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But if this revolution of ours was so
very great, and so very glorious, and so
very good, how can thatof France be so
horrible,which emancipated without the
twentieth of the callage, a whole people
above ten times our number, from
despotism, infinitely more confirmed,
-and vffalage infinitely more complete ?
which has not only delivered them from
the despotism of kings, but from the
infinitely worse tyranny of petty despots,
over mind and body, the clergy and the
nobles, which by plucking up falfe ho
nors by the roms $ Stripping worthless
t° 0a the revocation of the grant. All
tbs papers on this f^bjea being referred to
the farstar, of the war department, be re
ported as bis opinion, that Mr. Younglove
did not, by an, of the existing alls of Con
gress fem entitled to a penfan. An interest
ing debate took place, on the propriety of
•withdrawing the penfan. On the one
band, it was urged, that if Mr. Young
loves'; title was admitted, every man,
who might fuffir in bis person or bis pro
perty, from an attach oj the Indians, or
of an, other assailants, would have an e
qual right to claim a circumjation, at the
national expknee, & that the multitude of
inch claims would drain the public coffers ;
that Congress was not infallible ; &ij the
late Congress had continued an error in
granting a penfon where it was not just. 1 ,
due, the present Congress have a right, &
are, i, duty to their conflituems, bound to
re^if, the mistake, b, revoking the grant.
On the other band, it was said, bhat, al
tho' Mr. Tounglove was not, under the
then exiting laws, entitled to apenfon,
yet, as the late Cengrefs thought him de
fervjng of one, and conferred it on him, it
would ill become the prefect Congress to re
voketbs grant. They could not now with
draw it without destroying the publick
confidence in the promises of government.]
dreds of loyalists—and condemned not
only them, bat their posterity to begga
• ry, branded with the ignominious name
of rebels and tories?
The Certificate Bill was read a second
time, and ordered to be printed for the
use of the members.
The President communicated a
report of the Secretary of State, contain
ing an estimate of the quantity of un
claimed lands belonging to the U. S- in
the North-western and South-western
territories. A committee was raised
thereon, to bring in a Bill for the dis
posal of Lands belonging to the U. S.
Two hundred copies of the report were
ordered to be printed..
The House went into Committee of
the whole, on the schedule of the enu
meration of the inhabitants of the Unit
ed States ; made progress therein, rose,
and requested leave to fit again, to
morrow. „ , i t
A Committee was raised to bring in
a mu to provide, for the settlement of
the claims of perfcns under particular
circ,umftances, barred by the limitations
heretofore eftabli&d.
IN the name of Heaven, why are Bri
tish ministers, andtheir Anglo Hi
bernian deputies so much agitated by
the French Devolution I There must be
certainly in their motives " Something
more than meets the eye,—Have not the
advocates of the illustrious house of Han
over, in every department of church and
state, taught us to rejoice in the memo
ry of a glorious revolution in those coun
tries—which revolution deposed a King,
which butchered fome.twenty thofand
fubjeas who held themselves every whit
as loyal as the Marquis de Bouille
or any French refugee of them all :—
Which annihilated the titular rank—and
Confifcated the estates and effects of hun-
Now all this they tell us, was very
glorious, inafmach as it secured religion,
property and constitutional liberty to a
boat one fifth of our people, who in their
freturn 'very generously locked up those
blessings from the remainder and their
posterity, and presented as a complemen
tary boon to Great-Britain the most va
luable branches of trade then in this
country.
.Foreign Intelligence.
DUBLIN, AUG. 2g.
By the I^ MAIL.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
THURSDAY, NOV. 10.
minions of their titular tidfel, and the'
absurd atchievments of illustrious ancef-;
tors, & holding up the mirror of virtue
as the only criterion of public merit,
had ere&ed a glorious constitution, and
blotted the thin of vassalage from the
character of a great nation.
The Assembly of France may aft the
Kings of the earth, ''ls there a tyrant
among you bold enough to deny the
rights of man's nature ?" And then
fay with Brutus, "If any fpeak—
for him have we offended."
She might have until this day
groaned under the external dominion
of a foreign Parliament, cramped in
her commerce, and mocked in her hu
miliations, had not the revolution of
America pricked the confeience of her
unnatural oppressors : And to the re
volution of France (he will moll proba
bly owe the attention of the lords of
the foil to the irtteriour regulations, for
the necessary comfort and encourage
ment of native industry, without which,
a few years mull depopulate the land of
its peasantry, and leave the land-own
ers like our firft father, Adam, to till
their own fields ; and acquire their fub
fiftance by the sweat of their brows.
Thursday a capital mufieal clock,
which cost 2000 guineas, was preferit
ed to hit Majesty to the Emperbur of
Morocco some time since, was landed at
the Custom House quay, being lent by
the Emperour to England to be repaired,
there being no artik in his dominion,
capable of doing it.
We have heard of the vassalage of the
French peaianty, other exactions of the
Farmars-Generals, and the oppressions
of their Lords. Butwe have also known,
that chearfulnefs and vivacity was the
charaaeriflick of those peasants call;
ed French Haves ; while the free-born
peasants of Ireland, constantly eat the
bread of affliction, moistened by the
tears bf misery, and crouched beneath
the yoke of a negro-driving middle-man
sighed in vain, for the plenty which
arole from their toils.
'Twas the sense of their oppressions
that ripened the French to a man for
refinance and revolution, but we trust
legislative, jurifpruderitial and national
policy will combine to prevent the ne
cessity of such events in this kingdom.
It has been the peculiar bieffing of
Ireland, to derive the redress of her
rights, thro' the fortuitous vicissitudes
of other nations.
M. Goupil, moved that a deputa
tion of 60 members (hould immediately
be sent to express to the King the fa
tisfadion of the Assembly, and inform
him that they would be ready to re-°
ceive him to-morrow. We must all go,
exclaimed feyeral members, and imme
diately the Assembly passed the follow
ing decree :
" The National Assembly, after rea
ding the King's message accepting the
Constitutional A&, adopting the fenti
meats which the King has expressed re
freeing the cessation of all prosecutions
relating to the events of the revolution,
decrees as follows:
ift. All persons arrested, or accufrd
on account of the King's departure, (hall
be immediately set at liberty, and all
profecu ions shall cease with refped to
them.
2d. The Constitutional committee,
and the committe of criminal jurifpru
dence, Shall to-morrow, at the opening
of the fitting, bring in a draught of a
decree to abolish immediately all pro
ceedings relative to the events of the
revolution.
3d, There shall be likewise brought
in a draught of a decree to abolish the
use of passports, as well as every other
restriction of the liberty which theCon
ftitutiun assures to all French citizens,
of going and coming as well within as
without the kingdom. ,
•4th. A deputation of Sixty members
fall, immediately repair to the King,
to present to him the above decree.
American Advices.
PHILADELPHIA, n6v. 22.
Extraa of a letter from Hacknty,England,
September i.
"TN this country the spirit of reforma-
Xtion is spreading very impetuously :
FRANCE..,
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
TUESDAY SEP, 13.
to find that both his friends and the world
are deferring him; nor do the King's
ministers give any ear to his very open ad
vances of good will and friendship. It
is remarkable that in his debates he fre
quently refers to Paine's book,& thereby
thews how much it galls him. Bit while
he is indulging his rage, his pride will
not allow him to mention the objed of
it by his name. In ffiort, his unpitied
and disregarded fur, is, perhaps one of
the surest ce ftimonies of that general re
volutid, ,which is new taking place in
ihe political partialities and opinions
'bf the public."
Extraa ofa letter from a gentleman at
Camp, near the Miami, Sept. iB.
• 1791.
5' On the Sih of, September, the 2d
regiment of levies arrived atFort-Wafh.
ington,on the 9th they were joined by the
2d regiment of standing troops, and the
14th the whole moved for the encamp
ment about 20 miles from the fort where
they arrived on the 17th instant.
'' They are now busy in building a
garrison at thii place, have cleared two
acres of land,and are proceeding rapidly
with the work. You have heard of the
success of general Scott-.—General Wil
kinson took thirty prisoners, who , are
now in Fort-Waffiington ; they mean to
exchange them for prisoners taken by the
Indians.; r
nor hasMr.Paine,the renowned author of
Common Sense contributed a small por
tion of fuel to the flame that has been
kindled. His answer to Mr. Burke is
in all hands; it is read in all circles ; it
makes converts among all parties. Thou
sands of copies have been fold in Eng
land ; and I am sure that in Ireland and
Scotland the printing presses are two flow
in their operations for the avidity of the
people. Mr. Burke raved in the House
of Commons, and had the mortification
"We expe& eleven hundred Kentucky
militia here every day.
"By a letter received from Post St.
Vincents, we are informed that 1500
warriors are waiting for us at the Miami
town, who are regularly supplied with
provitions from Detroit. The evil fates,
seem to have perfued us ;—may they in
future be auspicious.
,'' P. S. Yesterday ensign Cobb was
fired upon by the Indians coming up the
Miami, but not hurt."
Extra* of a letter from Leyden, Sept. 20.
" The French King's acceptation of
the Con ftitution, has thrown an univer
fa! dampt upon the spirits of such anti
revolutional Frenchmen as reside among
us,and in our neighbourhood, All Ge
rmany would have been in motion long
before this time, to have restored the
old tyrannical government could the
pulse of the people have been bro't to beat
in concert with the wishes of the courts ;
but at prefect we as much expert the
Emperor of China here as a counter-re
volution in France. The two (exiled)
French princes Artois and Conde, not
long since solicited a loan of three mil
lions of florins at Amsterdam, but did
not succeed. All they could procure
was about 275 thousand livres,for which
the diamonds and jewels of the Conde
family were mortgaged,valued at a mil
lion sterling, and. which now lie pawned
at a public broker's for redemption.
The Diet of Ratilbonne have drawn up
a petition to the emperor, to persuade
him, if possible to re-instate certain Ge
rman princes in the possession of Alsace ;
but the answer, it is said, has not yet
been received."
PROVIDENCE, NOV. 12.
1 Wednesday last arrived in town, from
New-Hamplhire, Capt. Cass, and En
sign Sullivan, with 36 Recruit', and
one Volunteer, being the remainder
of the company raised in that State ;
and on Thursday they embarked, to
gether with a Detachment belonging to
Capt; Hughes's company, for New-
Brunswick, on their Rout to join the
Second United States regiment atHead-
Quarters, Fort. Washington.
It is with pleasure that we add our
testimony in favor of the exemplary be
haviour of Captf Cafs' troops ;—and
when we refleti, in general# upori the
talents and refpeaability of the officers
of the Regiment, we cannot but anti
cipate. their future Eminence in the
prefeffionof arms.
In consequence of federal de
fruffive fires that have recent
ly happened in Nev-York, the
common council of that city have
revised their law rebelling
fires, and among other addition
al claufes,ordained,under penal
ty of fever e fines, that in future
no hay or straw Jhall be defect
ed in buildings within the city,
other than Juch as are of brick
or flone, and covered with tile
SALEM, NOV. 29.
Capt. Bickford, of Beverly, arrived
from Port-au-Prince, last Saturday, in
20 /days. He informs, that through the
intrigues of some of the white inhabi
tants, the treaty which had been enter
ed into with .the Mulattoes had been
broken ; that the Mulattoes had retired
to the mountains and joined the Ne
groes ; but that, in consequence of new
overtures made them by the whites
(who dreaded their power) ' they were
induced to form a hew treaty, and had
actually rejoined the whites three days
before Capt. Bickford failed.'
We learn from Philadelphia, that
there is no hope of any commercial trea
ty be tween Great-Britain and the Uni
ted States on terms of i eciprocity, but
that the language of Mr. Hammond in
dicates an adherence on the part of
Britain to her olds) stem. 1:
Friday ,tbe i3tb uh. a ferry-boat at
bloomy-point ferry was ufrftt, and a young
•woman, by the name of Hodgdon, and a
negro man belonging to Mr. Hanson, the
proprietor of the boat, were unf^tunatel,
drowned. —*-- Several other puffingere hap
pily saved themselves by taking to the dare.
Qn the second of lafl month, the Rev!
Mr. Josiah Carp enter,<wdf ordained
to the Pafloral care of the Church of Christ
in Chichtfer, in this State. The Rev,
Mr. Tucker of Loudon, introduced the fo
lymnities of tbs day by prayer—the Rev.
Mr. Colby of Pembrook, delivered afuita
bit difeourfe from Mark 1. xvii. "Come
ye after me, and I will make,on to be
come fifhers of men." The Rev, Mr:
Upham of Deerfield, made the ordaining
prayer—the Rev. Mr. Smith of Gilman
town, gave the charge—the Mr. Page
of Pittfold, gave the right band of fel
lowjhip—tbe Rev. Mr, rarker of Can
terbury, made the .concluding Prayer —•
The folemnitics of the day were conduced
weth decency and in order.
The President of the U. States,lm
appointed Nathaniel Rogers, to be
Maifhall of the New-Hampfeire diftrid,
vice John Parker, deceafcd.
A merchant, in Newyork has advertised
—"a handsome affirtmeut of Ladies'
Bosom Friends," for sale.
A font hern paper mentions—'' That ,be
Court Martial which Jat for the trial of Gen.
Harmar, has acquitted him with honour."
o^, "Alcander" came too late
for tbit Da, ; but /ball appear in our next.
or nate.-
DIED] Yeferda, morning, grealt, la^
mented by bis relatives and friends, Capt.
JOSEPH WELLS, of Hamnrfalls.
4^ssosG>^>ssss©^'G > ^^+
A. LL persons having any
claims against the Es
tate of Joseph Clark; late of
Stratham, in the county of
Rockingham, gentleman,de
ceafed, are desired to exhibit
the fame to the fubferiber,
Executor to said eftate —and
EXETER,(Saturd.)Dec. 3.
all persons indebted to laid
estate are requited to fettle the
fame immediately.
Nicholas Clark.
Stratham, Dec. I 3 I79 I#