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:; "Of 1 4 " ST vttntffipt ShiUinisper Tear." ,T tlt'S D A Y, SirxittBiit 29, i8oi. Vol- Vtt1 jBTMV 48S SUMMARY. ' J Byjhe Unofficial accounts from Egypt, it apears, that tSTFrench haveained more vid .ricg, a they arecalled by the French, i paper in ihlscountry. Thcfe Gatcttei, b garbling, roiCrtprefenung and.eOBUt', difting official and other accounts, have , - endeavoured to make it appear that the. - 'Englifh hae beeo defeated in almoft every engagement with the French, and that, in faa, they were or very loon would b com-., polled to abandon the or.Jcaaof their ex peditiorf. Nothing bat the moft perfecV devotion of thtfr papers to the intertfti of the Ffcnch could have led them into ,Jine or condnft f f d arid ufehf, - It was evicent front the movements of Gen, Hob chinfoa after the battle of the aift ; March, that Aleiandria would he the lall fcene. of - hit operationa. Hi bj-a w to drie the French from eery othei fbttined placed- . fore he attacked, theni in Alexandria. In thia burinefabe Vt proceeded egularl and fuccefs'ully, and it i hiffhly probable that, with the affiftanceof the ,Tuk and the army from India, he will finally accotuplilh bii plana. The laft ofincal letter ftatei that the forirefe rf Rhamanich had fiirrenderW to the Englifti, and that a luable convoy deftinedfor the relief of Alexandria, had fallen into their hnda. Thia ftewa the defptraie Sruation of that "riloa, foM convoy would not have bren fent andev-iuh circumilaoces of hazard and danger, if M tiou had betn fuppTttd vbith tw jeanjh viion,. It ia r"urth ft.ted, tlat after tie fun eader of Rhamanich, two other fefta wer taken, with their garruona amou?g to 700 men, and that the hole numberof prifonen taken from the 91b to the a4 amounted to 1 600 men, btfiiea ftorei, ao naunition, money, camela, Ice. Afterthffe difalUri the French made a rapid marejb;ta .'; .Gzar, and prepared. to attack the 7id "vixier. After watting fome time, tthe Ottoman troopa commenced the aftioo, m which the Fiench were defeated- . By the late convention between Rufia and England, the new pmcipk of "fre Jhifs mh frte zoit," ha ve bee n abaaWd, Th? right o fearch ie admitted, ita exercifc ia confiocd to ftipa of war . Thi . lipuiatioB,:will ptoBal)fy operate taiinblf - m Dot. naitans, pj avowing wanj : f ieaIoqfy and irritation.- SEipa. Car. kftin2 under commiffiooa and commanded' by men f honour, ' w ill be much lcf prone te inffllencfl and ietjnftice than ujnauthorifed - privateert. W"h thia partial limitation, thefyftem of matitime law" remain aa' it waa before the nigantic coalition conjured irp by the diplomatic (kill of the Firft Con' fl. Particular excepiions made by treaty have cxifted bet eeu certain nationi,' but thefe excepttona have not, cannot and ought not to become the general rtale. TJse new principle ia oppofed to the intfitil of neutrals, impradiciible iu its nature, aud fubverfive of the long cUablifhed laws of . nation, . - The note of the Ruffian minifter Kalitf cheff to Tallejrand, weara a verf ferioua -afpea,l It -dewanda tbe execution of e'er tain article entered iato by the former em rjcror and the firft cbnful.: By thcfe articles it waa agreed that the king of the two Si cities and the king of Sardinia fhould again: .- be put in poffeffion of the rtfpec3ie ftat'es whieh they pofTeffrd before the entrance of the French troops into Italy. But it leema that the pnmier chief, 'notwithftandi' g his Jtria adbernHtt to treaties and lave of jujlitet haa "chofcd to make fubfequtnt at range 1 rftcnts which happen to viola hi (Upula tiona with tha RtilGn emperor. "It is ex pliculy declared however bjr the Ruffian minitter. that nalef the premier chief tread back hia ftep, and "fathfu!ly execate the i riiciev, tnerc can.oc no rijtiraHtm qt mar many Mwrem toe tw etuntrut 1 ait vio -JatiQBo.lreatyr .this i cotUiMancejof irfvf tea of robbery, will eventaally cU mts :bt'lBM'h.nyrMdt.ofrac':9oithBao Papatte will find that be it not treating With an infultcd and plundered repablte ; but with a difcerning and fpinted emperor, whofc refoorccs and power place him ibove contempt. "; .:.;-"''-;? From a late official account io the Moni - teur, ic appears, the French natwn lias: fceen ' coveted with glory" by the capture of theEnglifk (hip Hannibal, in ih? .bay 'of Algtfiras Uuoficial accounts horn- Lf "boo and Vienna, ftate that admiralWrrea ;)ad fallen in with Ganthtaume near SHy, nd obtained a decifive victory. It is Use, khe lettets previous to this , iatelligcac fta icd that Warren wai cruifiug off A14 H ; I. 1 1 1 111 in . iii 1 ' -t . Af'ii, flill, at this iafcnrmatioa was aot direct, be atignt afterwards have frft kia ftatioa and met Gantheaame ia the manner ftated. '" '' Portugal will, probably be fooa reduced irff'rk rnnAUin at m. nlunitrti lad 'eafla- ved colonv. Whether the treaty is ratified or aot. the chitf conful will impofe bis own conditions. If he thinks it beft thar the Pormguefe (hould e made free, by re-ceiving-4nto their cities Franco and Spa -nifH gagifons, by ceding the province of iAlgarva to Spain and paying bcavy cob ibutions, me will doit 4 becaufe t be. republic is powetful to $rott8 the rijiii 0 aastau V ' -J - Frtm tbe Balante, ; 1 " ... '-.A Mon am Patmot Diisictib. . THE bulk of mankind from' the days f Adam to the prefent gene'rarioil,- have been eaftly duped by the crafty and :detigj-,. iog They hae bee bcgaiU'd. b . Jiter and galled 6y empty ptofeffions. A' man of foil uoe or of parti, however void of rial merit, who wt uld artfully flatter the people, l.a generally been rewarded witb their confidence, and fame-times with-thfir adoration. Suck a fnccefsful adventurer for popular favor wa John Wrlkes- F-w -men in modcra times hare been io exten fively celebrated he war, for pure devo ti'on to the tutetefll pi the people. About" thirty years ago, the riameof Mr Wilkea was famous, cot only in Bri tain', but a fo throughout the Bri.ifb A me rican coloaies) nfn.nch Utat a pocket handkerchief or a fopffbox was hardly laic able unlefs it exhibited the patriotic motto of " Wilkes and Liberty.". I remember that, about that time, I faw. a little ragged boy, (landing by a liberty, pole, which had been ettcicd 011 the me morable occafioo of the American atamp "ift." As I waa puffing the pole, the little fellow obferving me, puiltdoff hia hat and threw it int the ait, exclaiming with all the flrength of his lungs, " Wilkes and Liberty, huzza.0 Ia thofedays, any roaa who fhould pre fume to have ajuertioned the batriotifa of John Wiikes, mirht have iiicmtcd the danger of a brokeo head. And indeed I ,&vivmr.ibt .i, mjKU :.par ;lvofloe geaTratphreEyjriini' iS a mei lure . idolized ' that renowned demagogue, llut precious u Mao of the People ' Long ago I law my error, and having bad leiiurc and opportunity more fully to examine the merit of tlc political Dragon, to which I 0 ce bowed the knee, I communicate to the piiblic, in authentic documents, the refalt of this examination, as a ufctul leflbn to all who have eyes to fee, and cars to hear. . Mr. Gibbon the celebrated hiftorian, io the memoir of bis own life, writes aa fol low t vThif day, (Sept. 2$, 176a,) Colooel Wiiket dined With h a. He told us bimfcU, that ia this time of public diffen tioa, he w t tcfojved to make bis fortune. Upon this principle, (to make bit jortunt) he has connected bimlei clufcfy with Lord Temple and Mr. Pitt, aod commenced a public ad veifary to Lord Bute, whom he bufes weekly in the North Britdu fc; dtberJ political papers 'in which he is concern ed." .. ; -: - Thi document, this, confeffion to a bt fom friend, developes the political character of Mr Wilkes. His objeA was W make bit fe-rhme. .This it was that enkindled the elherial aire of patriotifm in hi foul. This it was that direfted his tongUe and pen. His political career began with a warm and fpirited attack upon the adminitlration of Lord Bute. In that blundering admintdra. tioa, there were eafily found object fno' for cenfure and invcAivcj but in the mean ftime, if Wilkea could hvc kA betteerof. pVifta of gain or 'promotion in writing for Butt than in writing againft him, he doubt lefi, would have fuppvrted that minifter's mealureiy IbTJys liaf wa,e aMViyr- w-jj- w;, vniifyili tbe ad miniilrauon or government, beat the fame tune took 1 prudent care i flatter the peo ple, and mfeke thc .. warmest proleffion cf an affectionate attachment to them, aad an entire devotion to their intereS. , ,7 In the Britifh Gentleman's Magaxine, for the year r 1770. there is a copy of" a letter of Mr. Wilkes, Hhat was to be com municated to the citixens of London; io which he wrote as follows :, I have Sir, a real pleafure in finding out and "following the opinion or khc people.,. I will through life be faithful to their caufr, .1 firmly aad finctrelj believe tfrimt of tbt ftofk tth tke veUt tf CtJ. . I wifh always to bear it clear vaori diilinft. Whea I do, I wilt obey ft as' a diviae call, wjib fpirit aa4 ala crtty, carle f briefer nfequthce, and dutifullyjfubraitting sy own private,: opt Bion.;'!:'' "v-;, . . r".. ' V Behold ibe RitaT See bow bispa(riaf heart dtfteods with a pure and ardent love to tlje pc aple J And the pe.'ple, on iheir part, bjefa him' with ten thoufand tongnes, and even iron langs are wotn'ont or ulcer ated fa; ;cifeTating Ma praifct, : . At hi approacl,. they throw up their bata and cap", arid 1! tbt air with laopta uobarncCs- hi.carr1aej.and potting tbemfelves in the t L place ofabe" horfe. draw bint with theic own barnuMbj.bc ftreets pr elle car ry bimtt?oKipVMl ttit Moulder In deed be4nt fitcevad itn, aad none knew bejjttfr bow. to ride lipon pe;L't JSnuU Jert. '(''''''"' ' - : -;': -. '". " At h the day of recomprnce eaJne. 1 Li L. . J . 1' rt 1 I WHKevpiatoea tne cnamoeriamiAipnttne m'tv of-Loon,-worth, it has -beta fid, leven touiand pound rteiling a year, tin f$rte tut new made the hre or patriot .fm iti brtatt; inflantly ceafed to (How, vrid frt fovtrligo eeniemft .tf tbt people fom . Wbjen afterwards Lord George Gordon, uadfrtoak to aA the demagogue and head a v5jand Tiotoos mult trade, Mr. Wjikes was a .i6ft aftive and zealou fiippo;teR of eoverrtienrlaud Jn perfon led out the fjfo tvtitittus , to fupprefs tberiotera- Nay, He even went 1.0 far. a to Uy that at power er givt n him, he woald not leave a (ingle rtotrUve'' ;. (' .! .;., V'.Tbi king.and minillry, in recorjjpf nee ef Ml fcious ! attachment freely forgave his fovrntaiditical hercGea inisjuttice) t and -be. Iiv"4 and died in the pale of the pol&Cil church V an orthodox believti in; inj fippbrter of the meafures of adrai-oitlfaiion.- Peace to his ,flieJ I. would Late ffi&i&urifo - 1 r a Tl?: Oaittte' of this town contain! toe following extrlof ed juiy 17- ., 'j . : ; ; ; . yefterda.al I t oloclt in the mora ing, the feligidll Copicorciat'" was confunio ' : mated, figmd Jon .he par j of the chief coo- ' ful, by jofeph Buaoaparte, the counfellor of (late, Cieti t; nd tbe Ahbey Beraier 1 aad on the p r of the Pope, by cardinal -Gonfali and he'aicbbilhop of 'Corinth, Spina'." . 'J.- , v .- ,.Thf aew j certar f it U faid even that things are arerli juaer to quiet all . noi.aavc diftuibed them but for the public goiJdf ' :r-' -; "'..i. - . . - . ( Tbefe flcetcbes of the political cbaraaef of M'i Wilkes may be inftruclivc in the picfct age. -In all the different periods of Tjbf w.orld the intrigues of ambt'toucmen, anfj the arts of popular deception have beeo if 'a far the fanw. And whenever we fee a . own pan ion 1 m rutranog tne people ana -profefling toward them an unbounded af Action aud an enure devoiednefs to their views and. interest, re may ' juftty fufpeft that be intends fa male bit fortune- , HiSTORICUS, . NEW-YORK, September 15. ; By tbe arrival yeflerday of the Tvo Friends, cipt. Vofe, in 4? day from Lont don; end 37 from Lands End. the editors of the New-York Gazette have received London Papers to the niit of Anguft one dy later than our former accounts. . They contain nothing of an important nature. . , , The ehictl conful has ratified the treaty with Portugal, and Spain bat already taken poffeffion . of the province of Qlivenza. What France i to have, has' not yet tranf pired. ' ' . ' " -" The French appear .to be unremitted in theircon(truaior' of boats, lJtCJor the in; vaCnn of England, an J, on the contrary,' England .is not. backward, in making pre paratiooa to repel the intended attacks of U rrande nation. The marquis Corn wallis has been appointed commander in chiei ol the forces to the Laltern diJinct, , f. , . - September i j. . - Capt- Johnfoa, who anived at thit port yefterday ia the brig Fox, io forms us, that he left St.j Maloea - 00 ibe Sth Augoft, at which time, "above 1 00 gnn boats, two cut ter brigs, aad two 44 gnn frigates, com. pletcly manned and victualled, Were wait, ing at Sti Maloes to be employed ori ihc projefled expedition. . It was reported there, that admiral Gantheadme - had cap tared one Englifh 74 and a fleet of about 10 merchant vefll-la with ftotea deftioed for the Britifh army in Egypt t d that be had fac ceeded-10 landing troops at a fhort diftfrace from' Alexandria. The officers aad crew of the Jafon, eaptaia Joh'nfoa fays, were prcCcrved hen that frigate was wrecked near St. - Maloes t the pilot perilhed. An epidemic fevVr, of a very alarming nature', it -is faid, prevail at Iowichiwin- jhe late of ConneAieut. 7 A letter f the 7th, 5uft received, mention that nearly one half oi tae citizeM kave fled into the. oaa- try ' x.-' v. r boAfct'ene. " Jmmait euntein .tie Jutiev'mj artU't i ' Tue dilpatcbea whica the 'brig Lodi tas.brought .from Egypt, have as yet only , bjrb publihed by extmds-A'lecJiv ever has been received beje, ., (rom a perfoft bclungiag to the army, on board the Lodtv in the road of Neice, whTcb ftates that the affair iii Egypt are aot tke belt puflible, of which there are two principal caufc : 6rft, . .. difajrecrtent biUaieco. th.e.geneiwRl, efpeci-, ally between Menoa and Regnier ; and Ce' condiy.'the plague which broke out to Cat- ro and Up'pti Egypt, nwrt.tiaae b.-fofe the attack of the Englifh,. aad prevented the neeeffjty ' meafuret. being taken' to collect " the whole army, and. attack the Englifh pa. -cveryfidc, before they bad time to cttablilh themfelvea ihUrcv:'; t':, " v.-',-- ;-v ' Before 'the Lodi failed, aboat co,eos perfon bad already, fallen viAimaoiiii: dreadful difcafa in Cairo i nearly iooo diV daily i many of the French had been ear ricd off by this diftt aipcr, which is the more ferious a toflf a the number, oi French, troops is now greatly .4iioioifhedT. Ih Up-- -per Egyptf-.Mur.ad Bey,Vy'oiher iuferiof chiefs, 'and iao Mamclukefl, have died of the '.plague.4 -.The di(agreemeor;betw7eo7 the French officers wa principally oecaioa cd . by the phn of operation againft the Enghlh which Menoa ptopofed, and Reg nier " dvcidoaly j diUpptotcd. confer quc&cc or WhicA waa a sund ot tcbiim ; foe fpbi woaia no iwjger uui pi.in tae. military ootritions, ind at length Rrffnlr embarked for-Fraace,iWhfr4beihai.jctua with geoeiaP Uamat.Jate chief of the flatt of the arcajj of the-eaft under Cleber, the genet al infileAr Dante, aad feveral otheC perfon of mftinAiuj, . LqKDON, July 28. - v ... The couit ot Copenhagen tia acecded to the convention fgoed at St. Petersburg oa the 1.7th 'of Junf. -r'"'"" " : Accordin to the lad accounts from Cor penhagea, coutt Loewendahl, Ion to the Danilh ambaiador in Rufliav- ia immediate ly, to proceed to St. Peterfbnrg, with an) official .no'tirication of jhe acceffion of Deb roai"k to the. convention concluded there on the 1 7th ubetwecri lord M, Helens and count Pania. ' S weden hating already figni . ficd iiaijormal acceffion,'. tjic differences be tween Great Britain and the Northern Pow er are thus maft happily brought to 1 final adjultment.X . ,T::rI:f ;..0a the i8th In ft. arrived at Hamburgh from Berlin, the French general Macdon ald, with the tt-count de Segor, bis fecre tary, and -four-adjutant, on bU way to Copenhagen', where he if to refide as an. bauador. Should Be propafals for a geae Yal peace', which have it is mofl , confidently afferted, been lately, fent from Paris to Pe teffbv'cg', meet witk the approbation of A lixandei', Macdonald,, is.ta go to Peterf burg,.U .tjtie cBar'after oK ordinary Feeada ambaiTadori; e'.vjiU v'." , Ji:. Letter from, our Iet blockading irefl ftate, that tie Breft fleet sppears to be com pletely Vtady for "fea, and that troop are embarked on boafd jhefhip., The enemy's rvtflVIs are remarkably flat bottomed, and draw'fo very lit le. water as to be enabred to, lace tbemfelves under co ver of tfitir batteries, where it would be extremely iangerou for our boat to Tea- -lure. To thi circumftante muft be attri buted the efcape ol the flotilla fiora Calai into Boulonge 00 Tucfday, . - The peculiar conllruftion of the Frenck gun tellelsveaabling them. tnproceedLilong; the coaft ioXafety, as oar ctuifers cannot ia confequence of their great draught of wa ter, bring, ibeir guns ioear with iay dt ,-1. - u :-.. ).'.. 1 ' .'(',rr t. - . . Vj. I A i V..' 'A' - - - rr . - ... -V ... 1 ill ''I ii - .. v . . J ii ft i ft
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