National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-08-03 00:00:00, page 2

chafe of the it ft a ndV>lu, S «Wfcribed
M"11C( oNu-tifn not specially applied
, 11 °J" tu difpolitiofc, 1,338,45. dol
lar»2i cents.
It is here formed, renovated, and rea.lv
t'T ii,y new enterprise. The 4 ,,„c
. ON. o-> < outs, preyiouliy expended arc
'o w re -; i:v !it ,d and re-umtcu to u.c o
l'lgi lal rn | .
{'') It is laid :har the President concei
ving the original deliinatioii ol this foreign
'"'■' d, was the payment of the debt tu
.. ■ mse, has di reeled the payment o|
i.000.000 dollars thereof, to citizen mini
stei Genet, noiwitlifhiiTding the Secreta
ry s al.ertibni to tlie contrary; the fol
lowing arc- extracts from the Secretary's
two lalt reports: '• The direct object ol
• ill l.ie funis drawn for p loriojuiv ,
■was the purchase of the debt. A collate
ral com, deration which operated in the
11 ' L ,t: 'S cs ct drawing, lias affix been nien
iionet,. It Has likewise been dated, th it
til- early pnrchafes. of the debt are tote
alcribed to [lie milrunientality ofthe fund
derived from the loans. Thi, idea lliail
jiovv be explained." 13th Feb. 1792.
" but ii is not obvious how tne fuppofi
tron came to be entertained, that all the
Hion.es drawn h-re from the foreign fund
11 ■' h " rrow «l for the payment oftiir
* bc to r ranee, The prulnrnptic« would
Jeem to have been more natural. :hat they
had been principally, if not wholly intro
r need with a view to pnrchafes of tin
tebt. a 10 coiifeipiently had a more fpecia!
reference to the ast authoring a lo.m foi
that purpole. And the fact is, th.it thi<
•was the defoliation of far thegreateft pro
portion of the funis drawn for—lt has bee:
n ited, that a part had an eye to ihe flip
plies to St. Domingo, and thatanothei
part was introduced with a view to rat
payment oi the foreign officers. '* icy,
feb 1793. y
flie unqualified aflVrtion of 3d of Jan.
ought not to be forgorten.
(') In the report of the 4th of Febrnan
y ,! . l, \- {"'lowing items are iound
'■ i ins balance as noted in the llatemeir
i>> «s coinpoied ol thefoilo*-jug particulars
"1. Caih in :lie fri-afury [per flaunien:
j ""3 444 iiois. 51 cents.
'■ - C.h in the b ink of the U. States
? - s ° ! d'fconnt and depolit o
"* * 1 o, 'is and Baltimore, not v c t paflrt
i" he account of the Ti eafury [per lhtc
' 6o J dols. 8 cents."
1 lieie two lu,:vs 0. a: cmonev, theon<
in. ;ie other ■ut of the T-vafurv, ar,
UK. . eparateil by very thin partitions
O' ••• being in the fame paper iiiltitutious.
1 ili.nion to the irredeemabi.
l 't. of ii ot.
(') "it tile tini of adoption, the confti
tu on Wis iin'iverhxlly deemed a charter o
authorities jca.'oufly granted, all rights an,
auih irities not expref-,|> granted in tha
1 ■ tniment werv ret med to the people oj
to tlie It ite . Piihlius toli] usfo j the firl
Co ig; ess toM us l\' 1.
.. .lend neiits pro posed to the confiitutior
by the firll Coiigr 1 " Article eleventh '
1 he enumeration in the conftitu.ion o
certain rights, (hah! nut be conlli ued t(
>l'ny or d.(parage r,.tilers retained by thi
people—Article twelfth."
The powers nor delegated to the Unitet
States by the conllitution, nor pro'ibiut
iy it to the dates, are reserved to the liati
refpechvely or to thv people—The co-ilt
Union is now the organizer of a complex
canlulidated government,and dillributer o
a 1 authoritiesamonglt ir.scouiticreiit parrs
all aurhorities incident to government
"wnether conitru>Hve or expreiied, may I><
exercised under it, except «»viiy w hen ther<
xii .y be express refervarion. 'in favour o
t'le peop.e or the itates.— file acceptam :
o _ large _ te-; :toj i;;| ceuion*, tne p. incipit
ot colomzatioii, Liie creation ol corporate
iMiUr. .; companies, &c. &c. have growl
[ his ailanniilrative conltroition, the
art.- no w'.;ere given or even h :ted at in tilt
cuMltitution— I he proelaination ot neu
trality fpiints at the fame principle, ant
is exprefkly jafliSed 11 poll that gron d ill ;
lat% logical pol ligation trader the figriatiirt
of Pacifists : this piece merits .1 portion j:
public attention
I iie Secretary of the Treafiiry Iras open
ly advocat .d this new principle of con-
It. uction ia his report upon ni.mufathires.
Jind his printer-, John Pernio, fi.u been ioi
loine ye irs its trumpeter.
im) riie fiim'hine patrioti condemn the
pri.cUmation as being an- iinoonliitutioiia
auauipnoit of authority,.a«Hl ev-;dt:itiu r a
haity co.npiaif ante to the Britilh nation.
Jt does fee,!, to be a piry, that A'merica
mould so havhi.y prolti ate herfelf to that
Inlole.lt, prtfumpiuoiis nation, and pub
licly reader homage and feahy u:iai!:ed
tj'r. Ihe Britilh traders and faaon par
take ol the insolence of their nation ac
cuse the President of Jacobinifni in the daily
violation of his own proclamation (at lealt
the terms os- it, duty, mterelt, imp.irtiality)
111 aeknowltdgiue the French republic in
receiving cm- ,r'«iinilter Genet, in ad
muting the sales of French prizes, -n de
nying the fame privilege to th? 3riti.'h i-i
giving up the llup William to the caotors,
and 1,1 advancing ro citizen Genet, a mil
iron ot magical dollars.
Nt w.thtt mdilig thefe'difquieting appear
nnees to persons ia the exti ernes, it is yer
con.ldently hoped that America'- t ood wili
tpiitinue the Prefideiu's POJLAK. STAR.
For the National Gazette.
Mr. FreneAu,
[ OiSSKf;VKD foine time fince-'feveral
. in one of the riaiiypai>er< on the
'''•bjeotoi turn-,,ikes and canlh! J never
nac »'.'""be of the utility of both, but mult
' 1 ca " le f no good reason why pri
vate property Ihoulu be made a facrihee,
a,III: apjiropnated to the nfe oi the public
■Allile individuals a• e left to lijffer. At
, ! 1 ' h ' nk ' uhe " there is fucli riMit
claimed, to directly contrary to, and in So
rogation of our ConiHtution, t |, e advocate.-
liou.d come forward, and inform the pub
lic rum uhence they derive that ri,lu.
Something on this fubjec>, I recoiled; ha
been f.ud by a writer who % ns hi.i.li I.
' iie to Improvements and in his
lalt number he i informed us that he wou.d
-igain appear in public. I find, however
he has not kept his word, but alto: -the.-
:.e(ei ted the cause ; possibly lie was'con
vinced that mlTcad of julhfying the p,o
-ctdrills of the company, he was only
hurling and weakening their party : oi
remaps lie d.fcovereU that the acts of tlu
.'ompany could not be defended 011 anv
)i nuiple oi equal liberty, and thought it
i ndent to flop Hiort and lay no more.
• he truth is. the more the authors am
promoters of a, bitrai y measures endeavor
- o ji 11 11 -y then- C o .dt.a. the more are theii
Wiley p .:isUi,| open to the view of tht
nibhc, and initead of accompli.bina theii
tyrannical pu-pofe,, they molt gene, alh
"IV"lve them el es in dif; l'„l defeat
Without recurr nr to the firrt principle
nf law, without ming indecent Un«„H.-e
as the •• Friend to I mprovement*' ha
-■lone (he limn Id rather have fubftrtoec
umle.f a 1-r.end to hi own Porfe, ai uior,
0,1 hllent with his rat principles) I tun
t" trte Con.'iituiion itfelr. Although lan
• 't one oi thole Who lay d»«n rules a:
JSMolute, yet I m u.itain the geneial i ui<
u be, that before an individual gives m
his property to the public, the oceaTior
that calls for it Humid be fairly explained
is wed as the law that compels the citizer
:o acquiesce.
The Constitution expressly fays in arti
e9 , feohon to, " Nor (hail any private
-roperty oi any citizen be taken and con
'erred to public life, without the confcn
'f ifi* repi-efentatives, and without fbfl
:ompeiifa!ion being made." Here then if
lie fiipreme law of the laftd, which ex
irelsly forbids the least violation of pro.
]eny without fatisfaaion being made ; ant
rom hence we mayfo.m our opinions 01
o foundation of the Coulhtntion «,
he land, and contradiaory to which tlx
egiJ .tnre can pals no act. I with om
;eiu-rou, Friend t<> Improvement: haJ on \
amhdered thisfeaion of the Conlhthtisn
i> injultice he ought to liave done. \Ver<
an inhabitant of the wikleft cliff of t\u
uleghany mountain, I should ft.il think ii
ncuinbent on me to know fomethin« v.]
■ie conllitut'on and laws of this coun
iy. Pity indeed that he touched tht
anal and turn-pike fubjea at all ; had lie
1 voided it he would have laved himfelftlu
iiort.hcati.yi of a failure. The more tlu
nbjea is inveltigared, the more « c 0 .,!e ar
onvinced of the illegally of the comp.,.
jany s proceedings, and the impolicy of
tivmg such a quantuniof p»«cr to anvfet
j! men vvhatever. * y
But let us enquire what were the pro
•• V""£ sot tlle company ?—and for this 1
V er tne reader to apiecepubliftied fojiie
Ime ago, ligned Edward He/inn, in which
.re fully fee forth their rafii andarbitrari
-teps. A body of men came, in a hofViK
m.-nner, and with force and arms, as Air.
Helton has stated, violently took polleffroi
<t ins property, countenanced by two ot
[he managers, Mr. Jotinfon and Mr. Fiiier
I his I: a truth Which ueuher ha, nor cat
be cuiitroveFied.
As to the canal, the company have beer
io over fliidious of the good of the public
as to otter, 111 one inftanee, for the land
neceilary for the canal, twenty pounds pei
a. re, When the owner pave fort v. This wa
near the falls of Schuylkill ; in'anoMier in
■ tance. near Philadelphia, they offered for
giound ol Mr. Jones, 1001. per acre, when
tnat was the price ten years ago ! Thefc
ire bur a lew instances among many that
ii' ghc be enumerated. But, I am teht.
tne queflion is now depending in the In
pre me com tof Pennfyjvani.i, whether:,
wealthy body of citizens, incorporated, ha.
- right to take the property of a'n iudividua
.11 a forcible iii.irmer, without hisconf.-i.t ;
or, whether the ConlHtution of our coun
try does not guard against every arbitrarv
proceeding oi the kind
1 have jirevioudy mentioned, that there
was 110 occalidn of recurring tothelirlt
principles of law, but that to liatethe Con
ticurion would be fuilicient. I. would
Will, to avoid ail perfmia! rtf.eaions, but
cannot help- laying tbe "Friend to Im
proveinents'' n,i:;iit as well have lugged in
'lie 1 ale of a Tub, or the Quixotic battle
oi the Windmills, as to have fa id what ht
iias.
Had Jht-legillattire pafi'ed a law to in
«orporate- llre-fifh-w omen of ri.ilade !. h.a
and tssc.i lome spacious gardens (that
might be mentioned,) for their better ac
commodation, tiieie would have been iud
as im.eh reason, ufmore, for it. tis for em -
pows 111:3 t.'.'j coii:uauy to take, by Jaw,
£"2 property of those who caiim : auord to
part with it at thair ltipulated i. ,»r c l,,
'" c choose to part with it at .ill. In the
tafe ot giving rich men's garden? to the
hi,i-women, the rich would only Puffer ;
tilt, with regard to the- canals and turn
pi ke roads, liie cale is precisely oppolite :
being taken from the poor and induftri
< us part of the community, to give to llk
rich, idle, and voluptuous. But,
Why all this liberality to a set of met
who have already made their fortunes b\
(peculation, at least most of them ? -Mei
who are now living on the hard earning:
of the poor foidier ; and, not content witl
that, wilh to opprels the very class or peo.
pie who Hand in need of every encourape
ment, 1 mean the farmers of Pemifylvania
ill Mill -A ill it be laid that private iiuerei
ought to give way to public good ; becaufi
»ught to be judge in ins own caie
I o as little purpose will it be urged, tha'
t.'.efe improvements are for the good o
ihe farmers in general, as those immeui
itely adjacent to the canal will feel even
inconvenience, while those at a dillanct
Wixl partake of au equal benefit.
CONSIDEKATOR.
Philadelphia county, July 3b, 1793.
Abftradt of Foreign Intelligence.
to the Bth of June, received by the Jum
Tacket, arrived at New-York f.oir
Faiinouth, on Tuesday evening last.
On the 23d of May a general attack wa
made upon the French i„ their camp at l'a
mars. 1 hi'action l alfeci j hours, about 30c
piifoflers ( Uyi the London ac count) and ,c
pieces of cannon were taken from the
i iencn : 20 iion-commillioned officers anc
dbouc 300 ot the combined armies fell —
An important victory had been gamed om
1F infiirgents in Poitou. bv ; ,ener..
kellermaa: the rebels in Brittany have
-ten prevented from pursuing then- f,„-
<, ( ! v,,,0 » s . a ™*'S tiiem.Vlves and
•U u ant ot magazines. A very formic!,-
Jlu force was 111 motion agamlt then the
rfirf ß ofMa^Thi ' L< -' ,i,en c "^ :
•t May 28, mentions in an extract of a let
.ei from A.mu cm, of May 19, r hat •• - ie .
nei ai i.nftine ,iad succeeded beyond ev■
befn t M„ n rk' l^ UC r oUriMg - MentZ ' Wl,ict ' lla <
1? on ail hues. Havitio- ad
vanced at the head of a numerous army
lie attacked general Wurmfer.and oblige
bun to retreat He then, with part ofim
■ loops attacked a corps of ti.e Pru.'liaa ar
"l " nder P"nce Hohenloe, at Carle/berg
Z Sl7 U tlm important pof
-"the fiench. trout this article it ap.
Jears, that the combined armies are ami
• llydriven from the ports which they hac
-ake,] to cover the army befiegine M ntz
Liiat by this means the communication be
-ween this army and the combined armie
i;l|ng on the Handers frontier is cut off
fhis wtllpreveurallfupplies from con,i ni
1 the grand armies by the Rhine, and wif
11 a great mcafure determine the fate o
-campaign. The German papers con
1.111 the above account, adding that tin
a hole circ.e i, the highest alarm.-Or
"il1« r r r ilrrl,ed rtt often<l an Eng.
"11 Meet 01 tranlports, with horses, trooos
mil lupplies ot all kinds tor the grand a--
u.e»— i |,e /-rench had'made a sortie I ron
L'l.e, and cut to pieces two of the bell
Dutch regiments. The Hollanders ffoor
th t ' ,e ",'. l ufua intrepidity, till their rank.
ivere so thinned a „d broke as ,0 make fur
i-efiftanc. unpoflible, when the greater
'art of the lurvivoi s w ere taken prisoners
Om the evening of \lay29lh, 7 cco Frencn
roups marchedl from Dunkirk, and on the
D. n L » (u n,iles ea » oi
IJu .kiikj where were polled a body oi
inch and Anlirian troops to the number
>t 1200. 1 hey made a vigorous reliitance
,ut were forced to yield to superior
jr 1f" ! lle French inftanrly entered and
00k poffeffio" of all the (lores and ammu
utiori, deposited there for the use of the
:ampatgn. Vast number, of wounds
■\ eri sent to Oltend : univerl'al panic had
eized all defenptions of people, and the
rench army was looked for at Oltend on
ne 4111 ot June, where their whole depen
lence was on the the troops ju If arrived
10m England who if they could not re
-5 rench, would inewtably have the
norti the immeßre M _
or the r a ", UtlK ' r stores '
01 the combined armies, fall into the
lands of the republicans.—-A. body of 20
men ot the French were lying before
em. I v V£ ;"p arK therof equal
' 1 en., th lay at Boucham ; and a tliird in
lantin.e Handers, to watch the enemy in
diat quarter.—Every thing announced in
oilhcidt'es to the combined
*- !' lc,r of fubjugatin..
D'Artois had'been
• i-g.and to negotiaw with the Britifi.
..'•-'vernuient to take into pav "
Kulhans whonitl.e Kmpreis had agreed t."
1.11 mill, but not to maintain theiu. Tlu
.ouut m. t with a flat denial th ,
bntili ccnirt. He was then at Hull on
ooard a Prulli.iu frigate —Ceneral Mi'an
°a. . ha< bee " a '-quitted of ad the cl
exmudagaiiilt him, and general
\. as f l , rpeKded .11 his command of the run
PHIL ADEL P H I A.
Saturday, August 3.
The committee for the relief of French
St. Domingo fufferers at Baltimore have
written to Mr. Genet, receding his o„i
111011 aoiicermng a further and more ade
ijiu.e relief o. their wants, as the whole
furn subscribed in Biltirfiore, for tint nnr
pose cannot be btherwife than
ponded. On the 22c! nit. the minifterre
ruined his aniwer, informing the commit
* awiong other things, that the niri K'
fieuafioftof these people will no doi ? b[
engage the attention of the reprefeiUa; '
of the nation, but that till fuller itiforma
11 on could be received from St. Pomiii.o
and till the views of these emi ;r m-; r , sh e
United States are better uncierUdo-J lie
only take provi.ional me..;V . .
effect to them ; and the me;|i) *
m order to concur with the Americans in
rendering a charitable f.rvice to those dif
" eued peop ; e, he inclosed to the committee
order 4> >r two thousand doIW™ be
applied to tile relief Of those in Baltimore?
The accounts, lately received by
way of (.aarleUon, of ,60 fail of Britilh
merchantmen being taken by a French
Hcet oft C.rpe J-milterre, appear to be iil
founded. Ihe fleet (or Jamaica had ar
rived there in lafety.
The affray that took place the other day
m the New-York Tonjive Coffee- Houie
between some c.tize.-is of N'ew-Vor'c & an'
omcer of the B.itifl, frigate 80110,, (who
had been lent up prize lnafter of the Re
publican French privateer) is faitl to have
ariten iron the following circumftancc.--
f lie oliicer, after voiciferatiwg again ft the
Americans as a nation, offered to bet a
wager of ico dollars, that the Boffon
would take the,Ambafcade frigate in the
intended en-agement—" and he would
i 111 rant i y Hake the money, provided
he vas sure it would be fafe in this
country. Lponl this Mr. J-effop knocked
him OOWH—the officer role and drew his
Iword—he was again knocked down, then
icu.ed by tile nape of ,he neck and the
wailtband of his breeches, and tolled from
the gallery into tne street Some mer
' antde pel Tons attempted to be insolent in
flu behalf, biK were Coon hulhed by a lav
ing gl-inpfe of the Liberty Cap.
The word Subjea is derived from two
latin words, fignifying ia ft, ct tramoltd
wider J not. The Word is therefore peculi
arly applicable to rovaiiffs, who in aliases
have been willing to lay down their necks
under the foot or tome crowned miscreant
of their own (pecies.—The following is a
copy or a certificate delivered to three
French citizens on their departure from
New-Providence, about a month aco
"This is to certify that Mr. — a
htbjctt of 1-ranee, and prisoner of war, has
hereby permission from the governor to
depart these iflamls for North-America
Wm. iWKenzie, Con miff, of Prifoiiert "
— The word fuvjeit is pleasing to-tlMfe
naves and thev gratify themselves in the
ufeof it when Cht y fener freemen."
The French privateer Sans Pareil, capt.
Botiteille, is arrived at Charleston. Since
her leaving Cape Francois fl, e had taken
four prizes : three of uhich were Spa
niards ; one of whom refilled to flrike to
the republican Hag, and upon being board
e ' the crew jumped overboard, where
they were all kilied or drowned, except
!2 tr.at were forcibly taken up by the uri
vateer. After taking out their cash and
what was valuable of their cargoes, the
two other veifei* were set at liberty The
H!'' eil too , kan brip.
How ard, master, aiul i'ent her into W'U
uiijlgtuii, Nv C.
The Republican, a small French priva
teer was taken 1.,1f week off Sandy Hook,
by the Bolton frigate, and sent into New
i orlv.
The British privateers, cruising between
St. ihomas sa„ 4 lSt. Croix, make a prac
tice of onnging to a „ c ( f earchiil( , „ot only
American, but Danidi vessels alio ; two of
St'Crofx 6 J" . tHken and Carried int "
St. Croix and their captains and crews
ironed and put into the fort, where it is
"J lllctl to keep them HIT or
ders can be had from Denmark about
them 111 plsm Kngliih, two years.
On Wednefclay morning last the French
ligate Ambufcarfe dropped down from
o,;S r i Ct ° n"? k Bay ' in °rderto , u
out: & engage the Bolton frigate, according
to challenge received from the captain of
theßoftoii.ln one of thcNew-York paper.,
,- fa, , lni ? Vt ' fie , ls "er P advertised on th~
■me day to use pMi'engers out of the
Hook, .as fpeciators of rhe intended com
bat. from a paragraph in Mr. Loudon's
r U ~P Pc ars > r ' la ' [ be greater part of
M were myali.hf
t-omg do w „ merely i, congratulate Mr.
;'X Inf? r. /Mrr ' W in lhefe lati
|»<.e-, and t...n toJnttr off and at the
;;j; s yc ;, nr ; "r r ' te t » t r7 ,
>rrs,~ 10 look on and s ee the valiant die."
T t',T ifrV'n ""V ' S h ' ir -' 8 :a ' ccn p' ac c amongst
-t- BruiJU aud lunch partir.aiu. i£ Nc#-