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MUSES’ RETREAT.
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On a Jljtuc cf APOLLO crowning MERIT.
Mkrit, if thou ’rt bltft with riches,
For God’s lake buy a pair of breeches,
And give them to thy naked brother,
For one good turn deserves another.
NEW YORK. December 20.
The abbe: Gr ego ire lias publilhcd a
curious tradt on the Jews. According
to his elliunation, the number of (hole
dilpeiTed over the face of the earih a
mounts to five millions and upwards.
DECEMBER 21.
Lifb >n, 22 1 061’ ber, 1793
PETER S. LI ViNG TON, elqmre,
New Yoik.
“ Dear sir,
“ I liave the pleasure to inform you,
that I have this day obtained a promilt:
from the court, of a convoy for our
(hips ab ut 16 jn number, to be pro
vided as soon as they fh.ll be ready to
fail. My letter, and the very polite
and friendly anfvvcr from the Portu
guese mi'iider, go by this conveyance
to tile secretary of flaie-; the vdLls to
mfirrow. I pray you to communicate
this pleasing and very important in-1
telligence to all the merchants,&c. &c. !
in your city,
I am,, di r fir, fincerely,.yours.
EDWARD CHURCH.”
DECEMBER 24.
The following intelligence is received
by the brig Commerce, cap*. S nail,
arrived at Charleflon, on the 13th
ult. from Rotterdam, after a lliort
pal Page.
“ That tnr. Pinckney, the Ameri
can ambiilador, had made the follow
ing req tilition to the British court,
which, it was Paid, had been agreed to :
That the wellern polls (hruld be de
livered up to the United States : that
the B.itiih (hall not fopply the Indians,
who are holiile to the Americans, with
goods or ammunition : that Ameri
can feannn (hall not be fubjedl to im
press into the Britilh service ; and that
American veffcls on the high ft-as (hall
not be molefied by British cruizers. It
was further reported, that an embafiy
had been appointed by the British court
to be sent to America, for the purpose
of adjufiing with congress fume points
relative to a commercial treaty.”
DECEMBER 30.
A paragraph in the General Ad
vertiser, fays—“ We are defined to
inform the public that the miniller of
the French republic has not authorifed
the recruiting, formation, or afif tnbling
of any armed force*, or any military
corps mi the territory of the United
States.”
A gentleman in Boflon, has received
a letter from Algiers, which mentions,
that the cruizcrs, fitted and fitting out
there, are 35 in number: in general,
large ships, purchased at Marseilles,
from the French Levant merchants—
they mount from 25 to 40 guns.
Extrafl of a letter from a gentleman
in theGenefee country,to his friend
in Rutland, dated November 14
“ Some days since, a number of chiefs
of the Six Nations, who were returning
from the late treaty, lodged at my
house i among them was a captain
Jacobs, an intelligent person, w ho fays,
that he has been among the Miami In
dians near seven months ; he tells that
he has endeavoured, in vain, to recon
cile them to peace : and that there are
four tribes who refufe to comply with
any terms offered by the United States.
They fay they can kill ten times as
many men as they shall lose. Jacobs
and others further added, shat there
would be no danger in this settlement,
as the Six Nations were in alliance with
the United Slates.”
DECEMBER 31.
It is with pleasure we obferre from
mr. Jeffbrfon’s report on the commerce
of the United States, that France has
been more liberal in yielding this coun
try advantages in trade, than any other
foreign power —Yet even France lays
>ur trade under reftri£lions, which may
be denominated severe. I hey all ad
mit our vcflels into their ports when
dtey please ; and (hut them out, when
they please. They lay wllat duties
they please on our exports to their
countries'and on our tonnage. 1 hey
di6fate to us what we may carry to
their markets and what we may not ;
md in fine, they treat us like children.
Would to God all the tyrannical go
vernments of Europe, and all their lit
tle, narrow, felfifh, jealous fyllems of
policy, might be swept away with the
besom of deltru&ion. America would
set them a glorious example, and pro
claim to all the world, that her ports
were open to the industry, the enter
prize and thp commerce of all nations;
and that a mutual exchange of all com
m dints fhotild be permitted without
the lead reftridlion. [Minerva.
PHILADELPHIA, December 24.
Extra6l of a letter fr m Ltfbon, dated
OStober 22, 1793.
“ I have it from good authority,
that there has been a very severe adftion
between the French and the whole
force of Sardinia collected, and com
manded by the king in person ; the
battle is (aid to have been long and
ibloody, but the latter were finally
J routed and pursued, wi'h very great
{laughter, both on the field of ail ion
and in the putfuit. The king of Sar
dinia was on his march towards Nice,
near which he expeited .0 meet the
F<ench, and intended to give them bat
tle ; but the French advanced about
four leagues from Nice, when the
above mentioned adionenfued.—This
court seems to be very much alarmed
at a report circulating in the palace,
that the king of PruiTia proposes to
withdraw his forces from the field of
aition, and to retire to his own domin
ions tn peace. Various causes are
afligned for this extraordinary and un
ex pe&ed manoeuvre ; it is certain that
the report has made a very conlidera
b!e impteflion in this court, which en
courag s me to hope it is not without;
fome foundation. — Portugal has grant- j
cd a convoy to the American vetlblsl
now in h r ports, to protect them from
the Algerines.”
DECEMBER 27.
We have been favoured by one of
our correspondents with the following
communication refpedting the princi
ples of Spain, relative to the navigation
of the Millifippi.
Among the records of the secretary
of Hate of the United States, there mull
exist a letter from De Vergcnnet to
mr Jay, dated the 6th of September
1792, w’ith a memorial from that mi
nt Her for foreign affairs, the delign of
w r hich was to engage the United States
not to think of the navigation of the
Milfiftppi, and to leave matters in the
situation-in which they then were, and
Itill remain, and in which they will
probably continue to be for a long time
to come, uidefs the United States take
drenuous measures to effect a change.
The minider for foreign affairs of
France took this dep at the inlligation
of Spain, whose invariable principles
are contained in the annexed extra<ft of
a report from Montmorin, then am
baifador at Madrid to Vergennes :
“ The cabinet of Madrid thinks it its
eflential interelt, not to open the Milli
lippi to the Americans, and to give
them a disgust to fettling on that river,
as they would soon engross the trade
of New-Orleans and Mexico, in spite
of all the obdacles that might oppose
their progress, and would become the
more dangerous neighbours to Spain,
as even in their present weak date they
conceive vad projedls for the conqucd
of thewedem banks of the Millifippi.”
Montmorin adds :—“ That Spain
was determined to make the Indians
serve as a barrier between their pof
fellions, and those of the Americans,
that lhe would find other means, if ne
cedary, to obdrudf their progress, and
that his mod Chridian majesty could
tot afford to hi* catholic majedy a
greater proof of his attachment, than
in employing his influence in the Uni
ted States to divert their views from
the navigation of the Millifippi- *
The court of France has constantly
conformed to this insinuation, as is ful
ly proved by its indru6lions to all its
miniders to congress. G. A.
LEXINGTON, (Kentucky)Nov. 16.
At a meeting of the Democratic socie
ty in Lexington, on Monday, the
x ith November, 1793.
On motion, the society resolved it
felf into a committee of the whole, up
on the fubfect of the free navigation of
the Midifippi river : and after fome
time spent in the difeufiion of the fub
je6t, came to several resolutions, which
were reported to the society, andunan
imoufly agreed to as follows :
The citizens of this commonwealth
having for a series of years been anx
iously hoping, that the free use of an
all important right, which they receiv
ed from nature, and which is now
wantonly and cruelly controuled and
abused, would have been long since se
cured to them;
Relolved, that the free and undis
turbed navigation of the river Millifippi
i- the natural right of the inhabitants
of the countries bordering on the wa
ters communicating with that river ;
and is unalienable except with the foil;
and that neither time, tyranny nor
prescription, on the one fi.le, nor ac
quicfence, weakness, or non use, on
the other, can ever fandify the abuse
of this right.
Resolved, that the inhabitants of the
wellern country had a right to expe£l
that the present federal government
would, bff >re this time, have taken es
fetftual measures to obtain from she
king of Spain an acknowledgment of
their undoubted right to the free navi
gation of the river Millifippi ; that they
ought, as free men highly intereded in
the event of that business, to have re
ceived information of the causes winch
have hitherto delayed the negociation ;
and that it was the duty of the repre
sentatives of the people to have called
upon the federal government for an ac
count of what had been done rcfpcfling
it.
Resolved, that the inhabitants of the
wedern country have good cause to fuf
pe6t that the applications for the ac
knowledgments of this their just and
invaluable right, have been feeble, and
that the attainment of it is not wished
for by a part of the United States.
Resolved, that under these circum
dances.it is a duty which the inhabi
tants of the wedern country owe to
themselves and their poderity, to de
mand of the federal government that
they takefuch deps as will immediate
ly put them into the free enjoyment of
this their just right; that to make this
demand effedlual, they should unite in
an application for that purpose, and
that, to bring about a concert in this
application, a proper communication
ought to be opened between the dis
ferent neighbouring settlements in the
western country.
Resolved, that there be a committee
appointed to prepare an address to the
inhabitants of the western country,in
viting them to a correspondence on this
fubjedf, calling on them to unite in
their efforts on this occallon, exhorting
them to facrifice all fmallcr considera
tions to the attainment of this great
objedff ; and recommending it to them
to be prepared to surmount all obdacles
which may be thrown into its wav
either by pusillanimity, and an impro
per regard to local interefis at home, or
by the arm of power or tyranny abroad.
Resolved, that they al(p prepare, in
the name of the inhabitants of the wes
tern waters, a remonstrance to the pre
sident and congress of the United States
on this fubjedl, (dating, in the bold,
decent and determined language pro
per to be used by injured free
men, when they address the servants of
the people) that we confider the feeble
attempts which have been made by the
executive under the present govern
ment, and the total file nee of congress
on this important fubjetft, as strong
proofs that moft of our brethren in the
eadern part of America are totally re .
gardlefs whether this our just right
kept from its or not.
That w expedt and demand from
the government, that they take imme.
diate and effedtual steps to procure and
secure to us the enjoyment of that
right; that we apply to them, and wilh
to be put into the enjoyment of this
right through their intervention. Al.
though we feel a convidlion that we
are strong enough to obtain that right
by force, yet an attachment to the
American union, love to our brethren,
refpedl to the government, and a sin
cere desire of preserving peace and
harmony, have determined us to pnr
fue this mode of application, through
which we hope speedily and effedtuaily
to procure it, on the application of go.
vernment; and that we (hall not be
driven to use those means to effedl it
with which we have been furnifhedby
the God of nature.
Resolved, that it will be proper to
make an attempt, in a peaceable man
ner, to go with an American bottom,
properly regidered and cleared, into the
sea through the channel of the Mif
fifippi ; that we may either procure an
immediate acknowledgment of our
rights from the Spaniards ; or, if they
obftrudl us in the enjoyment of that
right, that we may be able to lay be
fore the federal government such un
equivocal proofs of their having done
so, that they will be compelled to fay
whether they will abandon or protect
the inhabitants of the wedern country.
There has been a considerable swell
in the Ohio river, fufficient for boats
to pass ; in consequence of which ail
the boats that were waiting for water
have arrived.
HALIFAX, (N.C.) December 11.
We hear from Fayetteville, that the
legislature convened on the 2d indant,
and that William Lenoir, efq. was
chosen fpeakcr of the senate, and doc
tor John Leigh, fpeaker of the house
of commons.
CHARLESTON, January 10.
A line of packet boats is established
on the Ohio, between Harrisburg and
Cincinnati. They were to fail from
the 21 ft of Odtober last, one every two
weeks, but are intended lhortly to go
weekly. They are commodious tor
padengers, and well armed against any
Indian attempt. An office is also eita
blt(Tied for the infuranee of goods sent
by this conveyance. The utility of
these edablilhments to the young set
tlements on the Ohio muff be obvious.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
December 18.
The fpeaker informed the house,
that a letter signed Andrew G. Fraun
ces, inclofing a petition and sundry do
cuments relating to the treasury and
‘.he officer at the head of that depart
ment —had been put into his hands.
Mr. Fitzfimons observed, that it ap
peared to him from a cursory examina
tion of the papers, and from the matt:
ner in which the petition had been in
troduced, that it would be proper that
the whole should for the present, lay on
the’ table for the infpedlion of the
members. They were accordingly
laid on the table.
The following metion was laid on
the table, that a committee be appoint
ed to enquire into the circumstances of
sundry French veflels which took re
fuge in the United States, during the
part summer, and to confider of the
propriety of remitting the foreign ton
nage thereon.
It was moved that, that part of the
communication, from the president of
the Lfijited States, relative to the treaty
with Morocco, and the liberation ot
the prisoners in Algiers, ftiould be re
ferred to a committee of the whole, and
be made the order of the day to-mor
row, which motion was agreed to.