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were informed that he died about two
days after his brother arrived. After
the funeral, young Wilson returned,
his brother's death materially affeftcd
him; yet, after a few weeks, he seem
ed more at ease than he had been for
some months. He resumed his mafic,
bis drawing, and his gardening—his
enraptured Maria attended him,
for her health depended on his.—
They were one evening in the temple
where Miria had found the pi&jre,
when he delicately alluled to the cir-'
cumftance. "I am informed, said
he, that the lady is married whose re
semblance you once seemed to admire.
Her feedings, though quick, are not
lifting,and (he has forgot, in a second
passion, the misfortunes oQthe firft. I
own, added he,that this event, though
it a little fuppor:s the ill-natured re
fleftioas which have been cast on your
fc%, has given me considerable confo
lition, as 1 felt severely my friend's
defection. But I think, added he,
with hefitarion, that 1 could no? so
easily change " Maria smiled at his
confidence. "Do you distrust me?"
said he. " 1 have no particular rca
foi, the replied, to distrust you. The
ony inftaace of your attachment that
[have feed; I mean that toyoar friend
ferns not to have been the sport of
chance or abfenCe." "Will you allow
f ,;e then to give you another instance?"
<• In which w ay cried Maria, alarm
edand terrified. "By permitting me
to offer you my heart,and by,at least,
not refufing to try its couftancy,"
At this crisis of all- her wishes, Maria
coild not speak ; alternate fuffafions
and paleness overspread her cheek,
and (he funk senseless in his arms.
All his efforts to recover her ward for
a time fuidefs— but, at laft,the ruby
of her lips returned —and, as he wish
ed to call no farther assistance, for he
cnld not yet declare the cause, he
waited with impatience the reftora
oon of her recollection. It came at
lat, and M tria had the hapoinefs, the
extatic pl-afire of receiving a full de
claration of mutual love. Heexplain
ed all his inconsistencies, and frankly
toH her, that, at firft, he saw her vs
_ ..A /efpifed it—but he perceiv
es hat she had a heart, the' berried
under the follies of fafhan ; and he
owned, that it was, for a time, his
whole end to endeavour to retrieve it.
" lendeavoured, said he, for your
fake,for I thought your friendship was
all that 1 alked I will candidlyown
tnat your behaviour in the temple in
formed me, that f had inadver egly
night you another IHTm ; and, in the
cig:rnefs to explain myfelf, dropped
jo ne words which migh contribute to
riife at expedition which I was un
able to gratify, (could never debase
m' passion, by fuffering it : 0 wear,
even in the mistaken opinion of the
world, the garb of interest ; and while
our fortunes were so difproportional,l
thought oar best friends would have
persuaded us to separate; but this was
too much for my resolution to effcft.
Since however Providence has broght
us, by the death of my elder brother,
near to the fame fixation, I can now
freely offer to devote my future life to
increase your happiness." Maria
melted in tears, and owned that his
observations on her conduct were just;
and, with a blush, confeffed that her
happiness depended entirely on him.
ft is needless to exted the story.
felf, in the approbation of your own
heart. If society can be pleafing.it is
the society of those in whom we are
chiefly interested ; it is in the commu
nication of the foul: and those who
have once felt this enchanting inter
course, will despise the frivolous plea
f^es of policed life, where the de-
Juflve veil covers, with one perpetual
finite, the befell and most deftruQive
designs." # '
If )
The families, by the mutual content
of all, were soon united; and Maria
has since cons fcd, that; after yea s
of union, tlfeir felicity is, if possible,
augmented. "If, said (he, you would
taste real happinefs,look for it in your-
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
TUESDAY, JAN. 2%.
Agreeably to the order of the
day, the House resolved itielf
into a committee of the whole, on
the propositions for proportioning
the number of reprefentariv^s of the
Several flares. Mr. Muhlenberg in
the chair. - -
After considerable debate the com
mittee rose, and the chairman report
ed, that the committee are of opinion
that a bill ought to be brought in,
apportioning the representation accor
ding to the first enumeration, viz.—
;one representative for every 30,000
;inhabitants —and that provision be
I made for a second ratio, to compose
j the House of representatives after the
:third day of March 1797, and that no
igreater ratio be reported than 201000
inhabitants for every representative.
TheHoufe then took up the said report.
And after considerable debate the
yeas and nays were called to finite Out
the last part of the report, viz, "that
no greater ratio be reported than
30,000 inhabitants for every repre
sentative," which was carried in the
affirmative.
The House then took up the bill re
fpeding the halfpay and invalid pen,
fions, and after having gone through
the fame and made Sundry amend
meats, adjourned.
I WEDNESDAY, JAN.2f.
A motion heretofore made by Mr.
Dayton, being called up and agreed
to, with an amendment it was " Re
'foivcd, That the President of the U.
I Stares be requeued to cause to be
'laid before the House the official com
!munications, which have taken place
Ibetween the Governor of the fate of
Pennsylvania and the Secretary at
War, with refped to the railing of
troops within and under the authority
of the said litate :" And a Committee
was appointed to wait on thePrefident
with the above resolution.
THURSDAY, JAN. 27.
An engrossed Bill, to afeertain and
regulate the claims to half pay, and
to invalid penGons, was read a third
time, puffed, and sent to the Senate
for their concurrence.
The House resolved itfelf into a
committee of the whole —(Mr. Muh
lenberg in the chair) —on a Bill ma
king provision for' the protection o'
<he frontiers.
[The Bill, betides completing the
regiment already on the continental
establishment, contemplates the rail
ing cf three additional regiments 0
:infantry, each to consist of 912 non
commissioned officers, privates and mu
ficians, exclusive of comm:ffioned of
ficers, and one Squadron of light dra
,goons (to serve occasionally as infan-
Itry) colliding of 304 non-commission,
ed officers and privates, betides com
;miffioned officers.]
After some debate on the increase
of the military establishment the com
mittee rose, and obtained leave to fit
again—and reading of some of the
confidential communications-from the
President being called for, the gal
lery was ordered to be cleared.
IN fix Ihort days the world was made,
And time defin'd by light & (hade;
The trio council of the (kies,
The work completed thus devise
"That on the seventh rest obtain,
Let none the holy time profane :"—
Columbia, fir'd by great example,
Refolv'd of this to give a sample,
Her councils three, in whom'scombin'd
Pow'r immense, and sense refin'd,
In solemn majesty decreed,
(As many hands make greater speed)
Five days with them were full enough,
To work up all their heav'nl, fluff,
And on the fa/A, from motives pure,
The mighty Congress rtf endure I
FROM THE NATIONAL GAZETTE.
United States, Jan. 16, 1792.
Sir,
X S the circumstances which have
IL engaged the United States in 1
the present Indian War, may some of
them be out of the public recollection,
and o hers perhaps unknown, it may
appear advifeabic th^t you prepare and
publish, from authentic documents, a
Statement of those circumstances, as
well as of the measures which have
been taken,from time to time for the
re-eftablifhmCnt cf peace and friend-
Ihip.
When the community are called up
on for configurable exertions to relieve
a part which is fuffering under the hand
of an enemy,it is deferable to manifest•
that due pains have been taken by
those entrusted with the administration
of their affairs to avoid the evil.
(Signed)
G. WASHINGTON.,
The Secretary for the
Department of War.
But although partial treaties or con
ventions were formed with some of
the northern and weftern tribes,in the
years 1775 and 1776—yet those trea
ties were too feeble co refill the pow
erful impulses of a contrary nature,
arising from a combination of circum
ftanfyat that time—and accordingly
all the various Indian nations (he
Oneidas, Tefcaroras, and a few indi
viduals of the Delawares excepted)
lying on our frontiers, from Georgia
to Canada, armed against us.
It is yet too recent to have been
forgotten, that great numbers of inof
fenfive men, women and children,fell
a facrifice to the barbarous warfare
pradifed by the Indians, and that
many others were dragged , into a de
plorable captivity.
Notwithstanding that these aggref
ions were entirely unprovoked,yet as
loon as the war ceased with Great
Britain, the United States, instead of
indulging any refinements against the
Indian nations, fought only how to
establish a liberal peace with all the
tribes throughout their limits.
Early measures were accordingly
taken for this purpose. A treaty was
held, and a peace concluded, in the
year 1784, with the hostile part of the
northern Indians, or Six Nations, at
Fort S^nwix. ,
In January 1785, another treaty was
formed wi h part of the weftern tribes
at FortM'lnto&on the Ohio—to wit
with the Wyandots, Delawares, Otta
wa#, and Chippewas.
During the fame year,treaties were
formed at Hopewell on the Kepwee,
with all the powerful tribes of the
fquth, excepting the Creeks, to wit,
the Cherokees,theChodaws, & Chik
afaws.
In January 1786, a treaty was form
ed with ths Shawanefe, at the conflu
ence of the Great Miami with the
Ohio.
It was not long before certain tur
bulent and malignant characters, re
siding among some of the northern and
weftern tribes, which had formed the
treaties of Fort Stanwix and Fort
^'lntoffi.excited uneafin^ and com
plaints against those treaties. In con
sequence of representations upon this
fubjed on the sth of Odober 17%
The cause of the exifling Hofilities fa
t<ween the UNITED STATES, and
certain Tribes of INDIANS, north
eweft of the Ohio,flated and explained
from official an # authentic Documents,
and publsfed in obedience co the orders
of the President of the United. States.
A RECURRENCE to the journals
of the United States inCongrefs
assembled, of the early Stages of the
late war, will evince the public Solici
tude to preserve peace with the Indi
an tribes, and and to prevent their
engaging in a concert in which they
were no wife interrefted.
STATE PAPER.
On the zd. day of July, 1788, Coft
grefs appropriated “ twenty thousand
dollars, in addition to fourteen thou
sand dollars before appropriated, for
defraying the expenses of the treaties
which had been ordered, or which
might be ordered to be held in the
then present year with the fcveral In
dian tribes in the northern depart
ment, and for ext. gushing the Indi
an claims^ the whole of the said twen
ty thousand dollars, together with fix
thousand dollars of tlre said fourteen
thousand dollars, to be applied sole
ly to the purpose of extinguish
ing Indian claims to the lands they
had already ceded to the United
States, by obtaining regular convey
ances for the fame, and for extending
a purchase beyond the limits hereto
fore fixed by treaty—but that 10 part
of the said sums Should be applied for
any purpose other than those above
mentioned."
Congress directed, " That a general
treaty ihould be held wiih the tribes
cf Indians within the limits of the U
nited Spates, inhabiting the country
north weft of the Ohio and aboutLake
Ere, as soon after the firft ?of April
next as conveniently might be, and
anq at fach place and at such particu
lar time as the Governor of the Weft
ern Territory should appoint, for the
purpose of knowing the causes cfun
eafineis among the said tribes, and
hearing their complaints ; cf regula
ting trade, and amicably fettling all
affairs concerning lands and bounda
ries between them and the United
States."
Accordingly new treaties were held
at Fort Harmar the latter part of the
year 1788, and concluded on the 9th
day of January 1789, with a reprefea
ta?, on of all the Six, or NurthernNa
tions, the Mohawks excepted—and
with a representation of the following
tribes, to wit: The Wyandots. the
Delawares,Octawas, Chippewas, Pat
tiwatamas, and Sacs. By these trea
ties, nearly the fame boundaries were
recognized and efiaolifhed by a prin
ciple of purchase, as had been stipu
lated by the former treaties of Fort.
Stanwix and Fort M'lntofh,
Thus careful and attentive was the
government of the United States, to
fettle a boundary with the Indians on
the basis of fair treaty, to obviate the
diffatisfactiun which had been excited,
and to establish its claim to the lands
relinquished on the principle of equi
table purchase.
It does not appear that the right of
the northern and weftern Indians,who
formed the several before mentioned
treaties to the lands thereby relin
quished to the United States,has been
questioned by any other tribes ;—nor
does it appear that the present war
has been occasioned by any dispute
relatively to the boundaries eftablilh
ed by the said treaties.
But on the contrary it appears,that
the unprovoked aggressions of the Mi
ama and Wabalh Indians, upon Ken
tucky, and other parts of the frontiers
together with their associates, a ban
ditti, formed ofShawanefe and outcast
Cherokees, amounting in all to about
one thousand two hundred men, are
solely the cause of the war. —Hence
it is proper, that their conduct Ihould
be more particularly averted to.
In the year 1784, when messages
were sent to the Wyandots and Dela
wares, inviting them to meet the
commissioners, firft at Cayahoga and
afterwards at Fort M'lntofh, their
neighbours the Miami-Indians, were
also concluded in the said invitation,
but they did not attend.
In'the year 1785 these invitations
were repeated, but the messengers
upon their arrival at the Miami vil
lage, had their horses Rolen, were
otherwise treated with.infolence, and
prevented fulfilling their mission.
In the years 1787 and 1788, new
endeavours were used to bring those
Indians to treat : They were, urged
to be present at the treaty appointed
to be held at Forf-Harmar ; but these