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w ...' Th6Rhine,'at the prefenr, flows quietly
' . . ltng, and then mingles its waters with
v the nwig-ftreams,of the adjacent coun
. tries. " We wait to hear, whether the alarm
in Italy will aroufethe expecling armies to
new conduit.. General Moreau, w.ho is to
- - .be chief in command, , was to leave Paris in'
the middle of, April. jourdan was-in ill'
. the-activity of his character, making new
' diflributions of th. troops under his coih
i Wancir" There "are ?vano'us.'coilj'Aiires re'
fpeditig the firft place of adion,-which are
is , . tnibre intcrefting td the inhabitants of thofe .
countries than to us. 'lhe.accounts irom
Rufiu are filled with terror. Not onlyjjs
th-eifprefs' frn Wr! northern hive. -to;v
y "Tat tack and overrun Tiirky, but to VUllroy
the Swedes, and even the , Spaniards are
faid to take an early alarm from the danger
of her coriquefts, i Her rod is to ' fwallow
up all other rods. The military prepara-
. tions of Sweden are reported to be great, ,
to oppofe her progrefs on their quarter,
"while the Turks are preparing for the laft
Struggles of the empire, at lean;- Upon the
feas. How mucl truth there is in this
alafm we can not determine; If the facts
. are not more provable than the political
" . reafons for tire Spaiifh armaments, we may
expeel: that the RufEiari empire will remain
the fame in extent and glory to the end of
the yean The greateft difficulty in tin-
. derflanding the reports from Europe, arifes
from the want of a fair feprefentation of
fa&s, without the conclufions which aire
- drawn from them, and which "often disfi
steers . is hardly to be retrained by the
molt exact papers, when" there Is no power
to concroul then) Thepleafing change in
Europe ami America;' respecting - granV is
deftfyih'j of notice. T1ie Engliih fpeak of,
it: in their country, as in a great meafure
artificial. The quantities reported from
different exportations areimmenfc ; : vV4.
; Vfc'tor ; Hujrues from Guadaloupe has
ytakeii the 'Saints, -final L iflands, fbuth of
"that ifland. After the capture of Lucia by .
the Englith troops umler general Abercrom
bie he is expected to join general Nichols,
in Grenada; who holds himfelf ready, to
co-operate with him in the recovery of that
ifi.ind.
At home. ' The abufes which our feameri
receive, arc fubje&s of complaint, but
every meafure is purfued. to prevent them.
1 The Britifh. have ufed "foine uncommon'
freedoms with their own fubjecls to fupply
their iramenfe. navy, and have evenobliged"
the labour of flaves, who - ha y e fallen in to
X their hands-We hear that Simeon de Witt
is appointed furveyor-general of the United
"States. . Obloquy is not yet forced to blufh
in our country. Peace has not its full ti i?
umpli hi Tuccefsful meafares. v There.are
men who hate Waflungtoh, and hate Galla
tin, VVe are happy to believe that the belt
citizens love their prefident, and are con
tent with vitlory without infult.-Peftfcrity,
:. mqft learn the s value of Wafhinton, as
every part of our country- bears his name.
Volney tells us, in Syria every thing bears
. the name" of God, and reports the former
ftate of that country. Every thing that,
can bear -the name of AVafhingten will
.tranfinit the public gratitude to our polle-
- rity. We leanvthatthe Patterfon Linen
Manufadory in New-Jerfey is to te rented.
Manufactures have not the fuccefs we
Extraft of ' a letter from otr
board the Loweftoffe," dated
- Mahon harbour, 28th ,of -
March. . t "" ; t;. -
' dn the i b th of February
we left Leghorn, in company
with the fleet, and went off
Toulon to offer the French bat-,
tie. We ftood in fb near, that
the- enemy's hot from the fort
paued over all our (hips. Not-
withftanding this daring intuit,
the republicans kept clofe tb.
theiriahchoWgeWFo
fivedays wc remained, with the
fleet, when we parted, in com
pany with the -Lively, to lookf
into Toulon. On the 7th of; v
March being clofe, in" with the
Frenclvlandatixo'clock,
M. came on " heavy fqualls of"
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n-iirft t All l nrnn ic in rnniHtir'Pt
pettation of mmr great "events,"and they hoped in tliis. country. : Happily it;. is not
tnmv nnt whr a Hav mav hrincr from ,P9- 3 indication' Ot the Want of public plof;
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hUtory, that the arbitrary government have
given fontc late vexations to the Greek
Chrift ians. both in and nut of the catholic
tommunion,, and threatened their city of
Terufalem, and their moil precious reliefs,
The partiality to the hopes of this country,
makes ns attentive to every incident upon
, this Land of Promife. The Jews in' Hol
land have afked citizenmip of the ftates,
' and it is thought that they will not be Ye-
liiftoryV and while it cbnfoles the hpes of
this difperfed people, may contribute to '
deuroy tueir ancnaiion irom oiner lamiiies,
ana anniuuatc ineir pi cicnuons 10 a auiinct -national
exiftence. In France, the council
have voted to fupply two hundred millions
for the war' department, a proof that the
war will be profecuted with fury, fhouhl
lioftilities again cominencef-TThe late ex.
ample of violated neutrality in the Medi
terranean has cfafperated Tunis. The
neutral powers, it is expected will Ieflen
their number. It is prefumed, that if the
war opens again, all the powers will ne-
ceflirily , be. involved in it. This appears
to be tbcHfpofition of the powers at war,
in the little refpect fli:wn to the rights of
. nations (hould no new caufes of warap.
pear. In our Gazettes, the French papers
are often condemned, for ungenerous infi
nuations refpecling our country Thefc ar
tides which provoke the public indignation,
are infer ted chiefly by tranferibing from
other ' American Gazettes . The man who
-is bold "enough to honor the extravagance
of his own prejudicci by jibe name offome
: iliftant perfon or place, or to publim'thc
pinion.offomeill informed correfpondent,
, ii fure to have his opinion, rcaJ, . if not
propagated.. " . .
. . Lies are not made with a good heart, and ,
oiight to have the ingenuity of bold "fir ok es
t the times, or at parties. 'Of all our com
plaints ajpinft the. French papers, this il
the principal caufc, particularly in regard
to the politics of France and America.
Among' tboufands of papers from, that
country we have never feen one unkind
reflection on the political meafurei of.ouf
own country, or any wifhesto intetfere in
its domeflic concerns. Of tlie Dutch fleet
we have noatfavlory Information, The
reports rcfiietting'the Englifli In the Dutch
colonies of America are queflioned. Wc
htre news of Dutch (hips in the Well Indies,
-""tnd of feveral prizes thty have taken. In
the Weft Indies, the fame embarraflmems
arife to the neutral veflels as in Kuro'je.
There is a competition in the Gazettes to
prove which are molt mifchlevous." There
are numerous captures' on both fides, and
hiftory of Connecticut by Benjamin.Trum
bull, is offered to the public upon fub
fcription, including its affairs from 1630 to
1711, in one octavo volume. The public
have been infulted by the. work which here
wind, attended with much
thunder lightning, hail and
rain.--:At a quarter .ft ; 12"
the jightiiirig ftruck three men
on the 'mail head, who fell
clown- and one of . them" was
killed ; the reft were much
burned, and " otherwile hurt,
the fliock' being fo great as . to
effecl: all upon deck, many of
whom were knocked down - by
it. At half ,paft .12 another
flafli of lightning ftruck -niany
tofore appeared under his namei-r-We hear ; . others On different deCKS, reil-
of the Briftol Academy, in Maflachufetts, . - j mptiohlcfs, and
with wMt nleafure. efneciallv when !t so- I 1 " . '
b I ' i
pears under fuch able patronage. An eu
logy upon the late mr. CnrViam formerly
rMnlcnt of ror.p,rf., hits Wen dire AU j
Charleftown. The intrinfic worth of this
firm and confident patriot, will deferve the
public acknowledgments, and the hieheft
tribute ofeptjrom a grateful people.
BRUSSELS, April 14.
, The cities of Bruflels, Aloft, and Den
dermonde, will foon be declared in'a ftate
'of fiege, and the military government is to
take place. ' ""-"" ", ' tt -
fwe Ciipt cf war. The rapacity q( pri .'quelled.
LONDON, May 13.
At Coblentz the French have evinced a
difpofition to renew the Robe fperian (ylteni '
of tyranny a f)fleni evidently jnioft con
genial, with their minds by ifluing a pe
remptory mandate to the 'inhabitants, to
'deliver in an exact iiit of all the emigrants
to whom they have afforded refuge fince
the 1 (I of May, 1793. This may be confi
dered as a prelude to plunder, if not to
murder. . ... . t-,
Advices were yeftcrday received at the
tranfport office, thac feven vellcls; laden
"witH troops, ainniuhitionpand provifions,"
.bound to Gibraltar, had fcparated from "
'their convoy near the mouth of the Chan
nel, in, conference of the fldps of war
having gone 00 far to leeward of them ;
and much fear is entertained that they have
fallen into the hands of the enemy. The
aflcrtion, however, of theirliaving artunlly
been taken, and that one of them wai foon
after feen on fire, does not appear to be
truc-The convoy confided of a frigate
and a floop of war.
; The dillnrbances in Cotfica, though ex
tremely unpleafant, are' very grofsly exag.
ceratcd in the Paris ciz'ettcs. The imme
diate caufe of them proceeds from a tax
lately itnpofcd by the viceror, which the
Corficans conceive to be uiijult and oppref
five. Only a very fmill part of the ifland
is in a ftate of infurredion. We are gien
tn believe that the rfifafTeAton of thafe
iflanders Is more agin(l the confidential
miniiter of the viceroy, who is a Corfican,
than aginl the llritifh government. It is
thou r lit the difturbances will foon be
(hivering the mainmaft 6 fplin-
ters. A few minutes after, ano
ther flafti fet the fliip on fire hi -,
leveral places about the mafts
and rigging; but it was fpeedily
extinguiilied by the torrents of
hail , and rain. It n evert h el e fs
broke feveral hoops of the
mainmaft, and fliivered it to
fplinters ;-fplitting the fore-top- :
maft, and tarrying away tlic
Tore-top-fail yard. At the fame
time KnocKjng many men uowu
into the top, one of whom was
killed on the fpot, and diffe
rently affccling .the bodies , of
thofe on deck. The lightning
entered between decks; made,
.an cxplofiori.foastpjfre
who were there, rendering' the
limbs and" fides "of feme totally
bcnumbed,'and Jling in diffef
rent directions -into every , part
below, faving in its courfc, mod
providentially, the mngazinel
The mainmaft being in fucli a
ftate, was cut away, to prevent
its falling in any dangerous di
rection, or carrying away the
other mafts yet ftanding. We
bore lip for Minorca, and on
the i ith anchored in Mahon
harbour. On our arrival here
it was found that the forctop
maft alfo had received fo much
damage that it was ncceflary to
remove it. Vc arcfcfliortly to
fail for Ajaccio in Corfica.0