood, if both
■rties flood firm to their intention,
oencral adlion taking place on
v morning.
avalry will not, it is supposed,
0 aft, in consequence of the
f the country, it wax thought
hat a flrong force fliould be i
end, to watch the French !
•nes, and that a body of
1 be lent to Tournay,
ncipal magazine was.
are working night and
TheDutch
’ terribly handled at
slaughter had taken
v were leit had fallen
id Ghent.
. September 24.
from the earl of
right honourable
v s majcfly’s prin
*late for the de
li affairs, dated
liber 15, 1793.
; to the duke of
feY ■ ■ . *d with an ac
count that the duke cf Brunswick was
yesterday attacked by the French near
Pirrnazens, but that, by a very judi
cious manoeuvre, lie turned theii Hank
so completely as to surround them,
when they threw down their 4rms
and surrendered thenilelves prisoners
of waF, to the amount of 3000. He
took 27 pieces of cannon, and two
howitzers. Fhe number of the dead
cannot be afeertained, as the duke
was est in the puri'uit. He also was
so fortunate, in the course of the ope
rations, as to burn the baggage and
tents ot another body of French en
camped near Biche. Wnile the duke
was so well employed on one fide, ge..
neral Kalkreuth was attacked in ano
iher quarter, but very faintly, and
the action concluded by his cutting to
pieces the regiment emphatically call
ed Sans Culottes, and taking 67 men
of another corps.”— London Gazette.
BOSTON, November 18.
Yesterday arrived here the French
republican brig Cornelia, of 16 guns,
from a cm fe ; she has taken leveral
prizes, and lent them into port.
NEW-YORK, November 14.
A gentleman in Cadiz, writes to his
correspondent in Salem, on the 21 ft
of September kill, as follows : ‘ Yel
terday were brought in here, two
vcflVls under American colours, taken
by a Spanish man of war. They are
theßoxburgh,Otway, and Greenwav,
Jones, part of a fleet that failed from
Bourdeaux, destined, 1 believe, for
Martinique, and under the convoy ot
a French frigate of 40 guns.’
NOVEMBER i3.
Left night arrived in this port, the
fliip Day, captain Derry, in 7 weeks
from Plymouth. On the 12th of
September the French fleet were ofF
the Lizard, confuting of 2b fail of the
line, 7 frigates, 3 cutters, and four
fireihips- On the 1 sth lord Howe
with the English fleet, confuting o
18 fail of the line, and 4frigates, wa
lying at Torbay, an ! fourlh'psof th.
Jine lying at Portland Roads, defiitute
of provllions and men. Several Ihips
in commiftion at Plymouth and font
mouth, were unable to elfecl an ex
pedition for want ot men. It is laid,
that the French and English fleets
have met three times, when the Eng
liih have made their way into port,
without Hiking a near approach to
tlieir enemy.
On Friday last the suit in defama
tion by his excellency George Clinton,
elq. governor of this flare, plaintiff,
againlt William Cooper, efq. flrft
judge of the county of Ot!ego, de
fendant, was brought to trial at the
circuit court. The plaintiff’s decla
ration contained counts, or charges*
again'! the defendant, that he had
fulfely and maliciously spoken of the
plaintiff’ as follows, viz. ‘ Governor
Clinton isa robber, for he has robbed
the Hate of l'ome millions of money in
the tales of lands be onging to this
flate.’ ‘ He has robbed the slate ot
five millions of money* and put it into
his own pocket.’ ‘ The proceedings
of governor Clinton have been more
j injurious to this Hate, in felling the
unappropriated lands of this slate to
Alexander M'Comb, than general
Arnold’s would have been had he car
ried his plot against Weft Point into
its fulleft extent ; and he is in combi
nation with the British in the Tales’ of
the unappropriated lands belonging to
this Hate—and he dares not walk the
llreets of New York publicly.’
The plaintiff proved these and every
other charge in his declaration, except
one to which no proof was offered,
owing, as it was suggested, to the
accidental absence of the witness. The
plea was not guilty. A special jury
gave the plaintiff four hundred pounds
damages : a fifth part of the sum de
manded by his declaration.
It is not netfcflary to publish the
other counts in the declaration, the
plaintiff’s counsel having infilled that
they did not alleviate the supposed in
jury : indeed the only objeft in pub
lishing what was eflentially the caule
of adtion, is to furniih the requihte
information for an inference lroni the
verdidt.
NOVEMBER 2J-
Mr. Genet having at length pub
licly denied his having laid that ‘* he
would appeal from the president to
the people,” we are authoriled to al
fure the public, that mr. Jay and mr.
King will lhortly proceed to lay be
fore them a particular statement of
the evidence and circumstances rela
tive to that tranfadlion.
About ten o’clock on Sunday night
last, a dreadful fire broke out in Al
bany, which confirmed 40 dwelling
houfies, and 30 ftore-houies. Five
! young persons were killed by the
falling of walls and chi.nnies.
PHILADELPHIA, November 19-
A Pennsylvania gentleman, now in
London, in a letter to his friend in
this city, dated August 19, 1793, lays,
“ We shall have all the world over
in America, if veliels can be found to
rake them.”
Yesterday evening arrived at Fort
Mifflin, the American brig Eliza, cap
tain Williams,, in 95 clays from St.
Pererfburg, who informs us, that on
ihe firft of September last, on the pal
fage homeward bound, a few leagues
off’ the coast of Norway, they law
two finall French privateers, belong
ing to Dunkirk, caoture about 1 c
fail of the Britilli homeward bound
fleet from Ruffin.
Captain Williams also informs us,
that ne saw part of the captured vel’-
fels sent into a finall Tea port on the
coast of Norway, called Chriftianfand.
Two days after* captain Williams fell
in with the remaining part of the Bri
tish fleet, under the convoy of a fri
£ate am\ a sloop of war*
Lift of all the burials in the fevera^
grave-yards of the city and liberties
of Philadelphia, as taken from the
several books kept by clergymen,
lextons, &c. from August isl, to
November 9th, 1793-
n ~ 1 Chrifl Church 173
rroteftant \ c „ „ , ‘ 0
t? c , < he. Peter s 100
Episcopalians g[ p au ,, s
% f First 73
j Second 128
Presbyterians Third 107
| Scotch 1 2
LSeceders 33
„ * r St. Mary’s 23 1
Roman \ , ~v
~ . J German part do. 36
Catholics ) ■ ■ 1 J
C trinity 54
Friends 373
Free Quakers returned in gross 39
„ r Lutherans A 641
German 3 n , • - a V
\ Calvimfts 210
Moravians v 14
Swedes 73
Baptists returned in grofsW * 50
Methodifls do. ‘l* 32
Univerfalifts 2
Jews 2
Kenlipgton 169
Potter’s field* including f _
the new ground
Total, 4038
EASTON, November 12.
On the 9th inst. the libel in the
case of Alexander S. Calais and others,
against Pierre A. Johannene, for re
stitution of the sloop Betsey and car
go, captured as prize, under a corS
miflion of the French republic, and
alleged to be the property of Ameri
cans and Swedes, was heard before
the honourable judge Patterson, on an
appeal to the circuit court, from the
decision of the honourable judge Paca.
‘This cause was ably and elaborately
argued by mr. Martin, mr. Scott, and
mr. Smith, on the part of the libel
lants, and by mr. Wincheller, on the
part of the captors. The judge deli
vered his opinion, with the reasons
upQn which it was founded, with
great perspicuity and. ability, against
the jurisdiction of our courts to try
the validity of captures made by fo
reign powers, or in any wife to take
cognizance of the question, prize or
no prize ; and affirmed the decree cf
judge Paca. From this affirmation,
we understand no appeal is made;
and application will be made to the
supreme executive for restoration, as
the privateer, with which the capture
was made, is laid to be one of these
proferibed by our government.
RICHMOND, November 28.
Advices received at New-York, by
the Danish fliip Charlotte, arrived
rhere in 47 days from Leghorn, con
firm the account of Marl’eiiles and
Toulon having been taken poffefficii
of by lord Hood, together with thirty
fail of French ihips of the line, which
were delivered to him as a guarantee.
The advices further slate, that lord
Hood ordered these vefieJs to the port
of Carthagena, under a convoy of ten
ships of the line, four frigates, and
two cutters : and that the day after
they had Tailed from Toulon a heavy
gale arose from the loutheaft, which
drove them on fliore on the coast of
Rouflillon, and only three escaped
(hipwreck, one of which carried away
her mainmast.
PETERSBURG, November 22.
A letter from London, dated Sep
tember 16, fays, ‘ The people of se
veral of the manufacturing towns of
England have entered into very spi
rited remouftrances to the king , re
presenting their distressed lituation,
and demanding a general peace. In
deed it appears to be the willi of the
whole nation • and I flatter myftlf
we shall not remain much longer in
our present deplorable lituation—
There is a reltlefs spirit prevailing
among the people here, which, if it
was ever to’break out, would invaß.*
us in much more diftrefling circum
stances, than you have heard of from
the continent.’
NORFOLK, November 13.
On Sunday the 27th of October,
arrived inside the Capes, the unfor
tunate brig L’AimableSociete, captain
Jervais, of 130 tons burden, from
Cnpe-Francois, bound up the Bay,
with upwards of 80 pafiengers. She
was driven on fliore by a dreadful
florin during the 28T (supposed to be
about four o’clock in the morning)
in Lynhaven Bay, where all hands
perilled, though not sixty fathoms
from fliore. It appears this veflel
belonged to a captain Plate, had failed
from Bourdeaux to the Cape, and had
taken in 37 calks of coffee and 13
hogsheads of sugar at the Cape, for
Bourdeaux, conligned to monf. La
veaux, fen. We are sorry to be tin
•tier the neceflity of observing, that to
the indifference and indolence of the
pilots of Hampton and eliewhere, in
not keeping a proper look out for vefi
fels when the weather is any ways
stormy, though their boats are best
calculated for it, is to be attributed
the lofsof this veflel: for had she got
a pilot even when 15 miles up the
Bay, the total difalter might have
been averted, as he could have run
the veflel on fliore in a proper place ;
whereas this veflel was loft on a finall
bar, close in fliore, and dallied in
pieces with luch dreadful violence,
that every foul on board perished.
KNOXVILLE, October 4.
On the morning of the 29th ult- s
large body of Indians, said by thole
who saw them to be about 300, made
an attack upon Henry’s Ration, about
twenty-three miles from this place.
Lieutenant Telford and Andrew Jack
son went out very early in the
morning, to a field at fome dis
tance ; on hearing a heavy fire coin -