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y,] ?j to wit, general and admiral,
ard to-morrow L utulerfiat;d a moti
on is to be brought forward, to omit
ihe words excellency and efq. The
v.oi'd honourable, ulua.ly given to the
senate, I undertl.md is alio to be
omitted
'Jamary 22-
We are extremely happy to have
jt in our power to inform the public,
that the South Amboy stage boat
Polly, which was driven to sea on
Tiiurfday the 26th of December last,
1 arrive i here veiterday afternoon :
paiiengers ail well except one child.
January 23.
Extracts of a letter from London, to
an Anglo-American merchant in
this city.
London, November 8, 1793.
* Permit me to give you a fperimen
of the times. Our patriotic lord
mayor (fir James Sanderson) had lig
nitied to the tavern keepers in Lon
don, that ir they permitted the lock.y
of the friends of the people tonfiem
. ble in their hou:es, he should prevent
their renewing their licences : for
t.hefc and other important purpoles,
he has been made receiver-general of
the land fax for the comity of Middle
lex, a snug place of Bocol. per an
num.
‘ One cf the members of the
society, in consequence of being thus
fiuit out by the tavern-keepers, made
an offer of his house and field, lituate
on the Hackney road, for the focieiy
to meet at (his name is Briellatt, a
pump boier in Shoreditch) to choose
deputies to attend the general meet
ing in Scotland, then about to Lv held
—the offer was accepted and he day
appointed. The magillrates, as ufuai,
were alarmed, and procured it to be
given out that the tree of liberty was
going to be planted in the Hackney
fields—conllaMes were ordered om
and an extra number made for the
day.
* The magillrates met early in tin
morning, at a houle in the neighbour
hood —-the so ’f*ty alio aflemhled at
the place appointee!, bur furprized
at the hubbub of conihblew, See. it
was propoled that rite magillrates
fliould lie invited (to witnels their
feditionj-bv a deputation c.f members,
and accordingly feme resp clable gen
tlemen waited on them to request
their company at the meeting. Lot
O ! fad mifiake, to think their wor
fl ips, surrounded as they were with
all the paraphernalia of office, de
crepid watchmen, drur-ken corltables
‘and thief-takers, would herd with
the ‘ fwiuilh multitude no, they
chose to remain where tg-e were,
hoping their mighty wigs would
frighten theie Jacobins, as thev are
here termed, and prevent any hull
nefs being done. However, to their
great mortification, the bufmefs pro
ceeded, the lociety deputed two per
sons to attend the general alfimblv
(which has fmee been held) and then
peaceably retired. Mr. Briellatt, at
vvhofc house they met, has been taken
lap, and given bail for his appearance,
for encouraging sedition.
refpefling the planting of the tree of
liberty, about 6coo per ons aflernbled
•in Hackney fields; and in order to
throw ail the odium of this meeting
(if odium there be) on the difienters,
the following diabolical stratagem was
praclifed ; doctor Prieflly lives at
Clapton ; his alfiflant, or afternoon
preacher, a mr. Morris, in London.
A person went to the doctor’s and in
much haste informed him that he came
from mr. Morris, who was suddenly
taken ciangeroully ill, not expected to
hve an hour, and begged to fee him
before he died. Doctor Prieflly)
lufpe£ted nothing, immediately set
our, and run along the road as fall as
he could.
‘ When became opnnfue the field
yvherethe lociety wasalTembled, there
was a cry set up— * here he is/
‘ that’s him,’ ‘ there he goes,’ See.
as though there was a wish fotnewhere
to feta mob upon him; but, as John
Bull had more sense than their wor
fliips, he went on without any other
uiolellation, and his supposed sick
triend was very glad to fee him.
‘ Y\ hat may he God only knows :
an awful cloud seems to be hanging
over its. I ready fear, from the
flops taken by miniUers on the one
hand, anti the high church party on
the other, that things will come to
an alarming cribs with the dissenters,
and then thole who now halt between
two opinions, will wish they had
exerciled their reason in time- A king
dom divided against itlelf cannot
Hand.
4 After what I have already ob
served, 1 need not add, that we con
tinue in the lame Hate of alarm (for
the farce mold be kept up) as when
you lefi England. Little or no trade
—much diilrufl and general dilcou
tent—fines and impril’onment for ledi
tion you have heard of; but as we get
more humanized, we are proceding to
transportation for 7 and 14 years.
Mv rent is 90 guineas per annum,
and my parliamentary taxes last year
were 251. 14s yd.— ward and paiilh’
taxes 211. 3s. yd. together 461. 18s. 2d.
in a time of peace. Fifty millions L.
the price which vve are doomed, by
the folly of parties here, to bear for
the funport of the war—hare they
fay against fanatic- and madmen
now. which has theflronger symptoms
of lunacy ?’
PHILADELPHIA, January 12.
A rner ham in London writes to ho
corespondent here, that he was pi e
feu t when a gentleman of the firtt I
mercantile character Waited on lord
Hawk l burv, on behalf of a confidera ]
ble number of the London merchants.
He told lord H. that he came to him
for an explicit an! wer from govern -
merit, a? to the liruation of public
affairs between America and Eng
land. That the merchants were
alarmed at the rumour ot an expected
war, and wdhed to hear from him
the true flute of this queftion—bc
caufe, if Inch aw event was to happen,
they ought to be put on their guard,
that proper Heps might in time be
taken to protect rh ir diflant proper
tv, and future engagements. ihe
answer given-was, “ ¥ou may make
yourfeive easy ; the government
ha vie not the lead di jpofbion to go to
war with America, nor has America
any in ter elt or inclination to quarrel
with us. While g neral Wafiiington
is at the he and, and the friends to the
federal government are the majority,
we fhailhave no war with America,
you may depend. If any irregula
rities fiioultl happen on either fide,
diLufiion and accommodation will
take place.”
Anew species of Have trade is now
carried on at one of the principal
ports of Kifpaniola; all rifoners taken
in the commission ot acts ofhoflility,
are lent down and told, by eftabiifhed
factors, to the supercargoes of Spaniih
vefieis,-which lie there for the ptir
pofe of transporting them to South
America.
EUROPEAN POLITICS.
The law of nations expounded for the
use of the United Sates 3nd other
neutral nations ; by the courts of
London and Madrid.
Ex trad of a convention agreed to be
tween the kings of Spain and
Great Britain, signed at Madrid
on the 25th of May, and ratified
on the’; sth of July.
Art. 5. Their majeflies agree,
as theprefent war mull interest all
civi ized nations, to unite all their
efforts in order to prevent thole pow
er? who may not take an active part
inlaid war, from giving, on account
of their neutrality, iny protection
dire&ly or indiredly, either upon die
high leas or in the ports of France,
to French commerce ; or any tiling
which may belong to the subjects of
that power.
Ail military and naval (lores,
wheat and other grain, fait provi
hons and other, bound to France,
Oiall be seized and condemned for
the benefit of the captors, and their
majeflies engage to take a : l otlvr
mealuresin their power to injure the
commerce of France, and bring them
by ’hefe means to jull conditions of
peat e.
Flic above named powers engage
to frame a reciprocal treaty of com
titer.e, as loon as circumltances Uiall
permit.
Fl Duque de la Alcudia.
St. Helen’s. 41
From the New Fork Diary.
INSERTED ET PA ITICULAR DESIRE.
CATO—No. 111.
Many persons having doubted
whether this country ever acceded
to the principles ot the armed neu
trality, and mr. JefFerfon having ab
Jolutely denied it in his letter to mr.
Genet, you will be plea fed to publilh
the annexed extract from the journals
of congress. dated sth of Qblober,
1790, and if doubts fliould Hill re
mam, you may refer your readers to
the commissions and irdlru&ions which
afterwards illued in pursuance of this
fob inn recognition of the principle?
of the armed neutrality, and they
“'ill then lament, with every genuine
American, our eany departure from
our own printings.
3thof Hi Joker — ln congress,
‘ Her imperial majefly ot all the
Ist Has, attentive to the freedom of
commerce and the rights of nation?,
■n her declaration to the bel'igerant
and neutral powers, having propoled
regulations Font ded upon principles
of justice, equity and m deration, oi
which their moll chriftian and catho
;c in ij’ (lie? and molt of the neutral
a;r;t) ne nations have declared their
approbation, congress, willing to ttfli
•y th ir tegard to the tights of com
merce and tli.ir refped for the
sovereign who hath propoled, and
the jiowers who have approved the
laid regulations.
‘ Rtfoived, that the hoard of ad
’ruralty prepare and report inflrudi
ons for the commanders of armed vef
feis, comrniflioned by the United
States, conform aby to the principles con
te.ined in the cc oar at ion of the tmy refs of
all the Raffias on the right of neutral
vefieis ; that the miffiflers plenipoten
tiary from the United States, if invited
thereto, he, arid hereby are em
powered refpebli vely to accede to Inch
declaration as may be agreed upon by
the congress expected to assemble in
pursuance of this invitation of her
imperial majefly.
4 Ordered, that copies cf the above
resolutions be transmitted to the ref
: peilive miniUers of the United States
j at foreign courts and to the honoura
ble the minilter plenipotentiary of
France.’
N >w I appeal to every candid man,
whether the United States did not ex
plicitly adopt the principles of the
armed neutrality, when they passed
the above resolves and directed that
; inflrudions be framed for th charmed
zffds, conformably thereto? which
i inltructions were afterwards framed
and agreed to, by congress, and ac
companied every commission of any
armed fitipor privateer as will he
by turning over the journals of con
gress; but as I have but a fe.v hours
to devote to these essays from other
avocations, I must refer this as I do
many other things to the researches
of my readers, contenting myfclf with
advancing nothing but what is flriclly
true, and with pointing out the means
by which those who are less converf-
nnt with public affairs may fi.risfy
them (elves* And as tiiefe resolutions
were ordered to be delivered to the
rnmijhr cp Francs, I ask whether
France had not reason to believe that
the principles which we declared
to be confident with jnjiice and equ ty
and tlie rights @f commerce, were inch
as we fliould therefore adhere to ? and
whether the treaty between us on this
fubjeel was any thing more than a so
lemn and mutual relblution to abide
by these just and equitable principles
of the modern law of nations.
CATO.
RURAL CRITICISM.
• A clergyman, who late ! y preached
a fennori at a village in Kent, Eng
land, observed in the course of -it,
that the vain creatures of this world
too olieti ftw things through falie
optics. A farmer invited him to din
ner, and after a glass or two had gone
round, declared that lie had never
heard a difcourie which gave him
greater pleasure. There was only
one error throughout (Lid the honest
fellow'), what your reverence termed
hop flicks, we call h p polls.
SAVANNAH, February 19.
Perhaps no part of the United
States experiences lei’s benefit from -
the poll-office eflab'ilhment than the
Ibte of Georgia in general, and the
city of Savannah in particular—For
I'oiTie months pad, our nominal weekly
poll has bee.ll converted into a real
monthly one ; nay, at this moment,
our corrclpondence with the feat of
government is upwards of live weeks
n arrear—so that we mny shortly ex
pect to receive recent Philadelphia in
elligence via the Weft Indies — with
as much certainty, at lead, as through
the channel of our own poll-office.
It is suggested to the citizens at
large, and to the merchants in parti
cular, whether this fhameful neglecd
does not call on them for a ffatement
of theie facts to the pod-master-gene
ral, and an application for the future
prevention of similar grievances? *
PO R T NEW S.
ENTER El> INWAR D.
Schoor.tr Venture , Pulm.ru, Cb irtcjlon
CLEARED OUTWARD .
Schooner Eliza, Hughes, Baltimore
Sloop Greyboun!, Miter, Sunhury
Dove, Rogers, Charts on
CITY COUNCIL,
FEBRUARY 18, 1794.
P) ESOLVF.D, Th.it notice be given in the
TV two next Gazette.?, that an election for
seven aldermen to represent litis city, will
take place at the Court-house, in Savannah,
on Monday, the third day of March next, at
t n o'clock in the forenoon ; of which all con
cerned are to govern thtinWvcs accordingly.
F.xtr iff from th minutes,
Wm. NORM ENT, City Clerk.
ISAAC LAROACHE &T
THOMAS WILDER,
7/11 LOUS ,
FROM CHARLESTON,
rA KF. tin’s method of informing their
friends in particular, and the public in
/eneral, that they have commenced itufinef*,
three doors weft of major Brown’s coffee-houfe,
on the Bay ; where al! orders they may he fa
voured with, will be duly attended to—and
they flatter themselves they will be able to
give ample fatisfa&ion to all those who fliall
encourage them in llitir line of bufmefs.
Savannah, February 18, 1794.
—
-TO BE LE TANARUS,
A DWELLING-HOUSE, on the Bay, with
a garden and the neceflary out-offices.
—Apply to the printer.
Just landing and for file,
ThU’ CARGO of the fehooner Betfcy, from •
St. Euftatia, contiftin ■ of
20 barrels of excellent SUGAR,
6 Hogsheads of ditto.
24 Luncheons of third proof RtJM.
Ann’v to
ROBERT BOLTON.
Savannah, Feb. 18,1794.