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II THE NO . : .IV: ,.; ; r" -': s ; '-'V A Li I . . , ? i ,v - - ; . I. - , : ,,' - ..' , .- ' . i - ., y. f i . ' ' i . i , -, - . - ' v. v- S B U It TjfA J V F R A NCI 1 s CO u Num. 90 T H U R ? -A Y, jAKiJARt 1 6, 18 Jo; Frm ths Baltimore American timn cf - i . ' . . .. . I . orhumaiiity ; tod the labdible jiterihiqatti on of favTog our. brave courtnn bj viego cution - from thc'.dftruAU i IJ IW4II U<Cl uftf be confide" paramount to ( everv oth fi-elmo- ttbetber of miftaktn honor orail6na tid. At ij-inoargn man-oecime di yesterday, -Thi iridrniiisr arrived (hip Perseverance Norman; in. 8 weeks from the Dowdi and " 41 dy 8 from", land 10 land. - ' To Capt. THOHNblKE CHASE, a f par- ff nger in' the aboee fhip, the Editor of " the LAmerican is indebted for a file ofjLon don iptper,i down to the 24th October, 6 days later than any European news on the : ''Con'tinen.4-the mofl frnportanr. contents of wiiicn are hazily laid before the j 'pub. l' , he. .-: - . 1 ";" 1. 1 r,: ; ' : V r - v; . Car in' Chfe Informf, that on th :28th Olober fpoke ihe fhip Union, Porter, ' of Bltimdre, from Hamburg to Surrinam ; left Haimbur on the 20th. Capt. Porter inrormed, that the day before he failed, OFFICIAL fCGOU VFS Were received! and -read to the populace, thtt the Duke of York had been feverely and completely wife feemed to 1 wait them; raote as hich had put td prefs. V Difpxtchet officers of Admiral Mlrcbell". flJ I it'ru.i 'A whn rogues fall out. honeft n " The Stakeholder who w, ilat,ry . ruhi,a' offtdmirat,oiTf ha, now becore an obj'ecV of f "'""ua tne populace. not arrived, when th$ paper was American J were yefterday received! 1 ! . at ine Admiralty 1 troni . capt. Young, of' the .. Ethalion frigate; giving the pleafing account ofjbia haviig, on the 16th inrtant; o6TJ-' Far-rol,- captured the Thetis frieateJ from the aten that all the 1 Anglo Ruffians I in his army,1 -had .laid down their arms,! and fur Tendered tpemfelvea prifoners; of wsrt Cipt; Porter.did not learn wnether the Dnkc himfelf was taken prifoner, but give capt. C. pofitive aiiurances that the iborc Havannah, with one-million land la b'alf of dollars on boad, befidrs a quantity of mer i chandize.-JThe Naiad and lilmene were in company with the Ethalion ai the time, and were left within gun-fliot of another Spanifli frigate, faid to have no lefs Ithanjthree mil lions of dollars on beard ; foj that therfr is no doubt ofj the fpeedy arrival of! this 'ft ip! alfo in a Britifli port; The Tjheti.vis arrived! at rlymouth with the Ethahdn.v It is i with! formation was correct, Ldtifl Foreign News:! LONDON,! Oatoberj74. ' 1 No further adv?tfes from the .Dnfce ofTork iave,ben received Tinie'our 1 a (r ; but asCol . JBrqwatrgg reached the Helder on Saturday j a II , ' w it h t h e fi n a I , i n ft r u cl i o a s o f G o v e r n Jnent, it ; is probably a great part- of jour troopabive ere this emiiarked, on their re tura to England. Sojrie of the Dutch lioy alifts are already 'arrived. Six -hundred of them were brought over itf-the. Alkmaar man oftwar,' which arrived at Deal on Tuefday, where -threat other Ihips, full of people, of the (sme defcription, were hourly expected; : liaviog failed from the Texel . immediafely afterl; the! Atkmaar -7 The CohvcntionJ b: -virtue of .which the Anglo-Ruffian army is toevaeuate..Holland,fwas figned on the 1 8th inft. ancf is to continue in force for fix weeks froniithat dte- a .circumftance which jhas given rife to a fuppontion that, the treaty : embraees more objefts " than have ; et f been publicly, ex preiTed. If if beara relation rnerelyto the evacuation of ;lhe cOuutryJ by pur troops, and. a. general exchange , of pri" foners, he bufinefs might; be done in as ma? uy .days as there iare.alIo wed weeks to ae Complifh.it. The .probability. therefore is that there are involved in the armiflice fome .fubjecls, 1 the nature of which may require a confiderable time to adjuft ; bat,opon,this to-; Pc we fhall for tHe prefent decline any fpe- culatipn, under the hope, that.a day;or two will puc us in pofTeffron of tne fa&. Alf Ihaii at prefent known for certain is, that Ve hire agreed to evacuate Holland, with cut injuring jsither the arfenal or New Diep Worka; that all the enemy 's gunf areto:fbe reftored s jthar the Heldcr jsWo be left ju the fame condition in whldrwe found it in ; and bt the; prifoners are reciprocally .to j be given up. J . I r is under ft 00 d. that we are alfo to deluer opi8,o6o or Vc6oo. of the French pfifeners nbwi'n England ?7but,refpec!ing this oint we have as yet received no fatrsacldy 77 information. ; Upon the whbltf, if w ' Save the confederation of the humiliated fitu- Won in which the event ; of ; the expe'duiaiT at unfonunafely placed us, we lhall find' t little caufe to tfms to Which Mi & 1 t m a "s"e.-f ne acceding to them was ; ron- Pirrdiaated by the pure ' principle of much Otisfacliofn vtfeadd, that On Ithii occa- fion, we have lofl rot a fingle man,. , ; i ; Arrivd laft night,' his majeftyVi vSiip Alkmaar, from Holland, wih 606 .Dutch Loyalifls on board, 'all volunteers jia tbe fer vice of the ffrince of Orange, f ' ) . s We ire happy to add to the intelligence of chV capture .-of the Spanifh frieate El 1 he- ; tis, which y yeflerday communicated lhati of tfie frigaje In compauy. tle San Brigade, l which hat, heen made a prize by his majefty'a ! ftip' the Naiad, capt. Hierrepontj the Trk v tonTea p.v J. Gdre, and the Altrriete, capt.i H. Digby. j The San Brig'ada had above t wor millions of dollars-on board befides'meri .uiiiuiC iuu j kuuicuuiuuji ritner prize than the. EI I hetls. . Otlober ai. At a fafe hour lafl night, were received in a regular feries, to the icr'th inft. i the contents!, of which j' we jliae j not time to detap,- atid ean onJy fay in general, that they confirm the former accounts, ftarVd !in feveral paperaof the' 8th,; that Suwarrow had been defaie'djAwith, the lofs of lojooo .prifoners, and 2 ,ooo' wounded. " Ttbe ' num ber, of flairt is 'not afcertained. He s (aid to have retreated, i with the remainder of his army, in theiGtifon country M I tohgreU of the United Stan I HOUSE or REPERSENTATIVES, ); Thurfday, December, t?J : ; fr. Otis read in his place tbejfollcwin f Solution, which was ftconded by !MrJ Harr Peft Viz. i V'- . .V:'.,.!;',. J n ' - ' Hefolyed, .j.That a committee be appbir.t ed; whole duty it lhaU be to make1 an enqu'w ry into the (Vate of natal equipment ordered byiformer acls of Congrefs,j and to ronfider whether'any and what other: navj.1 force may be peccary for the protection of the i com; mece of the United States and the fupport of thf fr flag, and whether any nd what a. terations ought to "be made in the laws rela tive to the navy -of the United Staics.? v ThW motion having been .agreed to, a s cotnmjttee of five members was appointed. Rut Jtdge,jHar Parts papers A rumour Archduke Ch confiderable mi 1 I .. -was alio pre valentj that the arlea had been defeated with ofs. ' have n- Batavian regret we have the nature of the: thus been induced BALTIMORE, December 23. I ; 1 1 . . 1 " f . -: ; i ' : .. - . i ' The Foreign Newt 1 i "': j " Received bv capt. Chafe in the Perfeve ranee, is in levery .refpedt intereftjnjj, 1 An attentive y.perufal of", the files of London prints, down to the 24th October, j ree'eived by no other Fditor in Baltimore, tfablies me ': : mm . mm m Jl m. m m mm JS m W miZ . 1 fm mm r. I mm 0 ' BCfltDin. I mr icaucr, uiimniuiiiwu";i that: the Britifli and vAttgio-Rafnans tered "into an jagreement with tlie nithliri to evacuate Holland.- The eonveft tion was figned bn'the i8fth. Oobf ,. allow ing fix weeks! for the complete embai katjiofl of the invadersi Several tranlportj had ar rived in England whb the fick and wowiedj which feemed! to be the firft' object if rrnW val ;a fleet' of tranfpdrts were getting ,out of RamfgateJ on the as laft as pofH- ble; to proceecTtb trie t Texel,' to fake oiFtfoe remainder of the troops The Briti fii prSnta appeaf tcrbd deeply chop fallen at the dirai terr Which haire befallen the pious bifbop of Ofnaljurg in oUand ; and in orde to ap peafe the refehrment of the nation, j the rou niftry have divided the fpoils of the Dutch fleetf which was pofieffion of as the j property of the Stadtholdcr, among" the fall on iand conftfting of Meflrs. Parker, per, Otis, and Freeman. I' 4 Peti tion from the euardiar.s of the or- jphan children (two daughters and a fcti) "of j t h e J a te ma jo r Free ma n , w ho was mu rdered ibyaprr ofvlndiani, in,the4year 1792, whic in the army Of the United States; waa jead, praying that the prjvjfio!s of the acl pafled in ihe teffions of 175,8 for the relief of tlie wddws and oiphana of deceafed ofiii" cers of the army, of the United States mieht. oc ejienoeo to tnem. It was referred ta the committee of claims, though an exertion was Itarfde to Irave it committed to a feleft Committee..t-v i J. P 'pMr: . ;.Mr. D. Fortef called op the rnbtton wpicfi be hid laid on;the table yeflerday,! relative rtf the prohibition of the Slave Trade. I :A committee to enquire into and- f eport tao fubjeh, was atcordipgly, appointed! !,; MV;. Sewall movedj that when the htife adjourn, it do adjourn until Monday; IvAf tef a few obferyations from Mr. Rutledge, who laid ume ought to be given to the com mittes to prepare their reports, ,whjch;f iin " til made; there was little eife to occbov thev iatterrtion of the hoofe ; the queftiop wac put luu i.wtu, o I'ung m ufour or it. "Ad-. ! journed. f I . 4 , '; -: December to, In tbcrheufe of rcprefentativet, " thir j GeneralMarfhall, fter exprefling in ftron, land elegant term?, the deep regret whicti was uuiverfaNy'. excifed by the jdeath ibf i Ge.. n.cral ! Wafhington,, prelented four refolutiw r-wijjj w niv unwH4ii viiifUy vi4i j 1 ; i ! ! Relblved. That this boufe will waitfori; the? Pirefident of the United States, cf this mournful event. vi -.Refolrcd. That the. fpeaker cbafr ; b ft r o u d e d j w i t h . b a c k , a nd t h a 1 1 h e me ro ber . 'and officers of the houfe wear 'blatk during Jtte-Te.inoW,'' .;:" -;J'J;vj- ;:. ;;;:.'t il: j Refblved, That a commit tee, in conjunc tion wth'one'frojm the fenate, jbe appointed to confider:on the mod fuitate manner of paying honour to, the memoryjof the '1 rnant firft, inar, firft jlo piace, and; firft in the hearts' of jbircbuMry.'" L A J . '! ; Refolved, That this hoofe, wbenl it j ad- journ, do apjonrn to Monday. i' If Thefe refolutions were unanlmotflly agreed toV Sixteen members were appointed on the third refolutlon." -' . ; b A meflTaee from the Prefident waa receir . ed, communicating a letterirdmi Tobias Lear lEfq'uirc, private Secretary to Gcsertl Waft mora in condolence , 1 5 1
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