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UNITED STATES LOTTERY.
THE public may be assured that the
Lottery will begin drawing on the
iith day of August next. A few Tickets
are yet remaining on hand, and may be had
if applied for before the i6rh of August, of
the Hun. Elifoa Sheldon, of Litchfield, Titus
Ilofmer, Esq; Middletown, Deacon David Aus
tin, New Maven. Maj. Elijah Abel, Fairfield,
Samuel Gray, Esq; Windham, Mr. David Trum
buf, Lebanon, Mr. Andrew Huntington, Nor
wich, Capt. John Cbenevard and Rhoderick
'Lawrence, Hartford.
Perfoiis who are desirous of becoming
adventurers, yet defer purchasing, imagin
ing the Lottery will not be drawn at the ap
pointed time, may depend upon it that as- {
ter the time above mentioned, not a single
Ticket will be fold in this State.
The Agents in the different Counties, by
order of the Managers, are directed on the
i6th of August to seal up what Tickets
shall then remain on hand, together with a
lift of their numbers, and return them into
the loan or some public office.
J^y ^t I ,^
-p~H ILADE l'P HI A, July I.
In CONGRESS, June 30, 1777.
CONGRESS, agreeably to the order of
the Day, resolved itfelf into a Com
mittee of the whole, to take into considerati
on the testers from Abraham Ten Broeck,
E;q; Prefidenrof the Convention of the State
of New-Yoik, dated 20th January and ift
March, 1777, the resolutions passed in
Committee ot Safety for the State of New-
York, at Fish Kill, 20 h January, 1777,
transmitted with the above letters; a petiti
on signed Jonas Fay, fho. Chittenden, He
man Allen, and Reuben Jones, in the name
and behalf of the people fliling themklves
inhabitants of the New Hampshire Grants,
dated New- Hamplhue Grants, Wefiminfter
15th January, 17°7; a letter from Pierre V.
Cortlands, Esq; President of the Council of
Safety of New-York, dated 28th May 1777;
and a printed paper signed “ A word to the
wife is fufficient, “ containing an axtraft from
the minutes of Congress, and a letter to the
inhabitants of Vermont, signed Thomas
Young, da^ed Philadelphia, i ithApril, 1777,
kid before Congress the 23d inst. by the
Delegates of New York , and after some time
the President refunded the chair, and Mr.
Harrison reported, That the Committee have
bad under Consideration the letters and pa
pers to them referred, and came to sundry
resolutions thereupon, which he is ready to
report whenever the Congress shall please to
receive them.
Ordered, That the report be now received.
The report from the Committee of the
whole was then read, and agreed to as fol
lows :
Refoved, That Congress is composed of
Delegates chosen by, and representing, the
communities refpedivb inhabiting the ter
ritories of New-Hampfh re, Maßachnletts-
Bay, Rhode-IQ-and and Providence P^ntatE
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ons, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
Narth-Carolinia, South-Carolina, and Geor
gia, as they refpedively flood at the time of
its firft institution for the purpose of securing
and defending the communities aforefaid,
against the ufurpatation,oppreffions and h©f
tile invasions of Great Britain ;-—and that
therefore it cannot be intended that Congress
by any of its proceedings would do, recom
mend, or countenance any thi'ng injurious to
the rights and jurifd ftions of the several
communities which it represents.
Resolved, That the independent govern
ment attempted to be eftablfhed by the
people filling themselves inhabitants of the
New-Hampshire Grants, can derive no
countenance or juft.flcation from the aft of
Congress declaring the United Colonies to
be independent of the crown of Great-Bri
tain, nor from any other aft or resolution of
Congress.
Resolved, That the petition of Jonas Fay,
Thomas Chittenden, Hernan Alien and
Reuben J nes in the name and behalf of
the people fbling them it.; yes as aforefaid,
Paying ' that their declaration, that they
would coofider themselves as a free and
' independent State, may be received; that
‘ the diftrid in the laid petition described
' may be ranked among the free and inde
' pendent Sta^, and that Delegates there
' from may be admitted to feats in Con
‘ grefs,' be dilmiffed.
Resolved, That Congress, by raffing and
officering the regiment commanded by Col.
Warner, never meant to give any encou
ragement to the claim of the people afore-
Ld, to be considered as an independent
State ; but that the reason which induced
Congress to form that corps was, that many
officers of different States, who had served
in Canada, and alledged that they would foofi
raile a regiment, but were then unprovided
hr, might be levitated in the service of the
United States.
Whereas a printed paper, addressed to
the inhabitants of the diftn& aforefaid, da
ted Philadelphia, 1 Ith April, 1777, and
subscribed ' Thomas Young? was laid be
fore Congress on rhe 23d inftanr, by the De
legates of New-York, to which addfefs is
prefixed the refolurioa of Congress of the
15th of May, 1776, and in which are con
tained the following paragraphs :—' I have
taken the minds of several of the leading
members of the Honourable the Conti
‘ nental Congress, and can assure you that
‘ you have nothing to do but fend attested
6 copies of the recommendation to take up
' government, to every township in your
' d firing and incite all the freeholders and
' inhabitants to meet in their refpedive
‘ townships, and chufe members for a gene
' ral Convention, to meet at an early day
' to choose Delegates for the General Cori
‘ grefs and Committee of Safety, and to
' form a Constitution for your State. Your
' friends here tell me, that some are in
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' doubt whether Delegates from your dis;
6 tri& would be admitted into Cong efs ; I
6 tell you, to organize fairly, and make the
' experiment, and I will ensure you fUccefs
' at the rifque of my reputation as a man of
' honour or common fenfe^ indeed they
' can by no means refufe you ; you have
' as good a right to choose how you will b^
6 governed, and by whom, as they hid.'
"Resolved, That the contents of the fa d
paragraphs are derogatory to th^ honour of
Congress, and a gross mfreprefentation of
the refutation of Congress therein referred
to, and to deceive and m flead the people td
whom they are addreffd.
Extraa from the Journals,
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec.
LONDON, April 7.
Extras of a letter, received by a gentleman whd
bears an bonorar, office m the city,from Am^
fterdam,
''The States Gim+al have received letters
from their ref,efhve C&n/uls at A giers, Tunis,
and Tripoli, whichinform them, that the Regenc,
of tbeje places /hew but little dfytfnon to main
taiu peace with their High Mighti&fa, Ttoat
-tercfytb„&^v«A^^vty epprtf ile Captains and
crews of Dutch feips, which have put into those
ports : That complaints that have been made of
tbefe proceedings to the several Regencies of the
above places, have made no impuji^n, and that
there is great reason to fear that Jtepsfp dtfag reta
ble to the Republic will be followed by lath as will
still be more so. Their High Mightiness Cenjul
at Algiers takes notice particularly, that having
demanded an audience of the De, upon tbis fubjefl,
and then complaining of a conduct so little con
'formable to the treaties which subsist between the
Regency of Algiers and the Republic of the United
Provinces, the Dey answered him ver, frankly i#
the following terms : '' All that ,cu have said in
this affair fbould be ver, good, if the rajhtution
of our date was other then it t. You knout
ftrfefll, well, that we could not support ouffelves;
were it not for the prizes which we take from the
Christian nations, ft is now more than two years
Ji^ce we made an, captures of confeqnence ; we
mug therefore make ourfives amends b, acling
in another manner. In IRtt, we have been at
peace so long, that all cur privateers are wear,
of it ; and well the, may, because we are like
wise at peace with Great Britain, France, and
other maritine fates ; too many at one timh we
mud break withfome ofyou." TbeConful exclaimed
greatly against /ueb a procedure ; and said, that
the States General b, no means deferred to be trea
ted in this fort, face so great prefects were made
by them to the Algerines. To which the De, re
plied, " Pra, don't upbraid uswitbyour prevents;
which are not half so valuable as tbofe made by
other nations, with whom, we are at peace. But
since you talk of prefects, pra, where are tie
pieces of scarlet and blue cloth you premijed me,
arid where are the malls that ,out mailers vere to
fend me ?" The Consul replied, that be did not
doubt but the particulars mentioned by the De,
were intended to bejent, and that it tvas certain,
owing to forgetfulnefs that he had not received
them before. " And for m, p^rt (said the Dey,
Both FOREIGN and DOMESTIC.