The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1791-11-26 00:00:00, page 1

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
TUESDAY, NOV. I.
; ‘ A message &as received from thePre
fidenc of the United States, by his pri-
Yate Secre arv, communicating a report
of the Secretary of the Treasury on the
execution of theExcife law, which com
menced the Ift dayof July last, and a
letter of the Diltria Judge of d^tb Ca.
rolina, with documents stating the rea
foes why the cenfusor enumeration of
the inhabitants of that State had been
delayed.
The report, on the Excise Law was
read, and contained an arrangement of
the diftrifts into which theUnitedStates
had been divided, for the more easy col
lection of the said duty, viz.
• New-Ha mp/birc makes one diflri&,and
has a fapervifor, who also performs the
duty ofinfpe&or, his salary is 500 dol
lars, and a commillion of 1-2 p^r cent,
on the .collection of the excise.
Mafoebufem is divided into three dif
yi&s, No. 1, 2 and 3. The supervisor
who also performs the duty of infpedor
in the ift diftri&, has a salary of8:o dol
lars, and 1 2 per cent, on the collection.
The inspector of No. 2 and 3, each 500
dollars and 1-2 per cent, .;
, Rbode-IJland, one diftriCt, supervisor
performs the duty of infpedor, his fa
iary 500 dollars and 1-2 per cent.
Connea!cut,one diftfift supervisor also
performs the duty of infpedor ; salary
600 dollars and 12 per' cent.
Vermont, one diftri&, supervisor per
forms the duty of infpe&or ; salary 400
dollars and 1-2 per cent.
;Ntw-Jerfa, one diftrift, supervisor
performs the duty of infpe&or ; salary
400 dollars and 1-2 per cent.
Pfofylwania, four diftrifts, the super
visor performs the duty of infpe6tor in
the firft diftrid ; his salary 1000 dollars,
and I per cent, in that diftritt. The in
fpedors of the other three diftrifts have
each a salary of 450 dollars and 1 per
cent.
Delaavare, one diftrid, supervisor per
forms the duty of infpedor ; salary 400
dollars and I per cent.'
Maryland^ two diftrids, the supervisor
performs the duty of infpe&or in the firft
diftrift ; his salary 700 dollars and 1 per
cent, in that diftrid. The infpedor of
the 2d diftrid has a salary of 450 dollars
and 2 per cent.
Virginians divided into seven diftfifts,
SENATE of the UNITED STATES.
WEDNESDAY OCT. 26.
TH^ Senate assembled ; prefentat
yesterday, and the Hon. Mr. King
from the ftatc of New-York, and the
Hon. Mr. Henry, from the State of Ma
ryland, attended.
The following letter was communica
ted from the Treasurer of the United
States :
"Treasury of the United States,
October 25, 1791.
'' sir,
" My accounts from the iff of Odo
ber, 1790 until the 30 h of June, 1791,
having passed the offices and been re
ported on, permit me, through you, to
lay them before the honourable the Se
nate, and, at the fame time, to inform
them that my specie and indent accounts
from the ift of July, until the 30th of
September, are at the Treasury for fet
ilemen, and when passed on, will be
immediately handed you.
'' I have the honor to be, &c.
(Signed) Samuel Meredith,
Treasurer of the United States.
, "John Adams, Tice-Prudent."
Ordered, That this letter, and the
Accounts therein referred to, lie for con
sideration.
SATURDAY, November 26, 1791.]
EXE TER, (New-Hamp/bire) Printed and Published by HENRY RANLET, at Nir.e Shillings per annum. u
Newhampfhire
CONGRESS.
The order of the day being then call
ed fdr, the President's speech was taken
up ahd read,/and on motion of various
gentlemen, Committees were appointed
to bring in Bills on the several fubjeds
recommended— [Which will be noticed
in their ft ages.]
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2.
On motion of Mr. DA y ton, ordered,
that the Secretary of the Treasury Ihould
report to the House, whether any and
what alterations in favour of the spirits
which ihall be distilled from articles of
the growth or produce of the United
States, or from foreign articles within
the fame can in his opinion, be made
in the excise law, cofiffently with its
main design, and with the maintenance
of the publick faith.
Mr.GiLEs laid on the table a motion
that rhe secretary of ^he department of
war Ihould be inftru&ed to lay before the
House an accurate flatement of all bal
ances of pay which appear by the books
of his office, to be due to the officers &
soldiers of the late army of the United
States,apd which either remain unclaim
ed, or have been claimed, but not paid ;
together with the reasons for withhold
ing payment from those who may have
refpeftively entered their claims there-,
fore.
On motion of Mr. B. Bourne, order
ed that the Secretary of the Treasury
ihould be directed to report to the house
the amount of the fubferiptions -to the
loans proposed by the aft making pro
vision for the public debt as well in the
debts of the refpedive slates, as in the
domestic debt of the United States, and
of the parts which remain unfubferibed:
together with fueh measures as are, in
his Opinion, expedient to be taken on
the fubjed.
tion, that the board of Cdmmiffioners,
for fettling the accounts between the,
United States, and individual states ;
be directed to report to the House the
progress they have made in such settle
ment ; and their opinion as to the prof
ped which the present ffate of the busi
ness affords of their speedy and final
condition.
The bill fat .the enumeration of the
inhabitants of the diftrid of South-Ca
rolina, was read a third time and order-"
ed to be engrossed.
Mr. GERRTfrom the committee to
whom was referred the memorial of the
Mr. Vining laid on the table's Mo
tion for the appointment of a committee,
to report a bill or bills, to establish an
uniform fyflem of bankruptcy through
out the United States.
Mr. Dayton laid on the table a mo
the faperyifor performs the duty of in
fpedor in the ift diArid,and has a salary
of 1000 dollars and 1 per cent, in that
diftria. The infpedors of the 2d, 3d,
4th, sth, 6th,and 7th dilhias^ave each
a f^lary of 450 dollars and 1 per cent.
North-Carolina five dirtri6ts„the fuper
vKor P ef forms the duty of infpeQor in
the firft ; salary 70'3 dollars and 2 per
cent, in that diftria. The infpeaors of
the 2d and 3d have each a salary of 450
dollars and 2 per cent. & the infpe&ors
of the 4th and sth have the fame salary,
and I per, cent.
South-Carolina three diftrids, the fa
perv;for performs the duty of infoedor
in the firrt, salary 700 dollars and 1 per
cent. The iefpedor of the 2d diftrid,
has a salary of 450 dollars and 2 per
cent. The infpettor of the 3d diftrift,
salary 450 dollars and 1 per cent.
Georgia, one diftria, supervisor per
forms the duty of infpeaor, salary 500
dollars and 1 per cent.
A committee reported a bill, granting
a further time for making the return of
the enumeration of the inhabitants of
South-Carolina, which havirggone thro'
a firft and,fecund reading, was referred
to a committee of Ihe jvhole to-morrow.
THE
* th ben in any country we fa extraor
dinary ctrcumfances taking places they na
turally lead any man who has a talent for
oOjCrvation and invefigation, to inquire
into the <aufes. The Manufactures of
Manebefer, Birmingham, and Sheffield
°" ; e ""J' principal Manufactures iq
England. From whence did this arise ?
Ahitle observation will explain the case.
Ibe principal, and the generality of, the
inhabitants of tbofe places, are net of ivbat
is called in England, the church establish
ed by law ; and they or their fathers (for
it is within but a few years, withdrew
from the persecution of the chartered towns,
where Tef laws more particularly operate,
and efablijbed a fort of afslum for them
selves in tbofe places. It was the only
atylum that then fired, for the rtf of
Europe was worse. But the case is now
changing. France and America bid all
comers welcome, and initiate them to all
the rights of citizenfbip. Policy and sn
tereft, therefore,will, but perhaps too late,
ataate in England,what reason and justice
could not. Theft inanufaaures are with
drawing, and a ,^ arising in other places.
There is now erefling at Paffey, three miles
from Paris, a large cotton mill, and federal
are already ereaed in America. Soo* as-,
ter the rejeapng the Bill for repealing the
left-law, one of the ricbeft manufaaures
in England,faid in my hearing, "England
hir, is not a country for a dtfenter to live
hi—we must go to France," Tbefe are
truths, and it is doing justice to both par
ties to tell them. It is chiefly the dissenters
that have carried Englifo manufutures to
the height the, are now at, and the fame
men have it in their power to carry them
away ; and tbo' tbofe manufactures would
afterwards continue to be made: in tbofe
places, the foreign market quill be loft.
There are frequently appearing in the Lon
don Gazette, extract from certain aCs to
prevent machines, and as far as it can
extend to persons, from going out of the
IF also we view this matter in a tem
poral sense, we shall fee the ill effects
it has had On the prosperity of nations.
The union of church and state has im
poverished Spain. The revoking cf,the
edi& of Nantz drove the frik manufac
ture frbra <hat country into England ;
and church 2nd state are now driving
the cotton manufacture from England
to America and France. Let then Mr.
Burke continue to preach his anti-poli
tical doctrine of Church and State. It
W:11 de some good. The National As
sembly will not follow his advice, but
will benefit bv his folly. It was by ob
fervingthe ill effects of it in England,
that America has been warned against
r; anc it is by experiencing them in
France,that the National Assembly have
abolished it, and like America, has
eftabljfhed UNIVERSAL right of con.
SCIENCE, AND UNIVERSAL RIGHT
or CITIZENSHIP.*
Being an ANSWER to Mr.
Burke's ATTACK on the
FRENCH REVOLUTION.
Br Thomas Paine,
Secretary for Foreign Affairs to Congress
in the American War, and Author of
the Work entitled Common Sense.
fberiff of Suffolk county, in the slate of
Massachusetts, made a report, tending
to grant to all persons, confined in any
Rate, under the authority of the United
States, the fame privileges and immu
nities, to which they would bq entitled,
if confined under the authority of the
date. Ordered to lie on the table.
RIGHTS of MAN:
[ln continuation.]
Gazetteer.
[Numb. 21 of Volume 6—
A King in France does not, inad
dreffing himfelf o the National Affem-,
bly, fay, "My Aflembly," similar ;o
the phrase used in England of" My,
Parliament ;" neither can he use it con
fident with the constitution, nor could
it be admitted. There may be propri
ety in the use, of it in England, because
as is before mentioned, both Houses of
Parliament originated %t. of what is
called the Crown, by patent or boon—
and not out of the inherent rights of the
people, as th—national assembly does in
France, and whose name designates its
The President of the National Assem
bly docs not ask the King to grant to the
Affimbly liberty of fprcb, as is the case
with the English House of Commons.
The constitutional dignity of the Na
tional Assembly cannot debase itfelf.
Speech is, in the firft place, one of the
natural rights of man always retained;
and with refped to the National Assem
bly, the use of it is their duty, and the.
nation is their authority. They were
country. It appears from tbefe, that tbs
ill effias of the Te, laws and church
eflablifoment begin to be much f^eded;
but the remedy of force can never fuptly
the remedy of reason. In the prgrefs of.
lejs than a century, all the unrepresented
part of England, of all denominations,;
which is at leaf a hundred times the me,
numerous, ma) begin to feel the neceffy of,
a constitution and then all those matters
will come regularly before them.
branches, were erected by patents from
descendants of the Conqueror. Tae
House of Commons did i.ot originate
as a matter of right in the people to de
legate or ek&, bat as a grant or boon.
By the French constitution, the Na
tion is always named before the King.
The third article of the Declaration of
Rights fays, " The nation is Qatially the
jQurce (or, fountain) of al: joiereignty.”
Mr. Burke argues, that, in England, a
King is the fountain— that ,he is ti{e
fountain of all honor. But as this idea
is evidently descended from the con
queft,[ shall make no other remark upon
it than that it is the nature of corqueft
to turn every thing upside down; and
as Mr. Burke will not refufe the privi
lege of (peeking twice, and as there
are but two parts in the figure, the fo&n
tain and the jpout, he will be right the
second time.
The French condilution puts the le
gislative before the executive ; the Law
before the King ; La Loi, Le Poi. This
also is in the natural order of things ;
because laws must have exigence, before
they can have execution.
The repiefentatives of the nation,
which compefa the National AfcmbJy,
and who are the legislative power,origi
nate in and from the people by election,
as an inherent right in the neople. In
England it is otherwise ; and this arises
from the original edablifhment of what
is called its monarchy ; for, as by the
conquest all the rights of the people or
the nation were ,absorbed into the hands
of the Conqueror, and who added the
title of K'ng rfo that of Conqueror,thofe
fame maugw^hich in France are now
held as rights in, the people, or ih the
nation, are held in England as graphs
hem what i^ called the Crown. The
Parliament in England, in both its
J will here cease the comparifop with
refpe^ to the principles of the French
conftitutipn, and conclude this part of
the fubjedl with a few observations on
the organization of the formal parts
of the French and English governments.
1 he executive power in each country
is in the hai:ds of a person, filled ,the
King; but the French confliegtion dis
tinguishes between, the King and the
Sovereign,: It confiders the Nation of
King as official, and places Sovereignty
in the nation.