1802. } 
a brilliant illumination in the evening, 
accompanied by fire works, ' 
An unfortunate accident, foon after 
this, deprived me of the command of that. 
fine veflel: for the Maguifique of 74 guns, 
belonging to the Marquis de Vaudreuil’s 
fleet, happening to be loft at Bofton ; the 
Congrefs feized on this occafion to teftify. 
its gratitude to his Mof Chriftian Majet- 
ty, by prefenting him with the America to 
re-place her. 
In the mean time, it was refolved to place 
aFrench frigate, called /’ Indienne,with two 
er three armed vellels, under my orders, 
in order to feize on Bermudas ; but, as 
this was never put into execution, L.applied 
to the Congreis for leave to ferve on board 
the fleet of the Count d’Eftaing, then 
defined for an expedition again{t Jamaica.’ 
The Marquis de Vaudreuil received me 
with great diftinction on board his own 
fhip, the Triomphant, where I occupied 
the fame cabin as the Baron de Viomenil, 
who commanded the land forces. When 
we were within fight of Porto Rico, in- 
telligence was received, that Admirals Pi- 
gotandHood were preparing to intercept us; 
and as Don Solano, with the Spanith fleet, 
_ did not meet us at Porto Cabello, accord- 
ing, to his promife, many of the officers be- 
coming dilgufted with the enterprife, fell 
fick, and I myfelf was in a dangerous ftate; 
but we were relieved from our difagreeable 
fituation, by intelligence from Europe that 
a general peace had taken place. This 
eircumitance afforded me great pleafure, 
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as I now learned,~ that. Great Britain,. 
after a long and: bloody conteft, had been. 
forced to recognize the fovereignty and 
independence of the United States of Ame- 
rica. x 
..On this, we repaired to St. Domingo, 
where I received every poflible mark of 
efleem from ,M. de Bellecombe, the Go- 
vernor; after a fhort (tay, I embarked for 
Philadelphia, penetrated with gratitude for 
the various marks or efteem I had received 
from all the French. officers, during the 
five months I had been on board his Ma- 
jefty’s fquadron. 
I was unable to re-eRablith my health, | 
during the reft of the fummer, which I 
{pent in Pennfylvania ; and I did not ger 
well until the autumn, when I recovered 
by means of the cold-bath.. 
I then demanded permiffion to return to 
Europe, on purpofe to recover the prize- 
money due to myfelf, officers, and failors, 
which was granted me by an Act of Con~ 
grefs, dated at Prince Town, November 1, 
1784. 
On this, I embarked at Philadelphia, 
on board a packet-boat deftined for Havre 
de Grace; but, being forced into Ply- 
mouth by contrary winds, I took pott- 
horfes for London, and then fet out for 
Paris, and was received with great cordi- 
ality by the miniftry. 
Having at length received from the 
Court of France the amount of the prizes, 
I returned to America on board a Frencia 
packet-boat. ; 
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FRANCE. 
(Continued from page 56, No. 90.) 
{TIZEN Du Tueit, having finifh- 
ed the reading of his memoir (zz/ert- 
ed in our laji number), communicated to 
. the Clafs a notice of fome objeéts of anti- 
quity lately found about 200 paces from 
the little town of Azai-le-Nideau, to the 
South, on the left bank of the Indre. This 
notice has been fent to him by. citizen Bi- 
encourt. 
Some workmen difcovered, in digging 
fome ditches, a coffin where a young child 
was laid. A judgment was formed of its 
age, by its teeth, by the dimenfions of its 
fkull, and by fome of its ribs,. Time had fo 
very much decayed all the reft, that, upon 
opening, at the action of the airy and the 
touch, it fell inteduf By the fide of this 
little body were found the following ob- 
jects : 
. x. Iwo poniards, one of iron, and the 
other of ivory, half-diffolved ; 2; A gold- 
en bulla, refembling an acorn ; an enfign 
which the children of Patrician families 
wore; 3. A fmall ring of jafper, mounted 
in gold, on which the author has engraved 
two veiled figures; 4. A ring, all of 
rock cryftal : there appear engraved on it 
two rams harneffed toa car; a little Cu- 
pid, erect on the car, urges them with all 
his might, and. caufes them te fly with 
all fpeed. The vartift has thrown: into 
this {ketch much grace’ and {pirit ; 
5. A cryftal ring, refembling: a row of 
pearls, furmounted: with a fhell; 6. A 
prifm of 20 fides, of rock-cryftal, very re- 
gularly cut 3.7, Four lachrymatory.urns, 
made of glafs; 8, A number of figures 
engraved 
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