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tffOP KICK TXTEItiG-ENcZ . recsiv.dby the late Arrivals. J, 0 N D 0 N, February 24.. A coinmiili >ner is arrived in this coi. •try, from V ■ lue£, to tic<it fvir an exchange of piifotK-rs. The circum finnce h.is given ri:. to a report that the National Convention had sent t.i pro piifj to our government the opening of a qegociati- 1 toy p.a-e. We can po fitively at- that 1 hi» rum mk pfoeeeds from the cause we have dated, and the < c|iimiffio;,e. has no other powers than to lieat oil the f ihjeft h-re mentioned. " The accounts brought trom Ire land by the mail of yeileiday, are trae , ly important. The ditpatclies 110 m England, in the hand writing of Mr. Pitt, iignifyi ig his Maje&jr'd command ! toEail Fitzwilliam to (top tlie piogrefs of the Catholic bill, and of the bill for the repeal of the Convention and to re-inflate the persons who had been turned out of office, arrived theie on Wednesday lafl, the,2sth uh. And the difpatcltcs, we undeiftand, contain ed a commiifion, iu eafa Earl Fuzvvil liam should feel indilpofed to comply with this peremptory mandate, for tin appointment ol Lotis Juitises to hold the reigns of government in his room until a luteceffor fiiould arrive. The Lords Justices to he the Lord Chancel lor, the Chief J rltiee of the King's Bench, the Speaker of the House of Commons, and the Primate. This Was the report in the highefl political circles in Dublin, and the 11 iencds of L rd Fitzgibbon said that they had confidential letters from Mr. Pitt, alluring them that the motions for,tht introduction of those hills into Parliament, as well as the di'.m.ffi ns of Mr. Beresford, Mr. Wolf, and Mr. Toler, had been done in direst contra dielfOn of the agreement made* with Farl Fit/.william ; and that, forefeeing the resignation of the Lotd Lieutenant his Majcfty had been gircioufly pleafcd to put the office into com million. Earl Canibden was mentioned in the h.me 1 circles as the person likely to succeed. Nothing can equal the fh»ck of the surprize whtvli this dispatch gave the I.ri'h nation. In the House ot Com mons, on Thursday lad, the 26th ult. ; a motion was m ;de tor an address to J Ear] Fitzwilliam, declaring that he 1 pofTefTed the confidence of that House : aud praying him to continue in the situ- 1 ation of Lord Lieutenant. This mo tion produced an interesting conversi on, in which Mr. Ponfonby said, that the time was not come for giving the necelLry-enpiaiiaiionspf the repwrtstben circulating; but, he trulled, the tine' ■was not distant, when they would be' fully explained, and, he hoped, fatis fa&orilv, to of all parties. Jll the mean time he requeftcd, thai the gentlemen would withdraw their mo tion, which accordingly was done. The L >rd Lieutenant did not lose a moment in fending 01T a mefTcnger with his refignaiion of tlie offi.e, and fixing the day forlus departure. Unless the whole of the arrangements which he a vers were made before his setting out fiom England, and upon which he hab literally a£ted, (hall be confirmed, he mav be expctled in England in a week or ten days from this date. » This is not to be considered as an or dinary change, comprehending no other ci>nfequeilre than that of the momentary triumph of one party oveV another. It involves, in the opinion of wife and en lightened ilatefmeu, the fate of Ire land. J\larch 4. The duke of Portland has been so much indifpafed with the gout foj some days past, as to be unable to a'tend the cabinet meetings. Iu consequence of this,the couneilmet lad at his grace's house. In cor.fcquence of the indifpofitjon of Earl Howe, his flag was struck on board the Queen Charlotte ; and the command ot the Grand •'Fleet devolves on the Right Honorable Lord Brid port. EDINBURGH, February 21. Some frefh accounts are said to have been received from Spain, which re jjijfent the Duke of Alceuda as having entirely loft his influence in the cabinet < f Madrid, in confepuence of the late failures in the army. Peace, if is ad ded, has in consequence again become the topic of uiiivcrlal converiation. The from the ftrfrglancf, ap pear 10 be as little oppteffive. as any that could weil be devised. That 11- por hair powder, in some peculiar 111- Kancti olLiige families, where rank and fortune are at variance, will prove rather embai railing ; —but it will be amazing'y productive Edinburgh will contribute its proportion ; for powder is more nniverlat]y worn here than in any place in Btitain, London not cx eeptcd., , 1 NEW-YORK, April ig. Since the firfl of March lix French privateers had been brbtight into the Molcj of which the Sanfpareille was o;le. TO THE PUBLIC. The certificate of Capta'n Kemp, cora mOiuer of the fhif> Ohio, which carried Mr. Jay to England. WHEREAS a report has been circula ted, that Mr. Jay was ro remain in Eng land until the treaty between America and Great Br'lain was ratified, and such ratifi •ation returned to him, and it has been af -ferted tha't such report was oecafioned by information from me. Now therefore I do hereby certify and declare, that such information was never given by me, and I believe the laid report altogether tfeifoun ded : I do hereby further declare, that ! I from various conversions with Mr. Jay, ; previous to my failing from London I have I no doubt, and verily believe that he failed I for America early in the present month, and that his arrival here may with certain ty, becxpeited early in the next month, j 1 further declare, that Mr. Jay particular- 1 ly inquired of me refpe<stmg the veflels intending to fail in the beginning of April. JOHN |£EMP, maiter of the lhip Ohio. New-York, April, 171?. The ship Mai\chejler Captain Cox. arriu in the River lafl Thurjaay, in 38 days v from Liverpool—Contrary =uliudi ke it her belo<w tillyejlerday —She has bro 1 1 Liverpoolpaper< to the 11th and Lon don papers to the 11 th March —-from <which ive are enabled to lay before our renders the following articles of intelli gence —further extraSs from these pa pers -juill be given to-morrow. NATIONAL CCONVENTION. 3. Vcntoje, Saturday, Feb. II BOHIV d'Anglas, after a long report in the name of the Committtee of Public and General Safety and of legislation, fre quently interrupted by warm applause», propoied a decree for a (Turing the freedom of religious opinions and worflirj. After some debate it was adopted in the follow ing terms : The National Convention, ifter having heard the rcpoit of its Committees of Pub | lie and General Safety and of legislation, deer es— I. Conformable to the seventh article of the declaration of the Rights of Man, and.the hundred and twenty second ar ticltof the Constitution, the exertife ; o! any VVorfhip cannot be disturbed. J I). The Republic pays for none. 111. The Republic furnifhes no pltycefor \ the exercise of worlhip, nor far the i lodging of its ministers. ] IV. The ceremonies of every worship are interdicted out of the limits of the place chofeu for their exercise. V. The law dots not recognise any minis ter of worfliip : none can appear in public with the dress or ornaments at ' tached-to religious ceremoniei. 1 VI. Every Alfembly of citizens for the exercise of any worship whatsoever is is fubjeft to the fuperintendance of the ; Conllituted Authorities. This fuperin tendance is confined to measures of po lice and public fafety. VII. No sign particular to any worship can be exhibited in any public place, nor externally iu any manner whatever. The place appropriated to any Worship cannot be dilliiiguifhed by any inferip ticn ; no Proclamation or public convo cation canbt made to invite the citizens to it. VIII. The Communes of Seflions or com munes cannot, in their collective capa- purchase or rent any place for the exercise of worship, IX. No such place can be formed by en dowment or eltablifhed by any tax to defray the expence. X. Whoever shall disturb by violence the ceremonies of any worship, or insult the objects of it shall be punished accor ding to the law of correilional police. XL Nothing herein contained to be con flrned in "prejudice of the law of the 18th September last on Ecclesiastical Pension , the dispositions of which law shall be executed to their form and te nor. XI. Every decrill the dispositions of which are contrary to the present law, is repealed. Merlin, of Thionville- 1 you imagine that you have done every thing, because you have laid a ftl'ong hand upon the supporters of Terror ? Do not deceive vourfelvcs. A Revolution is not accom plished, tyranny is not beaten down while the tyrants Hill exifl. You have charged your Commifiion of Twenty one to ex amine.their conduit ; what need of these tedious torms ? Had Brutus recourse to them when he deitroyed Caesar ? What need have the Vrench people, whom you represent, of a Tribunal ? They have en tire confidence in you, and without com paring the four grand criminals to Carrier, who was only their supporter, I appeal to his cafe as an example. The people on that oceafion left'lll the hand of their le gidatorsThe formidable sword with which they ought to arm against the afiaffins of their country under pain of being heldfor accomplices. You desire an honourble, above all a durable peace. Good 1 Let Sejanus tall with Tiberius ; let Antony fall with C;efar ; .the afiaffins of our coun try mult descend into the grave at the mo ment we are triumphant. The foil ofliherty n.uitbe purged of the monflers who pollute it, in order that the Tree of tthlic Felicity may grow up majestically, and callefl un der its fliade a people who cannot have 1 pcacc until they fee an end to the struggle between p"ii' an'! r\rv*. Yes, the Frencj people "will call upon you % vengeance; innocent bl cxl demands it of you ; these cries you will heartillthe manes of innocent viifbms are appcafed. Yon have criiffied one part of the old Government ; you mult crulh the other also, or you will ne ver enjoy liberty. Your l'afety depends upon it. You fee they have an army against which every precaution must be taken. — Punifii the Chiefs of these sanguinary hordes j the day on which.Vyon (hall con lummatc this 'grand adl of justice, you will Juve peace throughout ail the Repub lic. I mnve that the onmrniS-'n oftw-n ---ty-one be to make its report with in two days." ' Legendre,' of Paris. " There is no doubt room for being surprized at the si >w njl'o of proceeding in this important affair ; but in a just Government, we must not become opprefTors beta»fe-we have been opprefled. Under ajuft government the greatest latitude ought to be given to the defence of men accused ; under a ty rannical Government on the contrary, e ! very Member saw the order to arrelt him imprelTcd on his front, by the hand of one ! of the Governors. * Citizens, France has also a right to be surprized at the punilh nient of fuualtern tyrants ; for when the Government is tyrannical the subaltern authorities are constrained to tyranny in spite of themfclves. The proof of this inconteflable truth is recorded in the an nals of revolutions. The question was e ven debated, whether being able to read and write were necefiury qualifications for being a member of a Revolutionary com mittee. Patriotism, it was said, was the only qualification necefiary; thus there w ( ere great criminals in thoie committees ; but if there was in any of them a single innocent man we ought to plead his cause. We know that all the feftions of the peo ple will forget their private resentments ; that guilt will be accused -with courage, and error forgiven, when you have bro't the chiefs of the tyrann\*tb trial. Your commission has been long charged with a report. You will not become alia (Tins be caufeattemptshave been made to aflaffinate you j but you are at length called upon by the voice of a People, just, but not de fn-ous of affumingthe place'of our former executioners. I move that the commifTion give us some explanation ; that we may at length obtain tranquillity by the punifh meßt of the guilty and the acquittal of the innocent. We njuft not forget the differ ence between him that gives the.impulse and him that follows it. Let us generalize j measures of benev lence, but let us not generalize measures of rigour. I know men of worth whom circumstances have placed in difficult situations. These men have come to offer their resignation, be cause in the Revolutionary committees of ; which they were Members, they were persecuted as moderates. I desire that the innocent may not be confounded with the guilty, and that the convention cover with its aegis the honest man, whose only fault is that of having been placed in a si tuation which compelled him tfl aft with thole who committed crimes. I «nove that the commission of twenty-one be called upon to fay when they will be able to make ' their report." Ordered. Johannot, in the name of the commission ! of twenty-one —" I am cliredfed to declare to you, that the commission is employed j without ceasing in the inquiry entrusted ' to it. We feel the importance of that in quiry, but it is impoffihle for to ftat# precisely when we (hall be able to make our report. The mass of papers which you have referred to us is immense ; there were others in various places which it was our duty to find out, make extra&s of them, and deliver those extracts to the par ties accused. Wc yesterday morning re ceived frefh papers, which must be ex amined. All I can fay is, that we this day hear our colleagues for the last time ; that immediately after we fhatl enter into deliberation, and lay before you the result of 6ur enquiry with tht Itaft possible de lay." From the LONDON GAZETTE of Mar 7. AtmiraltyCljf.ce, March 7, I 795. Copy of a Letter from Sir John B. IVarren, Cap tain of bii majef.y s Ship La Pamone, to Mr. Stephens, dated Caufand Bay, March 2, 1795. Sir, I beg you will inform their Lordlhips, that in pursuance of their orders I put to sea on the 12th of February lafc, with the (hips na* med in the margin*. The weather becoming thick, with frelh breezes and a heavy sea, on the 14th the Anfon carried away her niain topmaft, which obliged me to heave too ; and owing to her damages, I was under the neceflity of hearing down the two following days, as (he had drifted considerably to lee ward, and being unable to repair her defers at lea, 1 ordered captain Durham to proceed with all pofliblc dispatch to Plymouth. On the 18th having fell in with three fail of the enemy's transports, part of a convoy bound from Brest, I hauled the wind and en deavored to make the land ; and on the lift the light house on the Isle of Oleron bearing S. E. by E. I discovered a frigate and tWen ty fail of velfels under convoy, close in with the shore, many of them under American, Swedilh, and Danilh colours. I pursued them half w;i> up the Pcrtuis d'Antioche, in fight of the iile of Aix ; but the tide of flood set ting (Irong up, and the wind right in, I was obliged to tack, and captured and destroyed the veflfels in the endoftd lift. 1 underiland the frigate was La Nerriade, of thirty-fix guns, twelve pounders, with transports and other velfels for wine and stores, to Rochefort and Bourdeaux, of. account of the Convention for their fleet. On the 26th, the isle of Gros bearing East fix leagues, I gave chace to fix fail of velfels, in theN. W. At nine, A.M. captured the Conventional Schooner La Cu rieufe, with the five others. They were bound to Nantz from Erect, with cloathing for the army. I am much iiia-btii b th attend and activity oi Captains K.-ut attu ..Uruii, w.cil their officers and men upon this ocwlion. I arrived this day with the Galatea and Ar tois, and (halt use every dispatch in comply ing the (hips for fervi-'e. I have the honor to remain &c, J. B. WARREN. *La Porr?orie, Galatea, All fori, Aitois, and Duke of York lugger. •. A Lift of Transports ar.d vcffels captured and sent to England by the squadron under the cnXmfsnd of SirJ. B. IVarrez, Bart. K. bstweeii lie Iyb and % 6th of February 1795. ! • sioop Le Petit Jean, brig St. Pierre, do. 1 Deux Freres, (hip La Petite Magdeline, La Pacqust boat de Cayene, ft'- >oner La Curi eufe, (Conventional) eight brass guns, lug ger La Liberte, do. la Gloire, brig transport la giche, (Conventional). Total nine. j. b. warren. A Lijl of Transports and Veffcls bound to Rocbfort Bourdeaux and Nantz, for Jifrcj and wine for the fleet, on account of the Convention, and destroy ed by the squadron under the com maud of Sir John < B. H'arren, Bart. K. B. bet-ween the Istb and 16th of February I 795.' BURNT. Schooner brig La Defirec, brig Three Friends brig (Conventional transport) Trois Freres, brig (ditto) Le Guerrier, brig la Liberte, brig L'Efperance, lugger La Patriote. SCUTTLED. Brig La Gralcy, brig Jean et Marie, brig la Pierre, brigL'Anne. Total Eleven. Copy of a Letter from Captain George Burlton, of his maje[lysJhip Lively, to Mr. Stephens, dat ed Plymouth, March 4th, 1795- Having received orders from my lords com miffioncrsof the Admiralty to put my (elf lan ded the command of captain Stirling, of his majesty's il»ipJa(on, 1 have the honor to ac quaint you, for their Lordlhips' information, that 1 failed in company with her, on the a 7th of February, from Spithead, and that on the firft of March a hard gale of wind and thick weather from S S. E. separated us. 1 used my utmost endeavors to gain the cruizing ground, in order to join her again. At nine p'clock in tile evening of the id instant, U(h ant then bearing S. E. thirteen leagues, 1 saw a fail coming down upon me, which I soon perceived to be an armed veficl and gave her chace. At twelve o'clock we took poffeflion of her ; (heprovesto be the L'Eipion, of 18 , fix pounders and 140 men, five days from Brest, on a cruize, in perfetff good order, late ly one of- his iiujefty's Hoops of war. I think (he is a very desirable veifel for the f»me pur- j pose, as (he fails well. As I have many pri- J loners on board, I hope their Lordlhips will t approve of my coming into the nearest port to land them. With their permission I (hall ■ ' leave her for the infpe&ion of the officers of the dock-yard at this po.it. 1 have the honor&c 1 GEORGE BURLTON. LONDON, March j. Yesterday morning about 9 o'clock, j Richard Brothers, the pretended pro phet, was visited by Mcffrs. Rofs and Higgins, two of his majelly's mefTen gers in ordinary, at his lodgings, No. 57, Paddington llieet, Mary-le-bone, and taken into custody under a warrant ! granted by his grace the Duke of Port land, for treafunable practices. Pic was much inclined to refill the order, and I the crowd of his disciples at the time was numerous. He remains at present :; in the custody of the above meflerigers. , From the Calcutta fndia Gazettes. Monday, August 11. The following are the particulars , with which we have Leen favoured, ; : relative to the adion between the de ; tachment under Col. Pendergalt, and f Rajah Vizeram Rauze : The Rajah was in considerable force, not less than 18 or 20,000 men, at 5 Boney, about seven miles from Bimla . patam, when the colonel moved from > thence on the .7th instant. He Ann t moned the Rajah to accede to terms; I but after some time spent in fruitlefs ne- | gociations, on the morning of the 10th, he advanced from his camp above three miles distant, hoping to effect by his approach what negociation failed in. The Rajah's people were drawn up 011 high ground along a tank. They stood i fiim, and no fire opened til! within pif t tol shot. The firft was from the ene , my, whofuftained the aflion gallantly ; * for three quarters of an hour. They , ■ were at last thrown into confufion, by the rouni's of grape that were poured in 1 and the file firing that was'well kept up; , and were pursued through the village, , with much Daughter and plunder. Vizeram had himfelf received several !, | wounds, and was found dead in his 1 Palankeen ; round which his near j I relationsand principal people had fought 1 and died with faithful bravery. Their ' loss must have been considerable. On ( ; our part, the 20th battalion seems to ; hare fuffered molt in some of the native l officers, and about twenty or thirty , Sepoys: in all, perhaps the loft may ■ ' amount to fifty or sixty. Only two European officers wounded-, lieutenants ( , Hazlewood and Marlhall, llightly. : ft were to be wished the contest could I have ended, as was the endeavour, by 1 ! "egociation : and not as it has now ef- j [ fe&ually done by the death of the Ra- 1 ■ jah < GLOUCESTER~(Eng.) March 2. ; A gentleman in the neighborhood of , , 1 ewkeftury, in this county, has lately . fold for 100 guineas, an OX ofmoft uncommon fizc, and whish was bred i by the !?!•• Mi. i'errlngt/n, of D?»e reux Wootton, HercloidHme. His vvcigl.it on tlie machine is one ton four teen hundred and Icven pounds ; height 19 Innds; girth 11 feet 6 inches ; length from the blow to the drop of the tail, nine feet fix inches; afid is fuppefed to 1 be the largell ever bred. r LIVERPOOL, March 12. K ARRIVED, j.John, Boggefs, Virginia. 1 Adrartus, Jamiefon, Maffachiifetts. Venus, You;ig, " tiiuo. Betfe'y, Goddard, ditto. HAGUE, Feb. 10. In yederday's fitting of the Provisi onal Reprefenta; ives of the People of Holland, a deputation from tlie Stu dents of Leyden congratulated the Al fembly 011 the true restoration of the Rights of Man, wishing that tlitf edifice of Liberty might contribute to the ; happiness of the People, and endure for , ages. They played, in the n ime of j their conllituents, that the National f. hool of the country might subsist in future, and provifionaily, in its.pu-fent Hate. The President replied, that their r requefl (hould be taken into confidera • tion, and they Wele admitted to the honours of the litting. February 18. ■ i The AfTembly of the Repr' fcntntivrs ■ of the people is completing. Deputies • from the towns in which the revolution 1 is effeflctl are daily arriving; On the 16th the Stadtholderate was foleinnly [ abolished for ever ; a declaration not new in otir annals, but the principles of which are now fucli that it ts as inde pendent of hillorical ertid tion as the ( present circumstances ar • d ff. rent from ■ those of any former crifi.. 1 A deputation will this daycomihuni ' cate this national deciec to the Repie ' I fjntatives of the French people,, and at . i the fame time propose ?.n alliance be tween the two republics. The jull • j eagcri.efs to consummate th.is a£l o) al ' ! ce appears to be approved of by the I 1 mod enlightened patriots. Views of prudence point it out as tlif fur. ft means of d-featiirg the great cunn n;- of the cabinet of Berlin ; for it i«itill thought that the king of Pruflia is diligently in triguing,. even in France, to induce the government of the French lepublic to negotiations, in which Pruflia and the United Provinces being in a common fitua'tion with refpeft to pcace, migh m-ike only a common treaty. Beside as it is impofiible tint the French gn vernmcnt should fuffer the French nr tion to adopt fiich a measure withoi i j the error being productive of gradn . calamities, the Dutch ought to be vigi lant on tints point, and h flen the cori clufion of an alliance with the French, on the sole condition of an entire secu rity. It is expressly forbidden to pass the frontiers without the confeni in writing > of the ri gency of the place in which the ' perfou applying for it resides. .This bw ordains the fequellration of the 1 property of persons who attempt to emigrate, with sther penalties, and 1 even death in certain cases. It forbids thedepmture of the regents and minis ■ j ters of the old fyflenii and other per -1 I sous who have public accounts to give i in. Van der llopp, the Fifc?l of the ; Admiralty, and Kin A e gen, the Stadt • holder's Admiral, have been put under aired at Arnllerdam. The Stattfs'of Hollond have declared > the free importation of corn »nd flour. The M'nifters of Russia, Pruflia, 1 America, Mecklenbotirg, the Hanfea- I j tic Towns, See. have had a conference i wi'h the Prelident of the States. On j this head the patriots who planned the Revolution which the French armies enable us to carry into effert, asked se veral quelHons :—9 Is it the occasion they have for us ? Is it their desire to ; observe us more closely ? Is it their i confidence that nothing will be durable ? Which of these reasons obtains for the ■ regenerated United Piovinces a eonde -1 fcenfion which the Fiench republic wa» far from obtaining even from fomc of j those very powers ? Order of the Representatives of the People with the Frcnrii armies in Holland. Hague, February 18. 'The relations of Commerce between | Holland, France, and the conquered countries occupied by the armies of the Republic, are entirely re eltahli{hed, •conformably to the laws refpefting im portations and exhortations, which are, however, to be made by the interioi on ly, and not by sea, until utheiwife <•' dered. N All orders to the contrary i revoked. This order shall be printed, publish ed, and polled up. (Signed) D. V. RAMEL, ALQUIF,R, C. COCHRAN.