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LONDON 1 , February 2.
We laft night received Paris
journals up to the 26th ultimo,
incluhve. They do not flatc,
as our readers will fee from the
cxtra&s wc have made, that their
army has aflually taken poffef
fion of Naples, but wc under
hand that minifters have received
later advices, which date that
they arc maflcrs of the city.
February 4.
We underfland that miniders
nave received information, that
the rabble of Naples, as foon as
they taw their majedies embark
on board the Vanguard, role
into infurre&ion aiyd committed
the mo(l diabolical excefles both
murder and pillage. Numbers
of the nobility were madacred,
even one of the king's children,
it is faid was trampled to death
by the mob at the place of em
barkation. Many of the prin
cipal palaces and hotels of the
nobility were plundered, and
the city continued in the utmod
di (order.
The Vanguard, with the royal
family on board, after fufTering
a fevcrc florm, had arrived at the
bay of Palermo,
February 5.
Yoflcrday arrived a mail fiom
Dublin, bat it brings no intel
ligence of linking importance.
Mr. Pitt's avowed determination
to keep in view the objeft of an
union between the two countries,
has excited con(iderable heat and
violence. The anti-unionifts
view it as a declaration which
it is neceflary for them to meet
by conduct cxprelTive of their
determination always to refill
fuch a meafure, jealous that
this avowal Ihould be a fled upon
at fomc moment when oppofi
tion is difperfed or allecp, it
feems (o be the defign to bring
forward fome propofal to draw
from miniller a recantation
of his fentiments. Such is the
ill-humour of fomc that a Ihort
money bill is talked of. Dublin
is pcrfeflly tranquil.
One hundred and thirty-five
members of the houfe of com
mons prefented themfelves at
the levee of the fpeaker, and
thus teflified their approbation
of his conduft on the quedion,
and gavethis unequivocal pledge
of co-operation with him.
9 February 6.
The jacobin writers feem to
blame the king of Naples for
having fo quickly departed for
Sicily, They think perhaps
that he Ihould have waited till
the French had obtained polfef
felfion of his capital, and have
conlcquently relied on republican
juflice and generojity •
February 7.
Letters from the county of
Cork give the mod alarming ac
counts of the Hate of that part
o( lidand. r Timber is every
night cut down for the manu
facture of pikes ; the peafantry i
neglect their ufual indudry, and (
frequent aflemblages, even in the I
day time, are obferved in the
wedern parts of that county.
It was even reported yederday,
that a rebel camp had been
formed in the neighborhood of
Ooncraile, no later than lad
Monday.
Some neutral (hips have ani
ved in England within the lad
two or three days, which failed
from Holland without their car
goes, in confcqucnce of a general
rumour that prevailed there, that
an embargo was about to be laid
in all the ports of that republic,
February 8.
Four Irilh mails arrived yef
terday. We are obliged to pod
pone their contents till to-mor
row. The fpirit of the people
declares itfelf more decifivcly
every day againd the union. In
the court of chancery, the bar
would not plead before the late
prime ferjeant, and the noble
lord broke up the court.
There has been a dreadful
dorm in Dublin Bay, in which
feveral veffels and a number
of lives had been loft;
SALEM, March 26.
Captain Mugford arrived yef
terday from Bilboa. On his
paflage out was attacked by a
privateer of 12 guns and 80 men,
which he beat off, though he
had only 6 gum and 12 men,
and had afterwards the pleafurc
to learn, that he had killed a few
of her men, and (battered her
mafts fo that (he was obliged to
get new ones. Capt, M. return
ed home with 16 guns and 30
men. Americans bound to Bil
boa mud expeft to go through
fire as well as water.
March 29.
The Prefidcnt of the United
States has recently come to a f
determination to raifo the 25
additional regiments which a lace
law of Congrcfs provifionally
authorized him to do, and the
officers will be immediately ap
pointed. It feems that an ap
prehenfion of imminent danger
hasopeiated upon the Prefrtlent's
mity!, and determined him to
this meafure.
We are told there is rcafon
to believe that the French have
determined on an invafion of
fome of the fouthern dates.
NEW.YORK, April 8.
Another naval exploit.
By capt. Doak, of the fchoo
ner Indudry, 16 days from St.
we are informed, that a
French letter of marque fchoo
ner of 6 guns, had arrived there,
prize to the frigate Infurgente,
(aid to bo valued at £'.10,000.
Capt. Doak was on board of the
prize.
PHILADELPHIA, April 4.
The Britidi (hip of war Ca
milla, capt. Larkins, dire£l from
Plymouth in England, arrived
in the Delaware on Tuefday.
In this (hip is arrived gen. Mait
land, who commanded the Bri
tilh forces on the evacuation of <
St, Domingo, Several IJnglidl <
officers have arrived in his fuite-.
Various conjectures have ari
fen on his arrival at this time and
place. The general's aid-de
camp or fccretary arrived in town
on Tuefday evening, and it is
laid delivered difpatches to Mr.
Liflon.
Yefterday morning reports
were circulated with afliduity,
by feveral peilons whofe politics
arc well known to be in ftriCt
confonance with the Britifli, that
the Spanifh monarch had agreed
to accept of Portugal upon its
conquell by the French, and
that in lieu thereof, the French
were to be put in poffeflion of
Louiliana and the Floridas.
We have received the Madrid
Royal Gazette , down to the 15th
of January, from which we
fhall lay before our readers feve
ral important extrafts, with as
little delay as poffible. The
following are the prominent fea
tures of the prefent interefting
and authentic advices:
Buonaparte and hia army,
triumphant in Egyt.
The foundation of a new city
has been laid in Egypt, in a com
manding duration, it is called
Buonapartropolis,
The affairs of Italy, favorable
to freedom.
General Moreau at the head
of an army of obfervation, was
encamped with 200,000 men on
the Po, between Verona and
Leguano*
The Neapolitan and Sardini
an monarchies, no longer exift.
Malta has been reinforced 1
and provifioned.
Peace concluded between the
German Empire, and the French
Republic.
Paflawan Oglou, vi&orious.
! Portugal, threatened with in
vafion;
The late hour at which we
reeeived thefe papers, not per
mitting us to give lengthy ex-
trafts this day—we have given
the above features of the advi
ces, and fhall give cxtrafts with
out delay.
This morning the fix troops
of horfe of this city, marched
out towards the feat of infur
reftionin Northampton county.
The general fets out to-morrow.
The hon. Robert Goodloe Bar
per has, it is faid, offered his
Cervices as a volunteer in the ex
pidition, and is to aft as an aid
de-camp to gen, Macpherfon.
BALTIMORE, April u
On Satuiday arrived the fch.
Hebe, capt, Hubbard, 79 days
from Leghorn. We learn by
this arrival, that notwithftanding
the afljflance given by admiral
Nelfon to the Neapolitan king,
he has been obliged by the
French army to retire to the
Ifland of 'Sicily, leaving the
Frenchmen in complete poilel
fion of his dominions on the
continent. We have alfo learnt
by the fame arrival, that the king
of Sardinia has been difpofTcfTed
of his domipious on the conti
nent, and that his majeßv h>
been fent to Paris, for what pu/
pofe we know not. The above
mentioned vcffcl had touched
at Algiers on her paffage home
where the learnt that the French
conful was held in the bonds of
Havcry, in confequence 0 f
declaration of war againft t jj e
French Republic by the Alcr c !
rincs. The general
Leghorn was, that Buonaparte
was in quiet poffeffion of £p Vnf
Aprils m
We hear that lieutenant Phh
lip Edwards, is ordered on the
recruiting fervice, and that he
will open a rendezvous the «n
-fuing week in this city, f or the
enliftment of marines.
NORFOLK, April 8;
The fchooner ConcluCon
Jubal Harrington, mailer, in
paffing thro* Hampton Roads
from Boflon to this port, was
fired on by the Britilh frigate
Cleopatra. After a fecond (hot,
a boat was fent off to know why
the Conclufion had not hoilled
her colors in honor of his Bri
tannic majefty's fhip. By this,
citizens, you may learn how far
Biitilh friendlhip extends ; and
fhould the detail be doubted,
apply at the Eagle tavern, where
the circumftances will beattefted
by the captain and pallengcrs of
the Conclufion.
CHARLESTON, April 18.
By the late, arrivals from the
Havanna, we learn, that fome
time in the latter end of March,
: the fhip Ocean, of New-York,
mounting 22 guns, and manned
with 83 men, was captured after
a bloody engagement, by three
French privateers ; one a fchoo
ner, formerly a Providence pri
vateer, mounting 16 guns; the
others, fchooners, carrying 10
and 8 guns; they carried her by
boarding. The account received
in the Havanna, which wasge-
i nerally credited, (aid that 78
. men of the Ocean's crew were
killed. She was from New-
York, bound to the Havanna,
; with a very valuable cargo on
board, belonging to Mr. Cram
mond of New-York, The pri
vateers carried her into a bay to
windward of the Matanzas, in
the ifland of Cuba.
Capt, Grice, from Gibraltar,
informs, that when he failed,
the Britifh fleet dill continued
to blockade Cadiz. Lord St.
Vincent was at Gibraltar,
A New-York paper of the 6th
inflant, received hereyeflerday,
a gentleman inform? us, contains
a paragraph, mentioning the
capture of a French privateer 0:
16 guns, by the United States
fhip Montezuma ; the prisoners
it was faid, were fent to Curra*
coa.
Captain Brown, of the fhip
Union, of New-Yoik, has been
driven afhore on Hatteras rocks;
while the fhip was in that fitu '
tion, three or four d£ad bodies
j were difeovered floating by ['*
fhip, and the quarter deck d :