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is paid by the Slaving trade Chips, who carry their
'cargoes to the islands of Martinico (Tobago now
possessed by France) and other French fettleinents in
the western world, which are calculated at as much
more. France now employs upwards of 10,000 tons
of (hipping and 1000 seamen in this trade, in which
but a few years since (he had seldom more than fix or
Seven Chips of from 200 to 350 tons each, and car
rying from 100 to izo seamen in all.
Ma, 27. The college of physicians are now ex
erting their authority, which entitles them to allow
no perlon to pra&ife physic in the city, or within
twelve miles thereof, without being licensed by that
learned body. The nostrum-mongers and quacks of
/ ninations are of course thrown into the ut
.!) ifufion.
r practitioner, previous to obtaining his license
e college in Warwick-lane, (for which he
pays 50I.) is examined, in the Latin language, in the
principal branches of medicine; viz. physiology, pa
thology and therapeutics. The examinations are on
every Friday, and each candidate attends three times.
June 3. Authentick accounts from Vienna, dated
May 10, declare that the Sieur Petracki had, on the
20th of April last, been publickly beheaded.---His
body was exposed three days on a platform, and then
fold by the executioner to his friends. A paper, de
claring he had robbed the publick treafurv, and com
mitted other ads of enormity, was exhibited upon
his breast. The unfortunate man had been a great
favourite with the late Grand Vizier, and had been
employed in the firft department of finance, as well
as the mint, for upwards of 14 years. He was a
native of Poland, and had changed from the Qrifti
an to the Mahometan religion.
Letters from a gentleman at Guernsey mention,
that the French are indefatigable in making additions
to the fortifications at Cherbourg. The duke de
Biron, who infpe&ed these works, had resigned; and
the king has appointed the count Artois to succeed
him. A new Pentepon, in Vauban's belt manner, is
configuring at the mouth of the harbour, and several
star-sorts at all the accessible parts of the river. The
advices add, that 14,000 men arc employed in the
environs of that town, who receive the double pay
for working on the improvements.
June 6. A letter from Cherbourgh, in Norman
dy, has the following article: " 1 hough this is lite
rally a miserable town, yet, if the works, now going
on, are continued as brilkly for another year, as they
have been this last, it will one day be a scourge to
England. Its situation in the channel over against the
Englith islands of Jersey and Guernsey, will in a fu
ture war render it very hurtful to Great-Britain. At
present the engineers are indefatigable, and the forti
fications go on with amazing rapidity. The (hip-car
penters are also busy in building nine (loops, that are
to carry fix, eight and ten pieces of cannon, and
which are to be alternately at anchor in the road and
in the port."
On Maunday Thursday, at Versailles, his most
Christian Majesty walhed the feet of twelve poor
men, and waited on them at table, in commemoration
of the Lord's Supper, Ilie prince of Conde, grand
master of the houfhold, was at the head of the king's
stewards, and performed the office of server. The
dishes were carried by Monsieur the count d'Artois,
the duke of Orleans, Bourbon and Enghein, the
prince of Conti, and the duke of Penthievre. His
majesty went afterwards to chapel, where a solemn
mass was lung by the king's musicians. During the
ceremony, the countess de Suiffeval went round with
a purse, in form of a stand-up silk bag, and collected
money for the poor. It is an excellent custom in
France, to feled a lady of faShion, generally young
and handsome, to perform the generous part of col
le&ing money to relieve the indigent.
June 8. The French in Grenada have petitioned
against the militia a&s paSTed by the present governor,
and insist on having representatives in the legislature:
just on the fame term# according to which the En
glish are allowed to vote, and lit in the house of af
fembiy. A council is summoned on this very impor
tant business. The insurgents in Dominica still re
main triumphant.
American Intelligence.
KINGSTON, (Jamaica) June 10.
ON Thursday last arrived his Majesty's packet-boat
Grantham, Mr. Richard George, commander, af
ter a passage of fix weeks.
By her arrival we learn orders are received, that the
ircourfe between America and this island (hall con
re to be carried on in the fame manner as it former
vas.
! une 28. We are happy to announce, from very
relpeftable authority, that upwards of one thousand
barrels of flour have been imported from Philadelphia,
within two days past. This must certainly reduce the
price of flour.
PHILADELPHIA, July 28.
The insidious and artful endeavours of certain per
lons to depreciate and injure the circulation of the
TRENTON, August 7.
On the loth ult. his Excellency James Bowdoin,
Governor of the commonwealth of Maffachutetts,
issued a proclamation forewarning all perlons from
purchasing the lands lying weft ot Hudson's river, in
dispute between the said commonwealth and the state
of New-York, until the jurisdiction be previously
determined by the federal court, which has been in
stituted for that purpose.
On the 26th ult. Mrs. Rebecca Forman, relict of
Aaron Formau, late of Morris-1 own, after a lingering
illness, which (he bore with much chriftian patience
and resignation to the divine will, paid the lalt debt to
nature. She was amiable in her manners—her piety
was exemplary and unaffected. In a word, it is greatly
to be deplored, that there arc so few who imitate her
virtues.
The establishment of a free press in any govern
ment, more especially democracies, fays a writer in the
Virginia Gazette, is the best mode of ensuring its pri
vileges. The liberty of the press may be considered as
an invincible bulwark to the rights of a free state, and
the palladium of the liberties of mankind. So far has
it proved a blessing to society—so far has it demonitrat
ed itfelf a check upon the tools of office —that it ever
has attracted the eye of jealousy, and made the heart
of tyranny to palpitate with horror. A free and im
partial press will be deemed by every informed Ame
rican, as the centinel to his rights, his liberties and
his honours —that will give the watch-word at the ap
proach of danger, and challenge every alarming evil,
while yet at a distance.
We are informed by a letter from Madeira, that
the vintage of this year bids fair to be the fineft and
most plentiful ever known there; and that it is ex
pected there will be more wine made of the firft qua
lity, than was ever remembered.
Lately was committed to gaol in Richmond, one
Elisha Laffetter, a most inhuman wretch, for the
murder of his uncle whom he roasted alive, to extort
from him his cash and other most valuable effects. He
had three accomplices, two of whom are mulattoes,
the other a white man who has turned date's evidence.
A letter from a gentleman in New-York, to his
friend in Hartford, dated July 18, fays, " Congress
have just received frelh intelligence of Indian depre
dations on our frontiers; they appear to have aflift
ance, as they attacked one of our forts with cannon.
The matter lies for consideration. What Congress
will determine on this fubjeCt remains unknown."
A correspondent observes, that as the welfare, and
even existence, of the American dates depend on the
federal government ; and as this cannot exifl, until Con
gress have complete and ample power to raise a reve
nue to support publick credit, and to regulate the
whole system of commerce; therefore, if the Rates
any longer neglect to give those powers to Congress,
nothing remains tor Congress to do, but to inform the
Rates, when they Jball retire from the helm; and " ab
dicate" their office. For the Rates to trifle any longer,
is to sport with their existence, and to offer themfclves
a prey to any invader, or to a tyrant, or to anarchy.
Something must immediately be done.
Extraß from a French Journal of Literature.
Paris, April 30, 1786.
" In the press, and soon will be published, ' A trans
lation of the History of the Revolution of South Ca
rolina.' By the Hon. David Ramsay, Delegate in Con
gress; 2 vol. Bvo. with cuts—The author is a gen
tleman of most refpeCtable political and literary
knowledge; he is well informed of the tranfattions
which he relates, and no person more able to unfold
them to publick view."
We learn that the accounts of the seizures of our
vessels, and preventing our navigation in the bay of
Paffamaquoddy, as related in the publick papers, are
paper medium of this state, merit and must meet with
the mod severe reprehension and indignation of every
man who feels in any mariner interested in the welfare
of Pennsylvania. The question, whether it was or
was not politick or prudent to issue paper money,
might, prior to the enaction of the funding bill, have
admitted of much argument. Perhaps reasons Suffi
ciently forcible might have been adduced against the
measure. But a medium of this fort being issued, as
a fuccedaneum for the vast quantity of specie which
has since the war been drained from us, no man, but
an avowed or secret enemy to the republick, will at
tempt to lower it in publick estimation. This is a
truth of which the certainty is as clear, as that of any
political maxim ever advanced or received by the con
current consent of mankind. What must be the con
sequence of a final depreciation of the paper money ?
Nothing less than the ruin, or at lead the extreme dis
tress of a great proportion of our citizens, and (which
Heaven avert) perhaps riots and tumults, pregnant
with dangerous consequences. Is there a fufficient
quantity of specie in Pennsylvania to serve as a circu
lating medium? He must be an ideot that would pre
tend to fay yes. What has been the cause of this de
ficiency ? One writer tells you the bank---another the
paper money! Absurd ! The cause is obvious. Lux
ury! deftru&ive luxury! the canker-worm of virtue,
happiness, competence and independence, has drained
away the money, and will continue to do so, unless
habits more confentaneous with the state of an infant
and rising empire, be introduced, either by a generous
effort of the people, or by salutary laws counteract
ing the pernicious influence of European dissipation
and prodigality, which we have adopted, as auk
wardly as an indigent tradesman apes the modes and
the ton of the nobility, in what is termed the old
country.--- [Penn. Her.]
Just PUBLISH E I),
And fold by the Printer hereof,
AN
E S S A Y
ON
MON E Y,
As a Medium of COMMERCE;
WITH
REMARKS on the Advantages and
Disadvantages of Paper ad
mitted into a GENERAL
Circulation.
By a Citizen of the United States.
STRAYED out of the pasture of Messrs. Joseph
InfLe and Jacob Phillips, near Trenton, in the
evening f the 26th day of june last, a sorrel horte,
about fourteen and a half hands high, twelve years
old, a natural trotter, marked with a snip, one or twJ
hind feet white. Any. perlon giving intelligence to said
Mefl'rs; Inflee or Phillips, or the fubferiber, so that
the owner gets him again, Shall be handsomely re
warded by
SIMEON REEVES.
Reading-Town, Hunterdon county,
July 27, 1786. iw*
NOTICE is hereby given to the creditors of Da
vid Cock, an insolvent debtor, now confined in
the common gaol of the county of Hunterdon, to ap
pear before two of the Judges of the inferior court of
common pleas for said county, at the courthouse in
Trenton, on Weoneliay the Sixth of September next
ensuing, at X o'clock in the forenoon of the fame day,
to Shew cause, if any they have, why an alignment
of the Said David Cock's estate Should not be made,
and he be discharged, agreeably to the ad of the kgif
laturc in such caie made and provided.
DAVID COCK.
Hunterdon gaol, Aug. 5, 1786. 4 w*
FORTY DOLLARS
REWAR D.
l? '" away from the tubferiber, living in Somerset
' c ,°^' ftatc ° f New -Jersey, two negroes, one
named Gilbert, a mulatto, 40 years old, a Shoemaker
by trade, 13 well set, about five feet fix inches high
very much marked with the small-pox, has a large Sc^
on his breast, is much troubled with the rheumatism
in wet weather, can read very well, pretends to be
religious, and sometimes undertakes to preach- had
on when he went away, a blue broadcloth coat', and
corduroy vest and breeches.
Fhe other named Jack, about 16 or 17 years old
well grown, a smart active fellow, Render legs re-'
markable long feet, and knock-knee'd ; had on a light
coloured fagathy coat, and red jacket, his other ap
parel not known. An^perfon taking up said negroes
and securing them, so that the owner may get them
again, Shall have the above reward, as also rcafonable
charges if brought home, or Twenty Dollars for
either. All masters of vessels are forewarned not to
take said Slaves off.
JOHN BRYAN.
Bedminfter, June 2, 1786. 4 w*
now represented in a less unfavourable light. The
vessel that was seized has been restored, and the mea
sure difeountenanced by the government there. The
captain ' another American vessel was notified that
he wis within the British province line, and desired
to move within our lines, which he did, and no fur
ther difficulty ensued. In (hort, the seizure was made
on or near the disputed territory; and, as the line is
not yet agreed on, we fear these disputes may fre
quently occur till the boundary is amicably fettled by
commissioners on both sides. ;
By the UNITED STATES in CONGRESS
ASSEMBLED, July 24, 17 86.
ON a report relative to the capture of the (loop
Chester, and a note from the minister of the
United Netherlands in behalf of the owners or claim
ers of the said (loop, being in Holland, and other
papers relative to the property, capture and condemn
ation thereof,
Resolved, That the court of appeals be, and they
are hereby authorized and empowered, upon applica
tion made to them by the owners or claimants of the
said sloop Chester, her appurtenances and cargo, at
their session in November next, to examine and de
termine, by way of appeal, upon the merits of the
said application for a new trial; and if, in the opinion
of the said court, there Should appear just cause, to
re-hear, try, adjudge and determine, refpeding the
capture and condemnation thereof, and to reverie the
decree of the court of admiralty of South-Carolina,
in whole or in part, or to affirm the fame with costs,
as to law and justice shall appertain; and that this
resolution be publilhed, and Shall be deemed and
taken as notice to the parties concerned, that the
said cause will be tried and determined at that time.
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'ry.