request that you make this as public as you can. Captain Thomas Lewis, of Marblehead; Ellery, of Cape Ann; feveral New-Yorkers, and Southers, are on the fame black lift.

Spanish Cruelty-New-York, June 10. Captain Pratt, juft arrived from Carthagena, reports that, while he lay there, the fchooner Polly and Jenny, Captain Parfons, of fourteen guns, from Jamaica, was brought in there; which, after an engagement of two hours with two Spanish privateers, one of fixteen, the other of ten guns, to the leeward of Carthagena, was boarded; the Captain, first and fecond lieutenant, furgeon, and two of the people, murdered in the cabin! The Captain was hauled upon deck, and had his head chopped off! Those who were not Englishmen on board efcaped this treatment. This was told Captain Pratt by the remainder of the Polly and Jenny's crew.

Mutiny in the Fleet.-Bofton (fame date as the above article). A ferious mutiny broke out in the whole British channel fleet the 15th of April. On that day, when Admiral Bridport ordered the fleet to prepare for fea, inftead of weighing anchor, the crew of the Queen Charlotte gave three cheers as a fignal of difaffection; as the plan had been premeditated, the reft of the crew followed. The officers, thunder-ftruck, could do nothing. They were foon all confined, and ropes hung from the fore-yard arm in terrorem to the unpopular of the fleet. Deputies from each fhip repaired on board the Queen Charlotte, a first rate; and the mutiny, in confequence of an intemperate procedure of Admiral Gardner, affumed the most alarming aspect. The demands of the feamen were an advance of pay to thirty fhillings per month; a due allowance of provifions; a more equal diftribution of prize-money, and the dif

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placement of feveral obnoxious officers. Thefe demands created the moft alarming apprehenfions in the British Miniftry; but they were complied with in their fullest extent. Admiral Bridport communicated to the crews the conceffion of the Government, and a pardon from the King; on which they all returned to their duty. The contagion fpread through every port in England.

A new loan of 18,000,000l. was carried in the Houfe of Commons May 2, 193 against 50.

No intelligence had been received from Mr. Hammond, who had been sent to Vienna on a pacific embaffy.

Twenty-one counties, cities, and towns, have petitioned for peace and the difmiffal of Pitt. Other counties were affembling.

Three per cent. confols, May 4, 48 1-2 *.

TUESDAY, 13th JUNE.

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Paine's Gallantry. Some of the papers fport Mr. Thomas Paine as a man of gallantry. They fay, fince his laft trip to Paris, he was caught on his knees at a lady's feet by her husband. The Frenchman, aftonished at what he faw, exclaimed, "Vat the devil be you doing, Citizen Paine ?"-" Only," replied Paine, "meafuring your lady for a pair of flays." The Frenchman, quite pleafed with Tom's anfwer, kiffed, and thanked him for his politeness.

* To infert articles of foreign news is contrary to my plan; and I have only given a place to these two articles by way of preserving the date of the most diftreffing news that ever reached me. We now [1799] know that a great deal of what is contained in these articles was false; but we also know, that too much of it was true. Never was England fo near the brink of deftruction. I never felt any thing like doubt, as to the refult of the war, except at the receipt of this news; and then I confefs I was alarmed, though I did not defpair. I ftill relied on the virtue and bravery of the nation; but the gloom was such as I could not fee through. WEDNESDAY,

WEDNESDAY, 14th JUNE.

Definition of a Patriot.-To Peter Porcupine. A correfpondent of yours in one of your papers, in noticing fome ftrictures by the O'Careys, has given them the fignificant title of Irish patriots. As the etymological hiftory of this word is not, perhaps, very generally understood, I have taken the liberty of handing you the following definition.

The word patriot has its origin from one Pat, an Irishman, who lived in the time of Oliver Cromwell. He was a very turbulent and noisy fellow; always raving against the then republican Government, and often kicking up a Riot: from whence, the people ufed to obferve on thefe occafions, that Pat riots. The two words have fince become one, by being modelled into that of patriot.

Mr. Pinckney.-Letter from Harrisburg. SIR, It appears that our rejected envoy poffeffes the Chriftian virtue of humility in an eminent degree; when he is fmitten upon one cheek he very cordially turns the other, and fervently prays for his enemies, though they defpitefully ufe and perfecute him. Notwithstanding his country has been loaded with every indignity that a French Directory is capable of offering, and himself treated with every perfonal infult, except the laft, that of being whipped or kicked out of France (which, from every appearance, would have been the cafe had he continued there much longer), he concludes one of his dispatches to Mr. Pickering in these remarkable words: "No perfonal flights can prevent me from moft earneftly praying that the independence and liberty of France may be firmly fecured by a speedy and honourable peace." He dates one of his letters to La Croix, 7th Pluviofe," addreffes him by the title of "Citizen Minifter," and concludes,

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concludes, "Accept the affurance of my perfect confideration." This (ridiculous and contemptible at all times) is, in the prefent pofture of affairs, mean, fervile, and degrading. If he could have squeezed in "falut et fraternité," we should have had a complete formulary of republican epiftolary cant; though we have no right to complain, as he has done tolerably well, confidering the fhortnefs of the letter alluded to. When did the people of America adopt this jargon? I believe we are all fully fatisfied with our old mode of ftyle and address, and have not yet feen the neceffity of an alteration; particularly to footh and flatter a nation which is at this moment trampling upon our deareft rights and adding infult to injury. And yet, after spending many days in debating whether any infults have been offered to our country, Congrefs have at length determined the point in the affirmative by a majority of two votes (fifty to forty-eight). O my country! how art thou fallen! AN AMERICAN.

[The above remarks are juft fuch as I would with to have been the author of. Mr. Pinckney certainly did not behave with the dignity of a Minister from an independent State. What has been termed prudence, and calmness, will meet with another name from the voice of other nations, and from the pen of the historian; and as to the adoption of the atheist calendar, it falls little fhort of the apoftate ceremony of trampling upon the crofs.]

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Sieyes. From a Paris paper of April 11. "monfter, a prieft, ci-devant curate of Dragui86 gnan, entered this morning the house of Sieyes, "member of the Council of Five Hundred, under "pretence of afking fome relief, and fhot him with

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put aside the pistol from his breast with his left "hand, received two balls in his arm; a third grazed "his haunch. The wound, though deep, fortu"nately does not appear to be mortal. Poul is the name of the affaffin, a relation of the famous "preacher of that name. He is arrefted. A num"ber of papers were found upon him, of which we "do not yet know the contents *."

French Intrigues in Georgia.-The following letter was received by Saturday's poft, but it came too late for insertion on that day. The reader will perceive that it is written by a foreigner, and will make allowances accordingly.

Charleston, 2d June, 1797.

Mr. Peter Porcupine,

If you flattered yourself because Adet's diplomatic blunderbufs has made no great execution in a northern direction, it would have ftill lefs effect in a fouthern one, let me tell you that you are greatly mistaken.

* A Paris newfmonger may call this expulfed priest a monster, if he pleases, nor will any one attempt to justify him; but if ever an affaffin deferved to be called an avenger of his country's wrongs, he who puts an end to the life of the infamous Sieyes will most certainly deferve it. This wretch was himfelfa Romifh clergyman, and (as is common with apoftates) become the most savage of the perfecutors of the body to which he had belonged. He was one of those whom Playfair (in his Hiftory of Jacobinifm) reprefents as celebrating with every demonstration of joy the bloody maffacres of St. Domingo; and he is well known to be the man who had the principal part in organizing the boly infurrection of the 10th of Auguft, for which he afterwards paffed fentence of death on his Sovereign.

He has been of all parties, and well with all. In a controverfy with Tom Paine he defended monarchy as preferable to a republic. He has fucceffively acted with Briffot, Marat, Danton, Robespierre, Barrere, Tallien, and is at this moment (if the world is not delivered of him) active, plotting, under the devil of the five tyrants. So that, I think, the Paris newfinonger might have applied the terni monfter to the patient rather than to the doctor.