Gazette of the United-States. — New-York [N.Y.], 1792-02-04 00:00:00, page 3

Sir, it's for the ho o' :n. Greene that we
contend—and I ain warr; is asserting, that
he-was not interested in the contract of Mr.
Banks, otherwise than from the pure and vir
tuous motives of serving and saving his country
I therefore feel myfelf interested and bound
in honor, to support and defend the character of
my departed friend—and to demand this claim
as a matter of right and not of grace—and I have
a confidence that the candor and justice of this
committee will induee them to adopt the prin
ciples of the resolutions submitted to their consi
deration.
The committee to whom was referred the me
morial of John Churchman, made a report, which
was read, and ordered to lie on the table.
[The report states, that Mr. Churchman is en
titled to the applause of the enlightened world,
and to the encouragement and iupport of his
country ; —that, as a greater and more accurate
knowledge of the variation of the magnetic nee
dle*wou!d answer many very valuable purposes,
encouragement ought to be given to such persons
as contribute towards perfecting that desirable
knowledge ; —and that Congress may with pro
priety patronize such a person as Mr. Churchman,
and grant him fiKfh aid as may beneceflary to en
able him to profeiute his laudable enquiries, to
good effect.—The committee however submit to
the house the propriety of making such a grant
at the present time ; but recommend an encreafe
in the penalties for copying Charts, Maps, &c.]
An engrofled bill, making further and more
effectual provision for the protection of the fron
tiers, was taken tip for a third reading, and to
have the blanks filled up—whereupon the gal
leries were cleared.
That a committee btf appointed to enquire into
and report to this house, their opinion of the
number of Indians in arms against the Uni
ted States—the documents whereon that opinion
may be founded—the causes of the delay of the
Federal Army on the Ohio—the scarcity of pro
visions and forage—tl\e quality of the powder—
and such other causes as may have been, in the
judgment of the committee, conducive to the
late unfortunate defeat.
table
One of the amendments proposed by the Se
nate, and agreed to by the Houf'e, is in favor of
the newspapers ; inafinuch as it permits any per
son whatever, without authority from the Poft
maller-General, to " rake up, receive, order,
dispatch, convey, carry, and deliver" newspapers
for hire on theeftablifhed post-roads, without be
ing fubjeil to any fine, penalty, or forfeiture for
io ctoing.
ports,
charges—this was a private purchase by major
Burnett, from Mr. John M'Queen, a gentleman
well known in South Carolina ; and it was thought
to be a very advantageous purchase for major
Burnett at the time it was made (although ic lias
turned out otherwise) but it was neceflary for
him to obtain security, previous to receiving ti
tles He applied to Gen. Greene to become his
security upon that occasion, which was complied
with—and in that ail he certainly displayed a
superior degree of private friendship, and such
as has already been found extremely injurious to
his family—but it is by no means connected with
the claim now under consideration.
The danger of eltabliihing a precedent in fu
ture, unsupported by previous authority obtain
ed from Congress, is alio mentioned as an objec-
tion— '
Mr. Chairman —There never can be any dan
ger of dr«wing this circumllance into precedent ;
for the page of history never did before, nor I
believe never will again, produce a similar pre
cedent, i. e. an army facing and fnrniounting
every difficulty and danger through a long and
bloody contest, badly ck f' -el, a -1 worie paid,
and frequently de&itute "h? common necefla
ries of life.
The amendments of the Senate to the bill for
eftablilhing the Poft-Office and Post-Roads within
the United States, were taken into consideration
by the House, and all of them agreed to, except
one or two, which refpe& a variation in the cross
By another amendment, it is ena<£ied that if
any person employed in any department of the
post - office,, shall unlawfully detain, delay, em
bezzle or deltroy any newspaper, with which he
lhall have been entrusted, such offender shall, for
every such offence, forfeit a sum not exceeding
jo dollars :—and the Poflmafter, in any contract
he may enter into for the conveyance of the mail,
may autljorize the perfonj with whom such con
tract is made to carry newspapers, other than
in the mail.
The bill'making further and more effectual
provision for ihe Frontiers, was pafled yefteiday—
Tfeas 29 —Nays 19. . v
THURSDAY, February 2.
Mr. Steele laid the following motion on the
WEDNESDAY, February i
The tenor of many publications on the Indian war, and of cer
tain itri&ures on the heads of the executive departments of the go
vernment of the United States,ftrongly imprefles the mind of every
attentive reader with this idea—That they are the produ£hons of
foreigners. Two reasons maybe afligned for this opinion—the
firft is,the inveteracy of these writers againd the government now
so happily eftabli(hed, and the total want of f\mpathy,{o strikingly
apparent in their writings, in regard either to the prosperity, or
the misfortunes of our country. The other reason is, the simila
rity of the epithets which abound in those publications, with those
On Monday next the Supreme Court of the
United States will meet at the new Court-Houle
in this city, when it is expedied the important
qneltion will be agitated and fettled—Whether
a state can be compelled to appear and answer
to a P.rotefs illuing from that Court ?
Richard Peters, Esq. "having resigned his ofiice
of Speaker of the Senate of this State, Samuel
Powell, Esq. was on Tuefdav last ele<fted in his
Head, an& was placed in the chair accordingly.
We hear from Albany, that wheat of prime
quality is fold there at fix (hillings (New-York
currency) and Indian corn, three ihillings per
bushel, in exchange for goods.
After reading and referring fundrv petitions and memorials,
Mr. Goodhue moved that the houfefhould resolve itfelf into
committee of the whole on the fifhrry bill ; this motion, after
some opposition by Mr. Parker and Mr. White, who urged the
superior importance of immediate attention to the militia bill,
was agreed to—and Mr. W. Smith took the chair; the bill was
hen rend by the cleric, and on the firft fe&ion's being repeated
by the Chairman- -Mr. Giles moved that this fe&ion should be
struck out ; this motion being seconded, a debate ensued, in
which Mr. Giles and Mr. Murray, spoke in opposition to the
bill—and Mr. Goodhue, Mr. Ames, Mr. Gerry, Mr. Lawrance,
Mr. Fiizfimons and Mr. Barnwell, in favor of it : The committee
ioff without coming to a vote, and had leave to fit again.
We are informed that a number of the associated paflors of this
town, have fubferibed among near lonr hundred of the inhabitants,
a memorial, setting forth their reaforis against the repeal of a law
prohibiting theatrical exhibitions, See. And we are allured that
those of them who did not fee their way clear to sign the memo
rial, have, with their brethren, unanimously f pre fled their opi
nions against a theatre, and placed it upon their own records.
Thontns Dunn,
Edward Harrifon,
John Colins, v
Adam Mabane,
George Pownall,
John Frafer,
Accounts were some time since published of the
infamous murder of Mr. Hogeboome, fherifF of
Albany county, New-York, by one or more cow
ardly aftaffins, who waylaid and (hoc him on the
road. The lad papers from the northward, men
tion the death of his widow, Mrs. Sarah Hoge
boome, 011 the 16th ulc. as an undoubted conse
quence of the cruel fate of her husband
The General Court of New-Hampfliire have pasTed an Ast in
corporating a Company of Gentlemen, for the purpose of eilab
lithing a Bank at Portsmouth, by the name of the New-Hamp
shire Bank.
The Quebec Herald, of January 2, contains accounts of the ce
lebration of the New Constitution by four different companies, viz.
By the "friends oj the Constitution," at Frank's Hotel—"The late
Committees and a number of Inhabitants " at the Merchants' Coffee-
House—" The Garrison Club"—and by a number oj Gentlemen, at
Lane's Tavern. Lord Dorchester is among the Toasts given
by the three latter companies.
RICHMOND, January 27.
On Tuesday evening last the froft was so severe, that Made:ra
wine froze in decarfters standing in closets, and antimonial and
fpiritsof wine were alio frozen in the Apothecaries (hops in this
citv.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
Hon. William Smith, Hon. P. R. de St. Ours.
Hugh Finlay, Francois Baby,
Thomas Dunn, Joseph de Longueuil,
Adam Mabane, Pierre Panet,
Adam Lymburner, Esquires.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Hon. William Smith,
Hugh Finlay,
A gentleman of New-Haven, by Fahrenheit's Thermometer, in
an exposed part of that city, found the Mercury, on Monday
morning 23d inft. to stand at 14 below cypher.
A meflage from the Senate, by Mr. Secretary Otis, informed
the House that the Senate have agreed to the amendments ot the
House made to the amendments of the Senate to the poll-office
bill. Adjourned till Monday.
The boy who was charged with setting fire to
several stables in this city, was lately tried, and
acquitted.
Lately interred in the burying ground of the
Dutch Presbyterian Church near Newtown,Bucks
County, the remains of Mr-. Corfin, who
when alive weighed four hundred and fifteen
pounds.
A petition of Richard Yates, Abraham Duryee, and others,
fubferibers to a new Bank, by them called the Million Bank,
praying to be incorporated with Walter Livingfton, and others,
whose petition was presented to the House on the 26th inft. was
read, and referred to the fame committee as the petition of Mr.
Livingfton.
We learn that on Thurlday fe'nnight, the ice was so firm at
Norfolk, that people palled over to Portsmouth upon it.
QUEBEC, December 19.
The following are the Gentlemen appointed
for the Councils of Lower Canada, in conformity
to the at r t published for a division of this country:
Philadelphia, February 4.
N E W-Y ORK, February 1.
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, JANUARY 23.
FRIDAY, February 3.
BOSTON, January 21
323
Hon. J. G. C. de Lery,
Picotte Beleftre,
Paul Rock de St. Ours,
Francois Bal>y,
Joseph de Longueuil,
Charles de Lanaudiere,
R. A. de Boucherville,
Esquires.
The writer who signs " One of the Levies," complains
of the scantiness of the pay, badness of the doatking, and want of necef
faryfupplies for the late expedition under General St. Clair —
Other afTertions in his narrative contain more direst imputations.
The writer will perceive that the fubjc6t is likely to undergo a le
gislative investigation—the Editor.therefore supposes, that in an
interview with the author, he could convince him that it would
be improper to publish his performance.
TO the letter of the 9th of November, which I had the honor
to address to you from Fort Washington, a postscript was added
relating to information communicaled by Capt. Slough to General
Butler, and not imparted by him to me, and that did not come to
my knowledge till after the army got back to that fort. As the
nature of the information was not mentioned, the poftfcriot mull
have appeared mysterious, and it is proper that I should explain it.
Capt. Slough, fir, was intended to have been the bearer of the
letter, and so it was endorsed upon the cover, and therefore I
thought it needlcfs to insert the particulars; and had he presented
it, you no doubt would have inquired into it fully, and all ambi
guity would have ceased ; but at the moment he foould have set
f ofF, some account of the situation of Colonel Gibfon (who is his
uncle) induced him to delay his journey, and the packet was pat
into the hands of another person, then going to Lexington.
You will be pleased, fir, to recollect it was stated in the letter
that in the night preceding the 4th of November, the militia weie
in advance of the reft of the army—For greater security, and to in
tercept any small parties of Indians that might be approaching
with predatory views, it was thought fitting that a party of regul
lar troops should be advanced, from a quarter to half a mile in
front of the militia. The party was taken rrom the right winr
which formed the front line, then under the immediate command
of General Butler, and Capt. Slough was the officer ordered out by
him for those purposes. In the night, it seems, he discovered the
Indians approaching in such numbers, that he thought it necessary
to draw in his party, and immediately made report of what he
had discovered to Gen. Butler, from whom he had received his
orders. He proposed to the General to make the fame report to
me; but the General replied to him, that as he must be fatigued,
he had better lay down to sleep, and he himfelf would give the in
formation.
The rife of the public Stocks of the United Stales, it has been
(aid, does not indicate the rife of the public credit— it meerlv
(hews that the Lcgiflature has by law piovided for paying the in.
tereft—and the credit of the Securities is exaflly in proDoition r ,
the rate of that interest.
which diflingtnfh the opposition-speculations of a certain street in
London, -A corrrfpondent is however made happv in obfeiv.
ing a disposition in the people to read both fid s, and to judge tor
thcmlc lves. Some inflances of the good effeftsof counter-publi
cations to the effufions at*>ve referred to, have fallen under his
cognizance ; which plainly (hew ihat it is the duty of every friend
to the government, to exhibit from nme to time,/«flj, in'oopofi
tton to the declamations of those who take pleafute in lowing the
lecds of diftrull and disunion among the people.
But in answer to this remark it may be said, that the credit of
an individual is always in proportion t,o the value of such indivi
dual's promilTory note—and this credit depends on the characl
ter of luch individual for ability,probity, and punfluality—(or it is
evident, that all the legal engagements which can pofTtbly be made
will not enhance the public credit in the smallest degree, without
corresponding provision and punfluality to fulfil them.
This is, as nearly as I can recollect, the account Captain Slough
gave me at Fort Waftiington.
The orders given to Col. Oldham, mentioned alio in the post
script as not executed, were, That he should fend out, from his
command, an hour at least before day, and as much earlier as pos
sible, four or five parties of 20 men, with an officer to each, in dif
ferent directions, for the purpose of making discoveries. I was
very ar.xious on this point, and not without some doubt that it
might not be pun£tually attended to : the Adjutant-General was
therefore, about the dawn of day, but rather before it, fentto Col.
Oldham, that I might be certain of that precaution having been
taken. Col. Oldham was met by him at some distance from his
cncampment, and informed him the parties were not then gone
out, but would bedifoatched the moment he returned.—Unhap
pily he never returned.
Palifot de Beauvois, de la Societe "des Sciences & Arts du Cap
Francois; and, correspondent de L'Academie des Sciences de
Paris.
Mr. Richard P. Barton, of Mount Airy, Dinwiddie county,
Virginia.
Doflor David Jackson, of Philadelphia.
Doctor William Smith, ditto.
Nicholas B. Waters, M. D. ditto.
Died, atLeicefter (Mass.) Mr. So uthgate,ooc of the fir ft
settlers of that town, aged go.—He never experienced a day's
(icknefs in his life, and was able thl morning on which he died to
walk from his bed to the fire. Twelve children, all he ever had,
followed him to his grave.
The Honorable Major-General Knox,
At a stated meeting of the American Philosophical Society, Ja
nuary 20th, the following gentlemen, Foreign and American, were
duly elected members:
Count Paul Andreani (member of several literary societies} of
Milan, Italy.
Rodolph Valltravers, Esq. F. R. S. Hamburgh.
Anthony Fothergill, M. D. of Bath, England.
Anthony Renatus Charles Mathurin de la Forest, vice-consul
general of France, to the United States.
RUN AWAY from the Subscriber, living in Elfenborough,
nearly opposite Jleedy-Ifland, on the night of the 20th of
November, 1791, an Apprentice Lad, named JOHN MORRIS;
about 16 years of age; took with him a new telt hat, homespun
cloth coat and breeches, corduroy jacket, two pair (lockings, two
homespun (hirts, two pair shoes, and some summer cloaths. It ts
supposed he wenc on board some vessel, as he was seen going in a
batteau towards some veflels that were lying at the Piers, near
Reedy-Island.—Whoever takes said apprentice, and returns him
to his matter again, (hall receive Two Dollars reward, by
BENJAMIN HOLME.
PRICE CURRENT.—PUBLIC SECURITIES.
M. Joseph Ceracchi, of the city of Rome.
John Rouelle, M. D.
FUNDED DEBT.
6 pr. Cents 25/3 pr. /
3 pr. Cents i s f
Defered 6 pr.Cents 15/3
•UNFUNDED DEBT.
Final Sett), and other Certificates 22f
Indents' 13^
Bank Stock—whole {hares 65 per cent.
—half (hares 108 per cent premium.
Si R,
Secretary of War,
I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your mod obedient servant,
Extract from the minutes,
SAMUEL MAGAW, Sec'ry
Philadelphia, January 29, 1792.
A. St. C L A I R
126! pr. cent.
75 do.
76J do.
110 do.
66} do.