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^efacias, or attachment, or at any time or times there-'
after, proceed to bear and determine any such luit or suits
upon default made as aforefaid, it shall and may be lawful
for the laid commissioner or commissioners, at any time
within after pronouncing judgment in any of
the (aid suits or cauies, to re hear the fame, upon the ap.
plication of any such defendant or defendants, if to such
cemmiffioner or commissioners it shall appear to be j dt
and reasonable; and upon such re-hearing, either to
alter, reverie or confiim the judgment or judgments be
fore given, as law and justice may require. Frouid^d nr
oerthelty, Ihat no judgment of reversal, or othe^ decree
given upon such re-hearing, shall at all invalidate or im
peach any sale or tales made or to be made of the estate,
real or personal, es such defendant or defendants; bur,
in lieu thereof, restitution fli 11 in such case be made in
value equal to the sum or films wrongfully recovered.
Sect. X. And be it further enacted by the authority afore
faid, ] hat in all cases, where any judgment or judgments
shall be obtamed in favor of the said United States, or of
any of such defendant or defendants, in any suit or cause,
or proceedings instituted under and by virtue of this a&,'
for any fpecific goods or chattels, property or effe&s, it
shall and may be lawful for the party against whom such
judgment or judgments shall be rendered to appeal there
from, within days after he or they shall have
notice of such judgment or judgments being given; provi
ded, that the fame shall not bedonger than after
lie passi ng of the fame judgment or judgments to the
next court of common pleas for the city or county, within
which the said judgment or judgments shall be given;
and upon the said appeal or appeals being 1 dged within
the two firft days of the fitting of the said next court, the
fame court shall proceed to hear the fame upon the real
merits of the case in the fame term, unless reasonable
cause shall be fnewn to t e contrary, and without the
usual imparlances, and o determine thereon, either by a
jury or otherwise, agreeable to the usual course of pro
ceedings in such court ; and shall cause execution to be
done therein, as is usual in like cases between party and
party. Pr^iid d nevertheless, That no such appeal or ap
peals shall be received, unless fufficient security for prose
cuting the fame to effea shall have firft been entered be
fore the commissioner or commissioners who fliall have
pronounced the judgment or judgments appealed from.
deed it is hereby further enabled and declared by the authority
aforefaid, That no writ of error, falfe judgment, certio
rari or other precess whatever, fliall be granted, to stay
any suit or proceedings to be had or instituted under or
by virtue of this aft, or to remove any of the records or
proceedings thereof into any other court or courts, except
an the cases of appeal before mentioned.
AND WHEREAS also by one other aft, passed by the
said United States in Congress assembled on the twentieth
day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand se
ven hundred and eighty-two, it was ordained and declared,
That a commissioner for each state should be appointed, in
the manner thereby mentioned, with full power and au
thority finally to fettle the accounts between the state for
which he should be nominated and the United States, and
also to liquidate and fettle in specie value, all certificates
given for supplies by public officers to individuals, and
other claims against the United States by individuals, for
supplies furnifhed the army, the transportation thereof,
and contingent expences thereon, within the said state,
according to the principles of equity and good conscience,
in all cases which were not or should not be provided for
by Congress: AND WHEREAS it is reasonable, and
highly conducive to the public good, that the commiflion
ers appointed and to be appointed, for the pur;ofes in the
last mentioned aft or ordinance of Congress declared,
should, by laws for this purpose ena^ed, be vested with
Efficient powers to carry into effectual execution the du
ties of their offices refpe&ively.
Sefl. XI. Be it therefore enabled, and it is hereby enabled
by the authority aforefaid, that the commissioner and com
missioners appointed and to be appointed for this state or
commonwealth, for the purposes in the said last mentioned
aft or ordinance of Congress declared, shall be, and each
and every of them is and hereby ae vested with full power
and authority to carry into compleat and effectual execu
t^n, all nd finguiar the duties and functions of their and
every of their said office, trust and appointment, in like
manner and as fully as if the fame were enabled and par
ticularly declared by the laws of this commonwealth, in
the words or to the fame efFeft in which they are or have
been expressed y the United States in Congress assembled;
and for this purpose, and for the better enabling of him
and them so to d\ he and they is and are hereby, at all
times, and so often as the fame shall be necessary, vested
with the like power and authority for the fubpeenaing and
compelling the attendance of such witnesses as may be
deemed necessary, and of examining him and them upon
orth or affirmation, and generally to use such effectual and
like means for the collecting and procuring of evidence,
as by this aft any commissioner or commissioners, appoint
ed or to be appointed for the purposes in the firft above
recited a& or ordinance of Congress, may or can do; and
if any such witness or witnesses, to be examined as afore
faid, shall wilfully falfify, or knowingly swear or affirm to
art untruth, touching any material matter concerning
which he or they shall be examined as aforefaid, the fame
fliall be deemed perjury, and the offender or offenders,
tipoH conviction thereof in manner aforefaid, shall fuffer
the like pains, penalties and disabilities, with such like
offenders in this aft before mentioned.
Se&. XII. And be it further enafled by the authority afore
faid, That all and every comptroller and comptrollers,
treasurer and treasurers, register and registers, auditor
and audit rs, clerk and clerks, appointed and to be ap
pointed by the United States in Congress assembled, or by
the fuperintendant of the finances of the said Un ted
States, for the purposes in one other aft or oidinmce of
Congress made and passed on the eleventh day of Septem
ber, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, and
each and every of them, is and hereby are refpedively
vested with full power and authority to carry into effec
tual execution the duties and functions of their and every
of their said refpedive e ffices and appointments, in like
manner and as fully as if the fame were enacted and par
ticularly declared by the laws of this Commonwealth, in
the words or to the effect in which they are or have been
expressed bv the United States in Congress assembled ; and
the said comptroller and comptrollers, and auditor and
auditors, and each and every of them, appointed and to
be appointed as aforefaid, hereby is and respectively are
vested with as full power and authority to compel the at
tendance of any witness or witnesses before them, or any
of them, refpeCtively, and tor examine such witness or
witnesses upon oath or affirmation, touching such matters
as shall be depending before him or them in the way of
his and their said offices and employments, and generally,
to procure and collect evidence and testimony, as fully
and effectually as any commissioner or commissioners may
or can do under the authority of this aft; and all and
every witness and witnesses to be examined by such comp
troller and comptrollers, auditor and auditors, in manner
aforefaid, is and hereby are enjoined'to make true answer,
touching such matter as he or they shall be examined into
as aforefaid, under the like pains, penalties and disabili
ties, as are in this a& before mentioned in other cases.
The Resignation of the Hoop.
Mrs. C to Lady HARRIET L ,
1 Dear Harriet,
WHILE you have been exhibiting yourfelf in
your glory at Brighthelm flone, I have been
loitering away m y idle hours in the solitary (hades of
S • What an unfufferable animal is a rational
hufband!—that is, a man who thinks he has more
fenfethan his neighbours: To my peculiar misfortune,
Mr. C is the very man. I confenteri witu a
tolerable good grac? so accompany him hither, ready
imagining that my fertile imagination would have been
able to strike out some arnufemot among the few in
habitants of the adjacent village. With this view, I
judged it necessary to begin with a display of myfe f
in the most confpicuuus point of fignt. Accordingly,
in dressing myfelf for church agreebly to Mr. C's re
quefl, [ put on my very best 1 ell Hoop, with my bor
dered mullin gown and coat, my hat bolt upright, &c.
&c The moment I entered the parlour, he accosted
me by faying, he had waited for me above half an
hour. He then, surveying me from top to bottom,
and rafting his eyes on my petticoats, exclaim'd, sure
ly, ma y dear Caroline, you have taken more troube
than was necessary, in putting on that enormous ma
chine to fay your prayers in with rustics in a country
church. You will not only appear out of character
yourfelf, child, but will most certainly disturb the con
gregatinn, and, by fixing their attention on so novel
an exhibition, take it off from the object on which it
ougirt to be placed. As I always made it a point to
encourage those over whom I have any influence to
perform their religion- duties with propriety, I should
be p rticularly hurt, by the idea in having in the least
contributed to their deviating from that line of deco
rum in their condud, from which they should never de
part ; and I think, indeed, that upon these occasions,
we should not only give them encouragement, but set
them examples./
Mighty well ! replied I, turning up my lip; I cer
tainly shall set them a bad example.
I hope not, answered he, I shall be glad, therefore to
fee you drop that immense hoop, my dear.
Pull off ray hoop ! exclaimed I ; for what, Mr. C. ?
I shall not, indeed, be so absurd.—What harm, in the
name of wonder, can my hoop do either me or any bo
dy else ?
It will do no harm to yourfelf, I hope, answe r ed he,
as I look upon it only as a specimen of fafhio?able fol'
ly, and consequently admissible (though even then bet
ter relinquished) when you appear among these who
are dressed in the fame fantaftical file ; but, furel , a
mong the farmers wives and daughters, and the curates
wives, &c. the plainer your apparel is, the most becom
ing will be your appearance —Put really, Caroline,
(continued he) I wish you would never put on a hoop
at all except you go to court, and there, as part of a
full dress, it may be necessary ; in ever) other place,
especially in tie country, it is only an useless incum
brance; I should be glad, therefore, never to fee it
worn.
And would you aßually have me so very finguiar,
Mr. C. replied I, as not to wear a hoop, when "there
is not a Single foul of my acquaintance without
one ?
Why not, madam ? said he ; ought you to be asham
ed or afraid of being Angularly rational?
I cannot comprehend what you mean by being rati
onal, said I, but I should blush excee ingly at being
seen without a hoop, by those who always wear one
as I should at appearing quite naked before a man.'
Heavens deliver me ! exclaimed he, do you put your
being seen without a hoop, or without any clothes at
all, upon the fame footing ? You have loft your senses
sure, or at least your modefly.
Tois last word almost took away my breath • I real
ly thought I should have expired in driving to suppress
a violent laugh which Mr. C's ideas of modefly bad
railed in me ; and my embarrassment, however ridicu
lous it appeared to myfelf, I really believe was of some
service to me, for the decent creature positively took it
for shame ; and as I coloured abominably, he wis con
firmed in his mistake, and embraced me in the most
cordial manner.
You will certainly (hout, Hairiet, when I tell you timt
I complied.but you will fhoutmuch more when [declare
that, upon looking at myfelf in the glass, and feeing what
a long (wee, my train drew over the floor, I began to
think my husband was not quite so absurd in his noti
ons about the gracefulnefs of the eaflern dress. the
negligent flow of which, he always tells me, is infinitely
becoming, and inft^ad of lessening a woman's dignity
increases it. To confefs the truth, Harriet, I be e in to
confider, that (he mud be a pitiful princess indeed
who owes any part of her state to the'immoderate di'
mentions of her hoop. Full of these moral refleaions
(I don't know how entertaining they may prove)—f
returned to Mr. C. with a more winning afpeff, I s u p.
pose; for he pulled me to him with a very aff~&ionate
(mile, thanked me for my compliance, drew my hat o.
ver my forehead, gave me a tender kits, and told me he
did not chufe to have any man flare at my pretty face
but himfelf. Thus coaxed out of my senses, 1 Pepped
into the chariot, and was contented to fit in the old
family pew, with the curtain drawn round it, unob
ferving and unobserved. To befure, Ifaid my prayers
with more attention ; Mr. C. wag pleated with my de
vout behaviour ; and I actually heard some of the
young rustics fay, as I walked through the church
yard, that his honour had a fine handsome lady, with
not a bit of pride about her. Query, Harriet, whe l
ther I was thought more humble for having laid aside
my hoop? You know [ look upon them as trouble
some machines, but I so dearly love to dress in taste,
that I cannot possibly help wiihing that Mr. C was as
much attached to the reigning falhion, as I really
believe he is to Your sincere friend,
Caroline C ,
N E TV Y 0 R K, Marcb 3 .
By the (hip Eagle, in 35 days from Jamaica, we have
the following intelligence, viz.
L O N D O N, Nov. 25.
Levefon Gower, firfl captain to lord Howe, is to
command the next convoy to the Weft. Indies, which
is to consist of seven (hips of the line and three fri
gates.
Nov. 28. In the treaty of peace now carrying on
between Great-Britain and other belligerent powers,
the former has taken care to stipulate for a prorifion
frthe unfortunate loyalists and refugees; it is gene
rally underflood that a very large trad of land, bor
dering upon Canada, is to be ceded to these unfortu
nate people who are to remain under the proteflion
of the British nation; and to have guaranteed to them,
both by congress and this country, such tra&s of
land :s may be given to them. As soon as they are
thus provided for, it is said that lord Shelburne in
tends to propose that they shall all remove from Eng
land, New-York, and other parts, to the country as
signed to them; and that in order to enable them to
plant and cultivate their lands, they shall receive an
nually, for five years, from Great Britain, 60,00e1.
the amount of the present American pebfion lift, which
is then to cease and determine.
Canada and Nova Scotia are also slated as part of
the empire, to continue under the dominion of Eng
land; but whether any other or what part of Ame
rica shall be permitted to remain under the protection
of the parent state, is notknown ; but this much is
certain, that the greater difficulties in the way of
peace, arise not from America, but from India. The
allies find us (ufficiently humbled in the weft ; but our
power is Bill paramount in the east ; it is the wish, a#
it is the interest of France to reduce it there ; and hav
ing once effided her purpose on that head, (he can
have no objection to (heath the (word; to weaken,
not to ruin the power of England, was the foie end
that France could have in view on entering into a
war ; the end once answered, hoflilities would cease of
course.
it is said, that when the negociations between Great-
Britain and France was firft agitated, the court of
Versailles proposed a cessation of arms till the last day
of February, which was refufel by the court of Lon!
don ; the mmifter afligniog for the cause of refufal,
that Great-Rritain had already determined upon ways
and means for railing the supplies to answer the cur
rent year, which must be laid before the representa
tives of the people previous to Chriflmas. This had
a proper effect at Verfdilles, and a courier was imme
diately dispatched to London with a reply, that a de<
termination for peace or war should certainly be im
mediately entered upon ; in consequence of which the
parliament w^s p ror giied to the sth of December.
A private letter from the Hague has the following
article : " An express is just arrived here with dispatch
es from„our ambassador at Paris, by which we are in
formed that a peace is near concluded on, which has
given great pleasure to all people here : whatever the
terms are is not known : but they appear to be the
pleasing to the r high mightinesses; so that their is no
doubt but the prt liminariesare by this time fettled by
all the powers at war, as the affair was to be finally
determined in a few days.'
It is flrongly reported, that an answer has been re
ceived from the French court, requiring nine days
longer to confider the ultimatum of our court, and
that the parliament will in consequence be again' pro
rogued.
One of the great objects in dispute in the affair of
peace, is said to be with refped to the limits of Nova-
Scotia, which the French wish to have fettled in such
a manner as to take from our dominion the province cf
Mayne ; from which province we principally procured
timber for mails of (hipping.
A private letter from Eourdeaux fays, that the
owners of privateers have received orders from Paris
to call in immediately their privateers, and that they
do not, commit any snore hofiilities on the English till
further orders, which gives great joy to the people
there, who conjecture that peace is nearly concluded
Yesterday the printer received the following notice
from Mr. jufree Gould, judge advocate general of
thr c^urt martial, now fitting upon the trial of gene,
ral Murray, at the Horse Guards. 5
To the Printer, &c.
"The general court martial now fitting upon the
trial of lieutenant general Murray having thought fit
to ^rder, that the several witnesses produced on the
tria mould he examined apart, and conceiving that
publications in the daily pa pers of paragraphs,
fented as the fubflance of the evidence given each day
tend to defeat the good intensions of such order and
to mislead the minds of the public : I have it Ja'cem
mand from the court to enquire and enjoin you from
henceforth to d<fift from any publications of the like
° r !> at " e ' ar "' ' nie to e iv e you notice, that bi#
majefly $ attorney general has direftons to proceed
Criminally, in his majesty's court cf King's Bench
against every printer and publisher who shall in future
presume to pr nt or publish any part of the evidence
given ^pon the f^id trial, or any paragraph purport
ing to be the fubflance of such evidence, or any animad
-erfions thereon, until all toe evidence given on
fide, is elofed, and the trial ended. ' ° b ° th
Dated Horse Guards, Nov. 20, 1782.
CHARLES GOULD, judg e
advocate general.