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of a committee of Congress of ift Nov. 1783, and
resolution of 19 April, 1784, relative to a proper re
prelentation in Congress.
No. 13. 25 April, 1785. Letter from the war
office refpe&ing the officers to be appointed by the
ihte of New-Jersey, to command its quota of troops,
&c.
No 14. 29 April, 1785. Resolve of Congress r'e
fpeCting a fuller representation in Congress.
No. 15. 30 April, I,Bs. Resolution of Congress
recommending it to the legislatures of the several„
states to veil Congress, for fifteen years, with certain
powers for the regulation of commerce.
No. 16. 19 May, 1785. Letter from the war
office requeuing what measures have been taken by
the state of New-Jersey to raise their proportion of
troops required by the act of Congress of the 12th
of April last.
No. 17. 27 May, 1785. The election of Congress
of several surveyors, in conformity to the ordinance
for ascertaining the mode of difpofmg of lands in the
western territory, &c.
No. 18, 31 May, 1783. Letter from mr. secreta
ry Thomson, enclosing resolution of Congress of 3d
November, 1783, and 27 May, 1785.
No 19. 3 Nov. 1783. Resolution of Congress
directing the paymaster-general to deposit in the hands
of the regimental agents, the certificates of pay due
to the officers and soldiers of the refpechve lines of
the late army, &c.
(To be continued.)
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Foreign Intelligence.
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LONDO N, Sept. is.
There certainly is something going forward in
France which ought not to escape our notice. —They
are equipping their fleets, and augmenting their ar
mies, and Spain is reinforcing Minorca, and brushing
up the old fortifications. The diffentions in this
country, and the determination of preferring an ad
ministration, against the will of the people, not one
of which administration is capable of conducing a
war, induce the Frenchmen to make preparations for
a war. There is nothing so easy as for the natural
enemy to pick a quarrel. Phoedrus has finely deli
neated that truth in his beautiful fable of the wolf
and the lamb.
A letter from Bengal, dated from the camp, in
the Duab, Dec. 18, 1784, fays, “ A great dearth
has desolated the upper provinces of this beautiful
country. Hardly any rain has fallen during four
years. In consequence, the crops have failed, and
the poor starved. 1 here was a Scarcity also in Ben
gal; but its being under a better government preserv
ed it from monopolies and ruin. Thanks to the Al
mighty! a plentiful crop promises this year, plenty
of rain having fallen. From my inquiries, I find, half
the inhabitants of the Duab and Robileund have pe
riled. Every ditch, road, brook, pond and street
of these countries, was strewed with the dead bodies
of men, women and children. As there is no police
in this country, where the wretch expires, there
he lies, till his flefh is striped off by the dogs, which
is generally done in two days. No one buries him:
for who are friends to a ftaived wretch? Besides, the
Hindoos do not bury their dead, but burn them, if
they have money to buy fuel. We have been often
obliged to fhift our camp, on account of the stench
arising from the putrefaction of so many bodies.
When you refled that the people cf Hindoftan are
the mold abstemious in the world ; that their daily
food is never flefh; hardly any thing else than about
a seer (not quite two pounds weight) cf wheat or
barley made into cakes, and baked over a few lighted
flicks; when you understand that such is their food,
and simple water their drink, you may form some
judgment of the rage of this famine, which could
deprive them of even this little. Men and women,
with their children in their hands, flocked to camp,
offering themselves for sale, for a quart of corn.—
Mothers fold their children for 4 annas each (or the
fourth part of a rupee or half crown.) I could have
purchased a thousand children at this price, from
four to ten years of age. I actually did purchase
three very fine children between seven and eight years
of age, for three rupees or half-crowns. I might have
had them for a third of the sum, together with their
mothers. I have them now. I had writings deliver
ed with them, properly attested by the Cutwal (or
magistrate.) But as I fnudder at the thought of one
human creature being a Have to another, and fearing,
fliould any accident happen to me, my executors
might fell them, I have destroyed the writings, and
declared them free. My sole motive for purchasing
them, was, to preserve them from death."
Extract of a letter from the Hague, Sept. 6,
" You need not hesitate to declare, that matters
here, both domestic and foreign, are coming to the
most disagreeable extremities.
" Nor are our affairs abroad in a better situation•
the states are continually assembled without knowing
what .to determine upon;—the emperor having only
allowed them till the 15th, to determine whether they
will accept of the conditions proposed by him; and
in the mean time is making the most alarming prepa
rations. The seizure of the contraband goods in the
mail of the ambassador's mefTenger, is an additional
Broke which tends to embarrass them. Mess. de
Waflenaer and de Leyden, are certainly re-called
from Vienna."
A few evenings ago, when the pafTengers got into
the Rage coach at Cobham, in the county of Surry,
they found that one of the corners had been some
time occupied by a man who seemed to be asleep,
with his hands folded before him, and his hat drawn
over his face. Ihe other five passengers, after some
time entered into conversation, and observed, that
this man still slept on, and took no notice of any
thing that was either said or done. In this manner
they travelled all night. In the morning, at break
fait time, one of his fellow-travellers civilly addressed
him, and desired he would accompany them, but no
answer oeing returned they left him to his meditati
ons. After breakfaft, when the coachman had swal
lowed a glass or two of brandy, one of the gentle
men said to him, you have put us along with a very
sulky fellow, for he will neither enter into conversa
tion or aniwer when spoken to. "I should wonder if
he did," replied the coachman, “ as he was hung two
days ago for horse-stealing, and is now going up to a
surgeon in London."
Extract of a letter from Arras, in France.
" Clutterbuk (who committed a forgery on the
bank of England) was sent from hence this morning
at halt an hour after four o'clock, upon a long journey
to the gallies, with sixteen other felons all chained to
gether by the neck and one hand, he wore a cotton
By a nobleman just arrived from Germany, we are
confidently allured that preparations are making for a
war between the emperor and the republick, all hopes
of accommodation being nearly at an end.
Accounts, it is said, have been brought home with
in these few days, refpe&ing the proceedings of the
French, by the last ships which arrived from our set
tlements on fie coast of Africa. The faCt is, the
Marquis de Sai, commander in chief, has fortified
the river Gambia, in violation of the last treaty of
peace; batteries of fix guns, a la barbette, have been
erected at most of the angles of that extensive river.
Sierra-Leon has been (Lengthened with a number of
outworks and three star forts., and the marquis has
made a treaty witn Ally Courie and other negro
chiefs, greatly to the advantage of the French na
tion.
Extract of a letter from the Hague, Sept. 12.
" The news we receive from both Germany and
the Audrain Netherlands relative to the emperor's
preparations, serve to convince us that his intentions
are hostile.
" In confirmation of this alarming intelligence let
ters from Deutz of the sth fay, we have just heard
that the negotiations at Paris have been unexpectedly
put a stop to. The emperor, worn out with the in
numerable difficulties perpetually raised by the repub
lick relative to the lum to be paid, has fignified to
the States General, that they must immediately come
to a final resolution on that matter; in other words
they must comply with his terms, or he will attack
them."
I he next session of parliament promises to be a ve
ry busy one. Ihe repeal of the (hop tax; fettling
the American intercourse; appropriating the promised
furp^us; regulating the game laws; adjusting the bu
siness of the militia ; a new edition of Iriffi arrange
ments; dneuffing the state of the India company; and
the accusation of Mr. Hastings, will, together with
the incidental business of the session, employ the at
tention of parliament to a very late period of the
year.
According to letters from Leghorn, the republick
of V enice have purchased the friendfhip of the em
press of Raffia at a very high rate (in order to have
a complete barrier against the Ottoman Porte) they
having agieed to lend the court of Feterfburgh a sum
of seven millions of ducats, which, for live years, are
to bear no interest, and after that the usual interest of
European^ powers, and at tire end of twenty years
the Czarina is to have a free liberty to pay it off in
three years, or to translate it into annuities for the
lives of such of the survivors, who have legal claims
by having advanced the money, or became heritors
of such who have advanced it.
The whale fifhery has turned out tolerably well to
the English this season; they have brought several
full-fized whales; two or three of them twelve feet
in the jaw. Ihe Dutch have had several ships in the
Ribery ; feme of whom have been very fuccefsful.
Iwo Dutchmen have ventured so far as 80 deg.
north latitude; they had each fix fhallops and fix
harpooners. One of the whales they catched was 90
feet in length; it was a female, with a young one
ten feet long fucking her teats; it was wrapped in the
fins of the old whale.
Extract of a letter from Cadiz, dated Aug. 2fr
" The Algerines continue to cruise, and to annoy
our trade. they have lately taken five Americar
vessels, and by letters from Algiers it appears they
have fafely conducted them to that piratical nest
They also took a I'ortuguefe frigate of 36 guns, bur
she was soon re-taken by one of their men of war of
74 guns.—There were four, some fay fix privateers
concerned in taking this frigate, whole crew were all
found in irons, except ten that had been put on board
the Algerine privateers."
American Intelligence.
WORCESTER, November s.
# We aie informed that a tew days fence a man an<
his wife were committed to gaol in Concord, charg
td with the inhuman and unnatural crime of murder
i n g theii child, a girl of about twelve years of age.
The inland part of the United States is now fettlin
with the greatest rapidity. The good effefts of which
in a short time, will be discoverable ; while on the othe
hand, agriculture will flourifh, the price of the necef
faries, of life will be greatly reduced, which will pro
mote manufactures of all kinds, audit is to be hoped ii
a few years our exports will so far exceed our im
ports, as to make us a wealthy, and we hope a hap
py people.
cap drawn over his eyes to conceal his face, and ap.
peared very melancholy, and greatly afflicted with
his situation in being mixed with such company."
The thirteen persons who lately attempted to blow
up the walls of the King's Bench Prison with gun.
powder, were yesterday fully committed by fir Samp,
son Wright and other magistrates, fitting at the ro #
tation-office in the Borough, in order to take theii
trials at the next Surry assizes. There are fevera
others concerned in this plot against whom e
may be adduced before the affizes.—Gove
have taken up the prosecution of those offende
Ministry are said to have forefeen the ftc
proaching, that at present clouds the political
phere, and threatens to involve all Europe in a gene
ral war; and it is now said to be owing to this, ant
not to the Irish propositions, that parliament has beei
adjourned only till October next.
3d. When the moon, on her fourth day, appear:
pure and spotless, her horns unblunted, and neithe;
flat, nor quite ered, but betwixt both, it promise:
fair weather for the greatest part of the month.
4th. An ereCt moon is generally threatening ant
unfavourable, but particularly denotes wind; tho'i
she appears with fliort and blunted horns, rain is ra
ther to be expeCted. The above observations, fayr
our correspondent, have been attended to for fevera
years, and never known to fail.
„ Now. 23. Yesterday morning arrived at Sandy-Hook
in 12 weeks from London, the lhip Union, captail
Johnson ; on board of which is th§ hon. Mr. Temple
the British consul, together with his lady (daughte
of governor Bowdoin, of Massachusetts) and family
Extract of a letter from St. Eufatia, to a gentle.
man in Alexandria, dated OH. 8, 1785.
Capt. Robertson, in the brig Anna Maria, fron
youi port, arrived nere on the 22(1 of August, ant
put to sea in the dreadful night of the 24th when flu
unfortunately ran foul of a large sloop, belonging t<
St. Kitts, that put out also from this road the fame night
Sometime afterwards the brig's fails blew loose an<
die overfet, when every foul pcrifhed, except a negr<
boy who belonged to the sloop, and had got on boarc
the brig at the time they were entangled, who wa
taken off the wreck some days afterwards, and fron
whom we have the above particulars.
PHILADELPHIA, November 16.
A correspondent fays, that in looking over tlr<
works of lord Bacon, he found the following rule
refpeCting the weather; and thinking they may b
of use, he has desired us to give them a place in ou
paper:
2d. If the moon, either at her firft appearance
or within a few days after, has her lower horn ob
feured or dusky, or any ways sullied, it denotes sou
weather before the full; but if she be difcoloured ii
the middle, storms are to be expected about the full
or about the wane, if he .upper horn is affected it
like manner.
Bella horrida Bella! is now the universal cry, a
gents are sent down to the different sea port towns
for the purpose of railing rendezvouses for railing sea
men to man the fleet, now fitting out at Spithead
and tenders are allo placed in the- river to conve 1
such seamen as may be enlisted here; and for whon
drums are daily beat, and liandfome bounties given.
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ift. If the new moon does not appear till the qtl
day, it prognosticates a troubled air for the who!
month.
N E W-Y O R K, November Is.
We have certain information that England is arm
ing several ships of the line, the greater part of whici
are designed for the Mediterranean, the Ruffians hav
i n g requested tins measure of the court of London
It is expected that this complaisance of the Englifi
ministry will soon or late bring on hostilities at fe;
between France and them.