FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. LONDON, February 14. a The fire raged with great fury for confiderable time, and in spite of Tgiven leage to a bookfeller to every exertion to fave it, the whole print an edition of the French Conftitution, on condition of printing but a very small number of copies. Five or fix thousand were, however, printed, which were inftantly purchafed and carried off. Count Florida Blanca, the Minifter, gave orders to feize the Printer, the Corregidor, the copies, and the buyers of the work. This proceeding rouzed the indignant people; and it is alfo ftated, that the Minifter paid very dear for his arbitrary rafhnefs. M. Rochambeau, the fon of the Marshal, lately pronounced, in the parifh of Maubeuge, an eulogium on the valour and patriotifm of Bernard, a private in the third regiment of cavalry, who clofed a long military career in the fervice of his country. An officer preaching a funeral, fermon on a common foldier could not fail to be peculiarly ftriking. The population of Bristol is now extended to 100,000 inhabitants. There is a fcheme in agitation for building 850 houfes, with a fquare, two crefcents, and an amphitheatre. March 3. By the Irish mail which arrived this day, we have received intelligence from Dublin, that on Monday evening laft about 5 o'clock, the parliament houfe was difcovered to be on fire. At the time when the fire broke out the house was fitting. The number of members prefent was about eighty, the confufion of courfe was very great, but happily no lives were loft. of that noble and ftupenduous building was burned to the ground. April 3. A very lengthy debate took place in the House of Commons, yesterday, on Mr. Wilberforce's motion for the total abolition of the Slave Trade; at fix o'clock in the morning,a motion, as an amendment, was made by Mr. Dundas, for the gradual abolition thereof, the queftion upon which being taken, it paffed in the affirmative, ayes 230, noes. 85, majority 145.-The Houfe adjourned at 7 o'clock. Accounts are faid to be received from Gibraltar of a dreadful engage. ment having taken place between the Emperor of Morocco and his brother, in which the carnage on both fides was incredible. The Emperor was killed, and almost all his great officers. The Spanish troops fuffered alfo greatly; but the brother obtained the victory, and will now have the undifputed poffeffion of the diadem. SCOTLAND. Subfcriptions for the fupport of French Liberty. The patriotic citizens of Glasgow, have opened a fubfeription to aid the French in carrying on the war against the emigrants or any foreign powers by whom they might be attacked. The fubfcription, in the firft inftance, was 12,000l. and as the friends and followers of Mr. Dundas have thought it incumbent on them to exert all their influence to fupprefs it, there can be little doubt that it will foon amount to a very confider ble fum. ST.. ST. CHRISTOPHERS, April 12. On Saturday night, the 7th init. the town of Baffeterre was vifited by one of the moft dreadful calamities that has been experienced in this Ifland during the memory of man. There had for feveral days before been frequent fhowers of rain, but on that night it appeared to come down in fheets of water. About ten o'clock the water rofe to an amazing height in the ftreets, and fuch was the impetuofity of the torrent, that it carried away almost every thing that met its progrefs.-Outhoufes, fences, lumber, cafks, &c. were feen driving to and fro thro' the ftreets; the water was breast high: feveral lives were loft. DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. NEWARK, April 26. N Sunday laft the new Dutch Church at Hackinfack was dedicated to the fervice of God, and two well adapted fermons delivered on the occafion; one in the forenoon, in Dutch, by the Rev. Walmaldus Kuyper, from Pfalms xcvi. 8. and the other in the afternoon, in English, by the Rev. Solomon Freeleigh, from the 2d Chronicles vii. 15, 16. Philadelphia, May 8. We hear that a Stockbridge Indian is arrived in town from Canada, with information that a general meeting is fhortly to be held at French Creek, to confift of two fachems and two warriors of each of the tribes of Indians now at variance with the United States. The objects of this meeting are faid to be, the feveral deputies to lay before the meeting a statement of the causes of the exifting hoftilities; and finally to endeavour to bring about a treaty with the general government, for the purpofe of eftablishing a permanent peace. May 15. John P. Scott, Efq; of Balligannon, in the county of Wicklow, Ireland, has erected a machine, under the inspection of the inventor, a native of Scotland, for threshing and winnowing of corn, which is fimple, and fo excellently contrived, that by one and the fame movement it feparates completely, and throws into different receivers, the heavy corn and the light, the ftraw and the chaff, at the expence of less than one tenth part of the time and labour generally employed. On Friday laft the Governor of this ftate laid the corner stone of the Prefident's house in Ninth-street.The following infcription is on the stone: This corner ftone was laid on the 10th day of May, 1792. The state of Pennsylvania out of debt; Thomas Miflin, Governor. The building will be about 100 feet square. May 21. Capt. John Fofler Williams, of one of the Maffachusetts revenue cutters, has communicated to the Boston Marine Society, the se fult of feveral experiments, made by him during a late cruife, in difting: fresh water from falt. Hipparatus appears to have been no other than what is commonly found on board merchant veffels and coafters, fuch as an iron pot, with a tin crane and a cooler, and a mufket barrel to be fixed to the crane. In one of these experiments 27 quarts of falt water were put into an iron pot, which yielded, in feven hours, 22 quarts of good fresh water-one quart of lees was left in the pot, and four loft by evaporation. New-York, May 2. Yesterday the books for the northern and wettern lock lock navigation were opened at the Coffee-Houfe, by commiflioners appointed by law for that purpose. From the refpectability of the cha. 1acters who have already fubfcribed, we have reafon to congratulate our fellow citizens in the prospect of the refpective fubfcriptions being ipeedily and fubftantially filled. A correfpondent obferves, that the property on the first payment will be, in reality, enhanced 50 per cent. thus: 1000 fhares, at 25 dollars, will produce 25,000 dollars. When this is expended, the ftate is to make a free gift of 12,500 dollars, or 50 per cent. The probability is, that no farther call will be made on the flock, holders under two years. The prophecies of Chriftopher Love (fays a London paper) which are fhortly to be made public, are of a very extraordinary kind. He is faid to have foretold the American Independency, the French Revolution, and other events which have been confirmed. Of thofe yet to come, he fpeaks in the following words:"God will be known to many in the year 1795. This will produce a great man. The ftars will wander, and the moon turn as blood in 1800. Africa, Afia and America will tremble in 1803. A great carthquake all over the world in 1805. God will be univerfally known by all-then a general reformation and peace for ever, when the people fhall learn war no more.-Happy is the man who liveth to fee this day." Dr. Prieftley loft thirteen manufcripts when his houfe was deftroyed by the rioters of Birmingham, fome of them tranfcribed and ready for the prefs. May 5. In St. Paul's Church was held on Wednesday, the Commencement of Columbia College, when the following gentlemen were admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts: Mr. William Taylor, Mr. Alex ander Hoffack, Mr. John Norton, Mr. Samuel Smith, Mr. George Taylor, Mr. Jotham Poft, Mr. John B. Johníon, Mr. Gerard Beekman, Mr. Alexander Proudfit, Mr. Cornelius Brower, Mr. Jacob Sickles, Mr. James Nicholson: And, The following gentlemen were admitted to the degree of Mafter of Arts:-Mr. James C. Duane, Mr. Matthew Mellier, Mr. Peter Meffier, jun. Mr. John M. Mason, Mr. William Lupton, Mr. John Bainbridge, Mr. John Van Nefs, Mr. John Remfen, Mr. William Hurft, Mr. Elijah Rattoon." The punishment of death has been inflicted upon forty perfons at Madrid, in Spain, for preaching up the principles of French liberty; manifefting a pang of refentment in a bigotted court at the profpect of Europe revolting from the dominion of monks and prieft-ridden monarchs. The ground between Delaware and Schuylkill has, within these few days, been examined by feveral experienced gentlemen of Philadelphia, with a view of determining the most practicable and beneficial mode of conftructing the canal which is to unite the two rivers. From a refult of their enquiries and obfervations, they are of opinion, that the canal fhould be brought from Norristown, down along the banks of the Schuylkill, as far as the valley between Springetfbury and the Hills, and thence to the Delaware, through the lowest and most practicable ground. May 12. Laft Tuesday, the 8th of May, after a feffion of fix months and twenty-three days, the Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives, and the Prefident pro tempore of the Senate, adjourned their respective houses, to meet again on the first Monday of November next. May 16. Laft Saturday the anniverfary feftival of Tammany Society, or Columbian Order, was celebrated in a manner peculiar to that patriotic band of freemen. At ten o'clock the fociety met at their wigwam, and after tranfacting the ordinary bufinefs, moved in proceffion to the New Dutch Church, where an oration was delivered by brother Peter R. Livingston, and a handsome collection raised for the charity fchool of the church; from church the fociety proceeded in the fame order to Bardin's tavern, where they dined, and were honored with the company of feveral public characters. After dinner feveral patriotic toasts were given by the Sachems of the refpective tribes. The day was spent in focial mirth and good humour, and the fociety returned at an early hour to their wigwam, where the chain of friendfhip was formed, and the fociety adjourned to their next ftated meeting. May 22. South-Carolina accounts, as late as the third of May, mention many additional instances of distress, from the floods of rain that fell in that state the beginning of April. It is remarkable that this happened about the fame time with those heavy rains in the Weft-Indies, which did fo much damage in the Islands of Nevis, St. Eustatius, &c. Many particulars of devaftation, from the extraordinary fwells of the rivers, are enumerated in the Carolina prints, of which we fhall only mention the following:-The Congaree was raised to fuch a height as to overflow an eminence on the banks of that river, which had been used by the Indians, from time immemorial, for a burying place. The rapidity of the current diflodged the skeletons from their place of interment, carrying off a great part of the foil, and leaving disclosed to view, a variety of curious urns, rude images of birds and beafls, wampum, bows and arrows, ftone battle-axes, &c. &c. affording a quantity of curiofities of this kind, not unworthy the notice of the phi lofopher. It is probable a fimilar fwell in the Congaree river has not happened for many ages fince: had this eminence been subject to an overflow, the aborigines of the country would never have chofen it for a burying ground. May 23. Letters have been received at the War Office, from Major Hamtramack, commanding at Polt Vincennes, on the river Wabash, dated 30th March laft, ftating that he had made a pacific agreement with the Wea and Eel river Indians, and expected that the Pyankefhas would immediately become parties thereto. Thefe tribes, with their fubdivifions of villages, embrace a confiderable part of the Wabash Indians who have hitherto been hoftile. It would appear from the information of the chiefs of the faid tribes, that the Kickapoos of the Wea have removed to the Illinois river; but that if they return to their former fituation, the Wea and Eel river Indians have ftipulated, that the faid Kickapoos fhall become parties to the agreement made with Major Hamtramack, or they themselves will drive them out of the country. 26.] A fine breed of Perfian fheep is raifing in Maryland. The original flock is owned by Mr. Gough. The ram lambs fell for twenty dollars. APPOINTMENTS & PROMOTIONS. The Prefident of the United States, with the advice and confent of the Senate, has appointed Tench Coxe, Efq; commiffioner of the revenue. Alfo, the following appointments and promotions in the army of the United States. Appointed-Rufus Putnam, Brigadier-General, vice Willet, declined; Otho H. Williams, BrigadierGeneral, vice Morgan, declined. INFANTRY.-Appointed-William Powers, Captain, vice Guthrie, declined; William Lowder, Captain, vice Biggs, declined; William Rick ard, On Staten Island, Dr. R.Hender ard, Lieutenant, vice Sumner, de- On Long-Ifland.At Brookha CAVALRY-Appointed-Jedediah ven, John Woolfey, Efq; to Mifs Rodgers, Captain, vice Craig, declined; Henry Bowyer, Captain, vice Manning, declined. Promoted Wm. Winton, Capt. vice Watts, declined; Tarlton Fleming, Lieut. vice Winfton, promoted. Appointed-John Webb, jun. Cornet, vice Fleming, promoted. SURGEON'S MATES-Appointed Jofeph Strong, vice Elmer, declined; Jofeph Andrews, vice Meafe, declined; John C. Wallace, vice Woodhoufe, declined. Jofeph Howell is appointed Ac countant to the War Department;— and Caleb Swan, Paymafter to the army in the Western Territory. Aquila Giles, Efq; is appointed Marthal of New-York district, vice Matthew Clarkson, Efq; refigned. MARRIAGES. In New-York. In the capital, Mr. At Haerlem, Mr. E. Young, of New-York, to Mifs Sally Weeber, of Boston. Sarah Tyler. In New-Jersey.At Newark, Mr. Mathufela Baldwin, to Mifs Jane Higgins, In Pennsylvania.-In the capital, J. G. Paleike, Efq; Conful-General from the King of Pruffia to the United States, to Mifs Hannah Elmílie. In Delaware.-In Kent county, John Chickin, Efq; aged 61 years, to Mrs. Lackey, aged 71. -DEATHS.- In New-York-In the capital,Mr. John Sanders, aged 79.-Mr. Eleazer Miller. Mr. Abraham Brower, in an advanced age. In Orange county, Mrs. Mary Ann Burns, confort of Col. D. Burns. In New-Jersey. At his feat in Hunterdon county, in the 75th year of his age, the Hon. John Stevens. In Pennsylvania.-In the capital, Colonel Perfifor Frazer, in the 56th year of his age.-Mr. John Pringle. -FOREIGN DEATHS. In Germany.-At Vienna, LEOPOLD II. Emperor of Germany, after a fhort but violent illness, fuppofed by many the effect of poison. In England.-In London, Sir Jo fhua Reynolds, in the 69th year of his age, one of the most memorable men of his time.-Sir R. Bickerton, Bart. Rear-Admiral of the White and Member of Parliament for Rochefter.-Lord Bute, aged 79.At Fifh-kill, in Cumberland, Mr. Frederick Harp, at the venerable age of 120 years. 1 In Nova-Scotia.-In the capital, Winkworth Tonge, Efq; Naval-Officer of the province, aged 64 years. Mrs. Ann Sullock, 55-Mrs. J. Strachan, 34.-Mrs. Chrif. Lynch, confort of Mr. Peter Lynch 31.Mrs. Rebecca Elliot, 79-Mr. T. Collicut.-Mr. Thomas Prickard, mafter of his Majesty's flip Penelope. |