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Friday, JUNE 25.
The report of the committee of conference on the
amendments to the bill providing the means of in
tercourse between the U. States and foreign nati
ons, was taken into consideration. The firft a
mendment was to strike out 50,000 and to insert
40,000 dollars.
It was moved that the House should agree to this
amendment; this motion was opposed.
I was said that the committee had exceeded their
commiflion in proposing this alteration in the bill,
as both Houses had agreed on the sum of 30,000
dollars. It was further said that more than one
minister plenipotentiary was neceflary that the
Court of Great-Britain had sent only a consul to
this country—and that from the present appear
ances, no advantages could be expeded to arise
from fending a minister, equivalent to the expense;
the necessity contended for is merely conje&ural ;
and by that rule the Ministers Plenipotentiary may
, be encreafed, and one sent to Spain and another to.
Portugal; if only one Minister is sent to Europe,
the firft sum will be fufficient; with refpeft to the
Court of London, a Charge des Affairs will pro
bably answer every end. $ .
In support of the motion it was urged, that the
PreGdent of the United States is by the constitution
vested with the power of appointing such foff^n
Officers as he may think necessary, and it mult de
volve upon the legislature to make provision for
defraying the expense. The committee of confer
ence did not rely on their own judgment— they con
sulted the Secretary of Foreign Affairs ? his opini
on was, that in the present situation of this Coun
try with refped to foreign nations, two Ministers
and two Charge des Affairs were necessary ; a Min
ister at the Court ofVerfailles is generally conceded
to be requisite ; the peculiar situation of this coun
try with refpea to the pofts,the nothern and eastern
frontiers, and the state of our commerce in refpe&
to Great-Britain, can fearcely leave a doubt of the
mpre ffitv and importance of fending a Minister to
that country; this being the state of affairs, a less
fam than that proposed, it is demonstrably evident,
will not be found adequate.
The question on concurring in this admendment
was carried in the affirmative.
. SEAMEN BILL.
The House then took the Bill providing for the
government and regulation of seamen in the mer-
J °"The committee then rose and reported to the
Houle, that the committee of the whole had ana
greed to the report of the fele^ committee, &c.
Messrs. Hartley,Seney,Fitzfimons, Page, Berke,
then attempted to have the report re-committed,
or to let it lie on the table in order to give time for
some further information, which they hoped to be
able to collet and lay before the House on the fub
ie& ; but on motion to re-commit it, it was nega
tived, as was likewise the motion for its being laid
upon the table.
This decision, however does not exclude any of
ficer to come forward with his individual claims ;
and several of the members who voted against the
report, declared their intentions to fupporc every
just or generous demand that was due from the U.
States to those gallant officers of the navy, who had
exerted themselves and fuffered so much in the ge
neral cause of independence.
• ft was observed by fume, that the number to be
relieved, had the report been adopted, was not
above 13 or 14 ; but the majority were apprehen
sive that it extended to 1000.
DIPLOMATICK BILL.
in Great-Britain, and other countries, it is the
constant practice to give them the whole of the
prizes.
It was farther urged, that many of them had
been confined, at the close of the late war, in En
gliih dungeons abroad, and not treated as prisoners
usually are, but as rebels ; and that this prevented
them from appearing to fuppert their claims against
the U. States, when the officers of the army had
brought forward claims; that as labouring under
the disadvantages of absence, and confinement,they
were doubly entitled to the attention of Congress,
but, as Mr. Burke alledged, they had got nothing
but square dollars even for their prizes, $ &c.
On motion to agree to the report, it was nega
tived ; and a motion was made by the friends of
the report, to recommit it, least it Hiould be loft ;
but this was also negatived -by a considerable ma-
Mr. Gerry from the committee of conference on
the diplomatick bill, reported, that the Senate
Should recede from their amendment; and propo
sing some farther alterations, one of which was to
strike out 30,000 and insert 4.0,000 dollars. This
brought on a debate, which laded until the House
adjourned, without coming to a decifioa on the
amendment.
With a view to remedy these evils, I sowed my
turnips, the last year, very late in Auguft ——My
neighbours laughed at me,and said I fhoald not have
a single mes had however more and better tur
nips than any of them. Encouraged by this suc
cess, 1 sowed this year, on the 25th of August, a
small piece of ground, eight ro,ds only, with tur
nips. They came up well, and not a fly touched
them. When they had four or five leaves, I di
re&ed one of my men to clean them of weeds, and
thin them so as to have them to stand loor rz inch
es from each other. The ground was afterwards
slightly Birred with a garden hoe.—The leaves grew
rapidly—covered the ground, and prevented tne
further growth of weeds. On the ifth of Novem
ber I pulled the turnips, trimmed and measured
them, and had on the eight rods of ground, (the
tweniteth part of an acre) forty-five bushels of as
large and well flavoured turnips as I everfaw. This
produce is at the rate of nine hundred bushels per
acre. The foil is a sandy loam, in good heart,but
by no means in high tilth.
1 sowed two other small pieces of ground, the one
on the firft, and the other about the eighth of Sep
tember. Neither of these yielded like the one sow
ed on the 25th of August; but each of them pro
duced much larger and better turnips than any I
havefeen that were sowed at the usual time.
I attribute my success altogether to the late sow
ing—then the heat is less intenfa — the rain more
frequent, the dew copious, the fly harmless, and the
crop abundant.
"Be gracious, Heaven ! for now laborious man
Has done his due. Ye firing, breezes blow!
Ye foftening dews, ye tender /hewers defend !
And temper all, thou world reviving Sun,
Into the perfect,ear." < ,
YOUNG FARMER.
Hampshire County, Dee. 1789.
T<R. SHERLOCK, Dean of St. Paul's, when
IJ preaching at the 1 ample Church, concerning ,
the cufoms of the primitive times, amongst other I
things pfeved, 'that in fete happy days all things;
were held in common, except their wives. A gen-,
tieman in one of the pews pulled his next neighbor
by the sleeve, and whispered in his ear, " Their
daughters then were common."
chant's service. Some amendments were made, and
the bill was ordered to be engrossed.
In committee of the whore House on the bill con
cerning the trade and navigation of the U. States.
This bill contains the diferimination i, the duty on
tonnage, between vessels belonging to nations in
treaty with the U. States, and those of nations with
whom no treaty exists. A motion to postpone the
bill occasioned a lengthy debate,which was not de
termined at 3 o'clock, when the committee rose.
A message was received from the Senate inform
ing the House that they have concurred in the a
mendments proposed to the bill providing the ways
and means of intercourse between the U. States and
foreign nations.
The Speaker communicated a letter from Samuel
Meredith, Esq. Treasurer of :he U. States, which
enclosed the Treasury accounts tor the last quarter.
p. S.—l cannot help, qn this occafionp reitera
ting an ardent wish (which I have heretofore urged
in vain (that the substantial practical Farmers in
this Country would affiliate for agricultural im
provenfents. It would be the means, the fore and
certain means, ofenriching their minds with know
ledge, and their barns and granaries with produce ;
of cultivating and disseminating that Friendship and
fociabdity which heighten all the joys of life, and
render man agreeable to roan.
THE Farmers in this part of the country gene
rally sow their turnips, for fall and winter use, about
the 25'h of July. 1 have been long apprehehfi ve
that this sowing is too early, The weather at this
season of the year is generally very hot, and very
dry, and drought has a dired tendency to dwarf
and spoil a field of young turnips :—The black fly
also, a natural enemy of th, turnip, is at this peri
od very voracious, and the crop is too often destroy
ed or rendered unprofitable, by one or other ofthefe
causes.
Mr. Printer,
THE growing of Turnips is jufMy reckoned a
very profitable branch of husbandry —every
hint therefore, that has a tendency to advance the
cultivation of this valuable root,will be acceptable
to the publick.
Fom the Hampshire Gazette.
A N ECD O T E.
MISCELLANY
AGRICULTURE.
ON Saturday, Graxemark was executed at Hcr
fham,perfuant to his Sentence. He was bro't
out of goal about 12 o'clock, and from thence con
veyed in a cart to the galjows, which he approach
ed without betraying the lead mark of sorrow or
contrition for the horrid crime which his brutal
and incestuous pallion had prompted him to commit;
nor did the further prosecution of the dilmal cere
mony tend at all to awaken him to a sense of that
awful change he was about to undergo ; for in his
last moments and wrh an air of indifference he
cried alpud to the furroanding multitude, " Ladies
and Gentlemen, 1 with you all well, f meant no
harm," kicked off his flippers among the crowd,
and left the world exhibiting a molt (hocking in
stance of the depravity of human nature. After
hanging the tribal time his body was cut down and
given to the surgeons
Ihe unhappy fufferer was about fifty years of
a g e - He has had many children by his daughter,
and so violent was pis unnatural passion for ' her,
that he laid he coulu jot bear the thought of ano
ther's possessing her, and she, poor girl, to dissolve
so criminal a connexion, having very prudently
married a man in the neighbourhood, her father
in consequence murdered her, but not until he had
made a fruitless grteir.pt against the life of her hus
band.
The following curious di,cover, was made on Sunday
Morning taf, and ma, be depended upon as a fad.
r A Respectable farmer in the neighbourhood of
Lewifham, riling somewhat earlier than usual, to
his great aftoniihment, found* his house had been
broken open, and property to a considerable amount
carried off. However, going to the window by
wnich the robber entered the house, he could per
ceive the footdeps of a man very plainly for some
distance, a white hull being then very strong upon
the ground. He immediately unkennelled, if it
may be so called two couple of fox-hounds, and
put them upon the feent of the supposed robber ;
when they flew off in a moR capital stile, and after
covering two miles and a half of ground, came up
with a man who was immediately taken with the
whole property about him, and was confined in
the cage at Lewilham all that day, afterwards pro
perly fecured.'
•The Major was in a Large with ensign Sedam,
and fifteen non-commironed officers and privates.
The Indians appeared very friendly,and their Chief
and several others even tame on board of the barge.
They received, with the greatteft apparent thank
fulnefs, presents of Corn and Tobaco. They en
deavoured, by every means in their power, to per
suade the Major to land, and pass the night with
them, profiting to hunt turkies and buffaloes, for
him; but he being suspicious of their design, eva
ded their entreaties. After having thus passed up
wards of an hour they fliook the Major by the hand,
and left him : but the men had scarcely got to their
oars, before they received from the Indians a severe
fire, which was instantly returned,& put the boat a
bout. The barge then floating down the stream,
an incessant fire ensued for four hours. During this
time the Indians manifested an intention of board
ing the barge ; but the cool and well direded fire
of the Major's party prevented ,e design. The -
Major loft § of his party killed, and fix wounded,
one of whom died afterwards.,
Having his force thus reduced, he was unable to
return up the Ttnaffee, against the stream : he there-
John Shepard, convicted of Forgery, on Friday
the 4th inst. and who filed himfelf " John Arnold,
Mifair Schaeffer," in his humble petition to the
citizens of Charkftewn, has found means to elude
that punishment ^hich^as so jurtly due to the enor
mity of his crime. The woman whom he called
his wife, having been permitted to visit him, they
exchanged clothes, and in her habiliaments he ef
fe&ed his escape on Wednesday evening, leaving
his ver, afr&iona e wife in goal in his Bead.
newyork, July 3.
It is with sincere pleasure we inform the publick,
that Major Doughty of the Federal troops who
was reported to have been killed by the Indians on
the river Tenafft, ffrly arrived at Fort-Harmer, on
the Ohio, the i„h of latt month. This valuable
officer was charged with important publick buhnefs
to the Chickasaw and Chofiavu nations of indians.
While afeending the Tenaffee, on the 21st of March
last, he met a party of 40 Indians, in three canoes,
having a white flag hoisted. This party were a
banditti of Cherokees and Shawanoefe, with three
Creeks.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS.
CHALES TOX, (s. C.) JUNE 12.'
LONDON, APRIL 8.
APRIL 22.