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TWtljjttireor ifacatrii .1 petti tuat Mr. l'itt still Coi.tbttl ai to be JTrnnce. tl.cm to vote sor mrkiltef of went not to ieisti siir-eik equallv affected the th the liight lion, siati.A the rise, 'bat while the hold place, inthe revenue, it ws wlto over the Kevi ntie.t I with the goilt lUQncft parii r.g 1 I. 'egg i i 'al- ird and bsevA i.n::D0f:y::.jf M.ii..tdricripiio.i France, an nrcvail on the- manner 'JTIOS A CONMXTIOX. clj.terniinatin,to SATURDAY, MAY if.

ut, the A decree was nalseil relative loan ntchanieof iirilShen. i4ih stto.it. I b. Mr. Jli was so: 16 s.

(. i liiacrs Ills tinKlic pro- Vhat wiV! other tide ut house, to treat a vert every hill i.nil'nt,? to cj JJJjJ I i Vil -Kll. I.eg"!:h demanded to be It is high Convention purge republic of the temnant royalty which ri litk among them. our r. pn serKhiivi livis m' dr: natiorq s'nd the city ot Pans, of al! good Citizens.

zcu of Paris stall immediately repair to meting belonging lo liU department, tains Ihill take an account of all the ompanicn, a well a its all absentees! arc! ut' the National Convention (hall be ut from carh conipimv no riercu can iiefi lie isa puhli'- smidiinn. ry, piiipUtyi-l nenu, or si, which mull properly P'' s. as, bv way ot 'preface to 1 kicking out of al! the Other cm whatever might be the opinion on hi the hi use with respect to the bill StscH, It certainty wv not tl, intent! ti of any one of then lo throw it o'iit 6y surprize the contrary tl ey imam meet it fai'b-, and g.v. ii'a fall and lair ditct.Ilion. C.

Kir nl'i' of said, the i en'lemcn on the ot, or fide' I', iw.l to lib. 'in older tv, mistake the one --a re dispolitioil in those vaiih lie i outCOHftifutWml measure, tin- other every l.i'.l n'tii. authenticated. Art. Every citi? II beat ast limrsrra.lv to act wh mult hava p.risl.cl of humttr.

Sir Kicliard orllev, he command '-tt ostlu.p e. a- p.ning on IT, to vilit lice sound lix prisoners, ail lio.Viom the time e. -V ver confined, vi. with anguish at ti bare recital. Kir Hi- hard, with that humanity which is bis rliaractc.iUie, immediately relieved their distress, and ordered a proper enquiry to.be made into the abuse.

This business, ot course, will be reported to the Duke of Richmond, and we Imp. the persons who coul he gui'ty. if ilich inhnmanhy, be iln-y wii i the mar, wi'l an pmiiflimeiit. The daily rations allowed to 'he pris rs are of of wy S- l-i-a pittances ho' sIn the vast disii'rcnee iesain ttmstattcesof the two countrie-, the daily allow an -i tt to Ku-ctith prisoners is lixtm. ht Of tin Art.

VI. Until some pis ral'tvmmamlant named over tin- armed force ot Paris, eldest olsic imv. Art. VII. sittings if tlie several sections snail no: lie permitted astr- tin o'clock at night.

Art. V-II1. Ko stranger Hull be adinitted so tlir dcliberati-on of any of the sections to whi he mt belong. Art. IX.

When any of the section wisli cinder with each tl.cr, it shall only Be done a ter (hewing a proper authority from the president lor it. 11 Art. X. The National Co! of twelve to consider of fonu vation os public tran.iiiilitv. plan lor the prese, I number os tight, ami Jthtm.

Art. XI. The present Jc h-j shrill be biimcdiatclv proclail ed through every section. i whom he had he. ii learning tl i ittt-rmicncemeiit of the si liion.

"i a long had siren lonsiv incnltaiedTlnt. icmbers ot' Parliament was by the eon- h. disenable right t- have arepre i pose a bill for depriving a gn at i ,1 in the foil of this inalienable house that this is a biii to anitilJ tl.v cm- a l) ihst 'here as a distinction between a to v. from their interest in the si.il -t which induce-, them by eve, a.t say that revenue osstc. remarkable that the vhole body i i cattainly was a the day when the question for fa for the four ihii'v It will give forec aims; it Courage alone which can rntciw, Tr disiionouri the cem age of our (til, agues, who would willingly bleed it, the se, vice of An er some debate, the Assembly moved to the order of ve deiiounci the minister of war.

so yv an led. a vigorous ani-e tensive de-ate licts siibjict. All the Ileis. (lie tii'l) rxce him for the home department, refuse To obey the orders of the Convent! N. I lor the removal 'of all the MeiftH I'a tint! the proposition of Gtnifliettx had no other vi- 1 1, an to get ltimil.lt elected to the president's chair.

Al! mi son times of the originate from this cause that very man of abilities it I ribed by foreign gold. Ib-h. r. Tin. complimeits to his own and laid, they were all ii.eoi ititioi- on ti, v.

fd Id the-wiiole ixet utivi council ate tin of Dm user. The ill. estimation of tie. a the ministry Avas referred ,0 the public safety. A deputation from the council ot' th, commons -if Paris at the bar, deeiared that the danger of the country had made the council consider it to their to declare' itself permanent.

It demanded, that the charge of plots aga 1st the iivtsos tie national deputies should be signed, and delivered to the revolutionary tribunal, so that the culpable, or the calumniators, should be ami nal to-the laws. It was demanded, that the sentence of bert, a member of the Commons, now in the Abbey prison, mouse! be immediate, so that he might Le acquitted or eon- The President Justice (hall be speedily adm-nisterud but declare thai if the city of Paris au- violet, ft anyone 0. Its representatives, the destruction of the city will follow, aud the lie purpled ith This reply produced sensation. i generosity I in hit- Iv a. Cork tor Barb.

The i.Iercnry. from Ileij.uj't.a-W.-ll li, ti. s. and a them rally abided it always voted ftl strongly with barley, were all eaptn'vd by .1 French privateer, of gmw, from Brest, atul sent for France, i Vet1 thevbiePiwsof tl.v Pnpleaf the To. lo tl.v iw.ij of a Militia.

'head I jt. VoiinecT, of ibolhlu Union. v'. cv. --g i The humble ton pnreii 'gf': victor privateer, where lie la.

belonging to Vhitchn Ycff! Capt. Roivartl'on ir.fc e-d pritx-rty ie county 1ST TEE. rr.O.M WESERAL CUSTINE TO NETHERLANDS. This town is quite destitute of troops, as well as most others in the Low Countries all thcimutlutt cnild possibly be CoIlccTcd having let sent to the army but as a guard is inilispi nsibly urr iiiirv at the gates, the Govci iimenl pay he burghers two and a half cfcalins a day lor mounting it, so one burgher rolls them as imich as five soldiel which stiews the scarcity there is at present of men at the army, fiQtwthstan'ding the immense numbers that have arrived The kini; of' Prussia has nt for all the troops he has in the territory of Anfparh and both threats and entreaties are Used at all the petty Owmatl courts, in order to muster all that can riostthlv he had no resource i so despicable ast- he left utu-iTaycd. All Europe is armed against 1'rance, sot ha' thole who excite this league will hardly have any honour from it, should they even he conquerors hut the reverse happen, they will then have only exerted themselves to creel so vail and formidable a renown sor the French, as nanation ever before acquired.

It is said that the Emperor has now nothing but raw undisciplined troops to fend, all his old soldiers being exhausted. He has keen at war lix years without laying on ft, new tax. It is also reported that a large body of Kullians tire coming, paid by the l-inglilh. Since we have taken part in this quarrel, all those Court', where pride and poverty reign in vant to be Upended bv our ministry it is expected that whoever pets the better, the Engliih will, acceding to ancient rusto'jp, pay the piper. Some think the Prussian force is rchiced as low as the str in This war is a pe ph that swallows up men by millions.

Tlie Gazettes vie pretend that the 1 rencli have loft men since the first of May; but they do not fay how many have been lost the Combined Aniiv. The French on the other hand pretend th.v they have killed more of their enemies than they have 1 II tin -niselves. To speak the truth, 1 believe that the Combined J.rmy has made greater destruction among their enemies, than tin I rench have done but the worst part of the business is, that there die more men in the allied armies sickness than by the i.vord so that can leagues of Cult harbor. informs, that he left theCapeson the ad aoth April, a pilot-boat a boat board tl kreneh igate had captured ti brig l.itt.c Sarah, SHEW1NC, ou i. Ciir-has itbl-n these sew yi an arise That rb.

tilt, and thai 1.0' -ry "jrt from thence for Jamaica, the Grange, WijsembourgtMajtZ Borfome time past I had formed a plan of tailing fro 11, the enemy a body of 7 OT Jo po men whunt they hvl pushed as far as libeinxa'b, but, to succeed, it was neeesiary 1 occupy the Ihtdliaits in all xarts. and to dectroy the stect oT their cavalry and tliey had in jalvia-am, and at the distance of a league and a half from Dad retained the command of this arrity, Fjhpuid have i that ente prise nil the coHimenceini ut of Jn.r.r, an 1 then th; army, better have -t in 3 eo'tdgion to execute but reflecting that I w.11 aboe.t part, and that cur enemies might take advantage their good politien to gain over advaut rost-, which perhaps the new Geneml would not be al, to prevent: Hulehinlbn, from Philadelphia for this port, hi-t latter vessel being within tr, (Jap. at anchor, when taken, 'tis supposed site will he iveii up." 'J he fiigste was taking her prizes into I Iph'ut, when- fie was going for provisions, to enable her to reach ot. 'Fhe frigate had taken seven in al! sure her arrival on that coast, four ot which (he tent into Charleston, one to New -York, and two fhe was taking with her. CHAM ItSTOK, APRIL 0.

Yesterday arrived off the bar, the French frigate fAm-bulcade, of -2 guns, comma, idol bv C-ptain llompart, in in istaa has brought over M. Hdmuut Charles Oeuest, Adjurtmt-general of the French army, and Minister PlenipotcntiatT to the United States os in its to a sift. miprov, many thoufam! acres have-been r-ctaimed the industry of itsin'habitait's, ttnd from a st. te of sterility, bron -it to a state of uro'liictive cultivation That the Yeomanry and Peasantry of thiscotmtv, applied th mf es and their whole ycaug an old, to the cultivation of their lev, rid that Iicri-bvtl-' have been enalg to e- the various products of tnecarth to a considerable tin the iirisin- fi om.an influx of weal it obtained by this their industry, th are persoyer-imr in the most ardent manner, to improve these advantages, and wishing to d-i-ieanth ti, lei vest the lawaof their conn-try, they have uniformly conducted themselves an humh arid peaceable manner, willing all times to seipn-rt the dignity of the entire the blessing of domes, tie peace ant! of foci subordination Tlir.t aey have heretofore shewn and notv t-stiew, as well their ca! for the the present happy conAhltion, as for the defence of their country, when threatened in reality by any enemy. That in a state of perfect tranquillity, and at a time when the n-ofpi-ritv of future improvement, and its conse.pt n-es, wraith, fiur their industry, when the extent of tin ir unimproved foil Is beyond their w'datton, ttmf that their nt- itli two Keel atari, of him-.

M. "t-yi js Ct I OT M. Pascal, both tor the armies of the re- a tile "Ambuscade fell in with a nell ies all -a eat 'go in the 'the dead on the wiiole is nnirh greater than their: that no dependence whatever can he put bulletin; the Prince dc Cohourg fays, he has number of men he pleases. I le made the peaftt night, after the late actions, with cart, to an Fnglilh brig, called the Katie. Nova brie, called the Sally, front Nova Scotia, es.

The crew of the Sally was not treated friends and brothcis, aud olicred to serve had advaned; and while gencr should at molest tlte Tin- fame had orders to Occupy the banks aud the vineyards and village of i posts, snd make the Prussians ap mem. I had ccufed a report aisi exerti.is ot tin: that ore-1. of i-'r and industrious wiflu-s -our petitioners most humbly eon. eiy, any mode cfenitv I them to rolmouifh their agriculture aud -a time an military die to be- hZtzhlv tse bodies, and (hoot thfm down the coal pits near Ojiievraitu-, in order to conceal his loss from his own army. Though the Prince de Cobourg pruteuds to pttblisti an exact list of lie officers hilled am! wounded, numbers of persons can git no other satisfaction respecting their friends, who have never appeared in the list, thatt that they are miffing, were seen to fall, and the like.

1 believe, if the generals spoke the truth, they would admit that they make no prisoners, artly owing to the animo-sit" they themselves have endeavour, to inlpirc among the triine-uta! to i'-a- of tins ceaimry, aud IRISH HOUSE OF COMMONi i moved, that tin. second reading, uc.i by Mr. I Ititchmfoii) be fnpati'jn amongst -ntrodne, ha' 'its of idleness and inmt it-- Im'lriotis inhabitants, '-arcy-: wot he if th-a of Strasbourg. I had ordered tided forty battalions, case to frocti' then my orders, I did not fee a'cloeh, at vahieli time genera! retreat, because the beint: n. ge.gicmau who i Id ticbattc-to pr f.p-, That at this time, win commerce has received art alarm-ing check, am! confeat' 'mp'-dments to credit and eir- cnlatlon of money havctalfcm i ch serious (and to individuals of the earth, i 'inhabitants from supply its products to their in the humble opinion vt.itr to produce the most serum- conic- led, as nor drink.

1 be-11 t.i'.eai- is V.vM': barbarian troops, and part.y to riuhusiilni thclrcnrh, many of whom rtallv stick to their motto, I'umcre on Inou-rir. 1 do not h.ar that the duke of York has as yet been present in atty engagement. So much the better. ltvld he a gitv that he BvroM stake a life so precious as his against desiv rate men, who i'et their rxiiU-rtcr at nought, and light with the fu-y of despair for their liberty and independence. Prii.cv Charles of Austria, had almost fallen into their hands, ami Cod knows, whether they would have given him quar tie vi i in a-.

aa in mem mm. urn conceive, ti an adiiitional must lie productive of ere at break of day, but the ut! a-experienced prevented me from under the command of gen. Lan-tner superior toast praise during bach the enemy, am! prevented est of Gcmerlhcim. Our artillery is, -a- an additii nsl e.xpence and -anc- of the present lla I commevee, steithtf yoiie petition i are at tltis tim 't', -il reaching thy. place till tiy dremont behaved in a me them h'otn rjtiitting theloi of suppressed credit and -s of tiie peasantry, of this able so bear.

lib to convince their conn- trodncil the bill as prrlctt this motion till ids arrival. Mr. Egan would not ban prosett'mg only to collect and r.gtilatin? elections, did no, a this kingdeatl, al trodiiced, which, if it da stead of the trodneing fitch a eiimte in the! observed candour with regard eat candour Id be nbsir ever, if gentlemen limught ti a day, he would agree that postponed only a week, in or t. riast-a a.ti'acted the "releuta After a word-, from bill, the order for the second se'nnight. Ib they ti-ymeu and the world, that as they were ber-t, enemy wbjp tip- I arc new, and to lacri lives daie my thing, mail en'arge thought in 1st of liber t'--, re-, that a bid Ilich, ma- I'rovost, in fuppo-r of tiie ling Priday report of the eommi-tee on ntry, am! rt ot their j-rclcnt ey iii-til either revive the one act invaded, ot the being in That last ctrrtnniranccs, they rai-ll humbly beg -midence that to he placed 'J 'he nth regim.nt of dragoons eh ttjget! with the se, reel's a regiment of Austrian huflii's, who sustained great: loss.

Several of the officers were don the spot. While Genera! Imdremont was thus enta.ing the Au'strian r.rmv, aud preventing them from advatciut. t'ltr army of the Republic extended itself to the height of Kabhcim, and pro-cecdi ,1 as far as that village, when the stankera i ame to -m me, that they rveil a column ci' the e-nemr's -nf 11 tr ill othecra That ter, for they would cut and haefca Prince to pieces icill the ine as a common man. Since this escape he has quitted the army; arid so has likewise I hike Freds rick, of Brunswick. The King of Prussia himself was fired at last year from a church steeple as he passed underneath, and had a very narrow escape since when he has been careful not to ex'pufe Last year, though I.ouis XVI.

was existing, and even disowned publicly the conduct of his brother, yet ail rite confederate princes esteemed the act to be eompnlfatory and and recognized Monsieur the King's agent, to whose court at Coblentz they deputed ministers. At present, though the king be really dead, his siicri ll'or a minor, and Monsieur's claim to the it it, incontestable, according the ancient system, yet this Prince has not a single foreign minister at' his if so, one may term It's rclid nee at a wretched town of Westphalia. And it seems aiib, that his intercessions vith the sovereigns of Berlin and Vienna to lie formally acknowledged regent, are quite inrflectuat. These Sovereign, virrd and nconraoed the ac aa a emigration, aud to themselves in its la half, rectctl'to the division of the fa irnmises into eotdidi ration, vinr pe and a c-iuim, oi' titioners lii'-li a leave to hope, flag stapt as shall seem good to the wisdom of the wid 1 as effectually to re nave the gi your conceive themselves liable to, under tl present militia act, and they that, by a lap-al those- evils that they most hiunhly may arise-, may he estectually done And. your petitioners will, as in duty bound, for ever wood.

1 ordered the tenth regiment of ei.asicr.r to mar. it. and dispatched Ch raaral to and vh-c the 'or. cos the enemv. As 1 was certain that the -v h- nlisted only of two division, agoons, I ltltargcel them with vigour, and betook themselves to night, afer tainining 1-se.

Among 1 the hill to provide for the families of men a ballot to serve in the militia. Agued to, and the hill ca ared to be epgrolTetl. Mr. Qrattm having moved that the committal of ihe Mrl Mata ol'ferved, that the hill had on et- full) and that time to the present, the introduction and rcg cthui of the bill were red as tlimes of course. hor several years, the house had tnnsormly decided, tlir.t the first of August the pro-per time lor the this bill.

lie law now no the fur pei ti itif ar ill It were now stronger than ever, as ft would be highly r.f-'e-d. alter having let into the emsti. tut ion so great a of Catholi, to that of the Pt-ot. st.m't.ier'mr.s. That the house should refill, its, If into a ccnimittee to "take the bill into enhd, ration on the iiril day of August roi-ll- this day would have been glorious for th In va'n did we attempt to mil Hontion.

well that this hill Mr. in regie fail, had been rep, atedly imrodtic also, that a place bill, a also Urn ft ip'entiy ed only by discharges, and it eras it'll great diilsoiisty make them resume their ranks. It may, however. proper to observe, that several companie of this battalion, and loine others whom they had hurried away by rhi.gr panic, kept firm to their have learned that this tv, it wgs-occasioned merely by the commander, who began to en." out, markers le arrested, am! i have be. told, that he destroyed himself.

This day, hieh ou-ht have been so memorable, terminated- bv 'the taki ng of on a-piece of cannon, artel a ry great num.b'e-r at prifiaters. Tv.r hds of the enemy must have been considerable, if we matt jndge from ravage made by our cannon. Our loss dot's not exceed 120 men, and is only in cavalry. I (hall not set out for the army of thc'north till the end A t.iiee days. I am astihied v.itl't dread! id fits of the cho-he, which oblige me still to remain.

1 must be- undid enough to inform vou, that the command of the two armies, that us the- Rhine, and times Moselle, which yon havs entrusted to General Houcliard, lap. rioi to his strength. General Dieltman, on whom I had cast mv eves, am! whose modesty is equal tc his laK-nts, sindrfailo ti litsri duties of a General'-arc fuperibl to his but this I do 1 have already solicited the, -auk of Oeneril of a division fof Genera! Lag-in mout, and 1 again renew it. (Signed) STNGUL.IH HISTORY OF A GHOST. (extracted prom the records of the court of justiciary is edinburgh.) Upon the tenth June Duncan Terig, alias Clarke, and Alexander stain Maodonald, were tried at Edinburgh before the court of jasticiary, for the murder of Arthur Davis, serjeant in Gen.

Guile's regiment of foot, on the aStli of September 1749. Tn the cdnrfe of the proof for the crown Alexander M'Pbcr-fen deposed, that an apparition came one night, when be was mbed, to his bedlide, he supposing his visitor to be one his anpiaintance, got tip and followed it to the door, when it told him it was serjeant Davies, and desired him to go to a place it pointed out to him in the Mill of Chris-tic, where he would find its bones, and further requested, that he should go to ifarquharscm, Who would accompany him to thehill, a fill, him in burying them that he went to the place pointed out, and there found a human body, of which the llesli was mostly consumed, vbut that at that time he did not bury it. A few nights thereafter the ghost paid him .1 sec and visit, and reminded hnn of hit promise to bury the and upon his enquiring who was the murderer, the ghost told him they wore C'larhc and Alex. M'Donahl. After this second apparition, the witness and.

I' aa-quharioit went and buried the bones. Another witness, Ifabcll lvPIInrtUc, deposed, that-(he was in the fame house with M'Phcrlbn, and that slie law a nnntl man come into the house, ami go towards IPl'herson's bi d. Donald conliilued the testimony ot APPhtr-fon, to the finding of tlic bodv, aud Ids ailisting in burying it. He likewise' ihat M'Pheil'oii told him of tile Ghost's visit, and allo of its request to get him rquhar-son) 'o alstst him in burying the 'she prisoners wore ai'q-itted principally on account of the of 'hese i-formati-nti sram the (Shaft threw aoair os discredit on the whose- proof. The for the prisoners told the os this extraordinary I lo, (that as they were now both dead), he had 110 to declare, that in his opinion thiy wm- both guilty.

T'HURSDAV, JUSt 6. ft- w.s.s. yesterday very conii.ht'tly reported, on the authority of a l'ettu received'by an Italian nobleman, that the city had surrendered to the Prussian, Austrian anil troops on the atoll ultimo: The intelligence, how-ever, needs confirmation, as all we have hitherto known of the operation's at thai place pointed ml, the attack as very languid, and the a very obstinate. Bv tiie capture of TnhagO, the gallant Marqrlis de Bough-is restored to the greatest part of his property, which is in that if nid, of which, a. ar, he had rived by the Convention.

The French Dillon ha, also an estate in that t'ul'-ne, it is siii'i, has obtattfd a decided viflory oV.r Prince Hohcnhie. lie has, from the armies on the Moselle and the Rhine uniting, an army of under command, all desperate enthusiasts, who it, the late action iproyed themselves almost irresistible. If the French stifser a defeat in one ijuarter, they are lure to obtain a victory in nnotl.aa. This inspires hopes aml snih con-rag. and'thtts it that the w-ili be prolonge until the Zationtraf variance with I'raice are eompktely exhausted of all their best blood and treasure.

If th'e Jiuropean powers (whose unison has-been rtgirritd a the most uniuliifiabl-, attempt to dictate laws to a ft ye and ioslepemiimt rxatson,) not fueeeed tn the continuation of their ambitions projects, again I- o'iigvl to retreat from the superior valour aud patriotism their oneiit it will require all the ing mot, ted os Minister t'lcaddit'u tial increr.ie of aid ojijirtlTlolls, tin Constant co njwnjcnsof a ruinous aud destructive was, has originated in a total want of i.hf pru! nyc and rtcotiomy Ib tltn-fial lo preserv! the Lapp's. ami tit' 'he ejtpi' ir. vrttiit tf their bei.a, h.ii.V The Hi on law of ihould If, he lithe to act i-e so. fl to pair, in. bil) were fuse better, but it lonliv and lanparti-, Intelligence of rai ceivcilti-om Sil.

lia. that tlie people have Some dr- it hill, ht.