The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1794-12-23 00:00:00, page 3

The committee were of opinion that the
plan suggested might be carried into exe
cution tor an expeace of an hundred thou #
fend dollars. The matter was referred to
a committee of the whole Hoofe on Thurs
day next—The report was ordered to be
printed.
Mr. Gles then moved to go into a com
mittee of the whole Looft, on the bill to
regulate the pay of the uoncommiffioned
officers musicians & privates of the Mili
tia, when called into the a&ual service of
toe United States.
The house accordingly went into a com
mittee of the whole,
Wednesday. Dia. g.
Mr. W. Smith, moved vote, of thaaks,
—lit to Gen. Wayne,— 2d to the officers
and privates of the Legion—and jd to
Geo. Scott, and the volunteers, under his
command.
Mr, Murray, moved a vote of theuks,
to the Militia who marched to ferpreh the
lafurrettion.
Refefred till to. morrow.
The President communicated a ftate
mentef the expenditures from the 10,000
dollars, appropriated for contingent ex
pences.
Sixty petitions from Invalids reported
os by the Sec. of War, were committed
to the committee es claims.
Thursday, Dec. 4.
This day the Votes of thanks passed ;
end a committee appointed to request the
President to transmit it as dirtied.
A report cf a committee on Fortifica
tions, was referred to the committee of the
whole.
Mr. Parker gavein a report from the
fele& committee appointed to take into
confiderarion that part of the President's
f,eech which recommended opening a uade
with the Indians.
We fire happy to inform car readers,
that the debates in Cougrefs, on the mo
tion of Mr. Fitzfimons, for censuring the
Democratic Societies, which employed a
bout a week of the time of that anguft
body, are at length concluded.
Our readers will undoubtedly wish to
know what could be ftid on this fubjed,
which could detain the house for such a
length of time, and we should gladly gra
tify them with those voluminous debates,
were it in our power, but our limits will
not admit of it; Mr. Brown's Philadel
phia Gazettee, which is published daily on
a large royal fhcet,could not contain them
without a fupplemcat.
The following is copied from the fup
piemeat of Mr. Brown's Gazette of the
29th of November, and are his conclu
ding remarks on the debates of the 27th,
after the motion of Mr. Fitzfimons, as a
mended was loft, 19 members only ribng
in the affirmative.
" As the parties had been so exa&ly ba
lanced during the former divisions, on
this amendment of Mr. Fitzfimons, it will
fam inexplicable how in the latt division,
there came to be only 19 votes in favor of
the amendment, and feme of these 19
were gentlemen who had all along voted a
gainfl it in nr, other stage, These pecu-
ft was then moved by Mr. Parker, that
the Hoofs refelve itfelf into a committee,
on the report of the fele& committee, on
the memorial of Moses M/ers, they did
fo,and the report wee read. A discussion
took place between Mr. Parker and Mr.
Fitzfircons. It was at last moved and a
greed to, that the committee ihoeld rife ;
the chairman reported p^ogrefs, and afcd
leave to fit again, which was granted.
A committee were appointed to prepare
a report on the lubjea.
Mr. M>crc then made a motion that a
committee should be appointed to report a
moshed for a more regular and effectual
promulgation es the laws es the United
States.
A letter was read from Mr. Hamilton,
informing the House that he Ihould tefigD
the Office of Secretary cf the Treasury in
January next.
Bill for the relief est. K Ltvingfton.—
After feme time (pent on it, the committee
rose, the Chairman reported pregrefs, and
alked leave to tit again. This was refifed,
and the matter was referred to the com
mittee of claims.
The memorial of Robert Herries was
read twice, and also referred to the eam
mittee of claims.
Flora the Hartford Gazette, of Dec. 8.
Tuesday, dec, i.
The inhabitants of the cafiern continent
have been upwards of a threfod years
searching, in vain for a cure for religious
fanaticism : They have puffed numerous
censures and excommunications ; they have
made aft of fire, sword and the rack to
extirpate felf-crcdted religious fociedr,
but all to no purpose ; the mere those f
cieties have been censured and perfected,
the more they have grown and Hourilhed.
The people of the United States have
found out an effectual cure for those evils,
—Religious foeic ties in this country, fe
up for the purpose of defraying all order
among mankind, are cafify extirpated by
the very simple process of taring them a .
lone.
Now, face governmental fforegted
societies originate in the fame spirit, viz.
a hatred to all order, will hot the fame
treatment have the fame effea upon them ?
If so the mifpence of time in Congress is
not the only evil attending their late un
profitable week's work.
That Democratic Societies have an evil
tendency,all are agreed : That they ought
ICT be difcoantenaßcedj*ll are agreed ;
and we have always Q ! » it that their re
solutions deserved aothtag but contempt ;
but they must certainly be of force confe
quence, cr the whole wifdem of the Uni
ted States would no: have beer, employed
four days in debiting the question, whe
ther they Ihould be publicly ©eafurhd or
not ?
“ Ths votes were going te be taken,
and there was an appearance that after
these three successive dirifions so elofely
following each other, where both parties
had exerted all their influence,the amend
ment thus amended wold have paged
with a degree of cnanimity. But Mr.
Sedgwick now role, and informed the house
that, for his own part, he could not vote
for the amendment to ths address,& it new
flood, because it contained a palpable in
congruity. The cmeadmeut now said
that the house agreed wkh the President
in regretting, that certain felf-ereated so
tieties in the four ranflern counties of Penn
sylvania, and pares adjatnt had done 10
and so. The petition might be extreme
ly true; but noluch (pacification had been
made by the President ; aad iherefore to
join with him in regretting whit he never
had regretted, would be a downright ab.
furdity.
We cat not help regretting that so much
time should bi (pent, and that a spirit <n
party fh.^d appear in the legilkture ty
the United States, at the up aiog of a
session, in which, in all propabiity, a e
to ba difcufled matters of the very higher
importance to the nation ; a nation, the
only one in the world that can boatt of
seal freedom.
*' An attempt was made to recover the
ground thus loft by the fabfequeat motion
of Mr. W. Smith for adding countenanced
by fulf-created jocieties in other parts of the
union. This was exs&l, the fame thing
in fubft&nce,as the motion firft before car
ried by 47 againfl 45. Itwas however re
je&d as above 50 to 42.
" A motion was twice made in the
course of a few miqutes for adjourning,
but was rejeaed.
•' The debate had lasted, in varices
Shapes for no less than 4 days, from Mon
day forenoon to Thursday afternoon, and
there appeared for the vote of censure on
the Democratic Societies, as conveyed in
the amendment of -Mr..Dayton to the a
mendmentpf Mr. Fiizfimous, a majority
of 47 agsinft 45.
“ When the yeas and nays were taken
on the amendment of Mr. Christie for re
fraining the vote of censure to societies
in the four Weftern Counties, &c. the
numbers were equal,46 on each fide. The
carting vote of the Speaker was then in
favor of the rertriaion.
" The gentlemen opposed to the vote
of censure ware determined to ptih their
Superiority ; and infilled cn a division on
the whole amendments which now inclu
ded that cf Mr. Christie, for reftri&ing
the censure of felf created societies to thole
of the four counties of Pennsylvania, and
the parts adjacent.
" this dKcovery had 'a very evident
efta on the house. A few gentlemen
rose an both sides of the queftiou, as by
choice, but there was no division; and
thus the labour of four days was demol
ilhed by an unexpeaed, and perhaps on
the part of Mr. Christie, by an waxtendea
rtroke."
liaritics deserve to be explained. as illus
trating eh what nice circumf&ces, the
decilion of an alterably may fometimei
turn.
That reports of the capture of Rotter
dam was in general circulation, and ob
tained uriv^fal credence, but he knew
nut how they were founded.
That an Epgliih frigate of 36 guns, ar
rived immediately before he failed, a prize
to a 74 gun (hip—That prize# were con
tinually pouring into Rochfort, thirteen
arrived in dee day.
That niat Ihips of the line were build
ing at Rocifat, three of 130 guns, and
the others 71's. —
That Co gleat was the spirit of exertion
for profecutty the war, that a 74 gun ihip
was launched in three months from the lay
ing of the kqel, aad foiled on a cruize in
17 days afte launching, in company with
a frigate wh ch was bailt aid launched in
the fame spa e cftime.
That the people were in high spirits and
determined o prosecute the war to §h, ex.
tin&ion of 41 crowned heads.
from England; Qa. 2 d, • :
Cant, Tav, who arrived on Sunday
from En^fcL left the Downs, the aid
Ofeber. re saw papers at Gravefend,
just before hd failed, which gave an ac
count of General Clairfayt's, meeting with
another defeat, with immeafe laughter
on both tides!
The last intelligence from Europe, we
think, left Clerfayt, after ,his defeat at
Juliers, incensed in or near Cologne, if,
therefore, ha 14s been -again defeated, it
is probable tharrench are matters of that
place.
BOSTON, December 17.
4 PLEASANT PROSPECT
of the triumph of pacifick measures.
AUTHENTIC.
Extract of a tetdfrem a gentleman in Eu
rope, to bit cor: bonfat in this town, da
led '^' London, itth Od. 1794.
'" Though I often pay my refpedts to
Mr. Jay, when alt prelect are in the A
mericn iotereft, yet we, tone of ate, ever
The United states relinquiffi all claim
to the lands known by the Oneida, Oaon
dago and Cayuga retervatioas, and a tra&
cf country bounded as follows—beginning
at the north weft corner of a trad of land
fold by the Six Nations to Phelps & Gor
ham ; thence wefthardly along the Jouth
ihore of lake Ontario, to Johnson's land
ing place ; thence foothwardly up a creek
which empties into the Bud Lake at that
place, to the main Fork ; thence a strait
line to the Maia Fork cf Steadman's
Creek, which empties into Niagara Bi
ver, above Fort Slufher ; thenee down
said Creek to said river; thence along
said river and the foath ihore of Lake
Erie, to the nortb-eaft corner of a trad of
land fold by the United States to the Hate
of Penafylyania ; thence along the east
ern boundary of said trad, foath to the
north line of Penafylvania ; thence east
to the foath-weft corner of Phelps and
Gorham's trad; thence northwardly
along rhe wefern boundary of Phelps and
Gorham's trad to the place cf beginning.
The United States agree to pay the Six
Nations an annuity forever of 4,500 dol
lars, and to deliver to them at ibis treaty
10,000 dollars worth of Goods.
la consideration of which, the Six Na
tions relinquish their claims to all other
lands, (within the United States) to the
United States, and also grant the privi
lege of a waggon road from Fort Siulher
to Lake Erie, and the privilege of land
ing boats or vefßls in any of the creeks or
harbours within their country.
MASSAGKUSETTS.
STOCKBRIDGE, Dec. ~
A treaty is concluded between the U
nited States and the Indians of the Six
Nations. A gentleman who left the
place of Treaty tince its conclusion, has
favoured us with a copy of the principal
articles of it: viz.
OCT. 24.
Oa Sunday arrived Schooner Gen.
Health, Capt. Bacon, in 51 days from
Rochfort, in Fr^ce. No papers were
brought by this vessel, but from the oral
information of the Caps, a gentleman of
varacity and intelligence, we have collec
ted the following articles.
That the post, which arrived from Bis
cay, the day before he failed, gave infor
mation of the subjugation of Bilboa by the
French. This information, he was told,
being unacquainted with the language was
officially poblilhed in the Papers of Roch
fort.
BOSTON, December 16.
FROM FRANCE.
<A/HEREAS Bethiah my wife has
eloped from my bed and board,
I therefore prohibit all persons truftiag,
or harboring her on my account.
DANIEL SIMONS,
Dublin, Dec. 22d, 17,4.
DIED.] Is this town, Sally, daughter of
Mr. Samuel Heaton, aged 7. — At Richmond,
Lucy, daughter of Mr. Otic Guernsey, aged
20 months—both of the threat dijtemper.—
At Rojaljlon, Mr. John Davit, very sud
denly, aged 62.
mid get from him any rhhg rffoe&Q
the stage or forwardnefs of his bufine^\
and from the uccaffity alone cf the Britift
Cabinet'^ granting all, and even more
han he at one time would have exafled,
we have reafda to fappofa he will by and
bye return bick; bod ba heartily welcom
ed by his fellow-citizens. It is rumoured,
and not without force truth, that the Bri
tish Cabinet never had a harder or tough
er hand to deal with than they find in Ci
tizee Jay ; this, with the critical Gtuatioe
of Great- Britain just new, will injure him
success ; and it has been mentioned in
circles where I have been, who are not in
the American intereftp that he, Mr. Jay,
is embracing the present opportunity, and
will obtain the privilege of the carrying
trade to the Weft-ladies," so far as that
the United States Iball hive access to ale
the islands with free liberty to carry and
bring any thing to and from them they
please : For instance, a vessel not exceed
ing ixo tons burthen may go from Bcf
ton, with a cargo of any thing, to the
ifisnd of Jamaica ; there fell, and pur
chase a cargo of sugar, and carry it back
to Boston, land it, and then, if you plcafe,
reffiip it. in any size vessel, and carry it
to any European market, except Great-
Britain and Ireland. This point gained,
as the United States can carry, in times
of peace, for about one half what Great.
Britain can, the will go near to make a
monopoly of the whole carrying business.
Although Mr. Jay, as before observed,
is close in the extreme, yet from this leak
ing out of the other party, I hardly doubt
its truth; and as Great-Britain must be at
peace with the United States, ffie will just
now grant almost any thing Mr. Jay may
demand, and I do not think he will be
wanting cr (paring in his exertions.
" To attempt to give you a particular
account of the political world at this time,
would be endless sad need less, as you will
doubtless have things fully detailed in
your own papers ; and give me leave to
observe, generally, that France is ever,
where fucce&fnl, and such extraordinary
geaies and energy does the peffefs, that if
the executive of that country thoold de
clare they would build a bridge from Ca
lais to Dover, I filoaid thick it accom
plished. Going on for three months more
as the, have for the three past, they will
have all the cannon in Europe, and half
the merchant veffel# of Great- Britain.-
Holland must either make a separate
peace or be conquered in all the prefent'
month; and in either case, France will
have the Dutch navy in bar scale, and
then, by next spring, the will be both
disposed and able o break the back of the
Britilh navy ; of such importance does
France conceive this object to be, that foe
will not make peace till it is accompli.
NEW-HAMPSHIRE
KEENE, December
SUMMARY.
Accounts via Richmond, (Vir.) men
tion, that 3 or 400 of the weftern insur
gents had been taken about the 20th of
Nov. by a party of our troops.—Captain
Vickery,^arrived at Baltimore from the
Havannah, brings account of a revolution
taken place in the province of Mexico;
At the head of which is the Archbishop
himfelf.—Several changes has taken placd
among the English ; Sir Charles Gray is
recalled from the Weft-Indies, and Admi
ral Jarvis is displaced ; Sir John Vaug^ .
'han, succeeds Gray, Jarvis's facceffor is
•not yet known. —Accounts have been re
ceived at New-York informing that a sea
fight took place off the Capes of Virgin
ia, between one French 64 and two 36
gun frigates ; end-ene Britilh 44, and
two frigates of 36 —how the battle termi
urinated is not yet learnt.—Orders have
been received at Halifax, not to mo
lest American vessels. Tuefday the
16th inst. the drawing of the firft claG
of Harvard College Lottery ended—No.
18,547, drew Ten thousand Dollars.