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ceased about eleven P. M. Tiie veffet is t called the Ligtrn'a, Don Se Orfu, ' Commander, a Dutch frigate fold to the ® Genoese, ■and mounting twelve eighteen ' t pounders, four twelve pounders, tefi fix a pounder , twelve long wall pieces, and four ! swivels, with 120 men on board, of all na- 1 ' r tions. It would give me infinite pleasure if I ( could close this, without having to inform t your L'irdfhip, that in the firft hour of the s aflion I loft my matter, Mr. Soulfby; a loss I fek more severely, for he was brave with the greatefl coolness, and ls,new his duty well I had fix men wounded, two badly ; | the Ligurian had seven killed and fourteen I wounded, among theni the boatswain was '• killed, and the firft captain very dangerously 1 wounded. No panegyric of mine can do juftict to either warrant-ofßcers or men ; for the great disparity between the veffets shews, that had it not been for their spirited exertions, we mult have fallen a facrifice to these pirates, or whatever else they may be. The service is much indebted to the spi rited condu& of Captain i)rown, of the 28th regiment who happened to be on board, by his animation, infpirinjr all around, and by his attention to the guns j not would I do jultice f.I did qot beg leave in the strongest terms, to lecommend to your Lordfhip'y notice, Mr. Hemphill, the purser; who, with my leave, came up from below, where he was ftatbned, ai d by his aifiduity in at tending the guns, saved me much, as after the loss of the matter, mv attention was more particularly required ill manoeuvring the .helm and fails. I have 'he honor to be, &c. LOFTUS OTWAY BLAND. [How would the spirits of the Dorias, could they revilit this theatre of Gallic phrenzy, growl indignation at the degene- - racy of these their despicable defendants. ' But, it is natural en#ugh : thus does dege neracy and disgrace every where follow the ! footfteps of French frateraizalien )—thus does her embrace, like the lewd touch of the profane harpies, or the foul :ncanta tioh of a wizzard, fhrivtl up every where the j Jouls of the fubjefted The Genoese, while I they were free, were renowned for enter- ! prize, for bravery, and the mod obstinate contlancy and fortitude; but no sooner does the Gallic pestilence extend its blight ing breath to them, than they decline m every national, every manly virtue, and be come like their matters, unfit for any avoca tion but one common to wolves and fvgers, that of preying on the spoils, and devouring the carcases of tbofe wh n) they find around them wifcr and happier than themselves In ho. orab'e quarrels they are wholly impo- • tent and enervate; a British bomb-boat bears away their stoutest frigate > and in the field, one soldier of the faithful, one man armed in ajuftcaufe, wears to them too terrible an afpedt to be Loked upo;,.J BERLIN, September 4. The latest letters fr»m Conftantinnple state, that the Porte had received official accounts of a tignal vifloryover the trccps of general Buo napart* near Cairo, in which some thaufands of the Trench wefeTHJlßTand two thousand made prilbneis. LONDON, September 15. 1 This morning the Hamburg mail due on Wed nesday last reached town. It brings intelligence ( of a very important nature —Atf a. tide t'rotn ] Berlin, olthedaieof th( 4th inftant,Hates that official advices had reached Conflantineple, of Buonaparte's army having been defeated n«ar Grand Cairo, with an immense loss. ' 1 his intci igence comts likewil'e in private lej- 1 ters received by the Mail of thii morning, both from Hamburgh and Cruxhaven, of so late a date a» the 9th instant, and is mentioned ia the mofl confident terms. Letters from Italy of the »Brh ult. slate that admiral Ne'fon, after having taken in provifiona and water, had tailed from Syracrufem the be ginning tf the month The admiral's fleet had ' been increaled to zz fail of the line, by the junc- I of four Britilh from Cadiz and the Portu- 1 guel'e squadron. I From Milan we learn that the king of Naples "ill continues his warlike preparations with ac- , tivity. The article fr im that place, also Dates the probability of a revolution in the Ligurian ' republic, Cmiiar to that of the 18th Fruflidor in I France, t One o'clock, P. M. . Siace our paper was put to press, with the foregoing intelligence, we have been able to as- l certain in a great degreeits authenticity —lt was conveyed to Berlin by the Prussian minister at t Conllaminople, to whom it was officially com- t ratmicated by the Turkilh minister. J Buonaparte's force eonfifted of about 15,000 £ men. An army of go, 000 Arabs had aflembled, a circureftanee that, in our opinion, fufficiently - accounts for the immense flaughterofthe French' 1 Orders likewil'e had been lent from the Grand £ Seignoi to the different officers and chiefs, to d fight to the last extremity in repelling theFreuch. t Letters were received this morning from on J /board the hpmeward bound Weft-India fleet, 0 dated at sea on the 17th of August, at which time they were all well. By these letters it ap- ® pears that the John Bull, Goodall, one of the h convoy, had captured a vtflel, having general v Pichegru on board, who, with Barthelemi, and S fcveral of the banilhed deputies (as we ftatcd in ti our paper of the Bth instant) had made their a escape from Cayenne. General Pichegru, after f , his captuie by the John 8111, had been put on J b».ird L'Amiable, the cammodore's Ihip, on i board of vrhich he is now on his paffai;e to En- *- gland. ti u LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, C Whiuhall, September 14, 1798. it A Di'fpatch. of which the following is a copy, t< his been received this morning from his Excellency e i the lord lieutenant of Ireland byhisGrace the Duke of Portland, one of his Majesty's Principal Secre- P, tarits of State. tr Camp near St Johnllown, c: September 8,1798. E MV LOR Ok, te When 1 wrote to your Grace on the sth, I had eVery reason to ie)icve, Irom the eneisy's move ments to Drumahain, that it wa» their intention to march to the north ; and it was Batural te fuppolr as tSa t they might hope that a French force would of get IMO some ofriie hays in that part of the coun- nr try, without a futcour of which kind, every point o! direflion lor their march leemcd equally def pcrate " 1 received, however, very 'jarly in the morning ha the 7th, accounts Irom i-isi.t. Gen. i.ake, that s J er M T* 8 * t;o thf!r *» and ;« , f that, he hail r xtoh ro bciievc that i; w?.s their b) e ,em ®»* «« g» to Boyle. «r. Carrick on Shannon ;pi r n cwfequcpcool V hu:,l the mj(ch of th ft wo«pjur.d:r my immelia-e io;i\manJ, in order to a vT- torc ;* hs L '" hn y " Carrick, sid dircSetf k It Major Cenrral Moore, »<ho '.vM if Tuhercurry, to c l. «P prepare.!, la the event of the enemy's move- • ment to Boyle " I ° V "? a L r ' Val lt Carrlrk. I found that the en- a ewiy had palled the gnanunn at Balintm, where b they attempted to d.flroy the !m<W ; hut lieut r< it general Lake followe.l them so closely that tehy »' f s were not able to effea it. Underthefc circumftaiieri I felt-pretty confident that pae mor<j march Wotfd bring this "disagree- c j able to a conciufion jand having obtained, si » lat»ijfaaoisr information f !, at the enemy had halts 1 it n 'or t'ie night It Cloonc, I moved with the trorps M a! *' V^ r! i lc ,, * at ten °' c 'ock on the night of the 7th v | t? Mohill, and directed lieut. gen. Lake to proceed at the fame time to Cloone, which is abotjt three '9 . miles from Mo}n\l—i% tihouti j f bt ab ' c e ' thc r to )°' n v/ith lieut- pen. L .ke in the ! f< fit attack ot the enemy if thejr fboulci remain at t id Cloone, or to intercept their retreat if they foould fe (as it was mol> probable) retire on the approach i V " of pur army. n » Oil my arrival at Mohill iJVon after day hre:.k, I<" found that the enemy had bcgwi to move towards f >1- Granard ; I then proceeded with all pofliMe ex- t t h pcdition-othis place, through which t was a ffu- r 3y r / on acc °unt of a broken bridge, that the en ,v "?t r ' u(l P ar ' in their way to Gran trd.and dirrA- j 1 <d lieut. gen. Lake, to attack the enemy's rear, and I JO imped, their march as mu.h as possible, without : t r(t bringing the whole of his corps intoa&ion. Li?ut.' t Gen. Lske performed this service with his usual ! f O. attent ' on aid ability; and the inclosed letter whic 1 1 have ,« • received from him, w,ll explain the cir- 1 cumltances which produced the immediate furren- H- der of the enemy's army. s er Thj copy of my orders which f qnclofe, will ( re ihewhow I have tobefatisficd with the , be exerUon f o! 'he troops— and I request thatyour grace will be pleased to inform hij Majesty, thjt I : ' . v ave received the gr e ,te(l a (Tift,nice from the gen- 1 eral and ftaiF office's who have'ffrved with the art J. my. 1 have the honour to be, &c. 1 c ' t> o * , cormwalus. > r. b. lam lorry to find that the wounds of lie , Lieut. Stephens of the Carabineers are more dan. f ft. j gerous thnn they bad been reported. * Ig". ! His Grace the Duke of Portland, *) I e . See. | U e C Here followj letter Jiviththe ue return of the French furreniewd, killed, t of and wounded, See. &c.f „ a _ Extra{l of a Utter from an officer in lord Corn- j le | •wall'ts's army. '■ ( I j " Camp 1! St. johnftown, of £ Longford. Sept, 9,1798, , r * 1 "You will have been anxious for news j te from me. My fatigue and my time oblige J er me to be fliort. We rendezvoused at Ath t- lone on the 3pth ult. and were brigaded as 1 tn follows : . . * ®- The Advanced Guard c a- Maj or General Mo#re. s, 1 ft- Irish Militia & Light Infantry 650 ■g 2d ditto 700 ' d 3d ditto 680 * j. 380 Wtrw ck, JL. Infan. Jt Major General Hutchinfoa. iH Downftire Mih'tia: 670 i „ Armagh Militia 320 10 Antrim Militia 640 \ Major General Hunter. t 2d, or Quten'g jgo 29th Regiment 563 e, Louth Militia 470 t 3f Major General Campbell. , J- Sutherland Fencible 900 Suffolk ditto 470 t Roy ditto 400 f " With lord Roden'f cavalry, and derach- c menu from the jth drftgooii guards and J- Hompefch's hussars, and the Roxburgh fen :e cibles apd detachments from the royal Eng- { II li(h and loyal Irifli artilltry, making to- c ■' gether near 9®oo men. ~ " With theft we marched from ! thlone L on the 30th August, aud had reached Hoi- a j. lymount on the 4th of September, when rc :h received information that the French and a rebels had quitted Caftlebar, and had pufti ■e ed for Sligo. Gen. Lake then left us with „ the Reay fencibles and Armagh militia to a J3 join a brigade under Major genera! Taylor at Boyle, with whom he pursued the French c d to Colloonv, near Sh'go j and we marched c to Ballyhannes, on the road towards l'ar- \ 1- rick on Shannon, to secure the paflTes of | that riref. j ;® Next day General Moore left us with hie , ;* Brigade, to support General Lake, but he n left with us the Flank Companies of the g n Royal Buck* and Warwick, who were at- f] tached to Maj. general Hunter's Brigade. a We encamped that night a very heavy j march, at French Park—and tlvf next day f ( c wc pushed on to Carrick on Shannon We „ here received the surprizing intelligence that v it the French and Rebels, after having been at- t 1- tacked malt gallantly by the Limerick mi-; j| litia at Colloony, had taken thxir guns, and 0 had purtied on to Manor Hamilton, in their ' way to Ennilkillen, to penetrate into the North.—Lake was in their rtar, and Major F j general Nugent had a ccnfiderable force to 0 defend the passes of Lough Erne, which t , they did not dare attack. They therefore .tf doubled back by the Weft of Lough Allen, 1,1 & crofled the Shannon at Ballintra Bridge after a march of 32 Irifli miles, afiifted by t f horses, near four hours before Lord Corn- ft wallis had brought us up to Carrick on ef Shannon, seven miles below it. We came to our ground on the 7th at fuur o'clock and Toon afterwards general Lake who had 1,1 follow; d them closely with Lord Roden's 'jj Fencibles, the 3d Battallian of Irish militia in Light Infar.try, the Armagh and Kerry mili- te tia, an ived at Lcitrim, within three miles of ! h us. Though we had marched so far, Lord " u Cornwallis moved us at eleven at night, as a g it was now evident that the enemy meant w , to have a race with U3 for Dublin—and by ~ eight o'clock in the morning the Flank Com panies of General Hunter's Brigade, viz. the ad 29th, royal Bucks, and Warwick, 5 came up, after 26 Irifli miles (which are 42 English miles) with the enemy, who had hal- _ ted at Cloones, on the road to Granard. " 1" the darkness of a very ft ormy night the Royal artillery, the Downfhire, Suffolk, and Sutherland Regiments had, by the fault of their Guides, misTed their road, and did nnt join us till nine. Lord Cornwallis did 1 not think it prudent to attack only with General Hunter's Brigade, and the Enemy had moved off. " As soon as the reft of our columns had 1 J f t onwttz. PHILADELPHIA, t ;- . . - FRIDAY EVENING, NOFEMSRR iS. 1 , I ~ boneft man in America witl hear- ' !>ly join U3 in the wish that the murderer ' '' Buonaparte may meet the fate of the apostate ' Julian- Happily, this wish, far from be-- J a ing chimerical, is exalted by our newi of ' velferday, into a well-grounded expe&ation. In tracing the tracks of former adventurers e on ihis h&xardous theatre of action, as ac- ' e curatdy as t'ie scanty materials furnifhed us ' * will allow, we difceirn no of the 1 fuccefb of any enterprise undertaken in fimi- I e lar circumllances to the present. Alexan- ' s der. it is true, pasTed the dtferts of Syria, Is ! a^ter fubdumg Porm and his multitude. 3 i of Elephant?, penetrated to the Punjab. 1 ? But, without inllituting a comparison be- j tween the course of Alexander' and that of , Buonaparte, it is worth while to advert to < y the far greater degree of similarity, which < appears, both between the conduA and the ' le t characters of the Imperial apoltate and the 1 *" Gallic assassin. ' j : The certainty of the defeat and deftruc -1" | t'on of the maritime force, added to the i ; total loss of a large army and immetife body i of officers, with a man at their head, who, > r however infamous for the atrocity of his ' crimes* and, whether an able general or not, ' ; was worth, from his popularity, more than Ie an hundred thousand njen, mall prove a n daggering blow even to so ColofTal a cower i as that of the Great Nation. Already I fee i the revolutionizing crew, thole ill-omened 1 birds of prey, who have so long devoured j 3 the vital* of the empire, trodden every ! l ~ where under the foot of the fuffering pea- , j tani and the oppressed gentleman. Barbers , ' and valets shall no more a£l over the r go- < | vernmeutal gambol*, TKid V dressed in aJit e" tie brief authority, play such fautaftic tricks ' "j before high Heaven, as makes e'en Angels L weep." The Dire&orial Harlequin may ' dance his antic hornpipe ; but others shall no longer pay the piper. America, freed r> 'from the gripe of fanfculottifm, and frater- . y nization, shall yet live, and, having nothing a efe to do, begin, at last, to take care of her . felf. In this woik, she may fiad a tafk're : quiring all the energy of thought and a&iou, ' ; which charafterized of old the sages and ' j heroes of Greece and Rome, when thefalus ! r \ptpuli was guarded by a Lycurgus and a lr | Solon from the keeping of Democratic ruf l" fians, and promoted by a Dictator, who knew how to direst again ft the enemies ef j. the State the just vengeance of the law. The MofUms, pulled by the whiflrers, wince : >- This is all good. Let the work go on. Citi- V zen Revolution has probably yet to take a tour through Turkey- to instil into the patient Muf felrpan, the many " Jimple virtues" of the great nation. Their modesty, their benevolence y their geiierolity, theirhumanity ! their disinter- I, eftedpefs, their m'-ffenfivenefs, their incorrup j] tibility, all offer to the wpnderiug Turk, lessons by which he may improve upon a system now r quite Sjbaritian, compared with tfceir*. The fartfculottifh Admiral Brueyt, ws, it seems, difpatohed to the other world, amidst fire and flame. Shakespeare would call this " A sore-taste of that which is to come." Would to G<ti, the here and the J hereafter of al( Jacobins might be fpesdily affimilated. i Commoti"ns threaten the estates of the double-faeed villain apd fool of Pruffia— the author of all the evils of the last four years. To him, "on horror's head, may '•* horrors accumulate." I Two men lately disputing on the accom modations provided for prisoners, in the dif '* fcrt'itt jails in the United States, found fomc difficulty in agreeing which merited- a pre ' lerence, when one of them put an end to the dispute by declaring Philadelphia to be , the belt, as he. had tried them all. n The French, wonderful nation ! seem to ' J imagine themielves defigncd for the Cru >r fader* or Knights Errant of the world. America had but to cry opprejfton, and they were in arms to deliver Iter. Since that * how cxtenflve has been their benevolence in jj this way : the Turks have just heeo deliver ed from ou' ps the hands of their enemies, the Knights of Malta. Damnable nation ! ~ how rxtenfive have been the miseries fay her inflifted. But her Jliield is loft ; and her „ /pear is broken. " d * The Pacha of Palcftine makes head a - t gainst.the invading lafideU. But though ii they contend on h»!y land, we may console >e ourselves with the reflection that no Chrijiian " blood will be spilled. o After all the various conjc&ures, it ap ° pear- most probable that Buonaparte was . bent on succouring Paffawan Oglou in his , £ rebellion. That word Rebellion has a charm ' d which draws the French as crows to carrion. J : e But '* Rebellion hath had ilMuck." e it • # a The Empire of the Turks " hangs quiv d ering on a point." It would be a pity to e have it oreithrowrn ; because next to the French, it is the freejl and mojl enlightened l'n ' Europe.. It would he curioiH to examine how ma > ny kindi of liberty have found fheher in the 9 receffis of Gallic frattrnizatiun. The Swiss 1 '* are calling for their former liberty ere they , have quite done decrying fheir former /}>• rantiy. But amidlt all the varied forms of - liberty or of tyranny, none seems :t present more universally obnoxious than French liberty. A BritiHi cock-bost, it appears, has 1 taken a frigate, belonging to their Sanfcu lottifh Majesties, of 42 gui.s. The frigate I bears, it seems, the co- qufttorial tile given ~ ' » . . -J.—. _ to the Republic of Ocr.ris: Ti.c would have called this an ulfvyprymtni Si/ also, tie firs i+tjpftc to km .from tile D-JtcU hy these pnud Inlanders\ w,g naiped.' alter tl«a' .Ufiion vvhicfi hat ruioed Holland, rtitf A. turn: e. • The aadar-Jy ofthefe tyrants of lit Ocean, lias long ''hough outraged humanity, and the Great Nation, as the undoubted rntti it of wrongs, cannot hwger hsrbear ti» hunlk their pride It rs, high tima tht Army of England had performed itb duty—a duty U> dear to humanity. Variium, comnjouly called Genera! Varv num, a member from MafTachufetts, a Ja cobin, cmc of flic spitting fa&ion, and a man notorious alike for weak efc and want of prii Jple, it re-ele&ed. Quit, talia fando, tempent a furore ' _ <* ON Monday a final (-iifi:h.irge, took place a" the 1 cuts on Schuylkill,, wtxii Citrrti) hundred perlbns, and upwards, wei* difmifled to their houl'cs, w>io, during their relidence at the Can p were chiefly Supported,, and wholly ctoathed ly donations from our Citir-n», and the inhabiting of all parts of the country. The general and early flight of the Inhabitants from the Citv, de priving the laboring claffcs of employment] ant', consequently, of proyiflons ; the manner in which grt*t numbers of them were erouded to gether m fnijll buildings, rendering their filia tion particularly hazardous; and the difficulty of extending relief to them at their fcveral hib i:ations, pointed out the expediency of procui iug an asylum, where the attention -ir.d exertion of a few might (helt.r them from disease, and idrainiller to their neeeflities. This has been clFe£uall» performed by the Committee : Few of the Fever have appeared amon£ thein through the whole feaCon, and food ani raiment have iieen amply supplied. Though tents, f»aflily pirenrd, a.'e, by no means, a <i»- firable retreat ; yet, With the advantages ef flooring, ftr-iw and other c. nveniritoei, tkev have made the Ji>s o.f those poor fugitives not only fafe, bin truly cumloruMe. The talk of regulation among fuc!» an heterogeneous con courfc of cliaradtei s must have bem attended with many .difficulties ; .it ha , lipwevtr, beta obfervedj by numeral vifiiors, that the har mony and order, apparent in every quarter nf the encampment, del'ervc the encomium. Schools were early eital.iifked by the Committee in which upwards of tour hundred children were daily inftrjnfted hy suitable teachers fele.it ed irom the Tents ; and it ic a pleasing fadlthat many, who, in September, were totally igno rant of the alphabet, are now enabled to read with propriety. To prevent idleuefs from be coming habitual, some of the men were sent to labor at the Canal ; while others, with the wo men, were employed in making up r.loathing for thenofelves and their brethren : The luper .intendence of their health was committed to a Physician of emipent talf nts, whnfe indefatiga ble industry and kind attention can only Se re warded by hi* own refleili n : And, to com plete this pifture of beneficence which appeartd like a star of mild radiance through the gtooia of calamity, the inculcation of moral and reli gious duty was regulirly attended to on the Sabbath, when difeourfes were delivered in which the purefl principles were pointed out with perspicuity, and the neceflily of their prac tical adoption ftrcngly inforced Such have been the confequencei of an iitftitutior. com* menced in uncertainty and prosecuted with anx iety. 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