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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 -