The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-03-18 00:00:00, page 3

the Wabalh, 24 Leagues (instead of 15 Miles)
from the Miami Towps destroyed the Year be
fore by General Harmar, and that Gen. St.
Clair's Course from Fort Washington, by Mis
take, greatly too far to the Weft." -
[* Who among as ncould <wijh to be Gen. ST.'
.Clair ? t Would not WEdofotoo ?]
A Letter has been received by a refpedable
Merchant in this City, from his Correfpon,
dent in London, dated January 9, which Men
tions the Arrival of an Express, that Moment,
from the Na ional Convention of France, an
nouncing,that Sentence was passed on Louis,
which condemned him to Imprisonment during
the War, and perpetual RamJbment thereafter—
That the Convention Ihould not contend a
bout the Scheldt, and that they were inclined
to support the Principles of profound Friend
ship with the Britilh Nation.
IMPORTANT ARTICLES.
March 2.=By this Day's Mail, we have re
ceived the following interesting congressional
Proceedings, enclosed to the Editors, by an
obliging Correspondent in Philadelphia:
The rollowing Resolutions, moved by Mr.
Giles, and feconedby Mr. Findley, have
been the Subjed of Debate in the House of
Representatives of the [United States, for some
Days—the Publick are exceedingly interested
in the Result, arid we shall mention it as soon
as it shall be ascertained.
lit. RESOLVED, That it is essen
tial to the due Admioiftration of the
Government of the United States, that
Laws making appropriations Os Mon
ey, should be ftridly observed by the
Administrators of the Finances thereof.
2, Resolved, That a Violation of a
Law making. Appropriations of Moh.
ey, is a Violation of that Section of the
Confutation which requires, that no
Money shall be drawn from the Trea
sury but in Corifeqoence of express Ap
propriations by Law. 'h
3. Resolved, That the Secretary of
the Treasury has violated the Law pas
sed the 4th of Auguft,l79o, making
Appropriations of certain Monies, au
thorised to be borrowed by the said law,
in the following Particulars, viz. 1 ft.
By applying a certain Portion of the
Principal borrowed, to the Payment of
Interest falling due upon that Princi
pal, which was nbt authotifed by that
or any other Lar ——And, adly. By
drawing a Part of the said Monies into
the United States, without the Instruc
tions of the President of the U. States
4th. Resolved, That the Secretary
of the Treasury has deviated from the
Inftrußions given by the President of
Philadelphia, Feb. 28.—An American
Gentleman just arrived from France, where he
had every Opportunity, and spared no Pains,<
to collect the best Information, communicates
the most agreeable Accounts from that Quar
ter. —The City of Paris was in a State of per
fea Tranquility, and under the ftriaeft Police
—the Military under exadDifcipline, the Or
der in the Convention great, considering the
Number of its Members, the natural Vivacity
of the French, and the unbounded Variety of
Business they have to tranfad. La Fayette,
he also informs, meets with good Treatment
in his Confinement.
The Britilh Government has prohibited the
Exportation of foreign Wheat from that Coun
try to France, and have ordered none to be ad
mitted to entry for that Kingdom, but only to
neutral countries, under bond for its discharge
there : An Embargo has been also laid in Ire
land upon all Kindt of Provisions, with a View
(it is said) to starve the French, if possible.
NEWYORK, Feb. 28.—Among the Dis
coveries of this enlightened Age, an ingenious
mechanick in Connecticut, has invented the Art
of making Paper that the hottest Fire cannot
consume.
PENNSYLVANIA.
NEWYORK.
the United States, in executing the Au
thorities for making Loans under the
Ads of the 4th add 12th of August,
1790.-
s th. Resolved, That the Secretary
of the Treasury omitted to discharge.
an essential Duty of his Office, in fail
ing to give Copgreb official Informa
tion' in due Time of the Monies drawn
by him from Europe into the United
States, which drawing commenced in
December, 1790, and continued till
January 1793 ; and of the Causes of
making such Draft.
6th. Resolved, That the Secretary
of the Treasury, without the Infruc
tions of the President of the United S's,
has drawn more Monies borrowed in
Holland into the U. S. than the Presi
dent of the U. States was authorifed to
draw, according to the Aft of the 12th
of August, 1790, which Act appropri
ated two millions of Dollars only, when
borrowed, to the Purchase of the pub
lick Debt ; and that he has omitted to
discharge an essential Duty of his Of
fice, in failing to. give official Informa
tion to the Commissioners for purchas
ing the publick Debt, of the various
Sums drawn from Time to Time, sug
gested by him to have been intended
for the Purchase of the publick Debt.
7. Resolved, That the Secretary of
the Treasury did not consult the pub
lick Intereff, in negotiating a Loan
with the Bank of the United States, and
drawing therefrom 400,000 Dollars at
5 per cent, per annum, when a greater
Sum of publick Money was deposited
in various Banks, at the refpedive Pe
riods of making the refpe&ive Drafts.
Bth. Resolved, That the Secretary
, of the Treasury has been guilty of an
Indecorum to this House, in undertak
ing to judge of its motives in calling
for Information, which was demanda
ble of him from the Constitution of his
Office ; and in failing to give all the
necessary Information within his know
ledge, relatively to the Subjects of re
ference made to him of the 29th of Ja
nuary, 1792, and 22d of November,
1792, during the present Session.
9th. Resolved, That a Copy of the
foreign Resolutions. be uanfmitted to
the President of the United States.
MASSACHUSETTS.
' BOSTON, March 9.—A Gentleman, who
arrived Passenger in the January Packet, in
forms, That the Childres BritiJh Sloop of
War, on a Cruize bf Observation off Bref, had
been fired at form the Forts of that City,
twice before her commander hoisted his En
fign,and twice after ; and that our Informant,
when on his Journey to Falmouth, to fail in the
Packet, met the Capt. of the'CHiLDREs, go
ing express to London, 10 lay before the Lords ej
the Admiralty the Particulars of the Event.
It is said, there are Letters in Town, ffem
Lord Hoon, of the Britiffi Admiralty, dated
Tanuarv Sth, which Mention War as inevita
ble. . h
The late Disputes between France and Ge
nroa, is happily adjusted on terms equally hon
wraUejo bothß^^ ^/^ ^%
the foregoing Resolutions, the ift, 2d,
and gib, were objeded to, and it was
agreed to commit the 3d, 4th, sth,
6th, 7th, and Bth, were taken up and
debated fol three Days in Committee
of the whole House, but no Decision
was had when this Account was dis
patched to us.
On a Queflion for committing all
From Philadelphia, March 2.
Abfraß of further European Intelligence by the
• . ; January Packet.
The Galleries of the Hall of the National
Convention were occupied on the 20th De
cember, by People who had fat there all the
Night previous to the Day on which the
King's Defence was made. —A.Negociation is
on loot between Spain and France —this ap
pears, on the Part ofthe French Government
to have for its objed a definitive Declaration of
Neutrality on the Part of Spain—a Nuetrality
is unequivocally declared by the latter, but the
Declaration is accompanied with some general
Refledions on the Sitution of Louis xvi. in
which it is said —" It is impossible that the
whole World Ihould not behold, with horror,
the Violences committed against a Prince op
pressed by the Mileries ofa long and vigorous
Captivity, and by the Insults of some, who
think to aggrandize themselves by treading
under Foot greatness now fallen."
On the 14th Dec. at five in the Morning,
the King of Prrffia set out from Frankfort at the
Head of the greatest Part of the Garrison, and
all the Prussian Troops quartered in the neigh
bourhood. A very smart Cannonade has been
heard lince their Departure. There is a Re
port that the French were dirven back to Caf
tel, inthe Suburbs of Mayence, on the Rieht of
the Rhine ; thatthey loft several Prices 01 Can
non, and abandoned the Post of Bockheim,
Which the King carried in Person, and where
he passed the night. . Letters of a later date
fay,that the Prussians are in possession of 0,-
penbeim, an important Post on the Rhine, foul
Leagues above Majehce.
_'\^ & ufol—:—-^-—-ottaL
s ^?^ This day publilhed,,
Price is.pitched in blue Paper, a Book, centain-
S 6 Pag", entitled,
ANIMADVERSIONS
ON'-/
“ The Substance of two Sermons, preached at
" Stepney, by Joh n Lewis, a. m. Pallor of
" the Church in that Parilh ;" entitled,
" Christian Forbearance 'to weak Confeiences,
■^a Duty bhhe Gospel."
by CYPRIAN STRONG, a. M.PafoK of
the firft Chotch fa Chatham.
MANUFACTURES.,
There are employed in the oufinefs of mak
ing Women's Shoes in the Towns of Lynn and
Reading, (including the Women who bind
them) fifteen hundred People—who make and
export, annually to the different Part of the
Continent,four hundred andfyt, tboufand pair ot
Shoes. A saving tothe United States 0f337, 000
Dollars a Year.
EXETER, March 6.— At the annual Town
Meeting held in this Town, on Monday the
4th Instant—Votes for Governour, his Excel
lency Josiah Bartlett, Esq. 149—'honourable
John T. Gilman, Esq. 30.—For Senator in
Diftria No. 2. hon. Oliver Peabody, Esq. 160
—Nathaniel Gilman, Esq. 7 —Phillips White,
Esq. ?,—For Councillor for Rockingham Coun
ty, hon. Phillips White, Esq. 120 —Christo-
pher Toppan, Esq. 51.—Josiah Gilman, Esq.
Town Clerk.- Mr. Benjamin Conner, jun.
chosen Representative. z
Ordained, at Epping, on Wednesday last, the
Rev. Mr. Peter Holt, to the pastoral Care
of the Church & Congregation in that Place.
LARGE HOG.-Killed at Deerfield, by
Col. Joseph Hilton, a Hog between 20 and
21 Months old, which weighed 669!5.
LONDON; Jan. 11—Letters from the
Loewer Rhine mention the decisive advantage
said to have been gained over the French Ar
my under General Custine, to be prema
ture. There appears only to have been some
serious Rencounters between the Posts. The
Prussian Troops, under the King of Prussia and
the Duke of Brunfaick, marched against the
French encamped on the Heights of Efch. —
They crossed the sorest, and drove them from
SavalbacbyNafad.ten, and Kemem, as far as Wil
baben. The a&ion was bloody, and the Duke
of Brunjewick's Son was wounded in two Places,
but not dangerously. .
We are allured, the Dutch are resolved not to
give up their Right to the exclusive Navigation
of the Scheldt.
PUBLiCk OFFICERS.
NEWHAMPSHIRE,
ENGLAND.