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PHILADELPHIA, Jurny 27.
‘We are informed, that the Grand Jury
of the Circuit Court, o Wednesday last,
made several presentments to that Court,
of diverse persons in this city, for having
caused sundry veflels in this port of Phi
ladelphia to be armed and equipped in a
warlike manner, being an infraction of
certain treaties, and dire& violation &f
the neutrality of the United States, de
clared by the President’s Proclamation.
Extralt of a letter from a Captain of an Ame
rican veffol at New-Providence, dated Fu
by ¢, recerved yeflerday by the fehooner
Linnet Valentine.
*“ A great number of American vefizls
are here, and more every day coming in.
The Britith privateers take all they meet
with. They bribe the sailors ; make
them drunk and ship thein on board their
pitvdteers : they leave some veflels with
not more than oune or two hands, and
fend them to port ; they promise them
shares in the prizes, if condemned.—
Three of my people have been taken and
feat on board a privateer. They offer the
mates from 4 to 500 dollars for informa
tion.—Captain——————has condemned
his ownweilel and cargo, and he is at
present a captain of a privateer.
NEW-YORK, July 24.
The name of the French East India
man, mentioned in our last as having ar
rived here, is Port Louis, she is above
500 tons burthen, is commanded by citi
zen Jarente ; her very valuable cargo
confiits of spices, silks, ware, some sugar,
and various other articles,
A French ship of 18 guns has captur
ed, and sent into Chefapeak bay, a Dutch
thip with a cargo on board worth two
miilions of French livres (160,0001. this
currency.)
Juzsy 3.
Yesterday evening arrived the Earl of
Halifax packet, Captain Boulderfon, in
4z days from Falmouth and Halifax,N.S.
by which we have just time to give our
readers extralls from London papers :
June 8. Last night, Mr. Major, the
King’s meflenger, arrived at Whitehall,
with letters from Sir James Murray, Ad
jutant General, to his Grace the Duke
of York, at the Britith camp, near Va
lenciennes, which place he left on Thurs
day last, when the Britith froops were
within cannon shot of the citadel.
Detachments from the Royal Regiment i
of Dragoons, the Ennifkillen, and the
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards are or- |
dered to embark on Monday next for
foreign service.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 9. 'The Boyne,
Capt. Otway, arrived this morning, left
nine {ail of East Indiainen, under convoy
of the Powerful, on the z7th of April,
all well, off the Cape de Verd Island.
LONDON, JUNE 6. General Valence,
the accomplice of Dumourier, had yester
day an interview with Mr. Pitt, and some
other members of the Cabinet in Down
ing street.
General Cuftine writes from his camp
at Weiffembourg, May 18th, informing
the National Convention, that at half
past five in the morning, he with 26 bat
talions of foot, and 8 regiments of dra
goons, fought a part of the Prussian ar
my—rthe battle at firft was much in his
favor, but while his infantry were form
ing, a regiment of his cavalry rode up
towards them, which some of his infantry
taking for the enemy, ran away and could
not be rallied.
The General adds, that he did every
thing in his power to stop their flight,
but in vain, for, in running off, they
fired indiscriminately.
Two hundred pieces of cannon unre
mittingly fire upon the city of Valenci
ennes.
"GLOUCESTER, July 18.
A remarkable LARGE CHILD was
brought by its parents, who came on a
visit to this town, yesterday, which excited
the curiosity of all ranks in this place to
pay it a visit. The child is but 27
months old ; it weighs between 75 and
8o pounds ; it measures round the body
under the arms 31 inches, round the
Yhoulders 34% inches ; its height 35% in
ches ; bigness of the armn below the el
bow gL inches ; the calf of the legjuft i
foot ; the thigh, just above the knee, 153
inches ; and what is remarkable, it
weighed but 8 pounds when born. It is
in the bloom of health, and appears {en
fible and sharp. The parents are Mr.
Fokbn Pratior and Conlfort, of Ipswich.
BOSTON, August 1.
FROM PHILADELPHIA, July 24.
Accounts are received from New Pro
vidence, by way of Charleston, that a
French Fleet of considerable force had
fallen in with the Britith outward bound
Fleets for the East and Weft-Indies, some
time abont the latter end of May, off
Cape Finifterre, in Spain, and captured
one hundred and sixty fail, then under
convoy of two men of war and four fri
gates, the principal convoy having left
them in a more northern latitude. This
news was confirmed by the arrival of a
French frigate at the Capein 35 days
from Brest, 21{o by accounts from Jamai- i
ca, and from another quarter. ~
The French Fleet that is said to havel
captured the 160 fail of Britith merchant
men oif Cape Finifterre, is mentioned in
another paper to have consisted of ninei
fail of the line, several Frigates, and a!
- number of large privateers of from z 4 to
| 36 guns.— A letter from the Havanna to
4 merchant in Charleston, confirms theé
{ume news ; it was generally believed in
Charleston, when the last vessels left there.
A special feflion of the Supreme Couirt
of the United States is now holding in
Philadelphia. -We hear that the impor
tant question will be determined, whether
it is comnpatible with the principles of
neatrality for the citizens of the United
States to enter on board French cruisers.
Gen. Wayne, with the forces under his
~command had arrived at Fort Wathing
ton before the 27th of June. All expec
tations of a treaty with the savages in
that quarter were given up, and the com
mander in ‘chief had dispatched an ex
press to the President of the Unired States,
[oliciting orders for offenf{ive operations.
- We have it in our power to give a di
re&t contradition of the English accounts
~of the capture of Nantz by the Brittany
insurgents—The privateer Sans Culottes
(of old France) left that city on the 28th
of April, when such an event was not
even feared, or thought of. The English
‘date of its capture was on the 24th.
- "The Britith news, published in mofit of
the American newf{papers, that 20,0c0
French had perithed near Mayenne in |
passing the Rhine, to escape the pursuit
of the enemy, appears to be totally void
of foundation.
By the Sally, Capt. Egger, from Cape
Francois, which flie left the 4th of July,
we learn, that at that time about one
fourth of the town remained standing,
but entirely deserted by the white inha
bitants, who had fled in every dire&tion,
to avoid the melancholy scene. A few
negroes remained, who were employed
in burying the dead.—The Commission
ers Santhonax and Polverel remained =t
Aude. du Camp, a f{mall distance from
the town, attended by the mulattoes, ne
groes and other adherents. The Com
miflioners had issued orders to one of the
mulatto generals to disarm all the whites,
as it was supposed peace could not be re
stored to the island until they were de
prived of all power of interfering with
the Commissioners, -whose express busi
ness was to enforce the decree of the
Conventiony of France, granting certain
privileges to the people of colour. '
~ On the 27th of June a fire broke out
‘at Augusta, in Georgia, which did dam
-age it was supposed, to the amount of
30001. their currency. Seven or eight
houses were destroyed, a nur Atores
and out-houses, but fortunately no lives
were loft, although the fire broke out
about midnight.
Letter from Citizen A. F. Lozeau, member
of the National Convention of France, to
the Editor of the National Gazette, dated
Paris, 30th of April.
Crtizen EpilTor,
I beg you to publish the following ac
count of the bravery of Citizen Scorfery*
Capt. Scorfery, commander of the priva
teer L’Ami des Lois, of Dunkirk, car
rying 8 guns and 40 men, failed the Bth
inst. on a cruize ; the next day she car
ried two prizes into Havre, one of them
Englith loaded with hay, grain and
f{trong beer, the other a Dane loaded with
Spanith wine, bound to Pruflia. On the
14th she sent into the fame port a Dutch
thip loaded with cheese and leather,
bound to Falmouth : after having man
ned the three forementioned prizes,
there remained on board the privateer
only 25 men with whom the brave Scorfe
ry did not hesitate, on the zoth inst. to
attack an Englifth brig, on board of which
there were one hundred and five soldiers
and three officers, which after an obsti
nate engagement, he took and carried
into Dieppe. : 4
Citizen Scorfery -and his brave com
panions merit the highest eulogiums, for
engaging a veflel loaded with troops, and
with unequel force—they ran fgreat aan
ger, without the expeftation of any pro
fit. b ;
The disinterestedness, patriotism and
intrepidity of these brave Republicans,
concur equally to render them merito
: Avcusr 3,
The master of a vessel lately arrived at
Newport from Jamaica ; on his paflage
spoke with Caprain Courthey, command
er of His Britannic Majesty’s frigate Bos
ton, of 32 guns, who informed him, that
he had positive orders to cruise near the
Sound ’till he met the French frigate
PEmbufcade.——Further accounts state,
that the Boston had arrived at the Hook,
and that the commander had sent up a
challenge to Capt. Bompard, of the Em
bufcade, and informed him that he should
be there three days, in waiting for him,
and thiat he withed much to fee him.——
Capt. B. was preparing to meet him.
| Sandy-River, Fuly 1793.
Friday 21st ult, abeut 3 o’clock P. M.
we had a squall from the” N. W. It be
gan with Thunder and Wind, then fol
lowed by Hail or rather large lumps of
bhaid ice, many of them one and a half
inch diameter. It destroyed all in its way,
cut down whole fields of corn, and ve
getables ; broke through the roofs of
houses with great violence. When they
{truck the ground, they would rebound
as much as g or 6 feet high. It lasted a
bout so minutes ; covered the ground, so
that many of them were taken up 16
hours after. [t was about one mile and
a half in width.
NMarine Intelligence.
New-York, July zo.
On Sunday the brig Mary, C apt. Langdon,
arrived bere from Cape-Francois, awbich be
left Fuly gih. The passengers, avhich are 40
in number, inform, that it was not Juppofed
more than from 6to 9 hundreds (inflead of
10 thousand as awe beard ) loss their lives in
the affuir of the 20th—rthat not more than
two thirds of the torwn was burnt—lthat up
wards ¢f 20,000 mulattoes and blacks are now
under arms there, well fortificd—rthat the ne
groes NEVEr CAME In from the country on the
late cecafion—lhat the Spaniards, from their
part of the island, had iaken a town, and
awere on their march against them, and, it
is said, joined by the ariffocrats and country
blacks. If this be jo <ve fball bear of bloody
aork _foon.
NEWBURYPORT, Aug. 3.
Lxtract of a letter from Cape-Francois, to a
gentleman in this toavn, dated July 6.
¢ A greater havock and distress I never
heard or read of than has taken place
here. I arrived fix days after the destruc
tion—The fires were not wholly extin
guifhed nor all the dead carcases removed
from the streets. The cause of the bat
tle I am not yet fufficiently acquainted
with to give you a particular account of
—at a period when I am more at leisure
‘may be able to give you some idea, if
words can do it.
‘¢ You will naturally think I am in
danger, but an American is as fafe here
as in his own country ; and his property
(if he has it on board.) Theday I ar
rived I fold my cargo of Flour to govern
ment, to receive coffee in pay—The mise
rable white inhabitants I pity. I have
30 or 4o paflengers engaged for America,
whom I took through compafiion.”
Thursday last, John Burroughs and
William Little, of this town, were had
before Justice Pixe, upon suspicion of
altering Dollars from their present ftand
ard—{fearch being made, several dies were
found in their pofleflion—alfo a plate of
the Maflachufetts Bank for zo dollars,
and another of the Union Bank for 5 dol
lars.—After a {trit investigation of the
matter, Burroughs was bonded for the
sum of sixty pounds ! to answer to the
Supreme Judicial Court, and Little was
recognized as a witness—since which they
have both disappeared.
| SHIPNEWS,.
ARRIVALS.
~ On Saturday, brig Martha, E. Hoyt,
master, 36 days from Madeira—Left the
following American veflels :—Brigs Mol
ly, Capt. Morris, and Harriot, Captain
[ Holland, of Philadelphia.—Ship Harriot,
Captain M’Leod, and brig Morning
Star, Captain Steward, of New-York.—
Same day arrived schooner Speedwell,
J. O’Brian, master, 25 days from Aux-
Cayes.—The inhabitants were in daily
expe&tation of an attack from the Britith.
On his paflage was boarded by two New-
Providence privateers, detained 12 hours,
' and then fuffered to depart, without meet
ing with any ill wfage. Capt. O’Brian
informs that it rained three weeks incef
' fantly at the above place, {o that all com
‘ nfi:u_nication from the country was cut
off. . A
"PORTSMOUT H, Augutt 6.
- Itis said Great-Britain has made pro
’ positions of peace ; but that these were
‘rejeCted by the Narional Convention.
- The Convention of the French Repub
lic received the news of the acknowledg
ment of their existence, .by the United
States of America, with universal joy,
loud and reiterated plaudits, and many
public feftivale,
It may be proper to notify the mer
chants—That when the Britith privateers
board our veflels, they take full liberty of
opening any letters they please, which
they can find on board, whether public
or private.—This may serve as a caution
to those who are fond of literary corres
pondence. _ :
Last Tuesday evening was married by
the Rev. Mr. Buckminfler, The Rev. Mr.
Rowranp, of Exeter, to the very amia-,
ble and accomplithed Miss SarLy Lapp,
daughter of Eliphaler Ladd, Esq. of this
town.
SHIP NEWS.
Capt. Parker arrived here since our las, in
the schooner Wiiliam and Mary in 27 days
Sfrom Tobago, fays, the fleet awbich left Marti
nico bas arrived at Barbadoes:—Spoke avith
inlat. 34, 50. long. 66, [chooner Fobn, Fros,
belonging to Bewerly, out 63 days, from Tene=
riffs bound for Cbharleflown, S. C. short of
provifians, supplied them with bread &5 water.
ENTRIES at the Custom-Houst of
this District.
ENTERED FROM
Schooner Wm. & Mary, Parker, Tobago.
Brig Lucretia, Martin, Trinadad.
Press and Bonnet Papers
of a superior kind, by the dozen,
groce or single sheet, for sale at J.
Melcher’s Printing-Office.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
VV HEREAS the Gen
eral-Court of Maflachufetts, by
a Resolution of the 16th of March, A.D.
1793, authorifed the subscriber to fell
sundry LANDS, &c. in the county of
York, formerly belonging to the estate of
Sir Wirrilam PepPeERrRELL, deceased,
notice is hereby given, that there will be
fold at |
Public Auttion,
On Monday, -
the 19th day of August next,
at 11 o’clock, A.M. on the premises,
to the highest bidder,
(unless fold before at private sale)
THE
Houlfe situate in Kittery,
formerly the mansion house of Sir WiL-
LlaM PeprERrRELL, deceased, with
Three acres of Land,
(more or less)
adjoining the fame, with the remains of
The Wharf, in front of
said House.
Any person who has a 2 mind to have an
advantageous and delightfome situation
for business, will find it worth their at
tention to apply to the subscriber at 20r%,
if not fold at private sale by the said Ig9th
day of August.
The conditions will be declared
at the sale. *
; JOSEPH TUCKER.
- York, Jely 903793
Pifcataqua Bridge.
THE proprietors of Pifcataqua
Bridge are hereby notified that their
meeting stands adjourned to the second
Monday of August, inst. at 6 o’clock, in
the afternoon, to be held at Col. #illiam
Breawfler’s in Portsmouth, at which time
and place a pun&tual attendance is re«
quested.
NATH’I ADAMS, Prop’s Clerk.
Portsmouth, Awguft 2, 1793. -
WANTED |
One ortwo Journeymen
Printers, to whom wages will be
given equal to their merit, by the
Printer hereof, '