The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-03-18 00:00:00, page 2

W£bN^DAY,,^„
• The Bill to authorise a Grant of Land to
the French Inhabitants of G^^/fs—and the
Bill making an Appropriation to defray the
Expenses of holding a Treaty with the hoftite
Indian Tribes north weft of the River Ohio,
were federally read the,siird Time and palled.
* Mr, Fitzsimons laid the following Mo
tion on the Table, viz." Resolved, that a
Committee be appointed to bring in a Bill to
4 make further Provision for securing the Col
lection of the Duties on foreign and domeftick
distilled Spirits, Stills, Wines,and Teas ;" this
Motion was agreed to, and referred to a feled
Committee.
The Amendments of the Senate to the Bill
entitled, an A& to regulate Trade and Inter
course with the Indian Tribes, were taken in
to Consideration, & agreed to, by the House.
The Amendments of the Senate tothe A
mendments of the House to the Bill Supple
mentary to the Ad for establishing the judicial
Courts were next taken up, these were concur
redin with Amendments.;
A Message from the Senate by Mr. Otis
^effion, on a Supposition that in the interim,
-he may obtain some Information which would
conduce to rendering a Report on the fubjed,
more compleat. The Letter was referred to a
feleft Committee, consisting of Messrs. W.
Smith, Giles, Lawrence, S. BoUrne,
and Baldwin,
The following Motion was made by Mr.
Clark, viz. Kefolved, that the Mace ofthis
House is an unmeaning Symbol, unworthy
the Dignity of a republican Government ;
that it therefore be sent to the Mint, broken
np, and the Silver coined and placed in the
Treasury of the United States. This Resolu
tion was negatived without a Division and
without Debate. Thirteen Members only
rifingin the Affirmative.
Sundry Reports were read from the Secre
tary of War, on Petitions from the Widows
And Orphans of Officers killed in the Service
prior to the ißth May, 1778, and from Of
ficers arid Soldiers wounded and disabled since
that Period ; these Reports are favourable to
the Petitioners.
Settlement.,
, Mr. Heist er, ofthe Committee oh enrol
led Bills, reported three Bills as truly enrolled,
viz. ..
" An Ad making Appropriations for the
Support of Government for the Year 1793."
“ An Aft to regulate Claims to invalid Pen
fions."—" An Ad to repeal the several impost
Laws so far as they impose a duty on ufeful
Beasts imported for Breed."
A Bill making an Appropriation to defray
the Expense of holding a Treaty with the hos
tile Indian Tribes, north weft of the River
Ohio, was taken into Consideration. An A
mendment reported Yesterday by the Com
mittee of the Whole, was agreed to, and the
Bill ordered to be engrossed.
A Message from the Senate by Mr, Otis,
informed the House, that the Senate have
concurred with Amendments in two Bills
sent from the Houle, viz. A Bill to regulate
Trade and Intercourse with the Indian Tribes
=and a Bill for fixing the Time of the next
annual meeting of Congress.
Tuesday, February 26. ,
I# Committee of the Whole on the Bill to
authorize the Grant of the Land th the French
Inhabitants of Gallipolis.
Mr. Muhlenbeg in the Chain
The Discussion of the Bill engaged the
Committee till neaL the Time of Adjourn
ment. Various veroal and other Amend
ments were agreed to, and reported to the
House ;—thofe were adopted by the House,
and the Bill ordered to be engrossed for a third
reading to Morrow.
The French Inhabitants of Gallio,oils pur
chased from Persons calling themselves Agents
of the Sciota Company, a large trad of Land,
for which they paid a high Price, on Condi
tion that the Company would give them cer
tain stipulated Assistance in trialing their Set
tlement. They removed to this Country
from France, and found that the Title of the
Land on which they were fettled by the Sciota
Company, is disputed by the Ohio Company.
From Motives of Benevolence, Humanity, and
Policy, and in Consequence of their voluntary
Military Services, a Grant of Land is by the
Bill directed to be conveyed to them, indepen
dent of their disputed Claim to their present
ed Bills, reported as truly enrolled,
An Ad to regulate Trade and Intercourse
with the Indian Tribes—and an Ad to ascer
tain the Fees demandablejn Cases of admir
alty proceedings in the Courts of the United
States,, and for other Purposes. The Speaker
signed the fame. ^'
A Bill making further Provision for Secur
ing the Collection of the Duties on foreign
and domestic distilled Spirits, Stills, Wines,
and Teas, was read the firft Time. Mr. Mad
ison, after stating several Reasons arising
from the Importance of the Provisions con
tained in the Bill,' and the Impossibility from
the shortness of the Time remaining of the
present Session, to go into a proprer Investi
gation of its Principles, moved, that the second
reading should be postponed till the next Ses
sion.
The Question on the second reading was
put, and agreed to ;,it was accordingly read,
and committed for to Morrow. One hundred•
Copies of the Bill to be printed in the Interim.
A Message from the President of the United
States informed the House, that he had this
Day approved and signed two Ads which
originated in the House —one, an Ad making
Appropriations for the Support of Govern
ment for the Year 1793 : The other, an ad to
regulate Claims to invalid Pensions. .
A Mefiage from the Senate informed the
House that they have appointed a Committee
of Conference, on the Bill for fixing the Time
of the next annual Meeting of Congress; al
so, that they have passed the Bill making an
Appropriation for defraying the Expense of
holding a Treaty with the hostile Indian Tribes
north weft of the River Ohio.-
their Secretary, informed the House that they
have passed a Bill providing an annual Allow
ance for the Education of Hugh Mercer.
The Secretary also informed the House, that
the President of the United States has approved
and signed, an Aft, in addition to and for Al
teration of an A& for extending the Time lim
ited for fettling the Accounts between the U
nited States and individual States.
The Amendments of the Senate to the Bill
for fixing the Time of the next annual Meet
ing of Congress were read—this proposes the
left Monday in December, in lieu of the fiift
Monday of November as in the Bill, the House
negatived this Amendment.
The Bill received from the Senate providing
an Allowance for the Education of Hugh
Mercer was read the firft Time : The second
reading ofjhis Bill, being opposed as uncon
stitutional, the question shall the Bill be re
jefted, was put, agreeable to the Rules of the
House, this was negatived. The Bill was
then referred to a Committee of the Whole.
Mr. Giles, after fomepoirited animadver
sions, on the Reports of the Secretary of the
Treasury made to the House, pursuant to the
Resolutions which have been passed, read seve
ral Resolutions relative thereto, which were
handed to the Clerk, again read, and laid on
the Tables
Mr. W. Smith read a Motion to the fol
lowing Purport,
Resolved, That the President of the United
States be authorized, in Case the State of Penn
sylvania, of the City of Philadelphia, shall not,
in due Season make Provision for the Accom
modation of Congress, to cause such Accom-.
modation to be provided, &c. laid on the
Table. Adjourned.
^ MIRROUR.
CONCORD,
Monday, March 18, 1793.
THERE is a Letter in Town, dated Lasdan,
ijth December, which fays Nothing refpetling
War, or Disturbances of any Kind.
A Letterfrom St, Jago de la Vego, of a late
Date, inform,, that the Inhabitants of that Place
mere ruery Jichly ; that there bad been no Rain for
the Space of 3 Years ; andtbot the Mortality bad
been jo great, that Piles of human Bones mere lying
in the Streets.
There is a Letter from Capefrancois, dated
January 23d, fays,," Since the 14th of this
Instant, we have an army of about 3000 Men,
partly composed of the Troops of the Line, &
our own Citizens : They have already taken
the principal Forts, encampments & Redoubts
Thursday, February 28.
Mr. Heister, of the Committee onenroll-
of our revolted Negroes. Those latter had e
rected a very strong Post within two Leagues
of this Town, fortified with all the art ?
and strength which could be possibly imag
ined ; however, they could not withstand the
impetuosity of our brave Soldiers in storming
their Fort : 20 Pieces of Cannon, of every size
and bore, have been taken ; a great Number
of the Negroes have been killed, the Remainder
is scattered, but our men are in purfoit of them
and will not give up the cause until they are 1
all killed, or taken. Every Day, Numbers of
them surrender themselves, and beg to returns
to their Duty ; we expect that this extraordi
nary Contest will soon be over, and that Tran
quility, good Order, and Safety, will be restor
ed again upon a lasting Balis.-, There is no
Doubt that the Price of American Produce will
be Shortly very favourable here." f-
Col. Smith,who lately arrived.at Nera,orfe
from Europe, was a frequent Vifiter in the
Galleries of the National Convention of France,
and fays, he never saw a deliberate Assembly,
wherein better Order and Dignity was ob
served; or wherein Business was done with
more Dispatch and Decency. Testimony like
this, must invalidate the Accounts of Disor
ders, &c. we so frequently meet with in the
European Papers
The French Navy were never on a better
Footing, having now 53 Ships of the Line rea
dy for Sea, who are as anxious to signalize
themselves, as their brave Army haye been.
Died, on Friday last, Capt. Henry Love
joy, of this Town, aged 78— He was an hon
est Man —" the noblest Work nf God."
Also, died in this Town, the fame Day, Mr.
John Austin, es Bofarwen, aged 62. Also,
a Child of Mr. John Odlin, aged only a
few Months —and a Child of Mr. Joshua
Currier, aged about 2 Years.
WOU'D not one suppose the principal Ac
tor in the long expeded TRAGEDY afham'd
to show his Face ?—-—After all the Blufter—
all the Assurances— —and after a Newspaper
War—the poor Tragedy is fuffered to evapo
rate in smoke ! O 1 infamous !
4,BEW^ILER,
[—^ We can inform our bewailing Corres
pondent—that the Tragedy is yet alive—
and it is expeded it will be aded next week.—
There never was a Bluster made by the Gen
tleman—The Bluster was made by another
Party—who, after their " last Shift" for the'
" Deftrudion" of the Tragedy, " appear to
fail in the Execution" of their Design : which
will, we think, “ hold them up to the think
" ing and observing Part of Mankind, as ma
" licioufly pursuing that which they will never
" accomplish." [! ! ! !]
GEORGIA. +
AUGUST A, January 19.&
Extras of a Letter from a Gentleman in Savan
nah, dated January 14, 1793.
" T AST Evening arrived Capt. Dickin-
JLs son from Charleston, who informs flhat
just as he failed there were great Rejoicings,
by firing of Cannon, ringing of Bells, and Il
luminations, on Account of News received
from Bourdeaux, that the King of Prussia had
made a separate Peace with France, acknowledge
i n g them a ReQublick, and entered into a Treaty *<'
of Alliance and Friendship with them, and that
the King and his Family are delivered up to
him with a Penfion^God grant it meg k"
WILMINGTON, Feb. 16. =% of * Let
ter from Fort Washington, Ate. io. ''Two
of our Men lately have made their Escape from
the Miami Villages, & arrived here ; they gave
an Account of a mock Fight lately exhibited
to amuse their numerous Indians assembled
there, & to divert their Squaws and Children:
It was in Ridicule of Majorgen. St. Clair's
Disposition of his Troops on the 4th of Nov.
1791 ; and of his Flight before the fix Indians,
who pursued him and his Army, whilst the
others had plundered his Camp : They have
givertout that they mean to celebrate this E
vent, annually, by a like sham Fight, and a
great Dance, to be'called St. Clair's Fight
and Dance.* It is to be hoped we foall yet have
an Opportunity to retaliate, & teach our En.
emy to amuse themselves at our Expense in a
less ludicrous Manner., It teems General St.
Clajr's Field of A&ion was on a Branch of
ffbe following was Jent us,feme Timeface.]
FOR THE MIRROUR.
MR. RUSSELL,
NORTHCAROLINA.