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losing ground. Nothing respecting the state of Brest has transpired since} 
our‘last. Ai 
' The French are said to have abandoned Nice, and to have been defeated} 
in Picdmont. . But nothing certain is known respecting them. 
The allies on the northern frontiers have been in general advancing sincefi 
our last; several victories have been gained by them, but nothing of deci-f" 
_ Sive consequence. |, 
: DOMESTIC. ae 
Lord Howe still keeps his station at Torbay. He sailed, but was beat 
back in a few days by contrary winds. ; 
Jervis, supposed to befor the West Indies; the land forces to be commanded 
by Sir Charles Grey.—The conquest of all the French islands is the supposed 
object of this armament. f 
A violent commotion took place at Bristol last week, to quell which the 
military were obliged to fire. On this occasion between 30 and 4o personsft 
were unfortunately killed. The caufe of this disturbance was the continua 
tion of a toll upon a bridge and fome other places, after the term was eX mf 
/ pired when the public believed the tolls by act of parliament ought to have 
been taken off,—the mob insisting that the tolls fhould be removed, andi 2 
‘the commifsioners to whom this was intrufted refusing to do so.—The trust-}., 
ees at last publifhed a state of their accounts, from which it appeared that a 
the whole fum authorised by parliament had not been levied. The magis: 
trates having agreed to make up this deficiency to the trustees, the tolls com.| 
plained of have been taken off, and tranquillity restored 5. but unfortunatelyf 
not till after many unhappy perfons had suffered. qi 
; . America. H 
The inhabitants of New York have adopted several resolutions, approving 
in strong terms of the conduct of the president Wafhington, for his strict at. h 
tention to preserve the most rigid neutrality on the present occasion. Gene-§™ 
ral Wafhington’s anfwer to that addrefs is strongly exprefsive of his fatisfacsy 
tion at obtaining the approbation of thefe respectable citizens of a conductf. 
which: he believed to be efsentially necefsary for promoting the welfare olf ¢ 
the united states. 
Citizen Genet, the French plenipotentiary in America, has been very ac. F 
tive in his endeavours to induce the people in America to declare for France| 
and has on that account been discountenanced, as it fhould feem, by Mr Wath, 
ington. Gezet addrefses a long letter to Mr Wathington on this subject, da. 
ted New York, 13th Auguft, 1793, to whch the president, by means of 
Jeffetfon fecretary of state, declines to give any anfwer, on the footing of it 
being unformal, as all papers addrefsed to the president fhould be transmitte¢ 
-t0 the secretary of state. 3 
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