written in Dublin; we regret we have not been able to ascertain its date, but the gentleman to whom it came was in the city only a few hours, and left it early on Friday morning, without giving any great publicity to the accounts he had received. He had engaged his paffage to return to Ireland, but this letter advises him to remain in this country till he hears fomething from home. We have every reason, from the refpectability of our authority, to give full credence to the above*.

Kofciufko and the Whig Club.-At a numerous meeting of the Whig Club of England, held at the Crown and Anchor tavern, in the Strand, on Tuefday the 6th day of June, 1797; the Earl of Thanet in the chair-On the motion of General Tarleton, feconded by Mr. Fox, it was refolved unanimoufly, "That the Polifh General Thaddeus "Kofciufko be requested by this club to accept of a fword as a public teftimony of their fenfe of his "exalted virtues, and of his gallant, generous, and "exemplary efforts to defend and fave his country."

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Mr. Fox moved, and it was refolved unanimously, "That a committee be appointed to provide a "fword accordingly, and that General Tarleton do

*I do not, for my part, "give full credence to the above;" on the contrary, I look upon it as a ftring of fuch prepofterous falfehoods as no mortal but Webster would listen to for a moment. The power of a rooted prejudice is incredibly great. This Webfter is, in the common concerns of life, a man of a good found understanding; on certain fubjects he has flown that he poffeffes confiderable talents; but the moment the name of Great Britain is mentioned, he seems to lose his reafon; this hated name is to him what water is to one bitten by a mad dog. The wretch was a Whig of the revolution; he flattered himself with the hope of feeing Great Britain ruined for ever, and America reign in her stead. He finds himself grofsly deceived, and his difappointment and mortification has increafed his hatred against Great Britain.

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"préfent it to General Kofciufko, in the name of "the Whig Club in England."

SIR,

Porcupine to General Tarleton.

I have lately feen an account of the proceedings of a certain fociety called the "Whig Club of England," which, I am told, is made up of the refute, the very offal of both Houfes of Parliament, with the addition of disappointed candidates for places, penfions, and finecures.

From fuch a club, or rather mob as this, every thing inconfiftent and mean was to be expected; but I think it would hardly be poffible to find one of the members whofe conduct fo completely fulfils fuch expectation as that of yours. You have conftantly been an advocate for the continuation of that traffic called the flave-trade, while you are at the head of a liberty club; and you prefent the Polander with a fword, as a token of your approbation of his labours in the cause of what you call liberty, when it is well known that you owe your prefent rank and pay to your having fought against him, having fought his deftruction, when he was engaged in that very caufe! There is, however, fomething wanting to render this farce complete your club fhould affemble on the banks of the river Gambia, or on board a negro veffel, and you should prefent the fword on fome plain of America.

Tarleton prefenting a token of refpect to Kosciusko! Ye gods! what cannot the fpirit of whiggifm perform? What can it not rend afunder, and what can it not unite? As the poet fays of gold: " it folders clofe impoffibilities, and makes them kifs.'

It may not be amifs to tell you, that, a few weeks ago, all the democratic papers in this country, when they thought neceffary to revive a part of the hiftory of laft war, called you "the favage and bloody Tarle

ton;" but that, by this liberty-fword affair, you have wiped all off; all the blood clean off; and have regained the love and admiration of a fet of as great fcoundrels as ever did honour to a rope or a gibbet. P. PORCUPINE.

THURSDAY, 17th AUGUST.

French Lies and American Cullibility.-It is not confiftent with the plan of this selection to infert articles of foreign intelligence; but it is now and then neceffary to do it, in order to fhow the connexion between foreign and domeftic politics, or to record inftances of the effect which foreign intrigues have, from time to time, produced on the people of America, or to exhibit the character of this people by the fentiments which foreign intelligence has led them to difcover. With the latter view it is that I infert the following articles from Paris papers.

Paris, June 2.-Trugot, Merlin, Charles de la. Croix, and Ramel, thefe worthy fupporters of French liberty, have arrived at the moment of their difgrace; calumniated by public writers, calumniated by the Legiflative Body, what they have done to fave their country serves as a pretext to their perfccutors. Depofed by public opinion, what refiftance could they make to the enemies which the remembrance of their conduct inceffantly raised against them? The Directory is ftill filent before their accufers. Tomorrow, perhaps, they will be interrogated as vile criminals. Santhonax, Raymond, and their ac-. complices, are recalled. They are to be fucceeded by a commiffion, at whofe head is placed Villaret Joyeufe, a rear-admiral and an ancient officer of the marine.

Paris, June 10.-After the figning of the preliminaries of peace, Bonaparte, on quitting the Auftrian provinces, collected his victorious army on the frontiers of Italy: there, in an immenfe plain he arranged his brethren in arms; there, walking from battalion to battalion, the young hero addreffed them as fol lows :

"My brave friends, you have restored peace to your country, and covered yourfelves with immor"tal glory. It is however neceffary to remain fill ત "a longer time under arms. We nuft yet root out "the last of our enemies. I fhall give you all your leaves of abfence, in order that you may vifit your parents and connexions. When you fhall have "embraced them, ftill think of your country. I "fhall proceed and wait for you at Calais; and am "perfuaded not one of you will be wanting at the "rendezvous*."

On the arrival of Mr. Barthelemy, the mufic exe cuted the following air: "Ah! how was I infpired "when I received you to my heart!" Upon the arrival of Merlin, they executed the " Hymn of Departure:" the public thought the mufic excellent f.

Paris, June 13-An English cartel has arrived at Calais with dispatches containing two packets, one for the municipality, in which was found enclofed a letter figned Grenville, by which the English Minifter, on informing them that Mr. Pitt was no longer in place, requested them to forward inftantly to the Directory the packet intended for them. Thefe dispatches contain new overtures made by the King

* It is well enough to preferve these boafting, thefe infolent fpeeches. A time will come when they may be revived with advantage.

+Poor Barthelemy little dreamed, while he was liftening to this foft mufic, in what manner he fhould get out of the Direc

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to the Directory to bring about a prompt and definitive pacification. The high efteem in which Citizen Barthelemy is held in England, and the happy influence of his nomination, will not a little contribute to accelerate this moment. A general peace will therefore probably be one of the firft benefits for which France will be indebted to its new Directory. He could not arrive under more happy auspices.

Paris, June 19.-Notwithstanding the language of the English papers, we are affured that the depofition of Mr. Pitt has been officially announced to the French Government.

Bofton, Auguft 11.-Captain Percival, from Lisbon, who failed the beginning of July, and who arrived this morning, informs, that the day before he failed, a report was in general circulation, that a mutiny had broke out in Jarvis's fleet.

At the time of the failing of the laft veffels from Bourdeaux, it was currently reported, that Mr. Pinckney, our Envoy, had been invited to Paris from Rotterdam. This rumour was probably created from the evident change in the difpofition of the French rulers.

Remarks on the above News.-The above news, taken all together, was last night ushered to the public as fomething "very agreeable." Let us fee, then, what it amounts to. Merlin is exchanged for Barthelemy, and the music played a tune at the vacation of the former, and at the inftalment of the latter. Had we had the honour to have fwelled the crowd of their admiring flavcs, these tunes might probably have

The boorish editors of the Boston and New-York papers call it Jarvis's fleet. This is not to be afcribed to the fimplicity of their manners; for, were they but graced with the title of 'Squire, we fhould fee it in every paragraph of their papers. It is to be afcribed to a kind of envious malice, that will not fuffer them to do any thing that looks like refpect towards a fuperior.

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