the north-carolina mercury and salisbury advertiser salisbury printed & published by francis c o u p e e num 90 thursday january ifi isooj vol ij from ihi baltimore american of the i%d ul of humaiihy ; and the laudable determinati on of favi&g our brave cmictrvmen by yifgo ciation from the dcftruftion which other wife feemed to iwiit them muft be confide r ble as paramount to every other feeling whether of miftaken honor or national pride a hamburgh mar became dyt yefterday tvhich had not arrived when this paper was pur to prefs difpztches wrre yefterdty received at the admiralty from capt young of the fctfralion frig«te giving the pleating account of his having on the 16th inftsnt off f'cr rol captured the thetis frigate from the havannah with one million and a half of dolurs on boa r d befid-s a quantity of mer chandize — the naiad and hmrne were in company with the ethahon at the time and were left within gun-fliot of another spanifh frigate aid to have no lefs than three mil lions of dollars on beard fo that therfr it no doubt ofthcipecdy arrival of this hip alfo in a britifli port the thetis is arrived at plymouth with the ethalion t ig with much fitisfaftion we add lhat on this occa fion we hare loft rot a finn man arriv«d la(t nignr his rnajefty's f!iip atkmair from holiami with 606 dutch loyalifis on board all volunteers ia the fer vice of the prince of orange we are happy to add to the intelligence of the capture of the spanifn frigate kl 1 he tit which w yeflerda communicated lhat ot ff»e frig«t 5n compi.iy the ssn brigada which has jieen made a prize by hit majefty't fljip the naiad capt hirrrcpont the tri ton capt j gore and the rti«mer.c cap h digby the san brigada had above two millions of dollars on boird beddes vnet chandize and is confe^ucotty a richer pv'ue than the el thetis officers of admiral mitchell's fleer thtr " when rogues fall out honrft trrn come to bfeir right an art.d of the 21a hv " the stadthomrr itbnwu lately a fuhj«-a of idrnirition has now hfcoire an objeft of tht execration of the populace tiwti tim morr.ir.e arrived fhip pehf*er»nce norman in 8 weeks from the uowns and 4 a\s from 1»n<i to land toc-mt thosndikb ch*se ■ paf fengfr in he abo*e fliip the td'ror of the american is indebted or a file of lon don pipers down to rhe 24th odobcr 6 days latrr than any european news on the cinti"«r;t the moi important content of which re haitily uid acforc the pub american ] tihgtgft of the united r>ta*et house or repersentatives thtirfdav r»ecem l er t mr otis reid in his place the following refolution which tvas ftconded by mr hart per viz c«#r«in chafc inform that on th 28th odober rpoke the fhip union porter of baltimore from htmhurg to surr'tnam ; left hamburg on che 20th capt porter informed rhu the da before he failed offlct it fccqu vi*jp were received and rf-ad to th populsct that the duke of york h«d been feverely and completely beaten • that all the a nglo ruffians in his army had laid down their arms and fur rendered tbemfeltei prwoneri of war c3pt porter jid not le*rn whether the duke himfelf wa taken prifoner but give enpr c politic aftara ncei that the above iufuraiaiion w»s correct refolved that a cprnmittre he ippoir.t ed whole duty it lha'l be to make an enqui ry into the rate of nat^l equipment ordered by former aftj of congrefs arid xo rocfider whether any and what other na^l force mnjr be necffhry for the prote<flion of tb com merce of the united states and the fupport of their fl-g and vihether any pnd what al terations ought to n made in the laws rela tive to the ba?y of the united stairs this motion having been agreed to a committee of five members was appoint d d confiding of metfrs parker rututlgc kar per otis and freeman a prti tion from the guardians of the or phan ihilhrcn two daughters and ■ ion of the late major kreemtn who as murdered by ■ parry of indians in the jear 1793 while in the army of tlie i nited states wsv read praying that the proviiions of the aft pafied in the it ffions of 179s for the relief of the widows and ciphers of deceafed offi cers of the army of the united sutra might be extended to them it trab referred to the committee of claims though an exertion was otfde to here it committed to • iclcct committee lrjifl foreign news ! london october 14 no farther advices from the ouve of york we se-ti received finte our a ; but as col brownrig reached the fielder on saturday lad with the fiml ioftrudiois of govern men it in prnsiblya great part of our troopship ere th'n e<nii.irk'd on thru re turn to england some of the dutch loy alifh are a'res-'y arrived six hundred of them wen brought over in the alkmaar man of war which arrived at deal on t uefday where three other fli»p < «, full of people of the lime defcription were hourly expend having failed from the texel immediately after the nlkmaar — the convention by virtue of whuh the anglo-ruffian army is to evacuate hol'.md was figued on the l 8th inft and is to continue in force for fix weeki from thst d-te a circumftance which has given rife to =» fuppofition that the treaty ttnbrtcesmore objerts than have ; et been publicly exprefled if if bear relation merely o the evacuation of the country by pur troops and a general exchange of pri traers he bufinefi might be done in as ma ny days a there are allowed weeks to at complifh it the probability therefore )», that there are involved in the armiftice fome labjech the nature of which may reqnire a foofiderable tinic to adjuft ; bat upon this to pic we fhall for iv\t prejent decline any fpe culition under the hope thatadiy or twft will put us in poffehron of the f«o all hati»at prefent known for ccrtaio is that we have sgretd to ev«cuat holland with out injuring lither the arfenal or new di^p ; that all the enemy s guris arsto be reftored ; ihat the helder is to be left in the f«me condition in which we found it in ; and h»t the prifoners are reciprocally to be given up it is underftood that we are alfo to deliver up 8,ooo or to/oo of the french prircnersnow in kngland ; but refpetfing this point we have as yet received no fat;s/a(5io 7 j information upon the whole if we have theconfideration of the humiliated fitu lion in which the event of he expedition w unforuina'ely pheed us we fhall find ' u t little cautc to regret the nature of the wrnas to which we have thus been induced o gree — the acceding to them was on tg ' parr dictated by the purs principle of october 21 mr d fofltr called up ip motion which he had laid on the table ycrfterday relativ to the prohibition of th si«ve trade ft cemmittee to enquire into and ttport tiie fubjedt was accordirgly appointed mr sewall moved that when the l;jnjf adjourn it do adjourn until monday af ter a few owfervaticns from mr rutlfdge who faid time ought xo be given to the com mittees to prepare their reports which un tifmade there was littlf rife to occopy the attention of the hoofe ; the qutftion war put and carried 48 riling in favour of it ad journed december to in th hcufe of reprcfeniativel this mcrrt ing general marfhzll ftcr exprifline in ftrnnjj and tlegsnt term toe dfep regret which vat uaiverfally excifed by the desth of gei ncral walhington prclenterl four refoiutif otn to the following effeft viz refolved th*t this houf will wair on the preffdent f the united states in coudolencs cf this mf>:irnful event refolded that the fpesker chair i fhrouded with black and that the rvtrr.bert i a nd officers of the houfc wear blaik during th fefticn i refolved that a committee in corjunc ; lion with one from the fenatt b appointed to confuler on the mod fuitable manner of 1 p»yinj honour to the memory of the man i firlt in wir firft in ptacc and firft in the hearts af his country refowtd that this boiife when it ad jouro do apjonm to monday tbefe refolutions were unanimotifly agreed 10 sixteen members were appointed on the third refo'ution a me(tage from the prefihtnt w receive ed corotnunicatiog a letter from tobias le*r ef^irc private fccrctir to g?acrs waih at a late hour isfi nighr pans paper were received in a regular ferici to the lo^h inft the contents of which we s*e not time to det»h and can only fay in gener that they confirm the former accounts dated in federal pap»r of the 3th that suwarrow h«d been defeaicj with the lolg of io.oco prifoner end 1 coo wounded the num ber of flain is oot afcertained — ke it laid to have retreated witb the remainder of his army in the grifon country a rumour was alfo prevalent that the archduke ch»rk had been defeated with coofiderable lofii baltimore december 23 the forrign news received hy capt chsfe in th perfere nnce is in every reject inrerrflin £ . [ attentive perulal of the files of london , prints down to the 24th october reeeivrd by no other fditor in raltimore erabjts me jo acquaint my reader unconditionallj that the britifli and anglo-romans ba*e en tered into n agreement with tlii b»tavi,n republic to evacuate holland the eonven tion war figned or the isth otf'ober allow ing fix weeks for the complete emhai kstion of the intaders several tranlporta had ar r;t?d in england with the lick and wounded which feemed to be the firft obj.c df remo val ; a fl«et of tranfpdrts were getting out of rmmfgtte ton the f?d as fnft as poflji b!e to proceed to the tejcel to take ofr the remainder of the troop the britifli pr'.i'ts appeaf to he deeply chop fallen at the dilaf ter which hate befallen the pious bifbop of ofnuburg in holland ; nd in oj 6er to ap peafe the refrnrment of the nation the r»u niftry have divided the fpoils of the dutch fleet which wn po(te(tion of as the property ofih«suihholdcr among the fail or ana