The Kentucky Gazette

AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.

CHARLESTON, April 9.

Yesterday morning the French frigate, l'Embuscade, commanded by citizen Bompard, mounting 36 guns, and manned with three hundred seamen, appeared off our bar, where she came to anchor.

L'Embuscade had a passage of 45 days from Rochfort:-and brings a confirmation of the declaration of war against England, Holland and Russia, by the National Convention; which was decreed on the first day of February.

This vessel was dispatched by the French republic with M. Genet, Ambassador from the executive council of that nation to the President and Congress of the United States.

His excellency, we understand, will this day set off by land for Philadelphia.

Citizen Bompard, commander of l'Embuscade, is son of the vice-admiral of the same name, now in the service of the French republic.

This vessel's arrival, and the variety of speculations and conjectures on her destination and errand, fully occupied the public mind yesterday.

The studied secrecy and reserve of the officers and men, left sufficient room for the circulation of a number of reports, which were varied in rapid succession lived their little hour, and then were heard no more.

We forbear to repeat or give the idle reports currency, by publication, as we hope this day to be favored with many authentic particulars relative to the state of the French armies and nation; which if so favored, will be given at length to-morrow.

The French frigate l'Embuscade, of 32 guns, commanded by captain Bompard, in 48 days passage from Rochfort, in France, appeared off the bar yesterday morning. She was bound for Philadelphia, but adverse winds obliged her to steer for this port, M. Edmund Charles Genet, adjutant general in the French army and minister plenipotentiary to the United States of America, with two secretaries of embassy, M. Bournonville and M. Pascal, both officers in the armies of the republic, came passengers and landed here with the officers of the frigate, in the afternoon.

By these gentlemen, we are informed, that WAR was declared by the French republic against the King of England and the Stadtholder of the United Provinces, about the 1st of February. All the shipping in the different ports of France belonging to those nations, were immediately seized, and the seamen, mounting to upwards of 5000, offered their services as volunteers in the French navy, rather than return to their own country and submit to the tyranny of being pressed. The French army had already besieged Maestricht. & General Dumourier was marching to take possession of Rotterdam and Amsterdam, where, it was expected they would be joyfully received by the majority of the inhabitants.

The crew of the brig Sally, captured by the frigate, were treated with such friendship and fraternity, that they offered to enter into the service of France.

Yesterday Commodore Gillon entertained M Genet, the French ambassador, with his suite, the officers of l'Embuscade, and a number of French citizens, in an elegant and hospitable style, at his house in this city.

M. Genet, we are assured, has taken his passage for Philadelphia, in the ship Delaware, Capt. Art, which is expected to sail this day.

M. Genet has filled several diplomatic situations-particularly a late embassy to Russia.

The French frigate l' Embuscade took one prize on her passage from France, namely, the brig Sally from Nova Scotia to Barbadoes. The capture was made near Bermuda, but the prize is not yet arrived.

Other accounts, which we believe more entitled to credit, state, the vessel captured to be the brig Four Brothers, capt. Robb.

We are informed, that a detachment of British troops, amounting to one hundred men, have just arrived at Bermuda, and that an additional reinforcement is expected there—as an attack from a French squadron was seriously apprehended.

Yesterday another brig was captured by l'Embucade, as she was entering our harbour—supposed to be the Aurora, from Antigua, belonging to mess. T. and E. Pennman & co of this city.

A variety of reports still continue to amuse and terrify our citizens, respecting the instructions of the French Ambassador, and the part our federal government MUST take in the war entered into between England and France—were these true, we should irrevocably be plunged into the horrors of a destructive and unprofitable war, almost without end or object—but as these have evidently no other foundation than the momentary hope or fears of the reporters, we shall not on such authority, retail the IDLE GOSSIP.